Making Connections

 




Park Connections



March 13, 2022 

Dear Family & Friends,  

Probably my favorite activity I do on my mission is when I get to teach with the hermanas.  So Friday afternoon 

when I quite accidentally ran into Hermana McHenry and Hermana Morales at the park, I was super happy.  

They were studying together and I suggested we take a photo of ourselves.  Then I had a better idea.  I suggested

 we ask someone else to take the photo and we could turn it into an opportunity to share the gospel.  It turned 

out that the person we asked spoke only Spanish!  After she took our picture I said to her, pointing to the 

hermanas, “İEllas son misioneras!” The hermanas took it from there and taught a brief lesson.  She accepted 

a Libro de Mormón and gave them her phone number! 

We all enjoyed the encounter and the hermanas said they would try the picture-taking method of contacting 

people again.  It felt good to do real missionary work! 

In the evening my companion and I helped teach ESL.  Hermana Reil had a new companion--very new.  

Her name is Hermana Wall.  She had just arrived here in North Carolina four days ago.  Hermana Wall and I t

aught the beginners.  Hermana Wall struggled a bit with the language, but was doing quite well for a person 

with no previous background in Spanish.  Thinking the students might feel a connection with someone who is 

also learning a new language, I asked Hermana Wall (in Spanish) to tell them how long she had been studying 

Spanish. When she told them, they were stunned!    Most of them have lived here over 2 years.  Some of them 

over 10 years.  I think she motivated them! 

On Saturday I got to serve in the temple!  What a happy place the temple is!  While I was there I met a young 

man named Tim Smith who had just come home from a mission two days ago!  He still had that missionary 

glow!  He saw my name tag and asked me if I was related to any Manwarings in Pocatello, Idaho where he had 

served his mission. I assured him that I was related to all of them.  Then I asked him if he knew a missionary 

named Sister Bitton serving in Pocatello and he said yes!  When I told him she was my niece, he hugged me!  

He said he knew her well.  He spoke very highly of her!  It felt so good to find a family connection here in North 

Carolina and to know that Julia Bitton is doing a good job not only representing her family, but the Lord. 

Keep finding those connections! 

I love you all❤️❤️❤️

Sister Manwaring 

PS Julia Bitton is my sister Harriet's granddaughter😊

A day at the temple



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