Mother craved greater spiritual strength and power that she might more effectively serve the Lord. She would interview pastors, visiting ministers, and evangelists in the hope they could help her. She said, "I would tell them that God had saved my soul when I was a proud, haughty woman, that He had completely changed my life and my desires, but that I still hungered for more of God. They would say, 'You are all right. You have all that God has for you.' After each interview I would go my way, disappointed and discouraged. I knew that I was saved; I knew that I lived a consecrated life, but I craved to receive a deeper experience. I had read of sanctification in John Wesley's teachings; and I had heard of others who had received that second work of grace for which I was seeking."