A Year in Review 2018

1. Recent convert fireside with some of our missionary friends! 

2. Wedding of Sister Lin!! So crazy! 

3. Exchanges with Sister Porter! 

4. Saying goodbye to the coolest sister in this mission!! 😭😭

5. Our New Years Feast! 

6. Love my mission! 

7. Found a cute little spot to take pictures! 

8. Three generation picture! My trainee, with her trainee! 

9. My cute companion ❤️❤️ 

10. Xie Jiemei after her speaking at the RC fireside! 

11. Eating Tepenyaki! 

12. Cute New Year card a friend made for me! Haha so Extra! 

Hey Everyone!! 

Hope you all had an amazing week! Mine started with my companion and I going to Taibei 101 (the tallest building in Taiwan) on New Year's Eve and looking around there! It was super festive and super fun! We had some American food to celebrate the new year! Very exciting! 

This week we had the chance to go on exchanges with the amazing Bitan Sisters! They are so so so cute and I seriously love them a lot. I went with Sister Porter and we had a super fun time. We are very similar and we had lots to talk about. She is a good example of being positive in hard situations and accomplishing her goals! She has just barely started her mission and is already incredible. Love her! 

We also got to go to the Sealing of Sister Elliott's trainer! She is from Taiwan and was an amazing misisonary here! Her wedding was beautiful and it was fun to be a part of the fun! She was beautiful and we loved it! 

On Sunday night, we went to the Recent Convert Fireside we have every month! It was super super awesome! My Recent Convert Xie Jiemei spoke at this one! It made me so emotional to hear the story from her perspective and hear her powerful testimony. Such an amazing example of faith and strength. She is super funny and was super excited to get it over with so she could eat Costco cookies at the end! So Sweet! 

I was thinking a lot this week about how much God loves us. I have been reading the Book of Mormon with a goal to finish it by the end of my mission and it has been amazing! All I keep reading is that if we keep the commandments, God will bless us. It says this so so so many times! God is so willing to give us blessings. It's really is unimaginable how much he has to give us 😊 God loves us and that's the reason I'm here on a mission. I am here to help more people understand the love God and Christ have for us. Amazing, isn't it? 

Love you all and hope you have an awesome week! 

加油! 

Sister Meeks 

And a Happy New Year...

Hello Everyone! 

I hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas!! Send me all your cute pictures 😊 I have loved being in Taiwan and still being able to feel of the Christmas Spirit! It really is the best time of the year! On Christmas Eve, we bought some pizza on our way home, listened to Christmas music, and opened all of our gifts from our families! So fun! 

The highlight of my week was for sure being able to Skype with my family!! It was amazing! I loved being able to see them all and talk like nothing has changed. It was also amazing to be able to see my little brother Jacob as a full-time missionary! He is such a 帥哥! 👍 I feel blessed to be supported so much by my family and be able to serve alongside as my best friend! Keep going strong Jacob! 

Other than that, we met with this cute lady named Uu. (At least that is what she wants us to call her haha) But she walked in to English class last week and said she wants to learn English and more about the Gospel of Jesus Christ! Very straight forward and shocked me a little bit! We have met with her twice since then and she is doing great! She came to church with us and loved it 😁 We are super super excited to help her continue to progress! 

I also went on exchanges this week with the one and only Sister Griffen! She is so so so cute and I loved exchanges with her. We are very similiar people and I learned a lot from her. She is just beginning her mission and it threw me back to when I was in training. I have learned so many incredible things on my mission and I wouldn't give up this experience for the world. I know this church is true and it has brought so much happiness into my life. I'm grateful for the opportunity to spread this same happiness with the people of Taiwan! 

Love you all and have a Happy New Year! 
Sis. Meeks 

Make sure you check out the blog my awesome mom keeps up for me! 

adventuresofisistermeeks.blogspot.com

1. Our cute Yonghe Ward! 

2. Exchanges with the Yilan Sisters! 

3. My very handsome missionary brother ! 

4. Reunited with the fam! 

5. Christmas dinner at Chille's! 

6. Ping Pong Tournament with the Zone on Christmas day! 

7. I wasn't able to make it to this picture with my RC so she photoshopped me in 😭😭🤣🤣

Merry Christmas

Hello Everyone!!! 

MERRY CHRISTMAS! I hope you all have an incredible day ! My biggest Christmas present for sure will be talking to my family tomorrow! I'm very excited to talk to them and excited to talk to my little bro Jacob who is serving in Korea right now! Christmas really is the best time of the year 😄😊😁

That being said we had a lot of Christmas cheer this week! We sang A LOT ! We had Christmas Caroling at the Marriott and our huge Christmas Performance! It was so fun to sing so many Christmas songs and see so many people I loved! At the Christmas performance, I got to see so many friends I have met throughout the mission. A Recent Convert from my first area came all the way up and gave this very thoughtful card signed by all the ward members there. It brought back so many memories of Christmas last year when I was still in training! Crazy! 

This Christmas, I really have felt the love of Christ in so many ways ! Since Taiwan doesn't have a lot of commercial Christmas stuff all around, it has really helped me focus on the Savior and what Christmas is really about. 

In Zone Conference, we were asked to study/think about the many names of Christ and how they have impacted us. During the meeting, people got up to share their favorite name and why. It was such a cool experience to see people choosing all these different names, but all bearing testimony of the same person; Our Savior Jesus Christ. 

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given; and the government shall be upon his shoulder; and his name shall be called, Wonderful, Counselor, The Mighty God, The Everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace

2 Nephi 19：6

I invite you to all do the same! Study the names of Christ and pick one that has special meaning to you. Share you thoughts with a family member! I know as we focus on him, we will feel his love and remember his sacrifice. 

❤️ Love you all! ❤️

🎄MERRY CHRISTMAS，聖誕節快樂🎄

Sister Meeks

I would love to see your Christmas cards or cute family pictures 😊

You said goodbye, I said hello

Pictures! 

1. Running into a friend from my last area!! LOVE her! 

2. My new companion and I! SISTER ELLIOTT

3. Getting caught in the rain! Woooo

4. Saying goodbye to Sister Hurst at the train station! 

5. SOUTH ZONE! 

6. Saying goodbye to an old companion, Xie JM 

7. Best beef noodles I've had in Taiwan 

大家好!! 

This week started with an amazing member taking us to a all-you-can-eat hot pot! It was so good. Members here are so generous and are always taking such good care of us. 

We also had an awesome Christmas Zone Council to end off the transfer! Our zone has been incredible and I've learned so much from everyone! We reviewed how great the transfer was and then ate some amazing pancakes (made by the Zone Leaders) ! LETS GO SOUTH ZONE 🤘🤘

Then transfers call came!! Literally a dream come true! I'M WITH SISTER ELLIOTT !  I AM SO SO SO HAPPY! She is incredible and we have been talking about being companions ever since we were roommates in the MTC! We are the exact same person and I am pumped to see what this transfer has in store for us 😁 

Transfers always are so bitter sweet. I just ended my third transfer with Sister Hurst and it was hard! It's interesting how much you grow on the mission and Sister Hurst and I have been hit lots of monumental landmarks together! We have grown together and become better together! I'll miss being her companion a lot! ❤️

I'm been reflecting these past this week on my time in Taiwan as I'm going into my last twelve weeks of the mission! (Crazy right?) Something that I always come back to is how grateful I am for all the people I have met on my mission. From my companions, people I've taught, people who have been baptized, members, random grandma's on the street and everyone else! So many people have influenced my life and I am forever grateful for their love and support! 

Have an amazing Christmas! 

Sister Meeks ❤️❤️

I would love to see your Christmas cards or cute family pictures 😊

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Jin Hua Street

Da-an, Taipei 106

Taiwan

Pictures! 

1. Running into a friend from my last area!! LOVE her! 

2. My new companion and I! SISTER ELLIOTT

3. Getting caught in the rain! Woooo

4. Saying goodbye to Sister Hurst at the train station! 

5. SOUTH ZONE! 

6. Saying goodbye to an old companion, Xie JM 

7. Best beef noodles I've had in Taiwan 

All I want for Christmas

Hello Everyone!! 

Hope you all had an amazing week! Mine started with some good old 烤肉 (where you go and grill your own meat for two hours) after our Christmas Choir practice! Super fun and got to see lots of good mission friends! 

CHRISTMAS IS COMING SO SOON!! We had lots of Christmas singing this week! We want at a Carefour (kinda like the Taiwan version of Walmart) as a district and invited tons of people to our Christmas performance at the end of the month! It was very fun to share "Light the World" with so many people and talk to them about Christmas. It's so easy to talk about Jesus Christ during Christmas time.

This is my second Christmas in Taiwan and it's crazy to see how much I've changed. I had been in Taiwan for just a few short weeks last Christmas and here I am getting close to the end. It's been an awesome time to reflect on all the miracles I've seen in the last year.  It seems like sometimes went really slow and other times went really fast! I've loved talking to members about Christmas and teaching them some of our fun family Christmas traditions! My companion and I have been listening to Christmas music none stop and totally decked out our apartment in Christmas decorations. Everything around me reminds me of Christmas and even though most Taiwanese people don't know very much about Christmas, I still can feel the Christmas spirit every day in the small things 🎄🎄

On Saturday we had our first official Christmas Performance! We were in an outside theater at a school. It was SUPER cold but also really fun. It was awesome to look into the audience and see how excited they were to hear us sing and play! I had the awesome chance to play a piano/cello duet of "The Holiest Night." Super pretty and it was fun to play with another instrument! I'm excited that we get to perform again in a few weeks 👍👍

I would like to invite you all to check out LIGHT THE WORLD and see what you can do this week! The videos are adorable so that's a bonus! Let me know what you find out 😁😁

Have an amazing week! 

Sister Meeks 

I would love to see your Christmas cards or cute family pictures 😊

Fan Dixiong Got Baptized

Hello Everyone!! 

This week was power week (meaning we go to the temple in the middle of the week) so that's why you are getting an email from me on a different day!

But hope you all had an amazing week! Ours started off by going to the zoo ! I got to see a panda for the first time ! It was incredible I loved it! We also got to see some elephants, penguins, camels and a bunch of other fun animals! To make it even better, a bunch of friends/recent converts from Zhubei (my first area) came with us! It was so good to see them and to hear how everything was going. I love every area on my mission and my first one for sure hold a very special place in my heart! 

The highlight of this last week was Fang Dixiong getting baptized! He is such a stud! He was so so willing to keep all the commitments we gave him. He was so happy during his baptismal service and does this little "yaaayyy" whenever we teach him something or encourage him! It's adorable. He has totally changed since his baptism! He surprised us at the church after district meeting by coming to say hi and he was so happy and energetic! It honestly threw us off but also made us smile because he was just so happy! He's already a changed man and we are excited to see him progress even more in the church! 

So much has happened this week I don't even know how to explain it all! So I'll just give you the highlights!! 

1. Went on exchanges with Sister Jensen! She is adorable and so fun to be around! It's impossible not be smiling when you're around her 😄

2. Had Zone Conference! We had this HUGE zone conference with almost everyone in the misison there. I was so fun to reunite with so many people and we also got Thanksgiving dinner! Pumpkin pie and all! So fun 👍

3. I fell over in our broken chair and my companion started laughing at me from the other room...Savage! 

4. On Thanksgiving day, we went to 火鍋吃到飽 (all you can eat hot pot) becuase we wanted to FEAST! Then we realized that was the farthest thing we could have gotten from American food so we went to McDonald's for dinner and ran into our district there becuase they had the same idea! #taiwanthanksgiving 

5. Went on exchanges with Sister Zaitz! I LOVE HER! We served in the same Zone for awhile and I was her companion for a few days inbetween transfers! I have missed her so much so it was a very sweet reunion! 

That's all I have time for this week! LOVE you all and hope you have a fantastic week 😊😊 

Sis. Meeks 

P.S. CHRISTMAS IS OFFICIALLY LESS THAN ONE MONTH AWAY!! WOOOOO #LIGHTTHEWORLD  

I would love to hear from you!