Jimmy Carter's niece says former president still has 'some time in him'

Former President Jimmy Carter had a "good day" connected Sunday and whitethorn person immoderate clip left, according to his niece Leanne Smith.

Smith said Carter is still talking and eating and that he requested she bring him crockery for dinner.

"He had a bully day," Smith told FOX News Digital. "In fact, astir 30 minutes ago, I sewage a text. They knew I made broccoli and food soup, truthful earlier I came to meet pinch you, I dropped broccoli and food crockery disconnected to beryllium delivered to nan house, because he's eating and talking … truthful it is amazing. He's still sewage immoderate clip successful him. I conscionable consciousness for illustration it."

Earlier this month, Carter had decided to walk his remaining clip astatine location receiving hospice attraction alternatively of receiving further aesculapian intervention.

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Former President Jimmy Carter had a "good day" connected Sunday and whitethorn person immoderate clip left, his family said. (Scott Cunningham/Getty Images)

Carter, 98, was nan 39th president of nan United States.

He was diagnosed pinch crab successful early 2015 aft undergoing liver surgery, and his crab would later dispersed to different parts of his body. Carter told his Sunday schoolhouse people successful December of that twelvemonth that he was nary longer suffering from cancer.

Sunday schoolhouse astatine Maranatha Baptist Church successful Plains, Georgia, wherever Carter utilized to teach, was held arsenic accustomed connected Sunday successful which 1 of his nieces, Kim Fuller, said astir being prepared to reply Jesus' telephone to spell and do bully things, religion personnel Suzanne Smith told FOX News Digital.

"One point that immoderate personification that has travel to this religion successful nan past decades will show you is that they person felt warmly greeted, they person felt invited here," she said. "And that's a connection that nan religion has, that each personification who is moving present is invited here, nary matter your background, and, and that's nan instruction that Jimmy Carter has taught arsenic well, that he was really a president for everyone." 

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"People astir nan world person identified pinch him and pinch his message, that consciousness of humility, that consciousness of humanity, and that that consciousness of welcoming and making you consciousness for illustration you beryllium and that's thing that Jimmy Carter is known for, and surely thing this religion is known for. And I'm proud of that for this church," Suzanne Smith continued.

She said Fuller said during last week's sermon, soon pursuing nan news Carter was moving to hospice care, astir her uncle's legacy. According to Suzanne Smith, Fuller said Carter's bequest was felt astir nan world. 

"He's helped eliminate guinea worm, he's helped build houses for group astir nan world. He's, you know, that nan Carter Center successful nan activity of nan religion is thing that will beryllium acold beyond what's happening present successful Plains and group astir nan world," Suzanne Smith said.

Carter decided earlier this period to walk his remaining clip astatine location receiving hospice attraction alternatively of receiving further aesculapian intervention. (Paul Hennessy)

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"Honestly, it felt for illustration God was saying 'I sewage you. I've sewage President Carter, I've sewage Rosalynn. Everyone's gonna gonna beryllium okay.' We're gonna fig this out. And, you know, President Carter is simply a man of faith, nan Bible of each else," she continued. "And so, his bequest will beryllium that successful summation to each nan things that I've talked about, that was done beautiful well, but his bequest will be, instrumentality to your religion from nan time you commencement to nan time you negociate and you're going to beryllium okay. And that's what I person tried to travel from now past week."