Sunday, July 31, 2011


Elder Frei-Daniel & Sister


Korean Museum


View From Chase's Apartment


Chase's new shape up shoes! :)


Elder VanHoff & Elder Frei

Mom!!! I almost forgot to write you this email because you weren't home and I'm used to you responding haha sorry!!! It might be a little short because now I'm in a little bit of a hurry but I will make it really good!!! This week was awesome! We have been seeing so many miracles!!! So we have this member that is moving to America in like two weeks! I love him. His English name is Daniel!! We helped him do a bunch of stuff because with his paper work and stuff so his mom wanted to take us out to dinner to thank us!! So they took us to this really good buffet!! He is the only one in his family that is a member! And his sister came too because she wanted to meet us!!!! So, now we are teaching his sister!! She is way funny. I'm going to miss Daniel when he leaves. It has been way fun to get to know him we have had a blast he is the funniest kid ever! He's super smart too! He's only 17, he dropped out of high school and took the GED test and averaged a 4.0 he's going to college two years early haha crazy huh? So that has been super fun! Also we are meeting another guy whose English name is Aaron! We had one of the most spiritual meetings ever last night! It was so awesome! He is going to get baptized! Probably this month! We had 2 members teaching with us and all together it was a super spiritual lesson!~ he really wants to follow Christ and learn about his gospel he has the best desire that any of my investigators have ever had probably! It was so awesome! It's been super, super, super humid this past week and has rained just about every day! It reminds me of when I got here last year.. which is ironic because I'll have been in Korea for 1 year in two weeks! I can't believe that. It feels like yesterday still.. time is crazy. Other than that we had a pretty normal week just visiting a lot of members and getting to know them!! It's been awesome I love this ward so much they are so great! We visited a member of the stake president last night and his son gets home from his mission this week! He was really excited haha he likes me a lot! He asked me to pray for their family at the end and then when I got done he was just super impressed and looked at me and said your not like other missionaries! It was a really cool experience it made me feel like I was doing a good job! I have to go! I promise next week will be super long! We have a really busy week so I will have a lot to write about! I love you! Have a great week!




Love,

Elder Frei

PS Tell Mike and Adam to email me!!

Monday, July 18, 2011


Transfer calls are tonight!! We are hoping we stay!! I think we will! Good chance for sure!! It looks like the trip was way fun I'm glad you had fun!! Maybe we will have to do it again when I get home I've never even got to see Stacie and Al's place yet!! I want to! Sounds like a lot of driving though that part doesn't sound very fun at all.. Today I think we are going to play soccer for p day with all the missionaries in the zone! We’re going to Costco to eat after this then we will go over there! Ok I answered all of your questions! And I'll send pictures with this email :)
This week was another awesome week!! We did so much!! And it was so fun!! Temple day was great as usual! After the temple session we went to a sushi place! I love seafood now. Especially seafood! Weird huh? I hated it before I left.. Now I always want to eat it!! haha then after that we went to the National Museum of Korea! It was really cool Korea has such a long history!! The museum was really nice and big! I'll send some pictures from it! On Wednesday we met two of our investigators they are really funny to teach, they are both in college and super shy they don't talk a lot so it makes it kinda hard and awkward it's so funny! Then we had English class and that's always fun! We also had specialized training wed and thur. It was really good! I learned a lot! Thursday was also Elde Vanhoffs year mark as a missionary so we went out to dinner at this super good place (they have really good kimchee) haha then after that we went bowling with some of the single adults in our ward!! It was way fun! We played me and Elder Vanhoff against the 3 of them and the losers had to buy lunch! haha I bowled horrible cause the lanes in Korea are crappy but Vanhoff did way good so we won and they are going to take us to eat tomorrow I think haha it was super funny! Then on Friday a member from the English branch took us out to dinner! They are really awesome! Brother and sister Pinnegar! He is a pilot in the army! I told him that Hunter would love him! He is really funny! So that was really fun to just talk and get to know them and stuff!! Then on Saturday we went to a wedding! The girl is in our ward and the husband isn't a member yet but he will be getting baptized pretty soon I think, so that will be way good!! Korean weddings are way different than America! It was a really fun experience! They do them at this big wedding hall and they do it way fast because there are a bunch of weddings on the same day then you just go next door to this way huge buffet and eat haha it was way fun! Church was really good yesterday! Our bishop is going to America today for 3 weeks! His family has been over there for a while but now he's going for work and then vacation! It will be weird with him gone! He gave us some good advice though!! So we’re really excited to do the things he said!! Well I hope everyone has a great week I love you all!
Love,
Elder Frei


July 10th
Hey everyone, This past week was amazing like usual!! On Monday we went shopping! I bought a new pair of shoes! They are dress shoes but not just any dress shoes! Ha I got shape ups! They are the best! Ha except for they are like 2 sizes small cause they don't carry my size in Korea!! But they are suppose to be really good for your back. I have already noticed a difference it's been really good! And my legs are always sore from them haha they are so funny looking I love it! Then we had family home evening and that was really good too!! Our ward is the best here. On Tuesday we had a zone leader training! It was really good! The best part about being a zone leader is that you get to be with President a lot more! I love it. I love learning from him he is such a smart person. Then on Wednesday we had a really funny meeting with one of our investigators, we were just talking and Koreans are really blunt and just speak their mind. On Thursday we ate dinner with a member and the two members that added you on facebook! They are super awesome!! It was way fun. We also had one of our investigators there with us! We had some pretty funny conversations about dating and random stuff like that! It's fun to be able to do stuff like that in Korean it's really weird sometimes when you think about it! On Friday we had another meal with a member as well! Her name is Sammy! She is super good at English because she went to BYU for a while and served a mission. She is awesome. She works with our Bishop! So it was way fun to get to know her and talk and stuff! Lately I have realized how much spiritual power you have as a missionary. Everyone looks to us when they need help with stuff or want to be uplifted or anything like that! ha I will talk about that later, on Saturday there was a big basketball tournament at our building and our Bishop had as ref a little bit, then after that him and Cedric(he is way awesome we play basketball with him in the mornings)_ took us on the base for lunch! It was so good! I ate at Burger King I couldn't believe how big the cups were and just everything! Haha so weird!!!!!!!! on Sunday we were at church and the meeting was about to start and the 1st counselor comes up to me and was just like hey one of the speakers didn't show up and were going to have you give a talk! Haha I had nothing prepared on to talk about or anything so I was kinda nervous! Then he came back and said Elder Vanhoff was going to give one too! Then I felt ok haha we both pulled off like 12 minute talks! It was crazy haha I don't know how we did it but we did and everyone said that they like it! I talked about prayer and used 3 Nephi 18 a lot! It was crazy! It just goes to show you how much the spirit can guide a talk! I had no idea what I was going to talk about at all when I walked up to the stand I just looked at the first counselor and shook my head at him because he is way funny then got up there and was just like "he just told me 10 minutes ago that I was giving a talk, I didn't have any time to prepare this, so don't expect a lot haha it was funny! This week we are super busy we have a two day training and temple day is tomorrow! I'm really excited for it, it should be awesome!!! Well I love you all and hope you all have a great week! Hope your having a great summer!!


Love,
Elder Frei

Thursday, July 7, 2011

Facebook message from Min-Jung Lee.


o Hello, I,m Min-Jung. Your son is our missionary. He gave to me your facebook address.^^ Elder Frei is very kind and beautiful missionary. I want to share one story. We went to visit old lady house. She got to break her knee so she can't come to the church. Also Her husband die February. She was very sad . Elder Frei and Van Hoff bless to her .Elder Frei shared the message with her. we had really glad time. Sorry. I can't explain in English well. But I just want to say .. Your son is wonderful missionary.^^



Hey Mom,



Ha the Rosetta Stone Spanish made me think of something that happened to us this week! Ha we found a new investigator and he wants us to teach him English! Well he doesn't really know anything at all so we started with the alphabet. They all learn English in school but he didn't really remember anything.. ha the sounds F,V, and Z are not in the Korean language at all! So trying to teach them to Koreans is funny.  He wants to learn English because his daughters both study it and they ask him questions all the time and of course he can't answer them! haha so that was pretty funny! He is a way nice person though he will be a good investigator I think!! haha mom check your facebook! Two girls from my ward added you and sent you messages on facebook! They are both super awesome! They both served missions so they are way good at English too!! ha last week at family home evening I told one of them she could stay at our house if she ever came to America, she came to church on Sunday and told me she is going to come next July! I'm sure you will be ok with that! You should get to know them they are both super nice people! haha they are older but both still aren't married though.. that's not weird in Korea though haha.. I told her you would love having her stay at our house for a while. She said I am welcome to stay at her house whenever I come back to Korea too! My ward is awesome I love them all so much!! After church yesterday a few of them came with us and showed us where some members lived so we could visit them in the future and helped us get to know them! It was super, super helpful I was really grateful for them! We went on splits twice this last week, it was really fun! One day Elder Gatlin came to my area. He was in the MTC with me he is one of my best friends in the mission! So that was super fun.. then I went to another area with Elder Decker you don't know him, but he is cool too! haha he can do the rubix cube in like 12 seconds so that was pretty cool to see! We always see the coolest things on splits! We are the ones training other missionaries when we do it but I always feel like I learn the most!! On Thursday we had President interviews! I love president so much. I feel like I've gotten to know him a lot better! I get to see him way more often now it's so awesome! I love being around him! He is always so happy! Ha every time I talk with him I feel like I have a spring in my step afterwards! I'm glad I will have him my whole mission! He will end right when I go home!! I'm sure you are up at the cabin I hope it is fun! Can you believe I will be home for the next 4th of July? crazy.. I will let you know about Mike and Adam when they will get home and stuff they emailed me and told me but I haven't looked yet! I'm really excited for those recipes! Thanks a ton for doing them for me! We’re going to Costco right after this and were going to by a big thing of chicken so that will be awesome!! Things are going great and I'm super happy to be serving where I am!! I've been learning so much!! We found "the history of the church" and the "journal discourses" in our church in the English branch! There is so much stuff in them it is crazy! haha there are like 24 books in one set and 12 in the other I think ha so we read from them every once in a while it's been way fun! On our way to email today we stopped at the bank cause we are going shopping today and we walked out and this guy stopped us and started asking us all these questions about BYU and said that he wanted to go there!!!! haha he was going out of town but he is going to keep in touch with us! It was a huge miracle that he just saw the Book of Mormon that we were carrying and then waited outside haha we were both blown away!! So that could turn into a really golden investigator he already knew so much about our church haha! I hope everyone has a great week I love you all!



Love,

Elder Frei