Dear Family and Friends!

This past week was awesome! It was soooo good to talk to the family on Skype! I love you all so much!

I dont have lots of time today so I have to keep this short.

This week we were very busy. We went out to a village on Friday to visit a less active member. It was way fun. He is a truck driver and a mechanic. He was showing us all his engines he has built and lots of other cool stuff. I loved it! We had a really good lesson with him also! He is such a great guy just very hard for him right now traveling all the way to church!

We met with lots of investigators throughout the week. It was really good. We were really trying to spread the joy of Christmas with all of them! They are all doing great.

Sorry for the short lame email. All is well here! I love it here. So sad that I have to leave soon! I hope you all had a great Christmas. I hope you all have a great New Year's! 2014 was an amazing year! I will never forget it! I love you all!

Love

Elder Grochmal

 Christmas Breakfast!

 A cake from an investigator on Christmas!

 An Ukrainian snow plow

 a welder. Dad will like this!

 Cool castle fireplace out in the village

 My companion eating Chicken Hearts!

Dear Family and Friends,

Merry Christmas! This past week was a great one! Sorry but I dont have much time to write and I will be skyping with the family on Thursday so I will tell you all! haha.

This past week we went up to kiev for a zone meeting. It was amazing. It was focused on becoming a more consecrated missionary! I learned so much. It is so amazing that even after 20+ months on a mission I can still learn so much more about missionary work. It shows that revelation is true and that our mission president really is inspired when he teaches us!

After the zone meeting I stayed in kiev for a couple of days and did an exchange with one of the zone leaders! It was so amazing. I love kiev so much and it was awesome to be back in one of my old areas. We did so much and had so many lessons. It was so amazing. I learned so much from my zone leader about being more consecrated. He was so awesome and didnt waste any time at all. We were just going going going everywhere! It was so cool!

Saturday we had our branch Christmas party. It was so good. It was very very focused of Jesus Christ. We talked about him and watched movies and sang. It was such a spiritual experience and lots of non members came!

During the week we met with lots of our investigators. They are doing good. We love them so much and are trying to help them come closer to Christ everyday!

Well I love you all and hope you have an amazing Christmas! Never forget the real meaning of Christmas!

Love

Elder Grochmal

 CHILI!

 A cool thingy in Kiev! haha

 This is on the Temple grounds in Kiev!

 Christmas party!

 "How do you plan to share this Gift (Jesus Christ) this Christmas Season?"

Hello family and friends!

This past week was a good one! We were very busy. Lots of good things are happening in this area right now!

Tuesday- We had district meeting in the morning. It was very good. We talked alot about our new english program that we just started here. It is so awesome. We changed everything. So now we ONLY talk about the Gospel in English. So now it is called Gospel Discussion in English. It is so cool. We just teach them all the lessons in English basically. It is actually going really good. We have already had it twice and both times it has been amazing. Lots of people are still coming and are liking it! At night we had a big broadcast fireside thing. It was in Kiev but we just watched in on the internet. So a member of the 70 was supposed to come but he had an emergency so President Klebingat ended up coming!!!!!! It was so amazing. I am so sad though that I wasnt able to see him but it was so cool to here him speak. All the missionaries in Kiev were invited to it and the rest watched on the internet. It was for all members of the church in Ukraine. It was about Self-Reliance. He did such a great job. So he was speaking Russian the whole time and then at the end he all of the sudden said in English, "I want my missionaries to know, that I love you!" It was so amazing. I miss him so much.

Wednesday- We had english at night. First night of the new program. Lots of people came.

Thursday- We had two lessons at night. First we met with a less-active member. We talked all about Christmas with him. It was such a good spiritual lesson. Then after him we had a lesson with 2 guys from English. It was an another awesome lesson. We taught them the Restoration. They accepted our invitation to read and pray.

Friday- We also had two lessons. First we met with a guy from English. We also taught him the Restoration. It was a great lesson. He had lots of good questions and we helped him alot! After that lesson we went and did some home teaching with a member. It was a really good visit.

Saturday-We had a lesson before english with a lady. It was really good. We talked about the importance of the Book of Mormon with her. She said she would start reading it. We then had English which was really good. After english I was able to talk to one kid who has been coming to english for a while. He never was really interested but ever since we started only talking about Gospel topics at English he has become interested. We talked alot about the Restoration and the Book of Mormon. He has already read the first 15 chapters in the Book of Mormon. He also came to church yesterday! So amazing!

Well that is all for my week! It was really good! I hope you all have great weeks! Enjoy the Christmas season!
http://www.mormon.org/christmas

Love

Elder Grochmal

 This amazing dish I made from a cookbook of course!

 My new sweater vest cardigan from a thrift shop for 1 dollar!

 Watching President Klebingat!

 I dont know who this was from. It was just in our mail box in Kiev. The Sisters brought it down for me! I am so grateful for who ever gave them to me!

 Some beef stroganoff. It was also so delicous!