The Ukrainian Bear

December 30th- January 5th

Dear Family and Friends!

I hope you all had great holidays! Everything over here went just fine! The holidays were a little crazy and hard. I am just happy that it is all over and the work can continue to move forward!

Last monday night was so amazing! So we went over to a family for Family Home Evening! It was so amazing! It was so nice cause the week before everyone kept bailing on us so it was nice to actually have a lesson! They were so nice to us! They fed us an amazing dinner! They have 5 kids! It was such a cool experience. We were just talking and the mom was telling us how grateful she was to spend the holidays with us. I just felt like I was at home when I was over there! I told them that and the mom got teary eyed! It was so much fun!!!!

Tuesday was New Years Eve. We did a book table in a park. It was pretty fun! Then we went to a members house at night! It was way fun to spend the night with him! He is so awesome! It was our Mission Leader for the Branch.

So New Years is massive here! It is like their Christmas! Of course I got woken up at 12 but fireworks! It was so crazy! They were so loud and everywhere! haha. We didnt have much going during the day. Nobody was out and the streets were dead! haha. We had english at night but not that many people came! Kinda lame!

Thursday we did another book table in the park with the sisters! It was lots of fun! We talked with lots of people about Jesus! At night we walked around and tried to find some potentional investigators! It was so crazy. We walked so much.

On friday we did some English advertising with some other missionaries then we had English. It was way good. More people came! The assistants were there also so that was fun! They are cool!

Sunday was a good day at church. We were on exchanges. It is this new thing they are doing with exchanges on Sundays! It was pretty fun! I went with a brand new missionary. He was very funny!

Oh so this week we made Borcsh! Its a traditional meal here. It is Beet Soup! It was sooooo good!

Well the work is still slow and the investigators are still moving slow but all will be well! I love serving here and I know the Lord continues to bless me every single day I am here! I love you all! Thanks for all the emails! Have a good week!

Love

Elder Grochmal