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Show Miss Margaret Little Returns Sunday From Missionary Field jIi.sS Margaret Little returned early Sunday morning from serving serv-ing 18 months as an L. D. S. missionary mis-sionary in Texas and Louisiana, having attended the conference in Sail Lake City on her way home. Reporting her mission labors in -die South ward chapel services Sunday evening, Miss Little gave inui-esting highlights of her ex-p.M-iences. Leaving St. George March 12. 193S. and after spending spend-ing ten (lays at the mission home inSiilt Lake City, she arrived at mission headquarters in Houston, Texas, April 2. This was not, she .said, the Texas she had read so much about, teaming with long horned cattle and cowboys, but a mammonth modern city. However, How-ever, in her travels about the state she did see the wide open orairies in abundance. After two weeks in Houston " she transferred to Dallas, where she remained for seven months, enjoying the missionary's routine of tract ing. visiting the investigators, investi-gators, teaching classes in Sunday-school Sunday-school and other auxiliaries. Dallas, Dal-las, she reports has an active "branch of members vhich keeps -he missionaries on their toes. From Dallas, she was transferred trans-ferred to Fort Worth, known as the great town of the West. Ft. "Worth, she says, has all the ear xnarks of the wild west, still in evidence and most of the men wear the proverbial high heeled "boots and cowboy paraphernalia, "but she was obliged to visit one of the stock shows to see real Texas longhorns. Dallas also has a busy branch of the L. D. S. members. Her next move was to Baton "Rouge, La., which was an interesting inter-esting and unexpected experience, the train they traveled on crossing cross-ing the great Mississippi on the Ferry. This was a complete diversion di-version from the south of Texas r!h in people, customs and dialect, dia-lect, but the hospitality and friendliness so often mentioned were found to be a reality. Quaint old Baton Rouge, with its houses built on stilts to keep clear of the Hoods in the rainy season, was intriguing, and her work in this vUstrict was very interesting, although al-though most of the people are orn and reared Catholics and fewer converts are made. |