Hello Famiy and Friends!

Another great week here in Ukraine! Things are going awesome! I know there is still lots of problems with the politics but we are still working hard and trying not to worry about it! This past week was very awesome!

So Tuesday we had a Mission Leadership Council meeting in the morning! It was really good! We talked about lots of things that will help out our mission! We talked alot about getting all the missionaries to really try to re-focus! Lots of missionaries (myself included) have found ourselves losing focus in these crazy political times here in Ukraine! It was a great council and I learned so much! It was also nice to see lots of missionaries!

Wednesday we had a Mission Conference here in Kiev! It was so awesome! Almost everyone was there! Just the Odessa zone didnt come up! haha. It was ran by President Klebingat and his wife! It was so awesome! I learned so much from it! I feel so blessed to be in this mission with my mission president! He has taught me so much! Once again it was so cool to see so many missionaries at the conference! Especially the ones that I have served with! After the conference we went back into center to have English! It went really good and we had some new people show up!

Thursday we went on exchanges! I went with Elder Young! He is so awesome! I went to his area up in northern Kiev! It is called Obolon! It was way good! We had a few lessons with some members and it was so good! Elder Young is such a good missionary and taught me so much! He is still young in the mission and just has so much fire! I feel like he really helped me keep going and pushing myself! I love going on exchanges so much and learning from new missionaries!

Friday after studies I got back with Elder Hinkson and also Elder Peterson! He has been with us for the last week! We have been in a 3-some! It was been so much fun! He is so awesome! So we went home had some lunch and planned some stuff! We met with two members at night! It was very good! The members here are so awesome and are really trying to help! I will be honest it is just hard for them right now! The situation in the country leaves them very worried! It is nice to go and try to lift the spirits of the members!

Saturday we had English in the afternoon which went awesome! We were able to meet with one guy after and teach him the whole first lesson! It went so good! I am so excited for him! It has been hard lately with finding and teaching investigators! I am really praying that this new investigator will progress and eventually be baptized! After that we made a newsletter for our ward here in Kiev! We then had another lesson at night! It was with a man from our Area Book! It went ok... He was very nice but wasnt willing to make any commitments with us. We will just have to see!

Yesterday was an awesome day at church! We had lots of people come! There is still a weird feeling in the air among the members! I just really hope that everything will go ok in this country! I am worried for the members of the church! I just love them so much and dont want anything bad to happen to them!

Well that was basically all that happen! Things are still pretty slow but we are keeping our heads up and working our hardest! I love serving here in Ukraine and wouldnt want to be anywhere else right now! Thank you everyone for the emails and the love! I love you all so much! Have a great week!

Love

Elder Grochmal

Well here are some photos from Maidon! Dont worry it was safe and we got permission to go!