Pictures from kind sisters

This week I got an email/picture from the wife of Elder Frey’s mission president.  It said, “We love Elder Frey!  Thank you for your support of him and missionary work!  With love, Sister Robinson"

A day later I got this one from Sister Knappen.  It said, “Grabbed this picture for you yesterday!  They’d just finished doing some service for a member in a different ward.  Hope you have a great day!... We enjoy having him in our ward.  He’s a wonderful missionary!"

P-Day 45

Hi Mom!

It felt great finally being healthy:P Elder Gentry is awesome. He is a stud! He is going through homesickness, like every new missionary but me. But he is really good at teaching. 

People this week have been super rude! We had people cussing and flipping us off. First time I have had that on my mission. 

Hope is being baptized Saturday! She is super excited and ready. Beyond ready. So that's exciting. My emailing skills really do suck but that's okay. I have a time lapse of driving around Wasilla I will send. 

Love you!

Elder Hayden Frey

P-Day 44

Since we had just spoken yesterday, all I got today was a picture of him with his new companion that I had requested yesterday.  This is the email he sent to everyone else...

Hello!

So this week was relatively uneventful.. Again. Tuesday, Elder Christensen was saying some goodbyes and I started to feel really sick. So we went home and I took a nap for a bit but woke up feeling worse. We took my temperature and I was sitting at 103..

I was super worried because Wednesday I would be picking up my boy!
(My trainee). So we called the mission nurse and she told me to stay in a rest. Duh because my fever was at 103.

I woke up on Wednesday feeling alright but right about 9am.. My fever came back. So I hit the Tylenol and go pick up my boy. Well.. The mission president takes one look at me and says, "after you meet your trainee, go to bed." We were supposed to sit in 6 hours of trainings and then go to the temple but I feel bad for my trainee. I met him and then left and went and slept.

So we start heading home to Wasilla. My trainee has to drive (🔴) and I am falling asleep trying to tell him where to go. Then we just got home and sleep. So I wake up the next morning and the nurse calls and said to go to urgent care. So we show up... And I had strep throat....

Also, the urgent care had a bunch of medical stuff and questions translated into Hmong (very poorly I would say) and so I had to ask for a Hmong translator to which they didn't have. I just want to speak to someone in Hmong!

But long story short.. We stayed in the apartment pretty much whole week. First week, my trainee was bored out of his mind.. Well I am better now and ready to go. This week will be awesome!

Have a good week!
Elder Hayden Frey

My boy Elder Gentry (from Ephraim, UT)

Mother’s Day FaceTime

Sunday afternoon we got “the call”.  It was so good to see his happy smiling HEALTHY face!!  He has been so sick 3-4 times since being in Alaska and I hope he is finally on the mend so he can focus on the work.  He has a new companion- Elder Gentry- fresh from the MTC.

I asked him what his favorite part of missionary work was and he said talking to people.  He loves tracting and meeting new people on the street (although he said the “Americans” are so rude and he misses the Hmong people).  He is still counting on the fact that he will go back to the Hmong branch to end his mission.  He reads the Book of Mormon in Hmong every day and listened to General Conference in Hmong rather than English.  He has been looking for Hmong people to teach/talk to since he got to Wasilla.  I had him bear his testimony in Hmong and recorded it.

Family picture

He gave Garrett a hard time about his long hair.  There were quite a few jokes and one liners throughout the conversation.  Once again he had us laughing the whole time!

He is so happy to be in Alaska and serving the people there.  He loves his mission!

Trainer

P-Day 43

Hi mom,

Things are going good here in Wasilla. Transfer are this Wednesday! Hehehe and for the FaceTime. We have church from 7 am to 2pm here. So anytime after that I'm good. And our apartment has wifi. I'll pay Larry 15 to keep saying jokes! 

We had exchanges this week. I went with Elder Carroll to YSA Ward. That was fun. We taught a bunch of lessons. And stayed up to 3 am talking and then was super tired the next day.  Hope is still progressing well and preparing for baptism! There was not a lot to these week really! Besides transfer calls!

Love you!

Elder Frey

Hello!

This week we received our transfer calls! And drum roll please......... I'm training a brand new missionary! I am excited to train and to help a new missionary adjust to the life of a new missionary. Maybe I can train him as well as mine trained me (Haha thanks Ryan!)

Sister Meade, the lady we did service for last week passed away the day after we did the bonfire. She was happy and smiling with us and showing us her village art. It is unfortunate but a part of life. One day we will all see her again.

Besides transfers and Sister Meade it was a pretty uneventful week.
Hope is still progressing to baptism. We tracted a lot. The only out of the normal thing was exchanges with Elder Carroll. I went over to the YSA Ward. We taught 3 or 4 lessons.

Have a good week!
Elder Hayden Frey

Sister Cathy Knappen

   Sister Knappen lives in one of the Wasilla wards that Elder Frey is currently serving in.   On Wednesday night I received this picture and message from her...
“Our new couches are sooo comfy!  They love to come and relax on them.  Got to have them over for taco salad tonight.  We love having them over!"