Hello Family and Friends!
Well my first week down here in Odessa has come to an end! It was so awesome! I love it here already! I am getting used to my area a litle more! It is so massive and confusing! I am always turned around but I will get it! So this past week was so awesome! We had some awesome things happen!
So first on Monday night we had a lesson with two new investigators! They are a referall from the District President down here in Odessa. He is like the Stake President. So we first met them at church on Sunday but then our first lesson was monday. So we started talking about the Book of Mormon and they knew everything about it and they knew so much about the church. So it turns out that their son is a member and lives in LA! He served a mini mission here in Ukraine when he lived here. So we just started talking about Baptism and we comitted then to be baptized on October 26th!!!!!!!!!!! We are sooooo excited! Also their son is coming here on the 25th from America and he is going to baptize them! So awesome! It is so amazing how prepared and elect they are. It is such a blessing to see the Lord just prepare these people to be baptized!
Tuesday morning I had to do some registration stuff then went on an exchange! It was with Elder Harrington! He is in his 2nd transfer! It was way fun. We did a lot of English Advertising! It was so fun! I am a little crazy when it comes to English Advertising. I like chase people down the streets and just walk with them! We ask them if they know english and they say yes and just keep walking so I just chase after them and walk with them and talk! Way more effective! haha.
Wednesday was good. Not much going on! We had our first English! It was very successful! We had like 30 people show up. I taught the Advanced class. When back in Billa we were taught a new way of teaching by the zone leaders so I brought it down here to Odessa and it was so awesome! The people loved it so much!
On Thursday we did alot more English advertising! It was so awesome! We really want English to get big so we can find people through it. We have had some success already finding some potentials!
Friday we had another lesson with the people that are getting baptized! It was sooooo good. We went with our Branch President here! He is so awesome! We taught the Restoration! Our branch pres helped so much! It is hard for us cause our Russian isnt the best so a member present lesson in the best! haha. They accepted everything and are just so elect! The lesson was so powerful! After the lesson we had English again! It was awesome! We again had so many people show up! One man in particular we talked to for a while! He was awesome! We invited him to come watch General Conference on Saturday and he came!
So yah Saturday and Sunday we watched conference all day. We went into Center Odessa to watch it! It was so cool to see center! It was so nice! The building is so cool and right by the sea! I got to finally see the Black Sea! haha. It is so cool. So yah Conference was so amazing! I loved it so much! I felt like saturday they talked alot about members and missionaries! I loved it! It is the best way to find people! The members are everything! We It would take me so long to write all the stuff I liked about conference! Overall it was amazing and there is just something different about watching it as a missionary! Well everyone that is all! I love you all so much! Thanks for all the emails! I love you all!
Love
Elder Grochmal
When a baptismal date is set a text is send throughout the whole mission from President Klebingat!
Look what I found outside the Zone Leaders apartment!
Our church here in Odessa!
Famous Odessa Opera house!
This steps are famous! The black sea!
The Center Odessa building!
Watching Conference! My comp is on the far left!
Got these for 2 dollars each at a swap meet!
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