Week 34 - Music brings Miracles ... and I saw Aubrey!

Hey Ya’ll, 

Sarah & Aubrey!
Aubrey got to OOKC mission in December.
What are the odds that you get to serve with
your cousin? Feeling so blessed!

I finally got to see my cousin, Aubrey! (oops, Hermana Pulsipher) I almost started crying when I saw her!! It was a miracle we were BOTH at transfers!! I LOVE HER!!

Sister Walker, Hermana Pulsipher & Sister Pulsipher
We knew Walker was a common name, but Pulsipher?
And all in the same Mission
(My mom's maiden name is Pulsipher)

Craziness is happening in Noble right now. We just had transfers and sadly Sis. Kresge left Noble and she is in Tulsa and is going to be greatly missed. I love her so much and she has taught me so much. I’ll never forget the relationship we had, it was just an amazing companionship. As you all know from my last email, I now have Sister Jenkins as my companion and I’m even more excited and keep thinking back that this is such a miracle. We both love music, write music, play instruments, and sing.  So, you put two very happy people together and it’s an amazing companionship right now. We are going crazy with music and harmonizing and writing songs. We have one song written which I’m sending and then one almost done. We’re on fire right now and having so much fun. It was definitely inspired and we’re being super creative in the way that we’re finding people to teach. We are going to different neighborhoods and Sister Jenkins plays the guitar and I bring my voice – I wish I had a portable piano but we’ll see about that- and we go and sing this song that we wrote together. (Sister Jenkins wrote this at the beginning of her mission and we just added to it in the last 3 days.) We are seeing so much success from it. We have so many potentials that loved the song and were touched through the Spirit.

Hermana Pulsipher & Sister Walker

It comes to show how much music can have an impact and can bring the Spirit. I’ve realized that I feel the Spirit through music and it’s kind of amazing that WE get to do this. We have sung to almost everyone what has been outside, and have knocked a few doors with our musical message of Christ. The first day we tried knocking and not one door on the street wanted us to play anything, but that made us want to go to another street, and try again. We honestly had to forget the past day where we saw nothing, and keep going and not give up. We met a lady that heard us down the street and wanted us to come and play it for her. She used to live next door to elders and then sisters. Her husband did a church swap with them, and we asked her if she would do one with us next Sunday. She is coming! and we are headed to hers in the morning. WE are Pumped! We also saw a ladies heart soften, as she was about to shut the door. Sister Jenkins asked her if she would just give us a quick second to play her a song. Her demeanor completely changed, and as we sang she started to tear up, and opened the door more. We asked here what the words meant to her, and she testified of her Savior’s love for her. She had a beautiful testimony! We also met some cousins that live together, and they both just cleaned their life up and started going back to church. They loved the song, and then asked us to play it for their nephew that lived in the tiny trailer in their front yard. We got to play it for him, and then we testified of the Book of Mormon. He said that he would be interested in reading it, and told us to come back with more music, and he would tell us what he learned. We saw so many miracles, and it was from tracting! Believe it or not, I'm starting to love tracting now...haha. This is bringing great miracles and we’re excited to do this for the next six weeks and hopefully longer. J  I am loving singing every single day for hours on end, especially sharing the gospel through song. I never thought I would get this opportunity. It’s incredible and it’s an absolute miracle we are together. Just a short 3 months ago we were on exchanges together and we thought then how fun it would be to be companions one day. Nah, it won’t happen, but guess what? It’s a party! It’s a blast! It was definitely inspired and we both needed it. I’m so grateful for Sister Jenkins pushing me and being confident. I never thought I would be walking down the street playing music for people. It’s pretty awesome and I am absolutely loving it!

Sister Jenkins & Walker
Opening doors & hearts thru their music.

Over the past 5 days I’ve learned that you have to use your talents that God has given us. I was reading over my patriarchal blessing and it hit me that this is what I need to be doing. I need to be using my musical gift and talent. There have been other signs over the last 3 weeks that have pinpointed that I need to be using my musical abilities to touch other lives.  In a way, singing is a different language in talking to people and it brings people so close to the Spirit.

Every dinner message that we’ve had over the last couple of days we’ve been doing the song we wrote or a hymn. We’ve been opening every lesson with a song and Sister Jenkin’s dad asked her to make this a priority, so we’ve decided we should do this from this now on.  Every single lesson that we have, we start with a song to bring the Spirit in, to soften hearts, and to allow the Spirit to teach. There is so much that you can say with music. There are so many words that will pierce someone and allow them to think about the words and how they can change their life if they follow the counsel from the words.

Weekly Challenge:  Your challenge this week is to magnify your talents, magnify your gifts that God has given you. If you can’t figure out what your gifts are, I promise that you have gifts.  Heavenly Father loves you so much that he has given you amazing talents. It might take you time to find them but I encourage you to pray about it. It’s there, maybe it’s not super obvious at first but I encourage you to use it to do good. Use it to teach the gospel and share your testimony with others.

I hope you have a wonderful week, I love you all, thanks you so much for your prayers and thoughts and your letters. I appreciate all of them and it makes me feel so close to home even though we’re so far away. I love you all and hope you have a great week. Let me know about everything you do with the challenges I give you. I love to hear what everyone’s been doing.  BYE!

Sister Walker