Hardworkworkhard

Hello!
This week has been a little rough...but we keep pressing forward.
I got to see some of my favorite people and eat lunch with them. THE
PLACE FAMILY!!
Leah and her 2 daughters came up and we were able to see each other.
So happy to see her. Made my whole year(: pretty much haha.

This is Allison . She is leaving on her mission this week to spain!!!

THE
PLACE FAMILY!!

#walkingfordayz

Hello!!
We dropped off our car today...and won't be getting it back till next
week. Haha so we'll be a walking alllllllll week. Say a prayer for me
that I won't freeze in the 50degree weather we've been having! No
worries, I'm wearing tights, boots, scarfs and my sweaters.

At least there's no snow like the week me and sister steadman didn't
have a car and bared through blizzards to get to our
appointments...good times being a missionary(: hahaha.

This week was fun! I love being with sister hall and handy. They crack me up.
Even on rough days when people don't want to talk to us or are not
home we still don't get too discouraged and can laugh.

We have been focusing on finding people to teach. And we had cool
experiences following the promptings from the Holy Ghost to be led to
people who are prepared to hear the gospel.

Shout-out to my little big brother Frank.
He is going to the MTC on Wednesday :) I love him way too much, and he
is going to be such a great missionary in riverside, California!
#eldermanson
Represent!

Last week I talked about how I'm reading the Book of Mormon in 2 weeks.
Finished week 1!
I can't ever begin to describe all of the great things that have come from it.
I get so many things out of it!!!
Reading such big chunks of it I really get to see just how often Jesus
Christ really is being talked about in the Book of Mormon. Literally
so much! In every single chapter. It's awesome.
I love the gospel and the Book of Mormon. It's true!

You do more good than you think you do.
"You can count the amount of seeds in an apple, but you never know how
many apples can grow from 1 seed"

Love and miss you all

Sister Manson

Throwing All My Energy

Hellllllo.

I am doing really well over here in the freezing fall weather of Pennsylvania!

The leaves are beautiful.

--Red&orange&purple.

Hot chocolate.

Rain.

I'm freezing but loving wearing my scarfs, hats, and boots.

Fall is the best:)

Arizona has no such thing so it's been cool to experience.

We had the sweetest opportunity to watch "Meet The Mormons" movie last week as a mission.

GO WATCH IT AND TAKE YOUR NONMEMBER FRIENDS.

It's so good and the spirit is present the whole time.

Before my mission I would say I was a pretty emotional...haha and I think my mission has just amplified it even moreeee haha because it made me cry way too much. I am so sensitive when it comes to movies and Music..It was really good and makes me just love being a missionary even more! I like to think of alllll the people who I've been able to teach and who have joined the church and just thinking about their lives like 10 years from now.

.ahh it's pretty overwhelmingly awesome.

The church is true! I can't say that enough.

Like kelly once told me "when you know, you know. And nothing else matters"

AMEN.

I am doing something that is pretty intense but so worth it and good.

I gave myself a goal to start&finish the Book of Mormon in 2 weeks!

I started Saturday and already just have a couple chapters left until I finish 2 Nephi.

37 pages a day(:

It's not even that hard! And I love doing it and it's just a huge spiritual feast for me every morning and night when I read.

This is from "Spiritual Whirlwinds" general conference talk April 2014.

"When President Henry B. Eyring was a teenager, his family moved to a new city. He initially found the move unpleasant and made few friends. He felt like he didn’t fit in with the students in his high school. The whirlwinds were swirling. What did he do? He threw his energy into the Book of Mormon, reading it many times.17 Years later, President Eyring testified: “I [love to] go back to the Book of Mormon and drink deeply and often.”18 “[It] is the most powerful written testimony we have that Jesus is the Christ"

I am throwing all my energy into reading the Book of Mormon just like president Eyring did.

My life has been so incredibly blessed from the Book of Mormon. I am so grateful for it! I know that it is true...all of it. 100% The spirit just pours out of it into your heart as you read and think about its words. I think I took it pretty much for granted before my mission..it is such a special book.

I challenge and invite you to do it with me!

And email and tell me about your experiences with it.

christy.manson@myldsmail.net

And if you think you don't have time..stop watching tv & make time :)

Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers about/for me. They are greatly appreciated.

I love you!

{sister.manson}

Good stuff.

Our new companion is sister handy!!

Which is pretty cool because we were companions last year in moorestown, nj :)

We made general conference flyers and handed them out to people. We were at the Delaware River again and the coolest thing happened. We saw Jairon there again! (Meet him like a month ago) he was so happy and excited to see us. (He even took a picture of us to send to his friends haha) we asked if he had read the Book of Mormon and he said no. So we told him we would read it with him now! He said it was in his car so he went and grabbed it and all 4 of us squeezed on this bench facing the Delaware River and read aloud from the Book of Mormon. So awesome! My mission was made right then and there haha. We didn't have a lot of time so we only read alittle but, but he said he would finish the chapter :) I love being a missionary.

So we have a transfer goal of finding and baptizing a family this transfer! We have the faith :)

We called up one of our referrals who wanted a bible and asked him why after we had dropped it off for him. He said he wanted to teach his kids about the bible. So we were like wow that's way cool.....have you heard of the Book of Mormon?? (: haha he said yes and we asked if we could share more about it with him and he said yes! The only time he could meet was this morning so that's where we were this morning. He is so prepared! And very sincere about finding truth. He is excited to read the Book of Mormon and he is Jewish who believes in christ! YAY.

Met some really cool people who also seem prepared for the gospel. We'll see how it turns out.

Met one at a Chinese restaurant. I was so PROUD of sister handy because I had given her a goal to talk to 1 stranger every day about the gospel. While I was ordering my food she had talked to 2 people!! One of them totally knew who we were and wanted to learn more.

We have just been focusing on finding people to teach, so pray for us that we'll find some new investigators!

Please tell me you watched general conference? I DID!

It was so good. So much spiritual goodness. Something I realized as I was watching it was that this general conference was my last one as a missionary! The next one in April I will be homeeee. Craziness...boo.

I think my favorite talk was the one by elder klebingat. Talking about spiritual confidence increasing. I got a lot out of that one. Also elder Scott's about re-prioritizing the things we do in our life. Loved that one!! And is good to remember while we are here and how we should be spending our time.

Love you:)

{sister.manson}

General confernce was the best <3