The Last Email ~ I'm Coming Home

Sister Meeks, Ericka Elliott, Lin Yu Jie

Lin Yu Jie's card to Sister Meeks

Sister Meeks, Jasmine Player (Companion) , Kris and Patty (Recent convert and son)

Sister Meeks and Chen Pei Ru (Recent Convert) 

Last Zone Conference (Taoyuan)

Pday in Danshui (at the curry place) 

Sister Meeks and Sister (Gail) Enriquez saying goodbye

Jasmine Player, Lauren Zatiz, Jessica Meeks, Ericka Elliott

Bryan (Recent Convert), Jessica Meeks, Chen Pei Ru (Recent convert) Jasmine Player (companion) Elder Jacob Henderson, and Alan Settles

Bryan (Recent Convert), Jessica Meeks, Chen Pei Ru (Recent convert) Jasmine Player (companion) Elder Jacob Henderson, and Alan Settles

Jessica Meeks, Jasmine Player (companion) and the Wu Family (from Banqiao)

Jasmine Player, Tracy (investigator), and Jessica Meeks at the Recent Convert Fireside

Hello Everyone! 

Hard to believe that this is the last email I will be sending to all of you as a missionary! Time really does fly! But I hope I can see you all at my homecoming!! 

It will be on March 17th at 10:30am! 

​949 N 540 W American Fork, UT 84003

I am beyond grateful for my opportunity to serve in Taiwan. I love this beautiful country and I love the people in it. I never knew you could come to love people you barely knew so much. I will miss biking everyday, not understanding what people say, and I will especially miss all the weird/amazing food I've tried here! 

There are a lot of things that I have learned on my mission...But one of the most important things I KNOW because of my mission is that we have a living Father in Heaven who loves us so much. He will do anything for us. Including sending his son to suffer and die for us. I know Jesus Christ is our Savior. Because of Him, we can have eternal life. What an amazing blessing right? No matter what happens in our lives, I know we have the perfect person who understands every need, concern, trial, or doubt. Jesus Christ loves us SO much we just need to trust him and follow in his footsteps! 

I love you all! Thank you for all the encouragement and support you have given me the past 18 month! Can't wait to see you all 😊 

With love! 

Sister Jessica Meeks 

Everything Comes Full Circle

Zone Conference in Taoyuan! Elder Ransbottom with all of the Sisters. 

English Class in Banqiao

Jasmine Player, Elder Dallin Gorgonio, Jacob Henderson, Jessica Meeks (Pday on the train to the waterfall!)

Pday with us in the Elders in Wulai!

Jessica Meeks saying goodbye to Sister Natalie Lyman (her trainee)

Jessica Meeks and Lin Yu Jie

Jasmine Player, Regan Austad (MTC companion) Ashlee Johnson, and Jessica Meeks on exchanges. 

Jessica Meeks and Jasmine Player after exchanges. 

Jessica Meeks and Jasmine Player on a snack run.

Lights at the mall

Cinderella Carriage: Jasmine Player and Jessica Meeks

Shaved ice and bean pudding late night snack! 

Hey everyone! 

The highlight of this week was going on exchanges with my MTC companion Sister Austad. It was such a good time. It was both our last exchange on the mission and it made everything feel so complete. She is such an amazing example to me and I am grateful we got to be companions again for one day! 

A cool miracle this week happened when my companion and I decided we wanted to go get shaved ice before we went home! We had been craving it for a few days and finally decided to go do it! We got into the store and there were no other customers. We started talking to the store worker there and he was super cool! He laughed at us because we wanted a weird combination for our dessert and then he started asking us all kinds of questions. He was just amazed by the missionary life and it was an awesome chance for us to share our testimonies. He was very interested and wants us to teach his whole family! So cool! 

Other fun things of this week included...

1. Going to Wulai for Pday! It is a cool place in the mountains with lots of Taiwanese Aborigine stuff to look at. We convinced everyone who went with us to buy these cool elephant pants and it was awesome! 

2. We went to zone conference in Taoyuan! Good to see lots of good friends and say lots of goodbyes. So sad but I'm grateful for the chance to see them all again! 

I also wanted to share this scripture from 1 Nephi 1:20! 

And when the Jews heard these things they were angry with him; yea, even as with the prophets of old, whom they had cast out, and stoned, and slain; and they also sought his life, that they might take it away. But behold, I, Nephi, will show unto you that the tender mercies of the Lord are over all those whom he hath chosen, because of their faith, to make them mighty even unto the power of deliverance. 

I love this scripture so much! Nephi and his family had so many trials.. but instead of him complaining, he had trust that the Lord would make him mighty because of his faith! I know this is true!! When we put our faith in the Lord, he will give us the power to overcome our trials. He loves us so much and just wants to help us be happy and full of joy! 

Love you all so much! Enjoy the pictures!! 

~Sister Meeks 

-Pday in the Mountains

-Zone Conference with a selfie with all the Sisters!(And Elder Ransbottom haha)

-Saying goodbye to really good friends 

-Exchanges in Danshui

-English class! 

-We got to be Cinderella for a minute! 

-My cute companion and I! 

-My favorite Taiwanese desert! 

Save the Penguins

Our Valenines Day treat from Jerry (investigator)

Cutting Jasmine Player's Hair

Night Market fun with the Wu Family

Valentine's Day English Class

Door Selfie on our way out!

Flowers for Enlgish Class moms (Jasmine Player and Jessica Meeks)

Jasmine Player, Jessica Meeks and Jenny (member from Banqiao)

Jasmine Player, Jessica Meeks, and random girl we met in the cafeteria

Grace (Hong En Ci) and Jessica Meeks reunited in Taibei! (She was a young women in the Hualian area) 

Grace (Hong En Ci) and Jessica Meeks reunited in Taibei! (She was a young women in the Hualian area) 

Grace (Hong En Ci) and Jessica Meeks reunited in Taibei! (She was a young women in the Hualian area) 

Hey All! 

To explain the subject line, we were eating with my cute recent covert Austin and his mom. Out of the blue he starts telling us that all the polar bears are dying (because he likes to update us on the news) and then he starts ranting about how everybody is talking about the polar bears and no one cares about the penguins! It was very cute and very impressive how much he knew! But we were all trying not to laugh because he was VERY concerned for the well being of these penguins. But way to go Austin...He's gonna save all the penguins someday! Haha 

But these week was super short because we had Pday on Wednesday! But the highlight these week was an awesome English class! We taught about Valentine's Day and we had like ten new students! It was very chaotic and very fun. We had the feeling to buy this huge bouquet of flowers earlier in the day and when we gave them to the kids and moms, they were so so happy ! It was incredible. We shared all the love on Valentine's day!! 

Anyway, love you all so so so much! We are going on an adventure so I don't have tons of time today ! But love you all and hope you have an amazing week! 

Loves!

Sister Meeks 

Pictures! 

1-3. English Class ! Topic: Valentine's Day 

4.  Our investigator Jerry gave us these cute couple bears for Valentine's Day 

5. Meeting with a cute lady in our ward! 

6. I cut my companion's hair!! Haha 

7. Cute new friend, Victoria ! Already love her 

8-10. We did a mini photo shoot with one of my young women I worked with in Hualian. We are best friends and this is the last time I was going to see her so we did a photo shoot to remember everything! 

Chinese New Year

Dinner with the Chen Family. 

Starbucks run with Jasmine Player

Really nice dinner for Chinese New Year

BBQ with Sister Dong for Chinese New Year

Jasmine Player asleep while I do MyPlan

Our favorite dog on the way to district meeting

Dinner during Chinese New Year with the Chen Family

Dinner with some members! 

Jessica Meeks photo bombed by Jacob Henderson

Chinese New Year picture! 

Hot Pot with the Wu Family! 

District Dinner (Jasmine Player, Jessica Meeks, Alan Settles, Jacob Henderson and random member from another ward! 

Lights at the night market with Jasmine Player and Jessica Meeks

Night Market Fun! 

Night Market kabobs with Jasmine Player and Jessica Meeks

Jessica Meeks, Shelly, and Jasmine Player

Hey Everyone! 

This week was Chinese New Year!!! So so so fun! The members were so kind this week and we had a lunch AND dinner appointment everyday. Such a blessing! We had so much good food and have never been more full in our lives! But it was SO worth it! I love the culture here and I learn new things everyday. HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE ! 

A cool experience I had this week started with us talking about how to have Christ centered lessons during district meeting. We talked about how sometimes we got caught up in little things and forget that the most important thing to focus on is Jesus Christ. We went through all the points in the lessons we taught and connected them to Jesus Christ. Literally every aspect of our lives is tied to him and it was amazing! 

THEN that night we went to teach our friend Eva. She has been having a hard time keeping commitments and we weren't sure if we wanted to keep teaching her. So we decided to do what we talked about and connect everything we were teaching her to the gospel! It worked!! The lesson was filled with the Spirit and she commited to come to church with us this week! Such a huge miracle. We shared Mosiah 2:22 which says...

~And behold, all that he requires of you is to keep his commandments; and he has promised you that if ye would keep his commandments ye should prosper in the land; and he never doth vary from that which he hath said; therefore, if ye do keep his commandments he doth bless you and prosper you~

She loved this scripture and we talked about why God commands us to do the little things. We talked about how it is because he wants us to become closer with him and become more like Jesus Christ. She loved it and felt the Spirit very strongly. 

I know when we put Jesus Christ as the center of our lives we will see more MIRACLES than we can ever imagine. He loves us so much. He wants what's best for us and we can have all the blessings in the world if we keep is commandments ❤️ 

Hope you all have an awesome week! 

Sister Meeks 

No time to explain the pictures because we are going to the temple today!!! Yay!!! Also, if I didn't respond to you today I will on Monday! I don't have much time! LOVE you all!