1/28/2014 - It's almost Chinese New Year!!!

Family and friends! 

There are weeks on the mission that sometimes don't look the best on paper but this week was one of my most successful weeks so far. It has been a good experience having Elder C--- as my companion. We do not have the same ideas on the methods of doing missionary work. There are quite a few things he likes to do that I am uncomfortable doing. It has been interesting, enlightening, and humbling as I have had to change many things in order for my companion to feel comfortable, satisfied and happy. He believes the way he does missionary work is the correct way and is very passionate about it. This has given me quite a lot of stress. The main reason being that my 4 previous companions never had a problem with the way I did missionary work. Up to this point on my mission I have never had a companion dislike the way I have acted. This has been very hard for me but this week I did an experiment. I promised him I would do everything I could to try to do missionary work in the way he prefers. As the contention of our companionship has gone down we have started to see some miracles happen. I have yet to become personally satisfied or incredibly happy about the new way of doing things but I am willing to sacrifice in order to be more unified with my companion and continue to see miracles. 

The biggest miracle we saw happened on our last house we tracted into last night. we rang the doorbell and a woman answered. Very enthusiastically she told us how her friend and her had always wanted to attend a Mormon church but were always to embarrassed to ask the missionaries about it. She also said that when she has attended other churches in the past she has always had this feeling that there is someone caring for her. The feeling would make her cry and feel so good. We promised her that if she would come to church on Sunday she would definitely feel that feeling again and that we could teach her how to have that feeling with her constantly. She was so happy and told us how she had a Mormon friend in America that she loved and respected very much. She promised she'd come to church on Sunday and bring her friend. She gave us her phone number and said we were welcome to come back and teach her the gospel.

We saw another miracle from working with members as well. We have a young family we have been working with for a while but they have never come to church. A family in our ward are acquaintances with the family(the father is a less active) and they offered to take some shuijiao 水餃 over to there house. They went and visited them and had a great chat with them. They also invited them to church on Sunday. On Saturday night we invited the family in our ward to call and invite them again so that they would remember. They ended up coming to church! We were so excited. They have a 3 month old baby who was the center of attention. I feel the family really received a lot of care and that they had a wonderful first experience in church together as a new family. We did find out that the mom smokes which is pretty sad because they have a new baby but we hope we will be able to help her see how this gospel can help us overcome any weaknesses.

English class is also seeing much success. We had 8 new students and over 40 people on class on Wednesday. There were quite a few students who had a ton of interest in learning about the gospel and we are in the process of setting them up. We are going to start seeing some great miracles from English class. 

We should be having a baptism in a couple of weeks. An investigator the sisters have given us guomeiyun 郭美雲 is in the process of praying about a sooner baptismal date than her baptismal date in march. We have asked her to be baptized on the 8th. She already sings in the choir, participates in church, follows the commandments, etc. We are excited to see her progress to this next great blessing in her life. Her son will most likely soon follow her as well. 

The work is progressing and I'm learning new things everyday. I will continue to 加油 until the work is done. 

Love,

Elder Meeks

1/19/2014 - Lots of Work - Lots of Rewards

Family and Friends! 家庭跟朋友們 (super happy I figured out how to type in chinese) 

This week went very well. We had over 17 hours of finding this week which was pretty hard but it turned out to be great. WE really saw some miracles. We found 4 investigators 2 of which have some great potential. They are two brothers that are really looking for the truth. I'm excited to meet with them this next week. 

The highlight of the week was Ward Council. The ward is rallying behind us and we are really going to start seeing some miracles. We talked about a bunch of our investigators specifically emphasizing some part member less active families. They have a lot of potential if the ward will go out and make an effort to 關心 them. I'm super excited how this one family in particular 陳 家庭 will progress. We had a few members go and visit them after church and they also brought some food over for new year 過年. The ward is really going to start helping us a lot more with Peike lessons and I really believe this will help our work a lot. We have set up some specific times with members that we can come and have lessons in their homes and it will help us out with our effectiveness a lot. We are really trying to take your council and move all of our lessons into either members or investigators homes and I really believe we are going to start seeing some great miracles. 

Our biggest miracle this week was a S-- Y-- T---. He is a less active who I have met with every week since I have been here in 新板.We have invited him every week for 8 weeks and he has never came. Finally I really strongly invited him to come to a baptismal service for a kid in our ward and he came. The members were so welcoming and so good to get to know him. I feel like the big reason he hasn't been coming is because he didn't have any friends there. But one of the members invited him to come to church the next day and he came! First time in years. I'm really excited for him and I think that he is one of the reasons that I was sent to this place. We are great friends and I believe he will continue to progress. 

We have an eternal investigator who is progressing as well. He just lacks the faith to keep all of the commandments. We had a great lesson in which we read Alma 5 together and he really wanted to have the mighty change of heart that it talks about. We discussed how sometimes that mighty change first has to have effort on your part. I hope that he will act on those feelings and really make an effort to start coming to church every week. I believe he can do it. 

My companion and I are doing great. He is a powerhouse missionary who really has a desire to do the things that the Lord has commanded. He is helping me change and grow into the missionary that I should be and I know that we are going to see much success together. We always have a great time contacting and are very positive about the work. Even when we have to do 17 hours of contacting on the street. 

I am growing in my spiritual knowledge everyday and I know that the Lord is blessing me with his Spirit more powerfully and more often. I really feel as if He wants me to start stretching myself and trying to the best I can. I am definitely going to try to start doing so. I love the Taiwanese people and I know that I am going to have many more opportunities to bless and help them learn more about this gospel. I'm so grateful that the Lord has an influence in this missionary work because otherwise it would just be pointless. 

我愛你們

Elder Meeks

1/12/2014 - Spiritual Growth through Heartfelt Prayer

Hello Everybody!!!!! 

Well this week has been an amazing week with one sad part. I didn't get attend my former investigators baptism in Ankang because of a new technicality in the rules for doing this. Super bummed out about it. But he is baptized and I was able to talk to him on the phone and give him some encouragement. 

Happy part. I think I finally figured out how to pray this week. I can't believe it took my 21 years to figure it out. There have been three times in my life where I have prayed audibly for an extended period of time. 1st was seeking an answer to the question of whether or not to serve a mission. 2nd was in the MTC while trying to figure out if I should stay on my mission. 3rd was 2 days ago in a low moment when I needed some personal help. Praying out loud and for an extended period of time has a deeper power than does normally praying within your heart. Every time it has taken me nearly 10 minutes to build up the courage to do it but every time I have spent a significant period of time on my knees completely pouring out my heart. This is what God wants us to do. I have really made a goal to pray out loud at least once a day and really focus on sharing my feelings with my heavenly Father. 

I would also really like to share an experience I had at a baptism this week. We had the opportunity to attend the Sisters investigator's baptism. I really feel like I received a lot of personal revelation and really felt the Spirit confirm to me the truthfulness of this gospel. God really loves us. No matter where we are in life or in our conversion He truly does care about each and every one of us. The Taiwanese people's testimonies are huge! A lot of times it doesn't come out in their words that they say but through the universal language of the Spirit. Through the Spirit you can feel what they are trying to say. 

The testimony of X---J--------i that she bore after the baptism was very short and simple but when she said it I was hit by the Spirit so strongly. Her testimony went something like this (she's 18 and super shy): "I am happy I have joined the church. I'm happy I could be baptized. I hope my future will be better. I want my future family to be better than my family is right now." She then paused for about 2 minutes without saying anything and then with determined look on her face she said, "I don't want to get divorced like my parents. I want my future children to all get baptized like me!" She then smiled and sat down. Simple! Real! Sincere! I truly believe she will be blessed with this blessing. She will be in my prayers for sure. 

3 Nephi 27:30 Heavenly Father, Jesus christ, and the angels of Heaven truly do rejoice in those people who choose Him. Who follow Him. Who come back to Him. How I want Him to rejoice for me. Russell M. Nelson said, "Salvation is a personal matter. Eternal life is a family matter." How true that is. We are responsible for our own salvation and baptism is the door we must all enter in order to  receive that blessing. Alma 5:62 The prophet Alma says it perfectly. He invites members to repent and be baptized and he invites non-members to repent and be baptized. We do this in order to become "partakers of the fruit of the tree of life," and as 3 Nep 11:33 says, "inherit the kingdom of God."

We don't have time to mess around anymore. This life is to short and the stakes are to high. why take the chance?Living the principles of the church brings happiness. That has been proven since the dawn of time. But partaking of the ordinances of salvation brings the everlasting peace and contentedness that every person here, on this earth, is looking for. I'm not waiting anymore. I'm changing. And I hope ya'll will change with me. :) 

We are working with a great family. the dad is less active and the wife and dad's best friend are taking the lessons. They have a 3 months old.  They are all under 22. Super xinku. We really hope we can help them overcome some challenges and really gain something from the gospel and church. 

Miracle we had this week. We had wanted to visit a L-- D-- a less active member. I had completely forgotten where he lived though. The next day I just had a random feeling to stop and tract on this street and as we were walking down the street we saw L-- D--- outside of his house (smoking haha) but he was super willing to let us meet with him and we had a great lesson with him about the prodigal son. He was super touched and I think will figure it out at some point. 

One thing that bugged me this week was that there was a guy that I met on the street who gave me an excuse that I'd heard a million times. I asked him, "Why have you never been to church?" He said, "because I like freedom." I don't know why but that time it freakin bugged me!!! I don't want to rant to long but seriously was ticked off. Freedom is gained from living the principles of the gospel. BAM! haha

I'm learning to recognize the Spirit slowly but surely. It is coming more often and I am striving to remain worthy in order to have his constant companionship. Well I have spent way to much time preaching today. Sorry haha. Ya'll have a great week and keep serving others. 

Love,

Elder Meeks

1/5/2014 - Surprise Change of Companions

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

We had a great lesson with H-- B-- C--- this week. He has a hard time understanding us when we speak Chinese and so we decided to take a different approach and really discussed what we would teach him with the Bishop (who was our Peike) before the lesson. The Bishop was so great at helping us explain some points of doctrine that might have been harder for him to understand coming from us. He used some great biyu's to help him understand what was going on. We really focused on repentance and baptism and because of the biyu Bishop gave I really believe he understood it. We are having trouble getting permission from his parents to attend church and be baptized but we will keep helping him learn more about the gospel and develop his testimony. 

We are meeting with a less-active and his wife who is not a member. They are doing well but did not come to church on Sunday which was pretty sad but I hope we can keep getting the ward more involved in their situation as well. They are 19 and 22 years old and do not really know what they are doing with their little baby. They have a lot of potential blessings waiting for them in the church. 

Elder Chalmers is a great missionary and I know that he has brought a special Spirit to Xinban that will bring us much success. In the past few days Elder Chalmers and I have found some great potentials. He is a really good finder and is so willing to talk to everybody. He is an Elder who will be obedient no matter what and I appreciate that. It is always easier to be obedient when there is a person who has that desire even more than you do. He is and will become a great missionary.

We have been focusing on meeting with Less Active Melchizedek priesthood holders and we had two come to church on Sunday which was great. I hope we can continue to inspire the ward to reach out to them and help them even more than they are right now. I think with an extra push we could have some fully active, tithing paying, priesthood holders come back to church in the near future. 

I have been diligently reading the Old Testament because I feel like I need to become more familiar with it and really understand it. It is also God's word. I just finished Leviticus today which was pretty hard to get through. Jixu jiayou.. 

Overall I am doing great. I am progressing in the gospel and am less frequently dwelling on things that are not mission related. I am really trying to delve into my missionary purpose and just forget about everything else and go to work. We are having success and will soon see even more success through our faith and the Lord's help. 

This one is kind of short and it is basically just the letter I sent to my mission president sorry about that. I just don't have enough time to do it all anymore!!!!!!! HAHA Love you all and Happy New Year. Make some cool goals and go eat some buffalo wild wings and beto's for me. 

Love

Elder Meeks

PICS - Christmas, Choir and Bowling

12/30/2013 - Isn't the Gospel Great?

SUP PEEPS!?

Good morning! It's another great week here in XinBan. We were busy with performances this week  but the Lord blessed us with many miracles. I think that is the pattern I have seen in my mission so far. When you are busy and working as hard as you can the Lord makes up the slack for sure. If he doesn't that's okay too. There are unforeseen blessings in the future in store for you. I truly am growing my testimony every single week. My love for God and my Savior is strengthened as I strive to do the things I know he would have me do. My personal growth is coming more quickly than ever before in my life and I feel it is because I am willing to act on the knowledge and promptings that I am receiving. That is a big key if not the main key. When we expect an answer we must be willing to act on the answer that is received or why would he give us the answer? Faith unto action. 

We found a great investigator this week named S-- D---. He self contacted us on the street and asked if he could come and take a tour of our church. He was really nice and we set up a time. Sometimes you don't have a lot of hope for people when they do that but he showed up and we had a great lesson with him. He was shocked at how beautiful our church was and that nobody lived there. He was really open and willing to do the things we invited him to do. He came to church and Sunday and had a great time. I also found an effective way to get the members to fellowship our investigator. I went up to every member I could see and personally invited them to go and introduce themselves and make friends. It was such a success. So many people were willing and S--- D---- and our other investigators at church were really happy. He also set up another appointment for next Saturday. He has a lot of potential. 

We were going to visit an LA the other night who ended up not being home. We had about a half hour left to proselyte and Elder Gerrard spotted a dad and son walking home. Elder Gerrard starting talking to them in English and the little kids english was really good. We had a great chat with them and they were completely willing to set up a time for us to come and visit them. We are going this Saturday and we are really excited. The son attends a Catholic school and really loves religion. His dad doesn't really know anything and was really curious. Miracles upon Miracles. 

I've been studying the old testament a ton lately and I really have increased my knowledge in this area a lot. It really is beneficial. The Bible is also the word of God and has great things to teach us if we will spend the time to ponder the deeper meanings it has. Pondering... That is an interesting skill that I have felt has developed a lot on my mission. The danger is pondering can lead to sleep so you have to be careful! But as I have pondered the scriptures I feel that the Lord is able to communicate to me and really help me feel the meanings of the scriptures but more importantly will teach me things that will help me in my life or in my investigators lives.

We had a family we have been teaching come to our choir performance and both of them loved it very much. The dad is 19 and the mom is 22 and their son is 2 months. They have been married for about 2 months as well. They are really struggling and we are working with the ward right now to try and help them out. They need some friends and someone that will just care about them. We am really excited to try to get the ward involved in their behalf. 

I have also recently had the feeling several times that I should start memorizing more scriptures. I am attempting to memorize one new scripture each day. I haven't decided if it would be more effective in Chinese or English. I have been doing Chinese so far and I have found that it is pretty cool to just be able to spout off a memorized Chinese scripture when you need one. I think that I will attempt to balance it out and maybe just switch every other day. I can already see the blessings of it. 

I am happy, healthy, working hard and trying to repent everyday. I pray for charity and patience in every prayer and my ability to love the people of Taiwan has grown immensely. God is a merciful God who truly cares about our trials. If we will just do what D.C. 88:63 says we will truly be given the help we are needed. As we strive to consecrate ourselves and better ourselves through repentance and the atonement of Jesus Christ our ability to feel the Love of our Savior will increase and our ability to serve the Lord will continue to grow. The peace that the gospel brings to the hearts of men is the thing which mankind craves the most. Most people just don't know it that it is missing. Which is us the Holy Ghost's job through us missionaries. 

I love the gospel plain and simple. 

Elder Meeks 

Zhu ni Shengdan jie kuaile! Wish you a merry Christmas!

Family and Friends,

This week was great as is every other week in the mission! I have seen the power this week in studying about the doctrine of Christ every single day and how it strengthens my testimony in the Savior Jesus Christ. I focused on this topic this week because of the invite but also because of the Christmas season we are in. It makes me happy seeing the people of Taiwan enjoy the Christmas holiday. The lights, Santa, presents, trees etc. etc. but I have found that I am sad when I ask people who are celebrating what Christmas is. Most of them know that it is Jesus Christ's birthday but they just don't know anything about JEsus Christ. The holiday has been so commercialized and there is not mention of Christ anywhere. I have enjoyed sharing the joy of Christmas and the the story of the birth of our Savior and have seen the power that it holds. My testimony of the Savior is being strengthened daily and everyday I realize how far I need to go to improve that testimony. It is so incredibly worth it though. 

We found an amazing investigator this week. His name is A--- and was definitely a miracle find. We were meeting with another investigator when this man sat down really close to us and kind of seemed like he was listening. Elder Gerrard and I both felt prompted to speak to this man. We quickly ended our lesson with the investigator we were meeting with and Elder Gerrard walked off a little ways with our investigator while I introduced myself to Alex. He speaks English pretty well and was just so willing to meet with us. We set up with him and shared the first lesson which went very very well. He set up a return appointment and we have a lot of faith that this is the family we have been praying to find. He has a two year old son and has been married for about two years. So golden and looking for the truth in his life. We are very grateful for the blessings the Lord is showering down on us.

The past week has been a little crazy because of all the performances we have had for the choir. But little by little we are hearing miracles that have come because of the choir. We recently heard that a less active heard us singing in the train station and was so touched that he decided to start attending church again. We have heard of success with other missionaries as well with setting up with people that attended our performances. The Christmas music has power to influence people and the Holy Ghost is able to testify to people's hearts about the reality of our Savior. 

I also went on exchanges with Elder Illu which was a great experience. He is an incredible missionary. Has the strongest desire to do the will of the Lord and works harder than any missionary I have yet to meet. I would love to be companions with him. I learned so much from his diligence and SanXia is definitely seeing miracles because of his hard work. His Chinese is also very good and he works incredibly hard to maintain the things he has learned. 

I feel like I am finally, this week, truly starting to discover what it means to control your thoughts and actions. I have realized how many times I am tempted during the day and it is astronomical. Satan is trying to destroy us and it all starts in our thoughts. It is so rewarding when I am tempted and immediately distract myself with a scripture or hymn. It is starting to come naturally and I feel the companionship of the Spirit stronger than I ever have. As my focus on my investigators is changing and my love for this work is growing I feel the hand of the Lord in the work. I still have many weaknesses but I recognize that and I am striving very hard to overcome those weaknesses one by one. I know that it is only through the atoning power of the Savior Jesus Christ that I am able to do this. Our Savior truly loves us so much and is just waiting for us to make the effort to become closer to him. As we start he will truly help us pull up the slack and I really feel like he is doing that for me. 

During the past little while I have constantly thought about how many people there are in the world who have it worse than me. Everyone in the sound of my voice needs to realize this. We really don't have much room to complain..about anything. Our Heavenly Father saved us for the most amazing time in history, with the most comfortable standard of living, and now he expects us to help those people who are in need. I love my God for this blessing and thank him literally everyday for the blessings he rains on me. 

Please find someone this Christmas season that you can serve. Service can come in many forms. A phone call, a letter, taking someone to dinner, a smile, (cheesy I know) but just find something! There are a lot of people who need something simple. I have not had an incredible amount of oportunities to serve the past little while because Taiwanese people are to embarassed to except help. SERVE SOMEONE FOR ME! haha 

Love you all and Christ loves you all,

Elder Meeks

P.S. It has rained 7 days in a row :( haha

12/15/2013 - Happy Commercialized Christmas

Family and friends!

! I had a little bit of a rough time last week but I think everyone on their missions has some of those days. I will move on and look forward to might bright future.  I also feel the companionship of the Holy Ghost much more often than I have in the past and really feel his guidance in the work. We will be seeing some HUGE miracles coming up here in the next couple of months. 

The work is moving along here in XinBan. It has been a little bit slower lately due to some of our performances but it is still moving. We have been meeting with a kid named He Bing Chang. He is a great kid who has a wonderful connection to the church. His best friend is the bishop's son. The bishop's family is such a solid family and are very involved in his conversion process. We Shangke at their house every week and they always provide such an amazing atmosphere. It really is a huge difference when you shangke in a members house. I absolutely love it. He DX has really expressed his willingness to learn and is reading the BOM and praying everyday. We are hoping he will be able to be baptized in January!

I had a great exchange with Elder Chapman. (He's a future NBA player look him up on youtube Jordan Chapman)  He is a really great missionary. Works really hard and really cares about the people. We discussed the purpose of the invites that we had been given from zone meeting and really believe they are going to help our zone progress very fast. I really am starting to see the purpose of keeping the invites. Elder Gerrard is so good at making sure we review them and follow them everyday and I know that we are being blessed because of our efforts. It is amazing. 

I believe that I am beginning to understand the way that I am being tempted on my mission. I feel like a lot of people have these feelings but I think that Satan just likes to put self doubt into our minds constantly. I'm tempted to not try as hard because sometimes I feel like I can't live up to the standards I need to or that I wasn't good enough before the mission and therefore I can't have the Spirit. This isn't true. I don't believe that anymore. I'm working really hard to get over those feelings of self doubt and just relying on the Lord and my strength. 

I am currently writing my own version of "White Christmas" to sing for the talent show on Christmas at zone conference. It's pretty funny so far the title is "rainy, windy, freezing cold Christmas" It has a lot of jokes about the missionary work here in Taiwan. A bunch of it is Chinese but I'll send it home when I finish it.

The biggest blessing I received this week was some wonderful news from my last area. My investigator, Zhang DX the one I had many of you pray for, has decided to be baptized on Christmas!!! It was so cool. My last companion told me that when he said he would be baptized he said, " I'll get baptized only if Elder Meeks and Elder Nelson come back and see it." Man That made my mission. I'm so happy that I was able to prepare someone to be baptized. The best part about it is that his wife is already baptized so I will be hear when they can go get sealed in a year from now!!!!! 

I love the work and it's progressing smoothly. I'll be passing off phase 2 this week and moving on to characters! Super excited!

Elder Meeks

More Pics - Mexican Food and Coldstone Thanksgiving

PICS - Beach, frozen dog, etc.

 GROSS!!!

12/01/2013 - Charity

President Day,

I just want to start off by saying how grateful I am to be in this area. We are working very hard to bring about miracles here in Xin Ban. My companion is an incredible missionary who has a strong desire to reap the blessings that obedience and working hard can bring. I have learned so much about missionary work in the past little while and I know that I will continue to learn more. We had nearly 10 lessons on the street this last week or something close to that. What a miracle! I am always amazed when people are willing to let us teach them how to pray on the streets and willing to hear a short message from these "2 strange foreigners" as most people like to call us. :) I've recently decided that I just really don't want to have any regrets from this point on in my mission. I can rest in 14 months from now. Elder Gerrard and I mesh really well I believe. We have a ridiculous amount of fun even if we're contacting for 4 or 5 hours a day. We've met so many cool people. We're excited to start helping some people prepare to receive baptism on Christmas! 

I feel like I have so much to write that I don't know where to start! 

Our investigators are doing pretty well. We had one investigator that kind of digressed a little bit. He just really doesn't want to lose his friends at his other church and told us that maybe we were wasting to much time meeting with him. We are still trying to decide how to proceed with him. I believe that he can make it but we'll see. 

We had a great lesson with one of our eternal investigators. He has a date for Christmas that we are really hoping he will be able to achieve. His problem that he has is that whenever he hears people talk about their conversion stories they always share that they came from this dark place of depression or sadness and had a huge change. He doesn't feel this way. He is happy with the choices he has made while still recognizing he has made some mistakes. We are studying and praying this week about how to help him develop the faith to trust God without having an experience like these other converts. 

We have some great potentials that we are excited to contact this week. We are going to try hard to contact some referrals and help them become investigators. We are also going to work hard on visiting LA's. We aren't incredibly familiar with this area yet but we are going to do all we can to become more familiar and do the work in the most effective way. 

I feel like my studies are becoming so effective. I feel like I am beginning to understand the gospel of Jesus Christ better. Last night I was really pondering what I could do to become more effective in contacting and I feel like I had a prompting that I need to 1 help people understand who Jesus Christ is. 2. what is there relationship to him. 3. Share scriptures with the people. 

I would like to share a special insight I had last night while pondering in a quiet moment. I had a memory flash before my eyes. I had just arrived home from scout camp probably 6 years ago or so and we were unloading our stuff at a friends house. The mom comes out and tells me that my sister is in the hospital. I remember the feeling I had so vividly. My mind completely switched and I was completely taken over by fear and overwhelming sorrow. I didn't even think. Daniel and I just took off runnin, in a dead sprint, down the street with tears streaming down our eyes. The thought that my sister was in danger and that I might not see her again completely tore me apart. I couldn't see straight. Oh the joy and relief I felt when I arrived home and learned that she was safe. Hurt but safe. 

After I had this memory I then had an epiphany. We should use this same passion and energy to care about those people who are lost or suffering spiritually. They might not be in mortal danger but they are most definitely suffering spiritually! Our sorrow for these people should be just as intense as mine was for my wonderful little sister. I hope that I can connect with this idea and really apply it in my missionary efforts. We shouldn't be frustrated, angry, negative, or annoyed when people choose to not accept the gospel. We should be sorry. As Alma teaches us about this in the Book of Mormon as does Mormon or Moroni I can't remember. Be patient, love with your whole heart and work as hard as you can to bring others unto Christ. 

Overall the work is progressing, I am progressing and I feel as if I am being led by the Spirit more and more. I sure am trying to become more worthy of its companionship. I'm so excited that my little brother has accepted the call to serve in Korea and I ask that all of you pray for him and his success! 

Charity is the pure love of Christ. Develop it. :) 

Love,

Elder Meeks