Nyob Zoo!
Today is technically the first day of my 5th transfer in Alaska. What
a beautiful and remarkable state this is. There is no where else like
it and the pictures and videos you see of it do no justice to the
beauty of this place; and I am only in the Anchorage area.
This week we got our transfer calls. Unfortunately my companion for my
whole mission so far, Elder Ryan Vang, is going home. He was an
awesome companion and one of my best friends. I will be quoting him my
whole mission. He was one hard worker and faithful individual. I am
sad he is leaving but happy he can move on with the rest of his life
ahead of him.
My new companion will be... Elder Jamal Vang! This is his last
transfer in the mission field. He has previously served in the Hmong
branch for about a year. He is coming back for one last one. In
mission terms, I am killing him off. I have talked with him a few
times and I am excited to serve with him for one transfer.
After he leaves, I will be the only person with any sort of clue about
Hmong on the mission. We have no Hmong missionaries or Hmong speaking
missionaries coming out. So I will be here for a while. I will either
get an experienced missionary and he will stall until we can hopefully
get one, or I will train a Meskas and we will stay together for an
extended period of time.
One missionary in the mission office asked me: "Where do you think you
will go when you leave the Hmong branch?" I replied: "Home" because I
won't leave! We had a large "Family gathering" with most of the
active members and I told them I will not leave this branch. At the
end, Grandmother Her, came up to me and talked to me in Hmong but then
said: "I love you" in English. It was the best thing ever! She must of
been practicing or something.
This week we had a baptism of 3 people. Jaynee and Anthony, as well as
Lori's daughter Lauren. It was a great way to finish off the transfer.
Me and Elder Vang finished with 21 baptisms together in 6 months.
Besides the baptism it was just visiting people all week for Elder
Vang and saying goodbye. I got to meet a lot of cool people in the
Klatt area of Anchorage.
Have a wonderful week, Sib Ntsib Dua!
Elder Hayden Frey
Monday, December 14, 2015
Monday, December 7, 2015
P-Day 22
Nyob Zoo!
What a wonderful week this was as always. We get to go around and
teach a message about Christ and the new Christmas initiative found at
Christmas.mormon.org. The Church did a wonderful job creating the
website with many videos about the importance of Christ so make sure
that you check it out and share it on your social media accounts!
We had a funny yet amazing miracle. One of our "Golden" investigators,
Lori, turns out to be an member! She went to a baptism of ours and she
thought she was. We had her go to our branch clerk and it turns out
she was baptized!
We had a really busy week that included 9 lessons on Thursday. We
picked up a few new investigators. Our branch is growing and growing.
Good news, next year we are moving into the chapel! We currently meet
in the relief society room but we will be in the chapel in 2016. I
also got the opportunity to conduct this month again. And I did it all
in Hmong! That was fun.
We picked up another baptismal commitment. Elder Goodsell my ZL came
to the Hmong branch. We went around and visited some people. We were
driving to go in and we decided to visit one more person. We visited
this LA. He is a really cool dude who still has a testimony but he is
making the steps to come back. We talked sports, then taught a lesson
and then said a prayer. As we were leaving he said, "Hey my wife wants
to be baptized." It was awesome!
Little warmer this week. It's in the low 20s. A lot better than -10s!
We have a baptism this Saturday. 3 more are going into the water as we
say. So we will busy this week. We will also be busy because it's
Elder Vang's last week. We have to go around and see all the people he
wants to say goodbye too. I will miss him. He's been my comp for a
whole quarter of my mission. He is a stud missionary and he has made
his mark on this piece of the garden. I am thankful for him and the
influence he has had over me.
Have a wonderful week!
Elder Hayden Frey
What a wonderful week this was as always. We get to go around and
teach a message about Christ and the new Christmas initiative found at
Christmas.mormon.org. The Church did a wonderful job creating the
website with many videos about the importance of Christ so make sure
that you check it out and share it on your social media accounts!
We had a funny yet amazing miracle. One of our "Golden" investigators,
Lori, turns out to be an member! She went to a baptism of ours and she
thought she was. We had her go to our branch clerk and it turns out
she was baptized!
We had a really busy week that included 9 lessons on Thursday. We
picked up a few new investigators. Our branch is growing and growing.
Good news, next year we are moving into the chapel! We currently meet
in the relief society room but we will be in the chapel in 2016. I
also got the opportunity to conduct this month again. And I did it all
in Hmong! That was fun.
We picked up another baptismal commitment. Elder Goodsell my ZL came
to the Hmong branch. We went around and visited some people. We were
driving to go in and we decided to visit one more person. We visited
this LA. He is a really cool dude who still has a testimony but he is
making the steps to come back. We talked sports, then taught a lesson
and then said a prayer. As we were leaving he said, "Hey my wife wants
to be baptized." It was awesome!
Little warmer this week. It's in the low 20s. A lot better than -10s!
We have a baptism this Saturday. 3 more are going into the water as we
say. So we will busy this week. We will also be busy because it's
Elder Vang's last week. We have to go around and see all the people he
wants to say goodbye too. I will miss him. He's been my comp for a
whole quarter of my mission. He is a stud missionary and he has made
his mark on this piece of the garden. I am thankful for him and the
influence he has had over me.
Have a wonderful week!
Elder Hayden Frey
Monday, November 30, 2015
P-Day 21
Hi Awesome Mother,
Dang... Thanksgiving was awesome!!! We went and played football and basketball from 9 am to Noon. Then we went to Mee Lee's. She cooked hecka (*tons of) food and we ate so much. Then she packed the rest and gave it to us. Our fridge is so full from all the leftovers we got that we cannot put anything more in there. We ate so much we just napped on her couch for 4 hours while watching Disney movies. After that we went with Joanna and her family and ate 2 plates and immediately had to leave to eat with a chef we know... I think for the first time in my life I can say I couldn't fit anything more in my stomach. Apparently it isn't a bottomless pit.... Saturday, we were invited to a Hmoob Vwj (Hmong Vue) clan party and dang... I found out that it wasn't just a fluke, my stomach really does have an ending. No pumpkin pie though.
Elder Vang goes home in two weeks... Crazy... He was my comp for the whole first quarter of my mission.
All the snow is gone because it warmed wayyyy up. One day it hit 54! That is almost summer temperatures. So I never got gloves. It's back down to 20s now.
Not much this week. Elder Vang was throwing up and we had lots of food. That's it pretty much.
Kuv hlub koj.
Elder Frey
* I figured that's what it meant, but had to clarify.
* I figured that's what it meant, but had to clarify.
Thanksgiving with Joanna's family
Monday, November 23, 2015
P-Day 20
Hi Kuv Niam.
The week was terrible, horrible, no good, very bad!! Jkjk, it was
awesome as always. I'm good on stuff for Christmas. But I need gloves...
No gloves in that package at all.
This last week was pretty busy. We had a Thanksgiving party Saturday
and we spent most of the week preparing for it. When we weren't, we
were strengthening our Recent Converts and helping them to be centered
on Christ
We have even our investigators doing missionary work!! We had them
invite friends to the thanksgiving party and they were all super
interested! You can tell those who are prepared from those who aren't.
They have all seen God in their life and love to here our message! The
Hmong people are awesome!
Well, the thanksgiving party was a huge success. We invited the Chugach
foothills Ward and we set out chairs for 120. Then so many people
showed up we had to put out more tables and chairs for 60 more. Those
were filled up and we moved all the youth to the YW room so the adults
could sit and then that was filled! We had 210-220 people show up! It
was awesome! The joys of being a counselor.
This week will be really nice! Let's just say we have 3 dinners and
2-3 more potential dinners on Thursday... We were also invited to some
Hmong clan parties too so we have 3 dinners on both Friday and
Saturday... Best week of my life!!!!
Love you!
Elder Frey
The week was terrible, horrible, no good, very bad!! Jkjk, it was
awesome as always. I'm good on stuff for Christmas. But I need gloves...
No gloves in that package at all.
This last week was pretty busy. We had a Thanksgiving party Saturday
and we spent most of the week preparing for it. When we weren't, we
were strengthening our Recent Converts and helping them to be centered
on Christ
We have even our investigators doing missionary work!! We had them
invite friends to the thanksgiving party and they were all super
interested! You can tell those who are prepared from those who aren't.
They have all seen God in their life and love to here our message! The
Hmong people are awesome!
Well, the thanksgiving party was a huge success. We invited the Chugach
foothills Ward and we set out chairs for 120. Then so many people
showed up we had to put out more tables and chairs for 60 more. Those
were filled up and we moved all the youth to the YW room so the adults
could sit and then that was filled! We had 210-220 people show up! It
was awesome! The joys of being a counselor.
This week will be really nice! Let's just say we have 3 dinners and
2-3 more potential dinners on Thursday... We were also invited to some
Hmong clan parties too so we have 3 dinners on both Friday and
Saturday... Best week of my life!!!!
Love you!
Elder Frey
From Elder Vang
Hello Sister Frey,
First I'd like to be apologize for emailing on a non P-day but I had
to somehow sneak this so that your son does not see or suspect
anything. He's a very smart person. I'm sure you know that. First I
just like to say that serving with your son has been one of the
greatest times of my mission. He exemplifies so many christlike
attributes and I know you're proud of him. And I hope you'll always
be. He is doing a marvelous work here and he'll be blessed with it. I
love him as my own brother. And I owe a lot to him for being the best
companion to me and all he has to do to put up with me. He has always
been prepared to serve in this area of the Lord's vineyard and I have
never doubted that for one moment.
Elder Vang
First I'd like to be apologize for emailing on a non P-day but I had
to somehow sneak this so that your son does not see or suspect
anything. He's a very smart person. I'm sure you know that. First I
just like to say that serving with your son has been one of the
greatest times of my mission. He exemplifies so many christlike
attributes and I know you're proud of him. And I hope you'll always
be. He is doing a marvelous work here and he'll be blessed with it. I
love him as my own brother. And I owe a lot to him for being the best
companion to me and all he has to do to put up with me. He has always
been prepared to serve in this area of the Lord's vineyard and I have
never doubted that for one moment.
Elder Vang
Monday, November 16, 2015
P-Day 19
Nyob Zoo Niam,
Koj nyob li cas? This will be my 4th transfer (6 months) in the
branch! We had interviews with President Robinson Saturday. It
basically went along the lines of "The missionary department won't
send me another Hmong speaking missionary, so you are the Hmong
speaking missionary." Basically as of right now it is possible for me
to spend my whole missionary here! I would love that. Elder Ryan Vang,
my current comp of 6 months, goes home this transfer. Elder Jamal Vang
goes home a transfer after that. Then it's just me! The only Hmong
speaker.
Oh transfer meeting.... President said we need to make our mission, our
areas and our companion ships "on fire." Then he came up to us after
and said that we need to give a training on what that means! We had 12
baptisms last transfer, 1/3rd of our mission transfer goal.. So we
were inspired and we decided to make our area on fire again... And we
went that night and put 3 more people on date! That's 4 for this
transfer so far that we have on date! We also saw the new Christmas
video.
You most likely won't find the new ChuFoo elder's mom. It is Elder Fernadez from the Philippines. How was Elder Uasike's talk? I'm guessing he talked about Bethel!
We went to the temple with the 6 we baptized last week, Vue Yang, and
Qaze and Gao Xiong. Vue Yang had the biggest smile on his face. He
brought names to do... but they weren't temple ready. He was a little
saddened by that but besides that, his face musta hurt after he was
smiling so big... Bao was pretty pumped too! She was the last of the
girls in line and she was pretty much jumping up and down waiting to
go do confirmations then baptisms! We then all went out to eat after.
Okay, here is a warning. I may buy gloves. It was -7 yesterday here.
With a windchill of -15! Brrrrrrrrr. I'm staying warm though.
Kub hlub koj
Tub Txib Fwm
Koj nyob li cas? This will be my 4th transfer (6 months) in the
branch! We had interviews with President Robinson Saturday. It
basically went along the lines of "The missionary department won't
send me another Hmong speaking missionary, so you are the Hmong
speaking missionary." Basically as of right now it is possible for me
to spend my whole missionary here! I would love that. Elder Ryan Vang,
my current comp of 6 months, goes home this transfer. Elder Jamal Vang
goes home a transfer after that. Then it's just me! The only Hmong
speaker.
Oh transfer meeting.... President said we need to make our mission, our
areas and our companion ships "on fire." Then he came up to us after
and said that we need to give a training on what that means! We had 12
baptisms last transfer, 1/3rd of our mission transfer goal.. So we
were inspired and we decided to make our area on fire again... And we
went that night and put 3 more people on date! That's 4 for this
transfer so far that we have on date! We also saw the new Christmas
video.
You most likely won't find the new ChuFoo elder's mom. It is Elder Fernadez from the Philippines. How was Elder Uasike's talk? I'm guessing he talked about Bethel!
We went to the temple with the 6 we baptized last week, Vue Yang, and
Qaze and Gao Xiong. Vue Yang had the biggest smile on his face. He
brought names to do... but they weren't temple ready. He was a little
saddened by that but besides that, his face musta hurt after he was
smiling so big... Bao was pretty pumped too! She was the last of the
girls in line and she was pretty much jumping up and down waiting to
go do confirmations then baptisms! We then all went out to eat after.
Okay, here is a warning. I may buy gloves. It was -7 yesterday here.
With a windchill of -15! Brrrrrrrrr. I'm staying warm though.
Kub hlub koj
Tub Txib Fwm
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