Elder Stewart-Longhurst Mission to Santa Rosa, CA

Our final days in the mission field included these experiences: -         The members of our congregation threw us a huge going-away party.   We love these people so much and they made us cry more than a few times that evening. -         We traveled to Sacramento to the temple with Sister Yahn, who had not been the temple in some time.   While there, we were with Brother and Sister Perdock as they entered the temple for the first time.   The experience was beyond words.   We love these people so much and it was such an honor to be there with them. -         We spent a lot of time handing off our area to the Senior Couple who will be replacing us, the Mullin’s.   We were in the MTC with them and love them dearly.   They will do very well and have made us feel comfortable leaving our people to their care. -       ...

MINISTERING TALK 11/18/18 I was raised on a large 1,500-acre ranch in Southeast Idaho, high up in the Rocky Mountains.   It sat at about 6,000 feet elevation.   It was tough to grow anything there.   The snows came early and left late which meant there was a very short growing season.   As such, my father experimented with a lot of different crops and farm animals over the years to see which ones would produce the best in that climate. One year, when I was about ten or eleven years old, we had sheep.   One day, while my father was in town to get parts for the broken-down tractor, a neighbor stopped by to tell us that our sheep were out and were on the road.   My mom immediately told me and my brother, who was just a year younger than me, to go out on the road and bring them in.   So, we went out there and started trying to herd them like we did cattle.   We had herded cattle many times before.   You essentially get behind them, wave...