ZHAN DIXIONG GOT BAPTIZED! YAY!

Pday last week with our favorite Sisters!! (Sister Warren: ex-companion, Sister Elliott: MTC roommate)

Our lesson with Jerry outside the temple

I asked our investigator to help me pic a Chinese name (very casually) turns out he spent hours picking one. He wanted it to fit my personality and sound kinda like my English name. So sweet! 

Zhan Dixiong after his baptism! 

 I love Sister Hurst! She did my hair and I did hers 😊 so cute. 

Sister Hurst and I biking over this huge bridge to get a missionary fireside! 

Us biking home that night over the same bridge!  

Our awesome ward at our ward fireside!! Love them! 

Friends and Family! 大家早安! 

This week was incredible! First and foremost, Zhan Dixiong got baptized! AHHHH so so so exciting and we are beyond happy for him. A little about his story: He used to live in an area farther away and has been meeting with missionaries for a long time. The reason he wasn't baptized earlier is because his work wouldn't allow him to come to church. But he really had a desire to be baptized so not only did he move to a completely different part of Taiwan, but he switched his job so he could come to church on Sunday! He is so so cool! Sister Hurst, Sister Warren and I have had the amazing opportunity to get to know him better over the past few weeks and helped him finish everything he needed to do to be baptized. Such an awesome guy! 

On the actual baptism day, he got to the church and was so excited! I kept telling him he could sit down while we were waiting for it to start but he kept getting up again because he was so excited! As he went down into the baptismal font, I was so incredibly happy. He is going to do some amazing things in this church and I'm happy to be a part of his journey. After the service, I asked him what his feelings were and he said, "I feel pure." This melted my heart a little bit and I couldn't wipe the smile off my face. So amazing. Yay Zhan Dixiong!! :) :) :) 

Other cool things from the baptism was that our investigator Jerry was also able to attend. He had an amazing spiritual experience. It was the first baptism he had ever been too and he was just amazed the entire time. He kept shaking his head and just saying "wow." He made friends with Zhan Dixiong so we are excited for them to continue to progress together! 

While that was the highlight of the week, we had some other incredible things happen. Sister Hurst and I have been specifically focusing on how we can find more people to teach and we saw a lot of success! At the begining of the week, we found lots of people so on the weekend, we has a bunch of lessons with some solid people! Biggest miracles were three of the people set baptismal dates with us! So huge!!! All three felt the Spirit and are willing to work towards baptism with us. So excited to see them progress! 

Other fun things from this week! 

1. I forgot the keys a few weeks ago and now Sister Hurst very pointedly asks me everyday if I grabbed then! Hahaha 

2. We got called a Barbie Doll by an investigator multiple times...Without any explanation. 

3. Our investigator called us right before we were going home one night and asked if we wanted pizza!  #jerryisthebest

That's it for this week! Don't forget that I love hearing about you and all of your lives! Miss you all and love you more! 

Have an amazing week! 

Sister Meeks 

毛姐妹

Halfway there!

Us trying to help Elder Walters sit on his chair! As you can see by the other picture, it was not successful! Haha 

Last district picture together! The amount of chairs represents how many transfers you have been in Taiwan. As you can see, we said goodbye to Elder Walters this week! He's the best and we were so happy to serve with him!

Young single adults took us out to dinner! 

This is how we get to church every week! 

I got to sing at a baptism with Elder Park from my district! The spirit was so strong and it was so awesome to see the love and support in that room ! 

Some amazing food from this week!!

Met these awesome members who rememberd by brother Andrew from 5 years ago! So cute!!

Struggles of our water filter being broken...

Us and our official staff badges for the Lamb of God! 

I met Sister Hurst's cute investigator from her last area! She is amazing and I have loved getting to know her! 

Hello Friends and Family! 

This week was crazy and good at the same time! First off, we had transfers...The trio was split up! Sister Hurst and I are staying in the area and Sister Warren got transfered to Yilan! Sister Hurst and I are the youngest companionship in the mission and we are excited to rise to the challenge! We started in the MTC together and just hit our halfway mark together as well! It's crazy to see how fast time is flying! 

But we had some awesome things happen this week!! I'm going to use Sister Hurst's words to describe two of them! 

"We were able to teach that family from English class again this week. The elders weren't able to make it to the pass off lesson, so we had the opportunity to teach them again!! We ended up teaching the full restoration and they all LOVED it!! They had so many awesome questions, and a clear desire to know truth. The Spirit was brought into the lesson so strongly as my awesome companion resighted the first vision, and they all definitely felt it. By the end of the lesson, we were able to commit them all to start praying and reading the Book of Mormon everyday, and to pray to know truth. It was such a powerful lesson and I'm so grateful that we had the opportunity to teach this amazing family again!! 

We also had a really awesome performance this Saturday at our chapel. Our district leader Elder Walters played the piano on broadway before his mission, and decided a couple months ago that he wanted to organize and direct The Lamb of God to be performed his last day here in Taiwan. So he worked with the APs to translate the entire thing into Chinese, organized auditions, hired some of the best singers and musicians in Taiwan, put together and entire orchestra, hired a professional sound and lighting crew, a conductor, and literally anything else you can think of. He did it all. And my companion and I had the opportunity to be on the staff team and make sure everything went smoothly. The performances were incredible!!!! The Spirit was so powerful and our investigators that we brought with us were very touched. It was such an amazing experience and im so grateful for the opportunity that we had to be a part of it."

Thank you Sister Hurst! It really was incredible to see all the miracles that happened this week! I have really come to find that as we trust in the Lord, no matter what happens) he will guide and direct us. I know that as we trust him, he will help us grow and overcome any challenge we might face! 

Love you all and hope you have an incredible week! 
Loves!
Sister Meeks 

P.S. shout out to my little brother Jacob who is graduating high school this week! You're awesome!! 加油!

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JinHua Street

Da-an, Taipei 106

Taiwan 

Mother's Day

Best Day Ever!

Power Week

1. I got some love from the Sunset Hills 1st Ward in American Fork! Sister Merrill from my home ward was in Taiwan and she took us out to lunch! It was so fun to catch up and here about all the news from home. Love her!

3. My cute companions decorated my wall for my birthday...so so so cute!

8. Cute pictures with my cute companions on the top floor of our chapel!

4. Us soaking wet with our investigator Wang JM on the way to her baptismal interview. She passed!!

6. We went to lunch with my old district after the temple today! Such a incredible experience at the temple followed by some good catch up with friends :)

Hi Friends and Family!

Today was temple day! So incredible and spiritual. But I don't have a lot of time to email so I'll describe my week using pictures!!

Love you all and hope you have an incredible week! 

Sister Meeks

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JinHua Street

Da-an, Taipei 106

Taiwan 

City Life

Hello Friends and Family!

This was a crazy and interesting week! I'm still getting used to my new area but I'm loving it more and more everyday. Almost everything is different, but the change is refreshing and I'm learning so many new things!

This week we had exchanges! I found out I was going with Sister Lim and I was so excited. She is an amazing missionary and knows how to have fun. We had two very successful lessons and I learned a lot from her teaching style. It's really cool that we have oppotunities to learn from lots of different people. We had such a party together. Missionary work is hard, but it's not supposed to be a bad experience! You can have fun and spread the Gospel at the same time!

On Wednesday we had English class! We had over 15 students and neither Sister Hurst or I had ever taught that big of a class before! But, we had so much fun. We taught about 'hobbies' and our students were loving it. They were very willing to participate and asked lots of questions! We are so excited to teach them. We ended but talking about spiritual gifts and how we can develop them. They were all very intrigued and accepted our invitation to use one of their gifts to serve another person this week. We also had a few new students and after talking with them after class, we found a couple of them that were interested in the gospel! We are teaching them this week. English class is such a great way to meet people, make friends, and help them start to understand why the gospel is so important. Love it!

Thursday we had Zone Conference! We had Elder Meur from the Seventy come and teach us! He was awesome and we learned a lot. We are blessed with some incredible leaders here in this area and I'm coming to realize more and more how much guidance we can receive. It really is incredible!

Friday was great! After a successful weekly planning session, we had to awesome lessons with Jerry and Amy. It was our first full lesson with them and they were both incredible. We were a little nervous about teaching in a trio, but it worked so well! We taught very well together as a companionship and came out of each lesson with big smiles on our faces.

Well everyone, I would just like to close with a quote from M. Russel Ballard from the last general conference. He said, "Life can be filled with faith, joy, happiness, hope, and love when we expertise the smallest amount of real faith in Christ." I love this quote! Christ is the source of all happiness and peace. When we have faith and follow His example. We have so so so many blessings we can enjoy. I can say with all my heart that I know Christ is our Savior. He loves us and wants the best for us. I would like to invite you to all watch this short clip. It's called "Becuase He Lives." (Even if you have already seen it, watch it again!) I truely know that Becuase Chest Lives, we can all return to our Heavenly Father and also live again.

https://www.lds.org/media-library/video/2014-00-1420-because-of-him?lang=eng

I love you all so much! Have an amazing week!
-Sister Meeks
毛姐妹

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Jin Hua Street
Da-an, Taipei 106
Taiwan

Transfers and Bike Wrecks

各位弟兄姐妹們，大家早安! Good morning!

This week was crazy! First off, I got transfered ! This was super unexpected and threw us all off guard. We do something called "moving madness" in our district (this is where we guess where everyone is moving to) and we were all completely wrong! But this is my first time moving! I moved from ZhuBei to Banqiao! These two places are very very different. ZhuBei was a little busy, but for the most part it was a very moderately busy city. Banqiao...Is one of the busiest places in Taiwan! I have never seen so many people in my entire life! It's different, but very good.

But before transfers, this week was great! We had an awesome Pday where we played ping pong, basketball, badminton, and a bunch of other games. So fun and it was good to chill around other missionaries. Then on Tuesday, we had an awesome district meeting! I have been so blessed to be in an amazing district my entire mission. I'll miss everyone so much, but I'm so happy we could learn and grow together

Then Wednesday came...The day of dreaded transfer calls. They don't come out until the afternoon so everyone is waiting in anticipation! We had an investigator who wanted to take us and the other Elders in our ward to the beach and it was so fun! Right as we got everything set up, transfer calls came! We were all trying to see where we were going but there was no service ! We were all going crazy and then we FINALLY got a signal ! My call was a big shock, I found out that I'm not only moving... But I'm also in a trio! Also, one of my companions is one of my tight friends from the MTC ! Sister Hurst! I was so pumped I know we are gonna have a party!

That night, I said goodbye to everyone and it was more sad than I thought it was going to be. I have been in ZhuBei for about 4 months and I have made a lot of amazing friends. I am so grateful for the opportunity to serve in ZhuBei and I know I have made some friends that will last for a lifetime. Love them all so much!

Then, at 6:45 on Thursday morning, I got on a train and moved to Banqiao! After getting lost in the very confusing metro system, I made it and met Sister Warren! She is awesome and has been very patient leading us around this very busy area. It's very different but I'm excited for the new experience!

We also got to watch General Conference this weekend! (It comes out a week later here because they have to translate it) Before the Saturday morning session, we taught a bunch of members how to make peach cobbler ! They has never had it before so it was really funny to see their reactions to it. :) But Conference was AMAZING! I received so many answers and I am grateful for living prophets. I can testify with all my heart that President Russel M. Nelson is a Prophet of God and he leads and guides this church. I am so grateful for the guidance of our amazing church leaders. If you haven't had a chance to listen or watch Conference, I invite you to start this week! I know every single person can receive personal answers to any question you might have. Let me know if any of you have any cool experience with Conference!

Love you all! Have an awesome week! Don't forget I love getting letters and emails from you all!!

-Sister Meeks
毛姐妹

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Address: 

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Jin Hua Street
Da-an, Taipei 106
Taiwan

There and Back Again

Hello Friends and Family!

It was an amazing week that all started with a super fun Pday! We played basketball with the district for SO long! It was very tiring and a really good time. I have been blessed my entire mission with a really fun district! So fun and I love them all so much!

On Tuesday we had a super fun district meeting. Becuase Easter was coming up, we decorated eggs together! (Thanks mom for the decorating stuff!) Really fun and we all talked about ways we can become better missionaries. This work is so important and we want to take the responsibility very seriously ! Working with the Lord is the way to have sucess on the mission. He is ready to give us miracles, we just have to work hard to receive them!

English class this week was super super fun! We had a lot of new people there and it was a huge success. We talked about what to do in an emergency and it got a little chaotic. Each missionary pretended to have something wrong with them, and the group and to figure out what it was and call 911. It was quite the class! They all had a good time and lots of smiles. We ended with a spiritual share and all the little kids went a found Easter Eggs hidden around the chapel that had scriptures on them. Our English class had been doing really well and we hope it continues to grow!

Thursday was full of exploring! Becuase we had some time, my companion and I decided to explore our area, and put up English posters on the way! We biked a lot and put up LOTS of posters. I also got very very sunburned... Yayyyy! Such is the life ! We also met a bunch of awesome people along the way. We were sitting in the shade for a few minutes when this random guy comes along and gives us cold drinks! He said he saw us sitting there and bet that we were super hot! Long story short, we invited him to English class and he said he would come. People are so generous hear and I love them all so much!

Then we had a super super busy Saturday! We biked super far to one part of our area to help an investigator move and it went really well! The Elders came with us and we got a lot done! We also had some awesome members come and take all the stuff she wanted to donate! It was great!! Then we biked home, changed clothes, did studies, then biked way far in the other direction to go to a baptism!! It was for He Jiemei. My trainer and I (Sister Nielsen) started teaching her and then we found out she didn't live in our area. But we passed her off to the other Sisters and progressed super well! Her baptism was perfect and she was so happy afterwards! Love her so much! ❤️ 

This week was incredible! Love you all and hope you all have an amazing week! 

Sister Meeks

Check out my awesome blog my mom keeps up for me!! 

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Address: 

4/F, #24, Lane 183
Jin Hua Street
Da-an, Taipei 106
Taiwan

Easter Eggs as a District! (Thanks mom) 

Ping Pong in the morning! 

Taking a break from biking! 

Mocking my companion for taking a selfie :)

He Jiemei got baptized!! 

Just me doing missionary work!