Overwhelmed with amazement this week in Lonoke, Arkansas.
The first couple weeks I was here I thought the future of this place was so
bleak. I wanted to be the lucky participant of the next emergency transfer.
haha. But now... I would pummel the elder that caused me to leave this
wonderfully fruitful area via emergency transfer because he couldn't control
himself. Truly though, I know I'm supposed to be here.
So much has happened this week that is just so incredible,
I'm having a hard time believing that it's happening here. Due to time
constraints I can only give you one snippet. Yesterday, since we had saved up
some miles on the car, we took our journey to Carlisle, a city not more than 8
miles out of town, to check up on some less-actives on our way to De Valls
Bluff, maybe 15 miles further down the road. The GPS took us from house to
house with no apparent successes as we faced repeated rejection while the doors
monotonously shut in our faces.
It came to my attention that we were just going through the
motions and that this mindless work would not produce any results if we
continued in our humdrum ways. I also realized that in my "just doing it
to do it" mind set, I had left the most important key to our success out
of the picture! The Lord! I had neglected to ask Him what He wanted me to do.
Humbled, I muttered a silent prayer.
The answer hit me like lightening and electrified my soul,
"We need to go Spiritual Harvesting."
Together we prayed for direction. The consequence was sweet.
As we walked we past one of those apartments that you have to walk inside a
door and then choose whether to go upstairs or down, a prompting came so strong
that I could not shrug the feeling, "Bottom right. Bottom right."
Turns out that we met this
Lady, Devin. We left a very powerful blessing on her home and when we asked if
we could come back, she said, "Tomorrow."
It was such a humbling
experience. My testimony is that this work is nothing without the Lord.
Nothing.
Wish I could have had more time
to write. I'll try better next week.
Love to all.
-Elder Wheatley
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