Week 36 - Promptings and Miracles

Hello from Noble.

Sister Jenkins & Walker

My companion and I have been sick this week. First time getting sick for both of us on the mission, no fun.😒 It’s not that bad it’s just a cold, but my companion got it worse. The flu is going around right now and it is hitting everyone like a plague. Noble is down and the week has been so slow. A lot of the members of the ward have been sick, so dinners have canceled and investigators have canceled lessons. It’s just been crazy! People say that it’s the weather change here from freezing cold in the 20’s and then today it is 76 degrees. We’ve been in our apartment for a few days, and are praying that it doesn’t turn into anything more than just the cold. We’ve got faith we can do this! Even though the whole town is sick, we saw miracles because we always see miracles.😊

Loving life & seeing miracles!

I went on exchanges with Sis Lewis and it was so much fun.  We got together with sisters on the OU campus, and can I just tell you that the OU campus is absolutely beautiful and I love it. We studied on OU campus and there is this room in a really old library called the Harry Potter Room. No joke, legit. It looks like the big hall in the movie where they have classes and study and have lunch and such. I’m not a huge Harry Potter guru but I do know a few things and it was so cool to study there. You can’t even unzip your coat or backpack without it echoing through the whole hall and have someone look at you from like 100 yards away. After studies, we took off to our areas. Sis Jenkins went to OU, which was really fun for her to be on campus again. (She had just come from UCO which is another college campus in Edmond)

Exchanges with Sister Lewis

Since Sis. Lewis and I didn’t have many lessons, because so many were sick, we just started visiting with people and had a prompting that we needed to drive to Lexington about 25 minutes away. We visited a lady in the ward and took her cookies. We then went to another member, Brother & Sister Bitseedy, but they weren’t home so we went to their son’s home. The kids were home from school early and when their dad came in he said, “Did they call you? Why are you here? Who told you?” As it turns out Bro. Bitseedy’s father had been admitted to the hospital that day because he caught the flu and wasn’t doing good at all. We were prompted by the Spirit to show up since something very bad and tragic was happening in their family.  The Sisters showing up with the simple plate of cookies made their day. It was a testimony builder that the Spirit does prompt us to do things that we might not think are very important in the moment, even if we never find out the reason. MY CHALLENGE to you today:  Listen to the Spirit!  Sister Lewis asked if we could say a prayer with them so we did. It was a beautiful prayer about the plan of happiness and it was a good testimony builder that families are forever. I’m so grateful to have that knowledge. I don’t think I would be content or even have peace here on my mission if I didn’t know families are forever. I’d be so homesick and it would not be good. I am so grateful that I have a family.  I love them so much and all that they have taught me and all that I have learned from them.

When you leave your phone with the
OU sisters they write you
"Missionary closet Notes" and you don't
even realize it until frantically looking
through the institute...

Hurts Donut & the Emergency Donut Vehicle

So, that is one of the miracles we saw and as far as we know he’s doing better and that’s good.  All this is happening in one trailer park….so we’re going to call it our trailer park of miracles. 😄 We began looking for a former investigator and trying to find his trailer 153.  We found 156, 157, 158, 155, 154, 152….but no 153! (Note: They can move their trailers around within the park).  So, we just parked the car and there was one trailer that didn’t have a number. We knock, and a guy answers as we stood there with a plate of cookies and asked if this is 153?  He says, no it’s 160 but he knew who we were and he’d just moved here from Vegas and he said, “Oh, I know you Mormons.” Sister Lewis asked if he had any allergies, and he said, “Nope”, so we gave him the plate of cookies.  He said he’d love for us to come back and that he’d gone to church with our missionary friends but didn’t like it very much. He was willing to hear us out and learn, so we’re going back. What a miracle!  His name is Tony and the coolest guy ever.  So we found 160, but not 153😂.   Apparently, 153 just got up and left.  Hopefully missionaries catch them in another trailer park.

Smurf Turf in OKLAHOMA!
#wannabe

At the end of the night Sister Lewis and I were feeling like ice cream. We were about to go back to our apartment and get some workbook things done when we decided to go get ice cream and we didn’t know why we were feeling this but it was just an ice cream night. We went into the store and passed this family in the ice cream aisle and smiled at the two girls & their dad. At the self-checkout line they were also there. While I’m checking out, Sis. Lewis starts talking to him and learns that he knows about Mormon missionaries and has talked to some before, but never had  an interest in taking the lessons. His conversation with Sis Lewis was a good one and at the end she asked if he would be willing to hear the lessons sometime and he said, “Yea, definitely.  I’m super interested in your religion and the Book of Mormon and John Smith or something.”  His name is Roy.  We texted him and hopefully will get a lesson sometime and teach his family. We decided that’s why we went and had the feeling to get ice cream at Walmart. The Lord was blessing us with ice cream and a potential investigator. 😃

WEEKLY CHALLENGE: Listen to the promptings.  No second thoughts.  I know we’ve had this challenge before but it is the most important thing ever, because you’re going to have the most random thought.  You have to just act on it because you have no idea what will come of it. You have to follow the prompting or you’ll never find out what it is. So, no second thoughts and even if you don’t find out what it is, it’s still going to be cool because it will lead up to something or effect someone or something that you have no idea about. However, God always  knows why. Have a great week. I love you all!

Sister Walker