Transfers

Hello Everyone!

Today was transfer day and I am in a new area now! I am really sad to leave my first area, but the Lord needs me somewhere else now and I am ready to work! This area is a really small area and has a lot of interesting unique things about it. I will have a bunch of things to tell next week.

I don't have a lot of time, but I just want to say that I know that this church is Jesus Christ's true church and that he leads and guides it today! I am thankful for his Atonement and the power it allows me to feel through the Holy Ghost by being clean. The book of mormon is true and it will always be true no matter how our lives change or shift.

Love you all

Elder Meeks

Patience and Prayer

1. Well ya know...
2. Pretending to be an air bender 
3. Really old pig thingy
4. Cool Buddhist house
5. wall
6. The lovely elder Kwak and I
7. The lovely elder Kwak, Pak, evaga, and I
8. Nice view of the sea
9. A really REALLY old lion statue
10. Nice view
11. Nice pond
12. Nice selfie(very bright)
13. Really old tower thingy.

Hello my beloved friends and family! 

This week started off with a healing trip to a really famous Buddhist temple! It was so pretty and so cool! I was completely amazed about how a religion so old has preserved so many of it's traditions. I really feel like I understand more about the people of Korea. It was a lot of fun to see all the really old statues and stuff as well. 

Sadly, one of my best friends on the mission and my district leader elder lee has to go home 6 months early. He tore a tendon in his ankle/foot which has made him not be able to walk. He needs to get surgery in america and so he is leaving tomorrow. Super sad to see him go. I was really hoping to be his companion someday. If all goes well, he might be able to come back onto his mission if he wants to. 

I got to go on an exchange with elder Pak. He is ending his mission this next transfer so that is sad. I got to help him for over two hours with his college applications. It was really fun to be able to do that for him. He expressed how grateful he was for me later because his current comp didn't really care to help him with his applications which made it basically impossible for him to them. I learned from this experience that has we love and care about the things other people love and care about, we are one step closer to having a perfect Christ-like love. Super awesome right?

District meeting was super great. We had a beast awesome meeting solely focused on prayer and revelation. I got to speak on the importance of writing down impressions when you say prayers at night and in the morning. Time and time again my dad has told me how entitled I am to revelation. Then I read the recent talk by President Nelson on the importance of receiving revelation. I don't want to preach a sermon to you guys about prayer, but I know that each of you review that talk carefully and then apply it's principles, you will see a mighty change in your life!

This brings me to my thoughts this we about Patience. Living with a Korean missionary has been one of the hardest things I have ever done. At times, there is frustration in our companionship due to the lack of Korean skill that I have which makes him have to take the lead on many things. He feels the stress of this very much and a times it is overwhelming for him. I have had to be patient with myself as I learn line upon line, grammar form upon grammar form, and vocab word upon vocab word. Doing this takes time and it at times is frustrating how limiting a foreign language can be. In this regard, I have prayer fervently for patience. In regards to my companion, I have prayer fervently to have the patience not to snap back at a mean or frustrating comment. Only through prayer have I accomplished these things. I know that only through prayer can we receive the strength sufficient to deal with the hardships of life.

Nothing amazing happened this week, but I want to give you some highlights

1. I got a hug from a nice drunk man

2. I got my first door slammed in my face! Wahoo!

3. On Saturday ate so much pig that I started oinking in my sleep(jk)

4. Saw a really cool cat fight in the church parking lot and then broke it up with a nice big bucket of water.

Love you all and have a great week!

Chances for Salvation

Hello Family and Friends

I do not have a lot of time today so this will be short. 

Monday

We had pday which was fun. That night we have family night. A bunch of people came and we got to play some games and I got to play some of the brothers in ping pong. A non-member came and I sadly had to beat him in ping pong too. I hope he still wants to meet with us later;)

Tuesday

We wanted to do some english class advertisement so we made a poster with a english game on it. We wanted to go to an area where non of us had been before. It turned out to be a city where there are not a lot of people and so it was kinda a bust. The whole day was basically traveling there and back.

Wednesday

We had interviews. Our president is awesome and I got to talk to him for a while. He gave me some really good ideas that we can implement for our branch to improve it's missionary efforts. We are really focusing on the branch and how we can help and improve it. 

Thursday

We had our english service project where we taught some old people english. I am becoming more and more sure that old people cannot learn another language very well haha. They are fun tho and they like having foreigners to teach. They love talking pictures with us which is fun. We also got to do our english connect class. Not many people came, but it was still fun. Teaching english is a really hard thing to do and it has taken a lot of getting used to for sure.

Friday

We got to meet with a less active family and share a message about the restoration and how it is so important in our day. The dad really is feeling and we think he is going to start taking some steps to become a better member. We want to help him and his family fully experience the blessings of this gospel.

Saturday

We played soccer with some other areas and our members. Super super fun. It is a good way for the people who need friends in the church to make friends and feel excepted. Any type of missionary work counts! We also got to do our other english class and only one guy came. Sad!

Sunday 

It was super fun because we got to do choir practice and I got to see and talk to a lot of people and got to meet some people from other areas. Music really does have a spiritual power! We got to do our weekly planning session as well which was great!

Anyway, my thought I wanted to share is the power of getting the book of mormon in the hands of everyone. A  great friend told me that when we get the book of mormon in the hands of people, we are giving them the one book that will help them the most to gain salvation and everlasting life. So cool! I love giving the book of mormon to people. Even if they never call back or respond, they still have the chance now. 

Love you all and have a great week,

Elder Meeks

Not much time today!

COSTCO!!!!

HI Mom!

I am glad you had a good time in Florida. Super jealous, but I am living in another country right now so I guess that is almost maybe a little cooler;) I hope we will be able to do a lot more things in the future as a family. Thank you so much for working hard so we can do these fun things together! So grateful for you and dad. And thank yo so much for working hard so that I can be out on a mission. I know it is a huge sacrifice so thank you so much. I see so many kids who just take their entire lives for granted and it actually pains me. I see that in many times in my life, I was like that and I am sorry. Forgive me mom!!!!!!!!:)

I am glad the changes in the temple are positive. I am glad that we have living prophets willing and able to receive this revelation to improve our church and the temple. I am so glad for modern revelation!!!!!! Andrew, dad, and aubree have told me about the good changes made. 

My korean is really going on slowly and surely. I can understand a lot more, but speaking is really hard. FOr some missionaries, speaking is easy, and understanding is hard. When I called you guys, I understood basically everything daniel said. But my speaking needs to improve. I am trying to memorize a lot of vocab so I can speak better. 

I am trying to work hard, my comp doesn't work super hard so it's hard to do a lot of work. But we are getting there.

Love you mom so much! Thank yo for everything you do for me!