Life in Lang Sask,as well as church work in Truax.

I was again back in Sask where I had many friends & relatives. Money was very scarce but prices for food were cheap. Nell & Cliff had a garden & we had large garden spot, so Max put in a large potato patch, he fertilize it. I think he watered it as we had a well but the water was not good for drinking. Max had to get a cistern put in near the house. There was a water truck who brought us water to fill our cistern once a month. We did not waste our water. It wasn't more than we could afford. I had a washing machine that ran with electricity, Cliff had found it
for us in the second hand place in Regina. It had a wringer on it, you had to feed the clothes in by hand. Mother & dad were with us part of the time, one day she was putting the clothes through this wringer, she was not used to this power washer & her hand went into the wringer part way. I got it stopped but her hand was bruised but she did not break a bone. Max worked part time in one of the two general stores in town. That winter as I shopped in this other store, the manager asked me if I knew where he could find a clerk that would be honest & knew how to keep thing clean, as he was having a hard time getting good reliable help. I at once thought of Rachel Rasmussen. She had been home helping her mother with her father before he died from cancer. She lived not too many miles away. I told him that she once was my helper when we did church work in Manitoba. He asked me to get in touch with her to see if she would be interested in this job. He needed a reliable clerk right away so he drove Max, Gary and I out to meet Rachel. I had told him that she was a hard worker & loved to keep things clean. After meeting & talking with her, he wanted to know how soon she could start to work. Rachel need this job so after talking with her mother it was decided he would hire her even if she hadn't ever worked in a store, He told her he was willing to train her so we later helped her move as Max & I were willing to let her have room & board with us. This also would help in our finances. We had to finish the room in the upstairs so she could have her own place to stay & have her meals with us.

We had some garden beside the potatoes, I think Cliff & Max got meat from some farmers whom they did work for in the summer months. We had a lot of new good friends and a good church family for fellowship. Cliff & Nell had a son Murray born in Apr. 1944 & Patrica was born in Oct 1946 and Gary our son was born in May of 1945. Now he had two cousins to get to know, before we bought our home we lived for a few months with my brother & his wife. We were glad to move into our own home. Nell's family lived at Truax which was several miles from Lang. Her family had became born again Christians by listening to some good radio gospel programs, Lorne Pritchard had some meetings in their home. They had been to Trossach camp, so Cliff, Nell, Max & I started going up to the Kirkpatricks for a Sunday afternoon Sunday school - which was held in their home. We also attended the early morning church service in Lang. Max & I enjoyed Nell's family and had many good times of fellowship together. I had many allergy's in Sask again, I was to the clinic in Regina, I took a aspirin when I was ill with a flu & had a bad reaction, I found out I must never take one again as my throat swelled. To this day I can't take anything with aspirin in it or it could kill me.

I learned I was going to have another child the following March. That winter was very cold with lots of snow, with high winds, which made large snow drifts that were so high that the train could not travel on the line that came from Regina to Weyburn. In January as soon as the snow blower could make it down No 6 highway to Lang, Max drove Gary and I to Regina to stay with my Aunt & Uncle the Oscar Lincolns. I was there for nearly 2 months, before Gail arrived March 7 1949 , she was born in the Regina General Hospital but the Dr was away, so an intern was the one who delivered her. She was 7 lbs. we named her Gail Gloria. We now had a family of four. Max had my mother to look after him, while I was away, mother also made meals for Max & our boarder Rachel.

Max came to take his family home on the first warm weekend. My brother Cliff had an offer to work in a shop in the next town Milestone. Harry Johnson asked Max if he would do his farming that year as Eldon was going to train to be a missonary in French West Africa, as his other son Arlo was going to school in Regina.

That spring we move to their farm near Parry Sask. We had a good summer on the farm. In the mean time Charlie & Evelyn felt they needed to enter the ministry, they moved to work for a neighboring farmer for cash so they could get enough cash to attend Bible school. Max's dad asked Max to come back take over the farm as his parents were moving off the farm to buy a house in Oak Lake. He wanted us to come to live on the farm for him to provide his parents with with meat raised on the farm. Max was to pay other family members their share of the farm.

That fall after harvest Max & Gary drove our truck load of belongings to Oak Lake, while Rachel drove me with the rest of our things & our young daughter Gail to Oak Lake. Max & Gary made it before the snow fell. Rachel & I made it one town away from where Ernie & Clara Siggelkow's home in Carlyle where they were pastoring. We had to get her car in the garage for the night. Ernie had an elderly couples place for us to spend that cold night. We were glad we had a warm place to sleep as Gail wasn't yet a year old. We were glad to stay a few days with my sister until the weather improved. I think Rachel got her car & drove back to Lang as she still had her job in the store. I think that either Ernie drove me to our farm or Max came to picked Gail & I. We were back in the big stone house at Oak Lake, which was to be our home until our family grew up & left home for life on their own. We lived here until the years of our retirement.