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Finally finished all the email I had to respond to... and now its time for the long family letter! Well let's review some of those amazing, funny, insane, and mysterious things from the Life of Sister Lara Stewart. Let's see....

1. Ate dinner with a Catholic man. And now I understand more of the Catholic religion. He was such a nice man but not opened to anything we had to share. One day.

2. We saw the smallest frog ever. It was so small I couldn't get a good picture of it. To understand its size look down. The size of your pinkie nail (kids, more like your thumb nail probably) was the size this itty-bitty frog was. Can you imagine?

3. To our utter shock, our investigator we've had with a date--smokes! We always knew her home smelled off, but we imagined it was just something strange that she cooked. And then her less active husband who also smokes brought up the Word of Wisdom and at first I thought, "We know she drinks coffee, but if she really desires this, she can give that up easily." And then she said tobacco! Well, tomorrow we'll be starting the church's stop smoking workshop with her. Wish us luck and pray. I know she can do this but its gonna be a struggle.

4. Did you know Alma the Younger wasn't the only son of Alma? Mosiah 27:8 says "Now the sons of Mosiah were numbered among the unbelievers; and also one of the sons of Alma was numbered among them, he being called Alma, after his father..." [emphasis added]. I have been learning so much about these little details of the scriptures. I love it. It's like little mysteries being unfolded!

5. In the space of just 2 days of walking around and tracting and meeting people in Minden and Sibley, and very much with the help of Sister Boehula, and a little help from Sister Cottrell, there have been 26 coins added to my Mission Penny Jar, totaling $0.72. Whoo-who!!

6. My cooking skills may or may not be improving but I have been doing my best to combine what I know about the taste buds with my personal creativity. This week I have discovers summer squash rings and this morning I made German Pancakes.

7. I had an answer to pray last week. Before tracting I prayed we would be able to meet someone we could share the Book of Mormon with and bare our testimonies to. Well only 5 doors later the Lord did not only provide but she came out of her house to meet us!

8. I met Sister Lolley, a less active. As we were sitting on her couch I noticed some pictures and cards on her picture of the temple and got up to look closer. I pointed at one and exclaimed, "That's me!" It was Sister Tebbs' Christmas card. Not gonna lie it was creepy to think a woman had a picture of me up in her house before I ever met her, but it was funny nonetheless.

What a fun week. This week there is a zone conference planned for the Shreveport and Texarkana missionaries and we have stake conference this weekend. Elder L. Whitney Clayton of the Presidency of the 70 and Sunday School General Presidency is coming. Sister Cottrell is ecstatic, she loves his talks. Its sure to be an amazing week.

Also I have reached my last 2 months as a missionary for the Lord. Can you believe it? I can't, it feels weird. I'm one of those "old missionaries" that Greenies stare at and ask "how?" It's certainly going to be interesting. Now when I say see you soon I can mean it.

One thing will always be certain, though, I LOVE Y'ALL!!!!!

-Sister "Lucky" Stewart

 The Catholic man we had dinner with feeds ducks and deer in his front lawn every evening. It was so fun to see these precious creatures.

 I got a laugh from this. "This Shell brought to you by FUELMAN."

 The minuscule frog (that larger speck in the middle).

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 At our service project we brought our vacuum to use also and I found these 2 using both to vacuum that small portion of carpet behind the couch. That's what I call teamwork.

 Summer Squash Rings.

 The local Methodist church has stain glass windows. This one is my favorite: the Sermon on the Mount.

We get our eggs from a member. This one was a double yoke!