6-23-2014 - Staying put

Hey everyone,

Well I'm still in Miaoli and super happy about it. I feel like I haven't accomplished quite yet what I was sent here to do. I hope this transfer me and Elder Zeng can focus even more and find those people who are ready to hear the gospel. We have quite a few member appointments this week and we are hoping that through doing good member missionary work that we will be able to receive some new referrals. Since I have been here in Miaoli I have yet to receive a member referral from our ward members. We just need to inspire them to help us out. 

Our two best investigators have recently seemed that they do not have too much interest in continuing on meeting with us. We are a little disappointed about this but all we can do is encourage them and hope that their ward member friends will continue to reach out to them. I believe both of them have a lot of potential but just no family support and so it is hard for them. 

I've been feeling lately that I need to start working harder and trying harder. The work is really urgent and in order to help those people that God has prepared we have to be urgently going about doing the work. I really want to start helping more people and my companion and I have similar feelings about starting to work harder and more efficient. 

We received two phone referrals that have both set up to meet with us. Both of them have a lot of potential and we are excited to see what happens with that. 

We have also been really focusing on our new converts and less actives. We hope that we can help some of our single adult less actives come to church and participate in church activities more frequently. We have so few in our ward that are active and if all of them came I think they would develop some great friendships. It will be harder now since a lot of them will return home to their homes during summer break. A lot of them just live here for college and such. 

I see the work only getting better from here in 苗栗. I hope I can continue to be a big part in helping it get better. I love God and know He loves His children. 

Have a great week and remember to do something nice for someone. 

Elder Meeks