Dear Family and Friends!

Just another week here in Kiev! Things are going good! It was another busy week as always! 

So last tuesday we had District meeting which was just great as always! I really enjoyed it! Our district leader gave us an awesome lesson about the Apostasies and Dispensations! It was so awesome! He broke down all the major dispensations from the Old Testament. I learned so much from him! It really was a testimony builder to me that we have a living prophet on the Earth right now that leads and guides the church! After district meeting we had to go to Center Kiev to do some registration stuff for me. At night we had a lesson with a couple that is from Odessa that is serving a mission here as a temple couple! Elder Knight both already knew them before they moved here to serve in the temple so it was nice to go visit them! 

Wednesday was a good day. We had an amazing lesson at night with a member! Her husband is not a member. We met him and talked to him for a while. We are hoping to start working with him. At the end of our lesson with his wife we asked him if we could sing a song for him and he said yah! So Elder Knight and I say a song for him in Ukrainian! He loved it! The spirit was so strong as we sang to him! 

On thursday we had to go and do more registration stuff! It took forever and it was so far away on the other side of Kiev! 

Friday. We woke up and did some service for some members! It was way fun. We had to clean out an old storge unit and sort through all the junk! It was pretty gross and moldy! At night we had a lesson with another member. It was way good. We talked about eternal families and how blessed we are to have temples where we can be sealed for time and eternity. 

On saturday we were running around all of Kiev buying train and bus tickets for missionaries coming up and going to Odessa! It was crazy cause we had to got to the train station then the bus place then back to the train station. We then went back the church at night and taught English! It was way fun. I always love teaching English so much! 

Yesterday was a great day at church. Our ward here is soooooo big! Yesterday there was like 200 people at Sacrament. It was so cool to see so many members at church. 

So that is basically all for my week! This upcoming week is gona be awesome! We are headed down to Odessa on a bus in a few hours! We will be there until thursday! We are going to do exchanges with the zone leaders and then there will be a conference with the zone and we are going to go! I am so excited to go back to Odessa! I miss it! Well I hope you all have a great week! I love you so much! 

Love 

Elder Grochmal 

 Thats not me getting a hair cut! haha. Just a different missionary!

 Our church building

 Our kitchen

 Cleaning out a storage unit

 Teaching this little kid how to play basketball

 Chicken Pot Pie for dinner last night!

Darth Vader was running for Mayor of Kiev and Odessa but lost! haha This isnt a joke! This is real! 

Dear Family and Friends! 

Wow! What a crazy week! Well like some already know last monday I became the new assistant to my mission president! My new companion is Elder Knight! I am so happy about this. Elder Knight and I are great friends and already knew each other a little before the mission. I am so excited for this upcoming transfer with him. So like I said I was transferred out of center Kiev. My new area is where the mission office and temple are located. It is pretty cool cause we get to see the temple almost everyday we come to the church building. Also we have a way nice church building that has a legit basketball court! 

So last Monday, I was with Elder Knight already and he got a call from President telling him that they had a meeting at the church to do transfers and for him to bring me along. I wasn't exactly sure why but I obviously had some thoughts because the old assistant went home. So we got into the meeting with President and he opens up the transfer board. He then looks at me and says Elder Grochmal welcome to the club. Your my new Assistant! haha. It was pretty cool. It is pretty cool to get to work with a member of the first quorum of the seventy! He is so amazing. I am sad though because he is leaving in about 6 weeks! 

Tuesday I skyped with my family in the morning! That was amazing obviously! We then had district meeting and then some more meetings with President to get some stuff planned. We then went home and had to move all of my stuff! Luckily it wasn't that far of a move! We then had a lesson at night with a man. The temple president let us go into the waiting room and teach him in there! It was such an amazing experience! The spirit was so strong in the temple when teaching him this lesson! 

So Wednesday was transfer day. It was pretty crazy. We had to go to the train station in the morning to get some missionaries. We then had to help everyone in the office get places and get organized! It was a long day. Also we had to take people to the train station at night to leave to Odessa! 

Thursday was so amazing! So in the afternoon we went out to a little village outside of Kiev. So there is this member girl who is the only member in her family. She invited us over to teach her whole family! It was such an amazing day. We went and did some service first for them. We then cooked some amazing food with the family. It was such a good lesson. We talked a lot about families with them. They really enjoyed it. There is a whole lot of potential in this family. I am very excited to continue to work with them. 

Friday we had some stuff to do in the office. We then went to a members house at night for a lesson. It was way fun. We had some great food. 

On Saturday we went to another little village outside of Kiev to do some service for some members! It was way fun. We helped put some concrete on the side of someones house. We then ate some delicous food! After that we returned to Kiev and went to a baptism here at our church. It was way awesome. It was a family that actually was a walk in with me and my old companion back in the center building. We passed them to the other Elders. It was so awesome to see them get baptized though. It was a whole family with 2 kids and a mom and dad! 

Yesterday was my first Sunday here in my new ward! It was way cool. So we go to two wards here in our area. We first go to the International ward which is so cool. It is all in English! It was so strange to go there. After that we go to our actual assigned ward for our area. It is the biggest ward in Eastern Europe. It is just like an American ward. It is so cool. There was so many people there yesterday. 

Well that is basically all for my week. It was pretty exciting getting transfered and especially founding out that I am serving with Elder Knight! I love him so much and I am so happy to be serving with him. Well I love you all so much! Thanks for the letters! Have a great safe week! 

Love 

Elder Grochmal 

 Elder Knight and I with President!

 Amazing salad!

 Cooking on the BBQ

 This is the member girl I was talking about. Her whole family are non members and we are starting to teach them all!

 We went on a bike ride through the little village. 

 Cow.

 Doing some service!