Mother! and family! and everyone else! Hello! Mom I do have a few things I kinda want in that package and you can just send it to the same address as usual.. that book I want is called "A companion to your study of the Book of Mormon" and it is by Daniel H. Ludlow also I want the "History of the Church" but I don't know how big that is.. one other thing I kinda want is a digital picture frame with pictures from home and of the family and stuff! that would be way, way cool! oh and you should start making my brothers send me emails cause they are super lazy and my mission is almost 1/3 of the way over and I'm not getting very much from them! other than that nothing :) I loved the letters I use to get all the time too! This week was crazy with the transfer but it's all back to normal now! My new comp is Elder Vezzani! He is from Georgia and he goes home in March! So he doesn't have to much time! We might not be together for to long though one of us might move next week. But I'm not sure! As far as the missionary work goes, all of our investigators have gotten supper busy lately! We still have a baptism date for this Saturday but it will probably end up happening next month sometime cause she has been super busy! Also we have a couple that will be baptized next month as well.. it's really sad though because the wife has had breast cancer for  a while but it went away and now it has come back and is spreading over her body.. it's really sad were going to go down to her house this week a few times and try to do anything we can to help her out like clean her house or just anything! She is awesome and they have the cutest little girl ever! Also we have a member in our ward who’s family lives in Santa Clara! California though! hahah when I told him I was from Santa Clara, Utah he was super shocked! He goes to America a lot for business so he said if he goes in February he will try to come see you all! That would be sweet he is super cool!! hmmm.. I'm going on splits tomorrow with a missionary that has only been here for like 8 weeks or something like that so that should be super fun I'm way excited! he is way cool too! I still can't believe that you are going to Curacao! We better be going when I get home! I love you all! Oh ya mom, those Chinese characters are way cool huh? they are intense.. I'm glad hunter likes the bag! ha in Korean the verb always comes at the end of the sentence! it's pretty much just the opposite of English haha! that's cool that sister Ellis wrote to her grandparents about me she seems like a very good missionary (i think all sister missionaries are perfect) and she seems to be doing really good with Korean for how long she has been her! I think she is pretty smart!

Love, Elder Frei

No Pain No Gain /Suffering Before Happiness Comes

In Chase's letter he ended with this saying. He had some extra time while his companion was packing for the emergency transfer. I love getting his letters! This one was pretty personal and this was the first time that I sensed a little bit of homesickness and missing his family and friends.

More Pictures

Pictures From Chase

 

 Chase sent his thumb drive home. Here are some pictures that were on it.

First investigator that got baptized yesterday!!!!!!! :):):):)

Makes you think of A Christmas Story!

Eating live Octopus!

Hello everyone! I hope everyone had a great week! mine was pretty good! I'm getting my new companion later tonight so I will let you know how it is going next week! This week we were pretty busy getting my companions stuff all moved because he has lived in this area for almost 7 months now! long time! ha yesterday I got to go to my first investigators baptism! It was really awesome to be there to congratulate him! and everyone from my greenie ward still remembers me and loves me! they were all so excited to see me! I took all the kids some candy haha they loved it! Mom I got some pictures with him so I will attach them! also our investigator in Gimpo is doing really good still!! She loves to play the piano so we play sometimes before lessons it is really fun haha she has taught me some cool little songs and stuff! she is a really great person I'm super excited for her. She loves the ward and really enjoys church! ha mom you asked about my soccer skills, they have gotten so much better just since I moved here because we have the huge soccer stadium so we get to play quite a bit it's way fun! I learned how to curve the ball from this super good guy that coaches and all this other sutff! It was way fun! Today for p-day we are gong to a bath house at the world cup stadium! We're going to meet up with some other missionaries so it will be super fun! Then after that were going to go into Seoul and change companions then come back! So, it should be a very interesting week! I hope the family is still reading the Book of Mormon! and I hope you restart it when you finish! So far on my mission every time I restart it I learn so much more every time!! Oh mom I was going to ask you if you could send me a new study guide for it! Also did you ever send me the sheet music for November Rain?? We have a new mission address that you are suppose to send the packages to... the letters and envelopes are still the same but I lost the paper so I'll tell you next week.. I'm sure the one you sent will make it fine though! well I hope everyone has a good week!
  
Love, Elder Frei

Hey mom, I don't have much time to email now. Today was p-day but I spent it visiting recent converts in my greenie area!! So now I don't have time. I think I will be able to email you tomorrow but it will be pretty late! I love you,

Love,

Elder Frei


Mother, Mother, Mother, I'm glad that you are concerned for me :) don't worry! (걱정하지마) I even said it in Korean!! haha.. So this week has been very interesting to say the least!! Today we had an area Quorum of the Seventy visit us and have a conference with us! It was very good and I learned a lot! The thing he stressed the most was not learning from him but from what the spirit said through him! It was super good! Also, my companion is going to be emergency transferred to help out a missionary that is really struggling! so, I will get a new companion next week and be taking over my area.. after being here for 3 weeks! so things could get a little interesting but, President knows what he is doing!!! Also I told President today that my first investigator from my greenie area was going to get baptized on Sunday! he told me I should go!!! so I'm super pumped to get to see that!!!! also, we set a baptism date for our investigator 정희은! it is for January 22 right now!! She has progressed so much! We met her for the first time my first week here! We have taught here really good it has a been an awesome experience! Also we started meeting with the family that we found in the middle of the road haha! They are awesome and they love us!! Their son is super, super good at soccer so we have played with him once, it was really fun. He has plans to go to a really big sports school in a few months!! Well, that's about all!! I heard that Blake and Bree had their baby?? Thanks for the update! :( I heard through my companion who has a cousin that served with Blake on his mission!! small world right? You'll have to tell him that! well, have a great week I'm sure mine will be pretty interesting! I love you all!



Love,

Elder Frei

Hurst wrote me!! haha it was way good to hear from him. I love that kid!! I had a ton of emails when I got on today

Wow I can't believe his(Elder Fishers, Chase’s companion from here ) homecoming is already over man I swear we were serving together like yesterday. I miss that kid so much. he is so awesome!! those are some cool stories that he shared, he told me about all that stuff haha he was a sweet missionary! but ya we teach English classes once a week in most areas, sometimes we don't do it, it just depends! so how was everyone's Christmas?? what did everyone get? I'm way excited to play some soccer in my new cleats!! after I called you we just hung out for a while then went to a different church and met up with all the elders serving around us and watched a movie! it was pretty fun! then we just did normal stuff, it really didn't feel like Christmas especially after I talked to you because that was the highlight and that was really early in the morning!! haha oh, did you talk to Scott about my ankle? I want to know what he thinks..   I just talked to you all so I don't really feel like I have to much to say! I had a story I wanted to tell you all about on the phone so I will share it now.. one night we were walking back from talking to people out in the street, we had been working really hard all day but hadn't really found anyone that was that interested! we were almost home and my companion saw a couple of dogs that were tangled up so he went over to them and started helping them. I stood in the road and waited, after he had been gone for about 30 seconds somebody got out of the car in front of me and yelled "elder" (in Korean) I was really shocked because no one calls us that except for members and I knew she wasn't a member!! we started talking and it turns out that she met with missionaries when she was younger!! she wanted us to teach her kids so now we have 3 new investigators!! we tripled the amount we had in the first week!! :) it was awesome!! we don't have a pday today cause we had it on Saturday but we were allowed to email today, so after this we are going to go up to this place about 45 minutes away from our house and try to find some more new people!!! I hope everyone has a great week!

I love you all. 
Love, Elder Frei

We all talked to Chase on Christmas Eve. He sounded so happy. He loves South Korea. He loves the people. He is doing great. He is also learning how to cook Korean food :)! The members love to teach them how to cook. He is eating a lot of interesting food. He has also lost a lot of weight. He is now down thirty five pounds!!