For years Mother kept the neighborhood in yeast, and so enjoyed it, we children laughingly accused her of having a "yeast hobby." This summer (1937) an accident happened which proved we were right. She spent two weeks visiting at Virden and Lordsburg, New Mexico. Before she left, she took her start of magic yeast to Lola instructing her just how to handle it to keep it fresh and alive.

On returning, she found that after all, the yeast was spoiled. Mother was so at a loss to find another start of yeast, that she sent everywhere she could imagine they might have home-made yeast. Sister Ferrin sent a starting of potato yeast, Lillian Peterson sent a compressed yeast cake and someone else a start of "oly water" as they called it.

After setting yeast with each start, she was still worried, and just believed that she would send and get a Fleischmann's yeast cake too.

At last Sister Marvin brought some "Good old magic yeast" and with a great sigh of relief, Mother stirred up a setting of that. Well, it wasn't long until a dozen dishes were filled with lively yeast that Mother was tasting with great satisfaction. She laughingly remarked that she was "bound to have a lively time." She had found a new start!

My family has never all been together at one time, but today, July 5, 1937, all eight daughters have been together for about four hours. I could hardly believe it could be so. We have been visiting back and forth between the different homes. We spent a week at Virden and Lordsburg and made a trip to Tucson to visit Madge. Annie and Elva are here from Utah and we are having a nice time together. We have pieced fourteen quilts, made two rugs, read some autobiographies, among which was Karl G. Maeser's life, spent a week doing genealogical research, where we have gathered about 700 names. We have also made family group sheets for all the girls. Some of the girls are writing my biography and we are interested in learning of new things of my life and I am enjoying living over my childhood days and early life.

I don't suppose my family will ever be all together. Always one or two are away and can't be with us. This time two boys were gone away. Vernon is in Magna, Utah and Ivan is on a mission in Minnesota. He is district president and it fills my heart with joy to hear the nice things his mission President says of the good work he is doing. His headquarters are in St. Paul.

We took some very interesting Kodak pictures, of the family, but I take such a poor picture now that I am afraid I won't enjoy them so much as far as I am concerned, but I will enjoy being snapped with all my girls. I had one with Lamar that is very nice of us both; and I am so proud to be with him. He is my main-stay now and provides the wood and water, and caring for the cow, etc. It is nice to have him to rely on.

During the four hours we were together at my place, we were busy canning peaches from my orchard. What a jolly time we were having; laughing, talking, and working. The lightman came to turn on the electricity and he remarked, "Well, what's this, a relief society canning project?" "No," I answered, "Just a few of my girls helping me out."

(At that time the ward welfare had several car-loads of fruit to can and had divided it up into town groups to be done.)

During one of her last visits with Mother, Aunt Sade, speaking in a serious vein, confided that she felt she might soon be joining Edmund in "the other world." What message, she asked, would Becky wish her to carry back to him? In concentrated expectancy, Aunt Sade awaited the answer.

A thoughtful little frown was soon effaced by an elfin smile and a characteristic twinkle, as Becky answered simply, "Tell him not to build me a lean-to."

Recounting the incident, Aunt Sade spoke of her disappointment with Mother's answer. She felt that Mother had been evasive or a bit trivial, to say the least. But on reflection, she changed her mind completely. She recalled that one after another of Mother's homes throughout the years had been "lean-to's." She declared she thought Becky could not have made a more clever or appropriate answer.

Mother's interest in temple work began when she was a young child approaching five years of age, living in Logan when the temple was built, the cornerstone being laid in 1877. Temple work and its importance to both living and dead was a much talked of subject. Sister Eliza R. Snow visited the Bear River Primary and began a project among them of sewing carpet rags for the temple floors. She had a child's pride in the large ball of rags she sewed, but Mother's greatest blessing was the testimony, which grew out of the privilege of helping. Then on the trip to Arizona, the Jacobson family camped in Salt Lake City next to the temple being built and witnessed the work. Mother and her sister Eliza walked around the rising wall remarking that the ground seemed holy. She carried a small piece of granite rock into Old Mexico as a souvenir.

Mother's first opportunity of going through the temple was in 1898 when she and Father made the trip to Salt Lake to get her endowments. They had been sealed for time and eternity in Colonia Juarez when they were married by [Stake] President McDonald. Mother was deeply impressed by the sanctity and beauty of the temple ordinances. Her description of the white robed company ascending and descending the spiral staircase then in the Salt Lake Temple impressed me very much. She explained that the sacred ordinances were so profound, that we could never understand them completely and new viewpoints would be opened up each time we went, no matter how many times we had gone to the temple.

Since the distance from Old Mexico to Utah was so great, this was the last time Mother had the privilege of doing temple work until the Arizona Temple was dedicated. She spent winters doing the work for her dead until she learned the male names lagged behind, then she sent money over to sponsor work for the dead. We don't know how many people Mother officiated for, but after her death found around eight hundred slips among her things. She also sent money to Denmark and Sweden for research on her Jacobson lines.