Dear Friends and Family!
Well this past week was very good! First I want to say that all the missionaries are safe here. Yes We know that there is lots of craziness right now here in the country but we are all safe. We are prepared if anything happens. We have 72 hour kits and eveything we need! Dont worry too much about us! It is not affecting the work too much here in Odessa! I know it has been hard up in Kiev and some other areas!
I will get straight to the big news! So this transfer ends next week! So on saturday night during planning I get a call from my mission president!! He informed me that next transfer I will be going up to Center Kiev to be a zone leader! I am so excited! I will be serving with Elder Hinkson! He only has 3 more transfers left! He is a legend and I know I am going to learn sooooo much from him! I dont go up till next wednesday so I still have a week here in Odessa!
Last week went like this!
Tuesday we didnt have district meeting because of Zone Conference on Wednesday! So we did all of our studies then went to the church and had a lesson with a less active. We are teaching him english at the moment! It is way fun and he is so awesome! We are really trying to get him back to church!
So Wednesday was soooo awesome! We had Zone Coneference! We had a special guest come too! President Lawrence who is the European East Area President! It was so amazing! We had such a good conference! His wife came and we had a question and answer with her about doctrine and stuff. She is like a genius and it was so amazing! We also had personal interviews with President Lawrence! It was so cool. He actually served in the California area presidency with President Dalton a while ago! That was cool to talk to him about a little! Overall It was such a cool day and I learned soooo much!
Thursday after studies we went over to a members house and had a lesson with her! She is so amazing and fed us some good food! We talked to her about when Christ came to Earth! It was such a powerful lesson! She loved it! We then went over to some other members to do language study with them! It was so good! Language studies with members is the best! They help us out so much and we learn so much more than doing it on our own!
On friday we had another lesson with the less active guy at the church! We taught him so English and then talked about the church for a while! He is way solid just having some personal problems! We love him though and are working hard at helping him come back to church! At night we had english! That was really good! We had a really good turn out with lots of people! I love when we have lots of people at English! It is the best!
Saturday was a good day! We studied and did some weekly planning! At night we went to meet with a different less active member! It was a really good meeting! We read with him in 2 Nephi 31 and talked about how he can make a change and come back to church! He is so solid and has a strong testimony! He just thinks working right now is more important! We are going there this week with the branch president so I think we will help him alot!
Yesterday was a really good day at church. It was sad to tell the members that I was getting transfered! It wasnt my last Sunday though! They were all bummed to here the news! I am really sad to leave this area! I really love all the members here and just love the branch! It has been so much fun serving here and I have grown sooooooo much as a missionary and a person!
Well that is all for my week! It was pretty good! Also the weather here is getting bad! It has been snowing for the last two days! It is very cold with a strong wind coming off the sea! It is pretty crazy! Lots of snow! Well I love you all so much and I hope you all have a wonderful week!
Love
Elder Grochmal
We had some rain and everything was ice!
Semi-truck....
I am gonna miss this family so much!
This kid was baptized 2 months ago. We found him but he didnt live in our area so we passed him off! I gave him that tie that he is wearing! haha
Today!
Walking to the internet club this morning!
