I love you all!

i'm writing this from bacolod, we have our mission presidents training tomorrow so we came down last night. this computer place has a really telestial keyboard and it randomly decides to not type certain letters, so bear with me if there are istakes

have a mentioned how much i love you all? 

I LOVE my companion. i am learning so much tagalog haha you know how i tend to copy things? like the way people talk, etc. so instead of her learning hiligaynon i am just learning tagalog hahaha because she teaches in taglish (tagalog english) so I end up using tagalog when i teach haha. we also now have a senior couple assigned in sipalay, the neffs, elder neff looks just like the old man from the pixar short who plays chess with himself. so adorable. they come teach with us for one or two appointments a day, its the best. but our poor investigators, they have sister rosario speaing tagalog, me in hiligaynon, them in english, and the investigator just tries to reply in this mixture of all three haha. like "YES. BELIEVE I NGA TUOD ANG CHURCH TALAGA" hahaha so great. and i thought it was bad little ol white me walking around, we can barely move when the neffs aree with us because we are just surrounded. and they don't understand what the kids say, but i do, so  i end up doing a lot of chastising... those darn youths. bastos ba. 

but really me and sister rosario are doing great. i thin i mentioned last time that she is super prepared when it comes to teaching, its so nice to not have to regress in that sense. and she WORKS i love it. she knows why she is here. the funniest things happen to us but only i thin they are funny. lie when we pray at night and she prays in good but not perfect english and says "please watch us as we sleep" hahahaha #edwardcullen 

we are dealing with a lot of reluctant spouses. our investigators are ready and willing to be baptized and then behind them is a spouse saying no. i could neverrrrrrrrr have a relationship that was so unequal. one of our investigators is getting tired of it, she complained to us last time about how her husband will just always go drink with his friends after work and comes home drunk, she aasked a little accusingly "what would you do if you were me?" i answered "I would apply the gospel!" honestly, what we are teaching this people IS the answer and the only way. How can you ever have a successful relationship without repentance, forgiveness, faith, patience, understanding, charity, etc. The gospel is not meant to sit inside a bible and gather dust, it truly is the answer if we will only apply it. People are always looing for another way, like being skinny for instance, they would rather do all these crazy diets that they read in a magazine and take pills and starve themselves rather than just eat healthy and exercise. The scriptures have examples too, remember the man who wanted to be healed from his skin disease and was told to wash in a dirty river but didn't want to because it was so simple and he didn't understand why? or the people of moses who refused to just look at the serpent and be healed? or laman and lemuel who just wanted to complain and not study it out for themselves and ask god? Humans. hahahhaa. I love the gospel. 

do you know how cool is it that im in the scriptures? actually we all are!! I can't read jacob 5 or anything about gathering and last days without feeling sooooooo awesome. I literally go out every day and gather the righteous from the wicked in preparation for the second coing of the savior jesus christ. what??? i am the most blessed person ever. i still get butterflies touching my nametag!! and i have dreams that i still wear it at home... at night... so that no one can see me. I literally don't thin i could sleep without it on. 

NATEY YOU HAVE THE PRIESTHOOD OH MY GOSH. happy happy happy birthday too!!!!!! LOVEYOUSOMUCHYOUARESOAWESOME

I hope you all have a fantastic week!! I will keep track better of things that happen so i have more to tell next time. 

LOVE YOU ALL SOOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH. 

Sister Manwaring 

hello again :)

Hey everyone! 

So as you have seen from President's facebook, I have a new companion! Her name is Sister Rosario, she is from Pangasinan, and she is my trainee! This is her very first week in the mission field, so exciting! It is bringing back soooooo many funny memories from my first weeks... laying awake at 5 in the morning my mind tormenting me with thoughts of home... crying in every single companionship study for no apparent reason... feeling like a deaf and mute person because no one could understand me and I couldn't understand them... you know, the fun stuff ;) She speaks Tagalog and English and will shortly be speaking Hiligaynon as well. Its really difficult for her in teaching because the people understand Tagalog and don't understand English but she isn't supposed to speak Tagalog... of course its a big temptation to just speak Tagalog but she is doing awesome and plucking it out with English. I am also learning much Tagalog now ;) Her entire family was baptized when she was 13 so she is a somewhat recent convert to the church, they have a big up on the "from birth" members because they know how the gospel is taught to investigators. I had never even seen a pamphlet before my mission. She is super prepared when it comes to teaching and I'm super grateful because it makes it much easier to share an even load in teaching. Its definitely much different training a local but I love training and I love Sister Rosario :) She is such a trooper too, its very different for her that I can speak the language and she can't, she says she feels that I am the pinay and she is the foreigner haha, welcome to my last 15 months ;) To answer your question, if I finish out her training then she will be my last companion and this will be my last area. I would be just happy with that because it will give me a chance to reallllllly build up Sipalay. Just like dad in our hotel rooms (even with maid service) its instilled in me to leave an area better than I found it ;) 

The biggest highlight of this week was when I went to Bacolod for transfers. They called us on monday night and said that Sister Cinco was transferring and to be in Bacolod the next morning, nothing else. So she packed all her things and went. Once we got to Bacolod she left with her new companion and I was informed that I had an interview with President, wherein I found out I would be training. We would pick up our trainees on thursday so I would be working in Bacolod until then. Awesome, but the AP's said nothing so I brought notttttthing haha. Not even extra garments. BUT then they said where I would be working..... drumroll.... SUM-AG. My first area!!!!! I DIED. I would get to work in Sum-ag again for two days!!! It was a double blessing because my temporary companion, Sister Neilsen, was white washing and training too had no clue even where the apartment was, so I got to also show her around everywhere so she was somewhat prepared when she picked up her trainee. It was the coolest experience to see everyone again, especially their reactions in seeing me! It was like I had been resurrected haha ;) Since I had brought nothing I wore some clothes that the previous sisters had left behind, washed everything I wore to Bacolod, and borrowed everything else from Sister Neilsen. Thursday we got our trainees, took the 7 hour bus ride back to Sipalay, and now here we are :) 

Its great to hear about everyone from your emails!! Im glad that you are doing good. I am, as always, loving every single second. Can I just be a missionary forever please? Have a fantastic week :) 

Love always, Sister Manwaring 

WHAT a week

WHAT a week.

I never know how to format my emails, my brain is always so rumble
tumble sitting down to write it out! Do I go day by day? Experiences?
haha it always ends up a jumble anyways so, as always, bear with me as
I dump the contents of this week into the computer.

Last Monday: The COOLEST experience while grocery shopping (when I say
grocery shopping, I mean 3 isles of canned corn beef and cup of
noodles). Sipalay was PACKED with people. There was a government
handout thing going on so everyone from the mountain areas was there
to collect then shop. While in the small "grocery store", elbow to
elbow with my fellow shoppers, sweating bullets and trying to locate
my UFC banana catsup, I spotted a mother. She had one child by the
hand, another strapped to her chest in the process of breast feeding,
and she was using her free hand to grab groceries from among the
throng. As I continued to watch her, I noticed she kept picking things
then returning them. She would check the price, a nervous twitch
pulling her eyebrows together in a tick, then return the item,
muttering under her breath. Thats when the Spirit spoke to me; it said
"Buy her groceries". I had some left over budget from last week and
could easily spare some for her, but I began to question- what would I
say? Do I just hand her some money? is this even allowed? What is she
leaves before I can do anything? The prompting kept getting stronger
and stronger until next thing I knew I had fished 500P out of my
wallet and was whispering to the cashier the plan to pay for the
woman, last second adding that she not say who the money was from. At
that point Sis. Cinco had finished so we fathered out things and left.
Aw we walked home I felt the sweet rush that comes from following a
prompting from the Spirit. Its so the best ever when Heavenly Father
includes me in His little tender mercies for others.

Bavelyn's baptism was AWESOME GID. I snuck a teachings of the
prophets: Joseph Fielding Smith manual from the church last sunday and
have been reading it all week, just that morning I had been reading
what he taught of Baptism and Confirmation, Priesthood, all that great
stuff. I am addicted to baptisms. I want to attend baptisms for the
rest of my life- I'll just be known as the "baptism lady" and I'll
show up at random chapels for random baptisms and I'll bring cool
gifts and play a special musical number. It will be bomb. But as for
Bavelyn's super huge blessing. She is the only one so far from her
family to be baptized, her parents are super supportive but don't want
us to focus on them, just the kids. Super common here. We're working
on them and her siblings. The Young Womens organization here is the
strongest unit haha and so she has been super fellowshipped and is
attending seminary and doing aweeeeesome.

For the rest of our work.... hahaha lets see. We had one investigator
hide from us then finally face us and return his book of mormon... a
new record was set for NO ONE being home, like more than every other
appointment every day this week... its been RAINING. like RAINING.
Like you can't comprehend the amount of water pouring from the sky..
and our umbrellas both broke yesterday and we went out and just got
TOTALLY soaked before even the first appointment haha. I LOVE
everyone's reactions here to rain, they see us walking and you would
think we were walking through a mine field, "ITS RAINING. WHAT ARE YOU
TWO DOING. GET INSIDE. GO HOME AND GET INSIDE IT IS RAINING."
Literally, everyone hahaha. A TON of our investigators randomly
dropped us- that doesn't happen here. Everyone left for the bukid
(mountains). Or was sick. Or busy. And usually we can talk to people
on the street, offer to sing or pray for them, and get new
investigators, but with the rain noooo onneeee was outside. Ghost
town. Wet ghost town. And the topping on the sundae, our most
progressing investigator and most potential baptism... was possessed.
POSSESSED. Okay, not really, but thats what they think. Also they
think it was US that possessed her. We go back to visit her and she
isn't home, her neighbors were acting all scared of us and finally
told us that she was at her parents house. We go there and her parents
invite us in and go "Yeah, Jane is was possessed by an evil spirit
after you taught her last time." UM. Liwat beh? Then Jane comes out
and they're like "she doesn't recognize people right now", we wave and
are like "Hi jane" she just stares at us. UM. So we obviously don't
want her family to think that WE POSSESSED HER so we talk with them
and explain who we are and what we do and sing them a hymn, they
weren't mad or anything, acting like it was kind of a normal thing for
someone to be possessed, they said they were going to a witch doctor
the next day in the bukid to get her back to normal. Because we're in
the 16th century here you know. We went back the next day when her
parents weren't there and found out from her little sister that she
had fought with her boyfriend but her parents don't like the boyfriend
so she blamed it on us.... thanks jane.

So yes, WHAT a week. Its like our investigators don't get that the
work is hastening or something ;) But its a whole new week and me and
Sister Cinco are excited to go at it again!

Sera!! Youare18whattheheckthisisn'trealstopitrightnow.

I LOVE hearing from everyone. Your emails are the bessstttttttt.

So cool that everyone is leaving on missions and getting calls!!! And
quincy is home!! WEIRD.

I love you all sooooooooo so so so very much!!!!!!!!

Sister Manwaring

hellooo :)

What a fantastic week! I love soooooo much hearing from you all!!! It is such a treat every Monday!! Thanks for being so pisan gid!! You're all the best!

Sergio was baptized last week, right? Okay he is doing SO awesome. I don't remember if I ever told his full conversion story? Since last week when he was getting confirmed he thought it was testimony time haha (refer to last week's email) the leaders let him redeem himself and give testimony yesterday in sacrament meeting. This is what he shared: So when he was little the elders were visiting and teaching his family, right? He was like 6 so he doesn't really remember at all. His mom from them got a book of mormon and at the time didn't recognize it as anything more than the word of God. When Sergio hit his teenage years he got into a bad group of friends and starting drinking and smoking and the like, bad enough that his parents sent him to the bukid (mountain area) to straighten him out and also sent with him their book of mormon. While there Sergio read the book of mormon and shared that from his reading he learned that the things he was doing was wrong and that he needed to change, he quit all of his vices, moved back home, found a job and has been helping to support his family ever since. A while back he approached our branch president and asked how he could become "mormons" ... and you all know the rest. It was sooooooooo the best to hear him testify of his conversion through the book of mormon to the whole congregation!! Sooo proud of him. Later when we went to teach him he said that when he took the sacrament he felt like a huge light filled his heart. We are working right now with him to get the rest of his family, mom dad and siblings. 

Some funny things- we were teaching a new investigator and at the end asked her to offer the prayer. She agrees so we all close our eyes... and its just silence. I peek and see that she is just silently mouthing words to her own personal prayer. Sometimes people do this and then will vocalize an "amen" at the end to signal the close,( they are so shy of everything, even to pray for others to hear) so I closed my eyes again and waited. and waited. and waited. finally I peeked again and she's just looking around the room, obviously done with her little prayer. I don't know what to do cause she didn't "amen" and we're both just still sitting there with our eyes closed. Finally i just said "amen" hahaha. She would've just let us sit there for forever hahahaha. 

One of the less actives who is returning to church as a teenage daughter with a mental disability who loooooooves us. She sits next to me every sacrament meeting. So yesterday shes sitting next to me and she is picking her nose (and she is reallllly handsy, playing in my hair, touching my face, etc) so i'm kind of dying so I get out my hand santizer and make her let me spray her hands. Dugay dugay, ay, after a bit she starts picking again. so i spray again. pick, spray, pick, spray. I just about used all of my sanitizer haha. 

Mom, remember those fancy hand towlettes you sent me at christmas? So they were put to great use yesterday. We were visiting with one of our recent converts (she is going through SUCH a hard time, literally her whole family has fallen apart and she is in the worst abusive situation right now,, and theres just nothing we can do. I can't even think about it) She's a 9 year old girl. Anyways, we were teaching her and a bunch of her friends and there was a chicken in the tree above us and it pooped on sister cinco while we're teaching so i grab one of the towlettes for her to clean herself off, and they have peppermint oil so they smell way good and all the kids smelled it and wanted one. So after the lesson I went down the line and cleaned all of their hands with the towlette, they were in heaven haha. I love them sooooo much and I just can't think about their situations. Honestly, you just can't imagine. I can't even describe it. Ah. 

Dad! Don't think that I forgot!! HAPPY FATHERS DAY!!!! :D I re-read my letter from last week and realized that i never officially said it. YOU ARE THE BEST AND I LOVE YOU SO MUCH AND AHHHHHHHHH I LOVE YOU. 

Mom! Sorry that i haven't answered your questions haha.. #avoiding ;) I have two transfers after this transfer ends, and this one ends first week of July. You can never guess with president lopez, but what would make the most sense it that sister cinco will transfer in july, I will get a new STL companion, I will stay another transfer in this area, then will transfer to another area for my last transfer. (i think i just said transfer like 124 times haha) but like i said you seriously cannot guess. When packages and letters come I either pick them up when I have a meeting in Bacolod or the couples bring them to us on one of their trips out here- whichever comes first. 

Jayce! Whilst I have only met you over skype, thanks for always helping my family. They are all much happier (and our yard is so much cleaner) because of you. * Curtsy* thank you :) 

I love you all sooooooooo so so so much. As in gid. 

Sister Manwaring :)

I just love you all wayy too much

HEY :) Love you, did you know that? 

We FINALLY got our Liahona magazines, I am EATING them up. And okay, MORIAH is just in it, I died!!! And no one cared hahaha I was like "Hey! Everyone! This is my cousin!!!" They were like "... um.. cool Sister Manwaring.." hahahaha. 

I read this morning in Ether 2:25, okay LOVE it. So it talks about obviously when the brother of Jared needs light for the barges and the Lord asks him what his suggestions are then says that He doesn't expect them to cross the deep in darkness and whatever light he asks for it will be given him. This is the coolest verse and super cool applicable to almost-leaving missionaries. You will find that in your life up to this point you had many sources of "light" to shine in your "dark" or stressful times; family, friends, sports, movies, music, naps, things you will no longer turn to as a full time missionary. The Lord doesn't expect you to cross the "deep" of your mission without light. There are lots of sources available to everyone, scripture study, prayer, singing hymns, sacrament, a companion, etc, but what this verse is teaching us is that we can ask the Lord specifically for a personalized light to be with us. Take some time to think about that... what is your light going to be? A simple preparation like that can be so super duper helpful for your entire mission- now in preparation, the MTC, and the field. I encourage you all to come up with a personalized light and then present it before the Lord, I know He will help us :)

OH YEAH. I had the worst possible thing that could happen to a missionary happen to me this week. I LOST MY NAMETAG. We were riding the ceres bus on the way home from trainings in Bacolod and we couldn't get an aircon bus so the window was open and my tag was flapping and I had the thought to make sure it was on secure and I check and the magnet is fine.. the second I take my hand off, while still looking at it, I watch it fly off my chest and OUT THE WINDOW. :O I DIED. I didn't even know what to do. I was like SISTER MY TAG JUST FLEW OUT THE WINDOW. It was like some sick joke. OH IT WAS AWFUL. I have had that tag almost 15 months. Its the tag they clipped on me in the MTC. AH. And I had to ride the whole 6 hours back to Sipalay with no tag. I spent the ride thinking about the time when I won't be able to wear a tag on my chest and just made mental plans. But that is still far off and I was soooo glad to run into the apartment and get my replacement out of my suitcase. Its fresh and new, the lettering still white, not reflecting the months of service I've given, but its a nametag and thats what counts. 

Sergio was baptized and confirmed this week!! He is such a "funny" investigator hahaha. He doesn't click things in his head correctly all the time, we had to do his BIQ's like 3 times in preparation because he kept just trying to bear a testimony of every question instead of answer it. Example "So brother, what do you remember about the word of wisdom?" , "I know that is a true commandment of God. It is so true and it changed my life." "Thats awesome, so what is not allowed for our bodies?", "Yeah, its straight from God cause He made our bodies so He knows!", "Yes, but WHAT IS NOT ALLOWED." "Oh yeah, drugs, smoking.." hahahahaha oh Sergio. His baptism day was a little rough going... lets just say that I am so excited to come home and be an uber supportive member of the ward ;) But it all went through and was a special experience as always. Sergio is super stoked to bear his testimony in fast and testimony meeting and on Sunday when he went up to be confirmed he thought that it was testimony time so he strides over to the pulpit and starts out "GOOD MORNING MY BROTHERS AND SISTERS", then the branch president calls him over to the chair and sergio realizes all embarrassed and yells "Sorry! Sorry!!" to the congregation as he goes and sits to be confirmed. Hahahahahaha classic. Also, on our phone we have a signature that says "Sipalay Sisters" because people always think its just our personal phone and just want to chat us all day, but Sergio has started replying to our texts with his own tag, "Brother Sipalay" HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Oh he is so special hahahahaha. 

Well, I LOVE YOU ALLLLLLL  and DAD I am SO SUPER PROUD of you!!!! Thanks so much for all of your emails, I love you all more than I can say!!!!!! have a great week!!!!! 

Sister Manwaring 

all my lovez

Hey guys :) 

Mom, congrats on your race!!! You never cease to amaze me!! And how lucky to have Dad, the perfect race partner/ aid station/ husband. You two are the coolest. 

So as you saw in the pictures we had MLC this week. President Lopez is the best. Its ridiculous to me what our mission is accomplishing. I wish you could all be there!! After MLC we came back to Sipalay and thenthursday we had our zone meeting and me and sister cinco and the zone leaders gave our trainings from MLC. 

In MLC we studied a bit from D&C 122 and what came to mind what that book we read when we were like "Going on a bear hunt." You remember that one? "We're going on a bear hunt, gonna catch a big one, what a beautiful day! We're not scared!" then they have all those things that pop up in their adventure, like long grass and mud and at every sublag they say "We can't go over it, we can't go under it, we'll have to go through it!". We often forget that life is MEANT to have trials haha. I hear latter-day saints say "Why did this happen, I'm doing whats right! I'm keeping the commandments!" we forget that righteousness and obedience doesn't exempt us from trials and tests, if we didn't have trials what would be the point of even coming to earth? So when we face those times we need to adopt the character of the people in the book "we'll have to go though it!" and do we realize how incredible it is that we don't have to ever go through any of them on our own? Jesus Christ literally went through each and every trial that we will ever go through, and not only went through but won. He can literally help us to win every test as long as we remember to include Him. 

Its mango season gid and everyone is giving us mangos, i swear we've gotten like a thousand mangos this week from investigators haha, they just give us like 20 and we shove them in our bags and at the end of the day we just unload all our mangos and our shoulders are so sore haha. 

Guys, I just love the gospel. Back in the MTC I remember thinking one of my first days while reading in personal study "If all of this really really is true, what does that mean?" (forgive me if I've already emailed about this before) and not that I had ever thought that it wasn't and not that I didn't already know that it was, but it was like letting the reality of if really sink in. And BAM. I was a gonner. It sunk in and its never coming out. We can literally live in the Celestial Kingdom. Jesus Christ is really our savior. We can literally live forever with our families. We really can be forgiven of sin and improve ourselves so we don't have to keep sinning. We literally are children of GOD. He is really our Heavenly Father and He really is listening to all of our prayers and always watching us. He knows us soooooo much better than we know ourselves. There is nothing so hard and sad and scary about life that we cannot overcome through Christ and His gospel. The Book of Mormon is literally written by people who lived in ancient america and they literally had all of those experiences. All the commandments are true and are from a Heavenly Father who knows perfectly how to make us perfectly happy. We literally have a member of the godhead, the Holy Ghost to be with us ALWAYS, we have access to heaven. Priesthood power is real. ITS ALL REAL. Don't hate me for saying "literally" 54 times and don't judge my inability to express myself normally over email. I just love you all so much and I'm so glad that I can serve a mission, no matter how hard it is, cause it isn't about me! And I love it.

 And thats all I have for this week. There will be more pictures up on presidents facebook from our zone conference so enjoy those hahahaha I'm sure they'll be wonderful because sister lopez likes to take pictures of peoples participation and I have to give a training so there will be great "in action" pictures hahaha. 

LOVE YOU ALL SOOOOOOOOO MUCH. 

Sister Manwaring 

leaving the 99 for the 1

SO. As you saw from president's page, we had a baptism this week. I have no possible way of getting all of this down so I'll just have to compress, bear with me. 

Saturday morning. Aiza (our baptizee) texts at 7:30 and says that she can no longer be baptized.. she has gone home to the bukid. I KNOW this is not true so we rush over to her aunts house and find her sobbing her head off. She won't tell us anything or why she is crying or why she won't be baptized. We tried to ask if she was just scared, or nervous, couldn't get a word out of her. We stayed trying to figure it out for like 20 minutes, her crying into her hands the whole time, before we finally had to just go because we can hardly drag her bawling to the font. My feet were sooooo heavy walking out the door. We got home and quietly started studies, I read the words of like every comforting hymn in the hymnbook, and we start personal study and both just sit there silently crying. I KNEW that she was supposed to be baptized!! The spirit was telling me!! I had no idea how but I had not given up hope. We decided to go by her house again on our way to the church to see if anything had changed. Thats when she texts and says that now she has really gone to the bukid. So we just go out to work. First appointment we go to is a LA family with one active RM son, the second we get there the son goes "Your baptism isn't going through, huh?" and we were like "How did you know?" and he says "I went and told her not to be baptized. She is going home to the bukid and its too far to go to church so I told her to wait and find some other missionaries some other time." My mind is shouting YOU SAID WHAT and me and Sister Cinco look at each other and just leave and go right to her aunts house, she really has just left and we missed her by like 2 minutes, but there is a cousin there that is replacing her who knows how to get to her house so we get the cousin and head off into the bukid on a trike to find Aiza, BAPTISM OR BUST. On the way it starts raining like noah is on the earth again and a jeep drives by and splashes a wave of water onto my side of the trike and it completely soaked me and got in my mouth and the driver slows down to stop and i'm like DRIVE ON so we keep going and 40 minutes later we are walking out into a muddy rice field to her house. We see her, she was SO super surprised that we were there and her parents were like "Oh my gosh! What is a white person doing here!!" and we found out that she still wanted to be baptized but thought she couldn't and was too shy and scared to tell us, so she gets her stuff together, we sing hymns to her parents, trump back through the rice field, BAPTISM BACK ON. We get to the church 40 minutes later, 2 hours late for the baptism but thank goodness to filippino time no one cares and the elders who also had a baptism had waited. THEN as we're taking pictures President Lopez shows up with Sister Lopez to see our baptism. We take more pictures with them and then the baptism starts. It was a glorious baptism. Aiza was smiling sooooo big, sooooo happy to be baptized, almost as happy as me and sister cinco. We took her home to her aunts house after for her to stay the night and be confirmed at church in the morning. I gave her one of the skirts that mom sent in my last package because she doesn't have one and I didn't want her wearing jeans to her confirmation (Thanks mom!!!). Oh, we were also fasting this whole time. We got home that night SOOOOOO drained but SOOOO happy. After her confirmation we took her back to the bukid again. She most likely won't be able to come to church for a while, its farrrrr too expensive for them to make that trip weekly. But I know that even though she may not be able to be fully active right now it was such an important baptism. I love every baptism, but there was something special about this one, Heavenly Father really wanted her baptized and I felt so much the reality of opening the door of the celestial kingdom to one of his children. 

I LOVE THIS WORK. I wish I could keep writing for forever but I'm all out of time!! Also sorry that this email is late, we are in Bacolod today for MLC and had to take the ceres bus into the city this morning. 6 hours with a vomiting girl next to us and the puke bag kept bouncing against sister cincos leg. Training tonight and tomorrow, soooooo excited. I ALSO SAW SISTER JUDD AND HAD LUNCH AT BOBS WITH HER BECAUSE HEAVENLY FATHER LOVES US SO MUCH. I love you all to death and I hope your week is amazing, I JUST LOVE YOU AND THIS WORK SO MUCH. 

ALL my love, Sister Manwaring