This week I got to actually see some missionary work in action. My companion and I actually got to teach someone who was a non member(at least that’s what they told us and that’s how the person acted). Our korean really isn’t to the level that we can teach a very interactive lesson because when we ask them to share, we have no idea what they say. We really have to rely on our very limited vocabulary and the spirit to understand what she was saying. Our second lesson she asked my comp and I if we could explain why Adam and Eve ate the fruit. We were definitely stumped! I guess that is how missionary work goes sometimes! We definitely went back and studied it.

We got the new missionaries this week! They are all super cool and really nice! This is the group that is mainly going to busan! I guess you can say that we set an example to them because we are the oldest group. When we first came in, we were all blown away about how the older missionaries could speak so well and even bear their testimony about keeping the sabbath day holy. Now I can do that pretty well and so I/we gotta set a good example for them. Of course the best examples we have of missionary work is the missionaries in the scriptures! They are such powerful and astonishing  missionaries! And we strive to be like them.

We had a cool experience doing Skype TRC. We taught this amazing korean lady who lived in DC. Our topic was keeping the sabbath day holy. We just taught the basics of what the Lord expects on his holy day. After she told us(in English) that she had prayed last week about what she could or could not do on Sunday. She was confused because she was raised in a family where keeping the sabbath day holy was not practiced. Our lesson was a direct awnser to her prayer. I am grateful for the change that we can make in peoples lives even in the MTC.

The MTC choir is probably going to sing in general conference which is pretty cool. I won’t make it because I will be in Korea, but I will still practice because music really brings the spirit!

It was Sister Urbano’s birthday this week! We through a class party for her and it was really fun! She is such a light to our class and is basically my older sister.

Shout out to my super good friend Joshua Sperry who just got called to serve in the Korea, Busan mission! Same as me! It will be so cool to have AHS represented in Busan by one of the most amazing people I have ever met, Joshua Sperry!

These two verses(VS!)  really stuck out to me this week! I just think about how many times in my life that my mind has not been sound. It has it been where it needed to be. It was troubled with thoughts about friends, school, family, work, or even my belief in God. We are blessed to be in a time where the Supreme Being on High cares about us as much as he has done in the past. He never has stopped caring for us. He wants to give is gifts. On of the gifts is mention in 2 Timothy 4:7 is a sound mind. It sometimes seems to be quite difficult to have a sound mind when we live in a world of constant interuptions. But the statement in Philippians 4:13 proves that we can have a sound mind through Christ. He lends you the strength to step away from a busy mind and make peace within yourself. I know that if we really want to have a strong sound mind, Belief in Christ is the only way!

7 For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

Check out the awesome blog my mom keeps for me!  elderjacobmeeksinkorea.blogspot.com

Love you all family and friends! 

Elder Meeks

Pictures

1.My companion and I after a session in the temple

2. My Tongan buddy elder Hansen who left today! Gonna miss him.

3. Elder Erickson and Miller(I think) who also are heading off! They made nights fun!

4. Elder king, my Chinese startalk friend, taking off to Cambodia! 

5. My comp fell asleep during choir and everyone mostly left. I was giving him and rockin back scratch too so that’s probs why he fell asleep.

6. Elevator selfie!

7. Sister Urbanos bday!

8. On of my favorite murals of Joseph and his colleagues in prison. The Lord makes amazing promises to Joseph while he is there.