Transferred to Song Pa

Yesterday I had the first feeling of missing Korea and being a missionary, we had an SPM meeting with the Stake Pres and President Lee and I will only go to one more of those it just hit me that my time is starting to run lower and lower.. sad

We're taking off I have some food shopping to do!! I'll talk to you next week!! I love you have a great week! I love the gospel. I love this work and I'm so grateful to be a part of it and to see all the things the Lord has let me seen. I'm so happy to be here in Korea and I'm so grateful for my family. I love you all!

Elder Doman & Elder Frei

Awesome family- Elder Poulson- Elder Frei.

Elder Messick- Elder Messman.

Member and investigator.

Christmas caroling in the subway.

Elder Eisenhower and Elder Frei.

Elder Reyes and Elder Frei.

Elder Frei and Elder Olsen.

Korea Seoul Mission Christmas Conference.

HMMM I don't really know what to say in this weeks email! Ha I feel like I can just tell you everything I have to say next week!! I'll give you a quick investigator update! We taught Brother Jeong the 2nd lesson, he is doing really good! he has no religious background at all so it's really weird to teach him! there are so many words that we have to explain to him . It's pretty funny. Steve came to church again, we are going to see him a few times this week! we met a new investigator his english name is Paul. He just moved back from Canada and is really good!! he has a lot of potential!! He almost got baptized in Canada but didn't have enough time I guess! he came to the party and to church also!! we went on splits on wednesday, I went with Elder McCausland he is from Laverkin, Utah haha so that was way fun to get to know him a little better I'm probably the only person in our mission who knows where Laverkin is so he probably liked that!! Last night we ate at a members house that is in the english branch! it was way good. Ha they gave us a ride home and on the way he crashed into the side of a wall pretty bad and messed up their car door!! it was pretty crazy but they just laughed about it. They are an awesome family I love them!!! hmm I guess I'll talk to you next week on the phone! 

Elder Frei

December 10, 2011

Well I'm going to write about the week a little bit I guess.. haha so let's see Tuesday we had zone leader council and we received an awesome training on studying and how we can always improve ourselves through our study. It was so good and the spirit of the meeting was SO amazing. President gave a few awesome talks to I love him so much. Wednesday we had combined district meeting where we conveyed the training and then after that we went on splits with my 2nd area Boeng Cheon. I went with Elder Greer who is in his first transfer! ha it was fun to be with a new Elder again it had been a while for me since I had done that! it's always a good experience for me to look back and see how much I have learned and grown while i've been on my mission!! (i'm not saying elder Greer isn't an awesome missionary cause he is!) he actually was super impressive and willing to do anything I said!! Friday we met with Na Jeong Hee and taught him, he got a new job so he is going to be moving soon, I was so sad when he told me! I've gotten so close with him ha I don't want him to leave. And he hasn't even got baptized yet!! haha he totally knows the church is true he just thinks he needs to be perfect before he joins!! I already told you about most of the weekend so I wont talk about that again but it was amazing. Also, Sunday I heard some really really good talks!! the one I wanna talk about was on how to be happier and enjoy the Holy Ghost more in our lives!! He started and just said don't sin as much. I loved the way he worded it, we all are sinners everyone knows that, we sin SO much. He just stressed that we can become better people continually if  we repent and rely on the Savior and do our best to sin less and less, read The Book of Mormon and have sincere prayers. I loved it so much and I could feel the spirit so strong the whole time. I really reflected on it and thought about how it relates to being a missionary, there are so many rules that it is almost impossible to keep every single one 100 percent of the time, like starting this at a certain time or not doing this or being home at this time just little things like that, I came to the conclusion that maybe they are there to show and remind us how weak we truly are and how much we need the Savior in our lives. We all need Christ's atonement in our lives, I'm so grateful for it and I hope we can all remember the true meaning of Christmas! I love you all thank you so much for your support.

Love,

Elder Frei

We had the best saturday ever this week!! Our investigator that is in the army took us to dinner and we ate steak, and also we got to go to Body Worlds!! We

stopped by a museum and it was there! ha so he was like we have to go

to this. This is a one time opportunity so we went and checked it out

and it was super awesome!

The lady we're teaching (Ser Bee) has abaptismal date for Christmas day!! so hopefully that all works out!!:) we have another investigator that should have a baptismal date soon!! I think this might be my last transfer in Yeong Deong Po

though.. I hope not but it probably is!

So here is our week in a nutshell.. monday we made kimchi and that was way fun!! then after that we had dinner with a bunch of missionaries than came home changed and had family night with all the single adults!! it was way fun! Tuesday

we did a way fun finding activity with the rest of our district and it

went really good!!! after that we met with a member from the english

branch that is just putting in his papers, he is studying korean too!!

ha we taught him how to pray it was awesome!! it was really fun he is

a great kid we've got to know him pretty good he comes and helps us

teach every once in a while!! wednesday we had district meeting! it

was great. Then after that I went on splits with Elder Richards in

Sindorim! It was really fun he came to Korea with me! so that was good.

We met with a couple of recent converts that I did the baptismal

interview for like 5 months ago so it was a really awesome blessing to

be able to see how they have progressed in the gospel and that they

were doing good!! Thursday we did another finding activity with the

other district in the zone and that went good as well!! we found some

new investigators, we were doing it in my 2nd area! it's really weird

to think I was about to get transferred out of there an entire year

ago. Time is crazy. Friday we had a few lessons cancel on us but that

was ok, we met our investigator that I told you is moving. I was so

sad when he told us!! he was doing so good and has so much potential

to be baptized. I will be really sad to see him leave! but we taught

him and then a few members came to the church and we started teaching

them guitar so that was way fun!! Saturday was the day that we went to

the museum that was probably the most fun saturday of my whole

mission!! hahah we had sooo much fun!! the investigators name is

Steve, he is super cool we had a blast!!! we had 3 investigators at

church it was a great day!! it's really hard to be serving in two

wards haha we bounce back a forth it's pretty hard but it's fun..

makes for a pretty long day though that is for sure!! we go to the

church at about 9 and usually get home and 4 or 5 ha so we get plenty

of church in! We love it though. Hearing sacrament in english is

really weird still haha!! we have a really busy week this week. Lots

of meeting and trainings and then we are going on splits on wednesday!

it should be fun, I'm excited. Mom something you told me last week

really hit me hard about staying diligent until the end of my

mission, I really thought about it and how right you are.. I

only have about 5 months left of my entire life to be serving the Lord

full-time I really want to utilize this time and continue to grow and

bless as many other peoples lives as the Lord will let me! I really

really liked President Eyring's article in the Ensign this month, it's

about being grateful for our blessings! He tells everyone to ask the

Lord in prayer to be able to be led to someone that they can serve and

share the gospel! I love that. I do that every night and day. I love

randomly finding someone to serve and just helping them! it goes a lot

farther than we think. A couple of weeks ago a lady was pushing a baby

in a stroller and she got into the elevator with us, she had a really

big box with her and I could tell she wasn't going to be able to carry

it by herself so I asked her if I could take it for her and followed

her to her apartment with it and then went back to the elevator,

yesterday she was in the elevator with us again with her husband and

baby this time and she was like "this is the person that helped me

carry the books to the house" and he was like "oh thank you so much

for doing that' it actually took me a few minutes to realize what they

were talking about cause I almost forgot about it then it hit me and I

remembered!! Ha the things we do go a lot further than we think. I

love you all I love this gospel and the happiness it brings. I'm

grateful for Christ and The Book of Mormon and how much better we can

understand his atonement through it! I hope you all take the time to

reflect on your blessings throughout the holiday season and remember

Christ and all he has done for us! study about him and his life

through out the month of December, that is what I have been

challenging all of our members to do!! I love you all, have a great

week!

Love,

Elder Frei

Staying In Yeong Dong Po!!

How was Thanksgiving? Ours went really good!! Super fun.. So I got a package yesterday at church from Brother Southerland, ha he didn't know you were sending him one too and he only got the one that was to him because he wasn't expecting 2 and I guess they didn't come on the same time so he brought the one to him to the church haha I told him I thought it was actually for him and he was like no way!! open it and check!! I opened it and he looked in and saw all the good stuff and was like nooo thats for you ha I was like umm I don't think so, my mom wouldn't send me Thor I don't think!! and I pulled it out (you couldn't see it under the food but I knew it was in there.. haha then he was super shocked and couldn't believe that you sent him a package haha he wouldn't take all the stuff you sent he wanted me to have it but he took Thor and some andes because he can't get those on the base.. and he took the card and wrote our address down and said that he would write you hahaah he is so awesome his wife is great too!! it was pretty funny though. 

We are doing a service project today!! This time of the year everyone makes kimchee! so we are going to make it at the Seoul History Museum for a service project!! it should be super fun but we have to cut our email time short to get there on time!! I'm excited though. I'll take lots of pics!!! So, this week.. the baptism went perfect!! our new ward mission leader is so awesome he took care of the whole thing and had it planned out perfectly!!!!!! A member of the ward baptized him it was great!! ha he was going to have me do it because the member wasn't going to be able to make it but then he was able to so it was good that it happened how he wanted!! transfers happened! we stayed:) one more transfer in Yeong Deong Po here I come!! I never wanna leave still ha I feel like this is my home and I love it. Our other investigators are doing really good!!! we set a baptismal date with Ser Bi Lee! :) I set it for Dec 25th!  how sweet is that? she can get baptized on Christmas sunday!!! super awesome!! and, our Thanksgiving was way awesome!! we ate with a family named the Ences turns out we are most likely related somehow haha it was really good and really fun there were so many people there!!! 

Love, 

Elder Frei