Dear Family and Friends!

This past week has been a very busy week like always!

So last Tuesday we went to a different district meeting which was about 45 minutes away up in the north east part of Kiev. We just went because our President has asked us to kinda travel around to other district meetings! It was a great district meeting. There are lots of great missionaries up there. We then got on a bus and headed up to a city up in northern Ukraine called Chernigov! It was about a 2 hour bus ride! Once we got there we started an exchange with some missionaries. I was with Elder Harington. He is such an awesome missionary and we had a great day. We went over to a recent converts house and we made Verenky! Well you family know them as Perogies! It was so much fun! They were so delicious! We then went to their church and went to English Class! It was awesome. They had a ton of people show up. After English we just talked with a bunch of the people that came. It was very cool.

Wednesday morning we had district meeting up in Chernigov. It was another awesome district meeting. A lot of good stuff was talked about and lots of new stuff learned. After district meeting we got on a bus and headed back down to Kiev. We then started another exchange. I went with Elder Porter. He is a zone leader in Center Kiev. It was way awesome because I got to go back to Center Kiev and work there with him. I miss Center Kiev a lot! At night we went to their English Class. It was so cool to see so many familiar faces.  When I left that area I wasn’t really given anytime to say goodbye to everyone there so it was nice to get back there and see everyone!

Thursday I got back with Elder Knight in the late afternoon and we just went and stopped by some less actives all night.

Friday we went and did some service out in a little village far away. It was so much fun. We went with a couple other missionaries. We helped lay some concrete and then we helped build some walls on a house! It was pretty sweet. The family that lives out there are so amazing. They are so active and strong in the church. Every time we are there they always bring us inside their house and we sing songs around the piano and have a little spiritual thought. It is so much fun.

Saturday was a big day. First off I woke up feeling so sick and had a temperature of about 101. I had to just push through it because Saturday was our big Mission Conference. It was our last one with President Klebingat. It was such a good conference. It is still so crazy that he is leaving next weekend. It was pretty sad for everyone to have to say bye to him for the last time here on the mission. I will still be seeing him a lot this week so I didn’t have to say goodbye yet! Haha. After the conference we went to sports night over in Center Kiev. We played soccer with a bunch of people for a while. I was still feeling so sick!

Yesterday I still was so sick. Very high fever and a very upset stomach!

Today I am doing better!

Well That is all for my week! This upcoming week is big because our new president gets here on Saturday and President Klebingat leaves on Sunday! It is going to be a very interesting weekend. Well I love you all so much. I hope you all have a great week! 

Love

Elder Grochmal 

 Up in Chernigov!

 Our whole mission together one last time with President Klebingat!

 Elder Knight and Elder Manning 

 Taco Salad that we made! 

 Going up to Chernigov

 Making perogies!

 These were so delicious! 

Elder Boyce!

Sports Night!