Friday, August 1 - Off for lower falls - 308 feet - drop of the Yellowstone River. Went down steps part way & Kenbeek & I went down rest of way down steep rocks. Canyon most beautiful - red, purple, lavender, brown, gold, etc. on its sides with the green Yellowstone River rushing through its center.  A drive through the wooded mts. Rain and lightning all around us in the Mts. & here and there a patch of sunlight. Dunraven Pass 8,859 feet. Rock formations along edge of canyon part way down looks just like palisades.  "Needles"- high needle-like projections of rocks. One beauty rises almost 300 feet. Dunraven Pass not free until July 1 on account of snow.  Saw Osprey in Canyon this morning. Snap shots of beautiful Jupiter Terrace at Mammoth Springs.  About 1/2 hour after - blasting - harder rocks - jumbles of big rocks.  Book says, "Massive"blocks of travertine. Obsidian (black glass) cliff - road bed at that point made of it.  Went to Artist's point. Beautiful scenery. Casey & I went down and climbed back up trail. Saw some ospreys, one carrying a fish in its talons.  Went down stairs of Sunset Trail to near foot of Lower Falls, climbed over to a large slab of snow. Some climb of steps! Hot log! On way to Lake Junction we saw two elk.  Rented cabin and then away to feeding place of bears. Saw a few black bears & several grizzlies who were of course masters of the day, also one over the other.  Most of the black bears disappeared when the grizzlies increased. One mother griz with three young.  Also ravens & gulls there.  Supper. Cabin 115. Letter.  bed.  Saturday, August 2 - Up at 6.  Out east entrance.  At Silvan Pass 8,559' above sea level.  Rain, rain, rain.  Just saw 2 big moose. Out of park. Peculiar rock formations - Chimney Rock, Elephant's Head, mutilated hand, Window Rock, Henry Ford. Last looks just like a man at a steering wheel.  The Holy City - group of spires against skyline. The Goose. Rest of day rather uneventful. From Columbus about 16 miles to church, 1st road, then prairie road - very dry country but just then a lot of rain - very bad mud.  Left early John Wiersma.  Mr. Poortinga took us in his Chevy van about - seat in box. He had chains. All prairie, some places can't even see a house from many points.  Church right out on prairie. The John's at Staal. Casey & I at Chris Smit - Rapelja, Montana.  Very fine hospitality, good eats, good bed. Sunday, August 3 - Kenbeek preached morning, Casey in PM.  Program in evening. Mrs. Smit's mother of 2 children over in afternoon for coffee. People very happy with program. $22.01 from small & needy congregation!  Monday, August 4 - Up 8:40.  Some writing, playing, washing hair, fixing box, dinner.  Beautiful sight in mts.  Very dark cloud shaded mt.  Sunshine on other, snow caps farther away.  Two bulls at variance.  Shepherd [Montana].   A letter waiting there at Rev. Homan. Casey & I at G. Groen's. Prosperous farmer. Gave two checks of $5.00 a piece.  Two girls (Susie 21, Gertrude 16) came riding from field when we got there. People very much pleased with program. Met Pete Spoelstra & the Zwaanstra boys.  Tuesday, August 5 - Off about 10:30 after seeing the Zwaanstra boys &I having had cold lemonade. Zwaanstra's have 400 acres of land - 200 under plow and irrigation-very busy.  Saddle horse & lariat.  After some bumps had to go slow because of broken front spring and inverted shock absorbers. Fixed in Miles City. Also new rear door window. Imitation human fly, Barb White. Advertized Chevy range rider riverside tour. Collected money before climbing. Didn't get any of us.  Ford demonstration - motion picture of plant.  Miles City a hot little town. Cabin for night - 2 for $2.00. Wednesday, August 6 - Wheat cakes and off. Mors Agate - Harder than petrified wood. Takes beautiful polish - Geologists can't explain. Find in river beds & in ocean. Agate-third hardest stone. Scenic mors agate found only between Billings & Terry. After a lot of bad roads we got to Lodgepole church (Holland Center - South of Lodgepole) about 7:30 P.M. About 25 families, & some Swedes came to the program. About 1/3 of the people stayed outside.  Played ocarinas in moonlight after the meeting. People sang. Casey & I at Rev. Rubingh's. Supper after program.  Fine talk. The Rev. quite witty.  Fine bed. Mrs. Rubingh good hostess. Thursday - August 7 - After some breakfast and later some cold lemonade, retrieving cow's head, on our way.  Drove about 100 miles on very good road.  Good roads after dinner.  Another good sun-bath.  Nothing but rolling prairie.  Most of the time, not a tree in sight.  At Hull [North Dakota] 6:30.  Fine church building right next to Mr. Huizingh's general store.  Washed, dressed, ate there. The Johns's stayed there.  We at Van Vucht - 1 mile north of church. Spiritually quite a dead bunch - worst we had.    Friday., August 8 - A letter from Cornelia & watch from Mrs. A. Van der Ark of Manhattan.  Good road.  Good time.  Discovered I had forgotten music. Telegram to Mr. Huizingh from Aberdeen.  Dinner.  Good sunbath. Men working on road-detour.  Flat just before Bemis. Inquired there . 4 miles south and 3 miles west.  Found church but Rev. Andre on vacation.  Left instruments there, inquired, and were directed to Mr. Lantinga. Splendid meal of chicken.  To program, but everybody threshing. Very small crowd.  Small collection. People there appreciative. Casey & I to Strijland - 4 miles north of church. Other boys to Nagelkirk. Saturday, August 9 - Picked up boys. Stopped at Lantinga yet. Not satisfied with collection - gave us $5.00.  Plenty of tire trouble - patched several times. Threw away two casings.  Very dusty but good roads all the way to Harrison.  No one home in Corsica. Went on to Harrison. Kenbeek did some calling and Mrs. Cupido invited us all to stay. Now staying until Tuesday morning. Sat around on lawn last night with the Rev. and went to general store to get a tire.  Vis brothers-proprietors. One had been to GR not sl long ago and had visited Guikema's.  Also met John Sybinga's brother in store. Bought a little knife. A nice cold drink, a bath in basement, and to bed. Sunday, August 10 - Had a refreshing night's sleep.  Three open windows and a splendid bed.  fine breakfast. Now ready to do some writing.  Heard Rev. Cupido in morning & afternoon. Casey did sermon at night. Kenbeek & I duet.  I sang, "Have Thine Own Way, Lord." To bed at quite a late hour.  Monday, August 11 - Up at about 9. Met Marie Keuning who helped the Mrs.  Looks like the Jell-O Girl. We got our washing done. Worked some on a sermon. Soon noon. Practiced Dutch songs & did few other things.  Supper time.  Program very well received in evening, but small crowd - threshing. Rev. Geerlings thought "Cling to the Bible, My Boy," far the best. Tuesday, August 12 - Up again at 9.  Wrote letter to Grace.  To Mrs. Credit in afternoon.  Very fine, pleasant woman.  Met Dora and two of the nine boys.  Left for Platt about 6:30.  "Welcome" in big blue letters on white cloth background around platform - flowers too.  Large church. Not so large an audience, but very attentive. Met Mr. Chas Bultsma & Mrs. Zijlstra.  (Son goes to Calvin & chummed with Morris V.V. whose wife was Jabigje Bultsma. Jake was not at the meeting. He, I heard, does quite a bit of missionary work in his own community about 10 miles from the church.  Casey & I stayed at the home of Mr. Dykstra. His wife knew Pa too.  Her name was Buitenbos. Went to school at same time. Have a "klein maar dapper" [small but gallant] daughter of about 19 or 20 who teaches school. Quite an interesting little personality. Wednesday, August 13 - Up at 9.  To Corsica after dinner.  Sang a few numbers for Miss Streelman in hospital. Casey & I at De Beer.  Not large crowd.  Poorest program of season.  My voice not in good condition.  In bed about 1. Thursday, August 14 - Casey played tennis with Minnie. Afterwards - miniature golf. Came through almost on par on last half - 48 par. I got 55 on whole game.  To Rev. Geerlings for dinner. Chicken again. Good time with Violas and her cousin Lucile - water, flyswatter, shaving cream, etc. Girls wished they had brothers.  Felt right at home there. Full house of around 800 in evening. Did well.  People enjoyed it very much. Collection of $45.90.  Coffee, sandwiches, peaches.  Sat in kitchen with girls until bed-time while Lucile soaked sore foot.