The Ukrainian Bear

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