Dear Friends and Family!

   This past week was a huge week for our mission. We got a new mission president! I will tell more about him and everything later on in the letter!

   Well Tuesday and Wednesday Elder Knight and I both got really sick again. It was so lame. The illness left us Monday but then came back and hit us hard. We were both not feeling the best so those two days were not the most fun.

  Thursday was a good day. We had a great day finally out of the house doing work again. We had to do some stuff in the office to get ready for the new mission president. We then had a lesson at night with a member.

   Friday was pretty crazy. It was the last day before the new president got here. We had to run around and do a bunch of stuff for President Klebingat. We had to go buy some stuff for him and for the new president. It was just a crazy day running around doing stuff for the president! At night we had a big Ward Musical Night! It was way fun. Lots of members came and we had a great time!

   Saturday! President Packer arrived! So in the morning we went to the mission office and got with President Klebingat and drove to the airport. We then picked up the whole Packer family! They have 4 kids. The oldest is 14 and the youngest is 6! They were so tired from their flights over here but they were doing awesome. We got all of their luggage and then went back to the mission office. We then had a lunch/dinner with the Packers and with the Klebingats! It was such a special moment to be with both my mission presidents! I got to sit by them while we ate and it was so amazing to just talk to both of them about the mission. President Packer is so awesome and so excited and ready to do work here in our mission. After lunch President Klebingat took them to the mission home! So we had to say by to the Klebingat family. I didn’t think it was going to be so hard to say bye to them. This past month serving as President Klebingat’s assistant really has been an amazing experience. I have grown so much and have learned so much from him. I am going to miss him so much. It was really hard to say bye!! At night we went and played soccer with some investigators and members in a cool park!

   Church yesterday was really good. I gave a talk in our ward. So a few weeks ago I spoke in the international ward in English and spoke about obedience! So yesterday I spoke in our normal ward about the same exact thing but in Russian this time! Haha. It was really cool. I just talked about keeping the commandments and always remembering to do the little things! Always remember to read from the scriptures daily and praying daily. I think that It turned out well. Always something funny I noticed today at our church. I was the only person in sacrament meeting to speak a word of Russian. Every single member that spoke and prayed only spoke in Ukrainian. It is so hard for us missionaries to understand and follow what they are talking about!

This morning we played basketball and soccer in the church with some missionaries and President Packer's sons! It was so much fun!

   Well that is it for our week. It was definitely an interesting week receiving a new mission president. I am very excited to work with President Packer! He is an amazing man! We have already done a lot of planning and different stuff with him. These next few weeks are gonna be interesting to see how the mission adjusts to him and how he runs the mission. I know the Lord is leading and guiding us as a mission here in Ukraine. I love serving here! I love you all and have a great week!

Love

Elder Grochmal  

 Homemade Tortillas 

 Cruising on an empty bus! This doesnt ever happen!

 Last day with President Klebingat! This is us at the airport!

The Packers have arrived!! They have 4 kids! 2 in the front and the two boys in the back. The girl between me and President Klebingat is the daughter of President Klebingat! It was such a crazy cool experience to be with them!