Oh! looks like I solved the issue actually.
I use Sublime Text 3 as my text editor. When I copy documents I press ctrl + shift + s, rename the file, and save it. I didn’t pay close attention though and it turns out that when I was saving these custom files, they were being saved as [name].blade and not [name].blade.php. I feel like such a doofus. I changed the extention to .blade.php on one of the files and it shows up in Wordpress now.