SOMETIMES YOUR DIARY CAN BE YOUR BEST FRIEND.

A personal journal can be enough evidence to indict a person who lives on the shady parts of the street. But in most cases, a diary can serve as a source of support to the writer and others who need such inspiration. Such was the case of Anne Frank, a young Jewish girl who went into hiding during World War Two to avoid the Nazis. Together with seven others she hid in a secret annex in Amsterdam, where she stayed for two years before being discovered. After her death, her diary became world famous and a source for people to carry on regardless of their hardships. The other entries are from the diaries of three generations of Nephi Jones'. Although none of the entries are sufficient enough to make a movie out of it, it has been a family tradition to keep records, and maybe, just maybe, they can help somebody, somewhere with whatever they are going through.

The first shows a page from the book of Anne Frank, writing about World War II; the second is from a page out of the LDS missionary diary of Wm. Jones, who was married and had a child while serving in England. Although the journal shows age, it records the happenings in January, 1895. Although that missionary had a bad cold along with a gut ache, it undoubtedly helped when he got a letter from James Riches of Nephi. On Jan. 16th, 1895, he was still feeling "very poore". He came out of it a few days later, and had sufficient strength to write his wife, who came in from the Nortonville farm to live with her mother in Nephi, until her son Vic was born. And we think we had in rough. The next diary entry is that of the son of Wm. Jones-Alma Jones, with those writings being in January, 1941. On Jan. 5, 1941, "Glade and Lucy had a farewell dinner, for Roscoe(Garrett)", then the next day it shows where Roscoe headed to the Mission home in Salt Lake, accompanied by "Rob, Erma and Joe". A few days later, Alma made note that it was a nice sunny day and "Aunt Jane and Uncle Ed went out for a drive". As a side note on the journal given by Juab County Mill and Elevator, Alma kept track of how much cream he had sold, and the eggs. That was important as he was about to be layed off from Nephi City.

The third diary entry is of myself, but one where I tried to avoid much consternation. Indications are that on Oct. 23, 1976, Weston, Hal and I were hunting-Hal got a Spike".