Week 72 - Very Crazy Week!

Hey y'all!!

So as missionaries, some weeks are just crazy. Very crazy!

Comp bonding and Gift basket making <3

Actually, Zone Conference was pretty awesome. Everyone got a flu shot, and we got to hear some trainings from some amazing missionaries, and sister Gwynn and I gave one on change. It stretched each of us to ask good questions, and to be engaging. It's hard! But I hope to do this again cause I want to get better

Alright, so here's when the week got crazy. We got home after zone conference, and I was not feeling super good. I told Sister Gwynn that I was probably just tired because I havn't and wont get sick on my mission. Well....

I got the 24 hour flu bug...and The whole day I was running on the Spirit.  Literally.  But none of that stopped us from having 2 amazing lessons with Tawee, and Aaron and Ralfina. Its pretty amazing the strength the Lord can give you if you just ask. I did not feel good at all, but as soon as we were in lessons I felt a boost of energy from the Lord. I struggled that day with just wanting to go home and sleep, which was valid, but I'm so glad we stayed out. Tawee has been taught for almost a year, and we are being patient but helping him recognize an answer from the Lord that the Church of Jesus Christ is true. He is so prepared but he needs to sacrifice a little more. He works on Sundays and hasn't been able to come to church. We are going to promise blessings that will come, a lot better with him this upcoming week. We definitely needed to be there that day though. 

Sister Walker gets pretty stressed
when driving through an insane thunderstorm,
especially in the middle of the night
on the way to the police station😁

Aaron and Ralfina are getting married Wednesday! And we have seen them grow closer together as we have had lessons with them. Aaron is beyond excited to get baptized, and he will definitely not be the recent convert that goes to church once after and never comes back. He is solid and he wants the gospel to bless his family even more than it already has. They have a goal to be sealed in the temple in a year! We are so so excited!!!!

Ok, but then.....Thursday night we got home from dinner. We went to sleep and at 1 am we got woken up by our CO alarm! It was so loud our hearts jumped out of our chests trying to figure out how to turn it off! We got it off  but then started thinking...it probably went off for a reason. So we call a member of our congregation who happened to be at her Dispatch job that night. She sent the police and a few fire men to come check. While they were in our house the officer stayed outside with us. We talked about what we do as missionaries. He asked lots of good questions too! (Future member of the church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints) 

So they found nothing, and we did our best to fall back to sleep. Which we both couldn't do. Good thing because it went off a 2nd time! We called Jerry (at dispatch) again, and she told us to take it out of our room. We did and it turned off. We slept in our living room for 20 min until it went off again!! We drove to the police station at 4am and got our members key and slept at her house that night (morning). That was our adventure and we found out that it was just an old alarm that was malfunctioning but we now have a good story to tell!

CO scare night....We were dead tired

Our land Lord and the maintenance guy came to check our apartment after the CO alarm scare. They said there was no gas leak, and everything was fine. We were a little upset we lost sleep over it, but we were grateful they came and helped us figure it all out. Also our maintenance guy is super creepy. So y'all, we are healthy and not going to die from CO poisoning:)

After all of that I still Love Anadarko!!! Oh and especially Sister Gwynn We are working hard at being exactly obedient, and not the least being a minute late for anything. We have seen this change the work in the last few days. And my attitude of being a few minutes late has changed dramatically. This is helping me, honestly in the long run, with never justifying anything. When you do it 100% you see 100%. And Exact Obedience brings blessings.

Cleaning the Baptismal Font 

Your challenge is to eliminate excuses and justification from something you do this week, and then develop a habit of eliminating it. Sometimes we can make excuses for our actions. Sometimes it's not your fault completely, but going the extra mile will prevent you from even going there. As Lynn G. Robbins would say, "Be 100% responsible". I love Y'all a lot! Thank you for the thoughts and prayers for the work here in Oklahoma! Have a fantastic week!!

Sister Walker

Sister Gwynn was making a point
that I have too many oils