Sister Walker-- Serving Wherever the Oklahoma Wind Takes Her: Week 66

I LOVE HER!!!!
Sister Ostergar & Walker

Hey! WHITNEY has a Baptism Date y'all !!!!!! We went to go see her the other night and Sister O reminded her of what Brother Paris said in Sunday School last Sunday. He said "We hope one day you can join the Church, and enjoy all the blessings God has for you!" She asked her what she thought of that and she said, "it was pretty Inspiring"....she understands that this is a big commitment, so we set a goal. We are so excited!!!!!

We had a unique missionary opportunity the other day that was so much fun! We met this older gentleman who invited us to a little performance at his retirement community center. We went with our investigator Mike who lives there. They were pretty good! They sang some old country, "Praise the Lord, I saw the light", "Jesus is my Friend" and "Born Again" very Oklahoma! There was a little keyboard in the back, so when they found out I sing and play I couldn't get out the door fast enough! Jk

. It was honestly the greatest thing of my life playing with them! Sharing the Gospel through music is the best!! Oh and Sister O talked to everyone listening:) she is da best!

Exchanges
Sisters Ostergar, Lewis & Walker

We went on exchanges this week with sister Lewis and Hermana Bell! When I say that exchanges are crazy and never go as planned, I mean that! Both of them got sick this time, and we ran around for a whole day like chickens with our heads cut off. It's a longer story than that, but I will let you use your imagination:)

We then headed up to Owasso for Zone Conference! I love Zone Conference so much!!! Every time both my comp and I need to hear every word. It's like president is inspired or something. We talked a lot about how to determine success. President talked about how success is not necessarily the Outcome of the situation or goal, for example, if our goal is to get 2 baptisms by the end of the 6 weeks, and you only get one, most of the time we would say we failed, but he reminded us that "The only person who could be called a failure is that person who tries to succeed at nothing". He reminded us to focus on what we can control, which doesn't include others agency, the weather, the transfer, etc. But we choose how we handle it, and the effort we put into the work. "The Great Motivator is giving 110% to our Savior Jesus Christ."

Then Sister Mansell talked about not comparing ourselves to others achievements, because this only leads to either Pride or Discouragement. We were also given some amazing trainings from the APs on how to strengthen our areas. Sister O and I are having a lot of fun discussing and applying what we were taught this week!

We finally saw Marelyn after 2 weeks!!!! She's doing great by the way:) she did get a hold of a bit of anti material:( and that was a little stressful, but we encouraged her to go to the Lord, or text us for any more questions she has and the scriptures of course:)

MTC Comps reunite

We did a church Swap yesterday! Jamie came to our church in the morning, and we went to his Baptist Service that night. So the Lord must know each of his children or something because we were talking about prophets in Sunday school, and Jamie had a few concerns to whether or not there are prophets again on the earth. Then in the Baptist Service they talked about how to receive revelation, and how to identify false prophets, and leaders, (haha they low key through us under the bus a few times

, but all was well) but the scriptures they preached were just what we needed to help Jamie and Marelyn! It was honestly a great experience to strengthen our own testimonies of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and what we believe in.

One thing I wish they mentioned was to pray to seek revelation. That is extremely important when you have a question or seek to know God's plan for you. Joseph Smith did just this (James 1:5 is a scripture we need to follow always:) and got an answer that changed his whole life and the whole world!! We are going to encourage Jamie to pray to know about a prophet of God on the Earth today, and if he is a prophet.

Me & Otaza
She loves to do my hair, isn't she so good!!

I know that President Nelson is a Prophet called of our Heavenly Father to lead and guide us in these latter days. I know that he will never lead us astray or away from our Savior. I am in awe with the sacrifice the Prophet Jospeh Smith made to help our Savior Restore the fullness of his Gospel to the Earth again. I know that because of his question, and faith to receive an answer, we have the Book of Mormon, a straight and narrow path to follow back to our Father is Heaven, and a Plan of Happiness. I Love this Gospel with all of my heart, and without a doubt I know it's true.

Your Challenge this week is to share you testimony of the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith with someone. This can be on social media, in a copy of the Book of Mormon you give them, or in whatever way the Spirit directs you. Pray for an experience to have this week to share this. Remember that it doesn't have to be elaborate, just simple. The simplest testimony is the most powerful