Dear Family and Friends! 

This past week has been a great one! Lots of changes happened! Like I said last week I moved my area! I am back in Downtown Kiev!! I love it so much! I am so happy to be back in this area! I love the ward so much! 

So I will just start from thursday because the rest of the week was full of just getting ready to move and meeting with some members and some investigators for the last time! So on Thursday I got with my new companion Elder Rich! We then moved all of our stuff to our new apartment right in Center Kiev! The apartment is pretty nice! 

Friday we did lots of planning for the week and then we went and stopped by some investigators! It was so good. We stopped by some former investigators that wouldnt answer their phones but when they saw us they agreed to meet with us this upcoming week! I am so excited! 

Saturday we had English in the afternoon. It was so good to be back at English. I knew lots of the people that were there from when I served there before! It was so awesome to see them! At night we had sports night! Lots of members and non members came! It was so much fun! We played soccer and had a blast with everyone! 

Yesterday was a great day at church! It was so good to be back in the Center Ward! I love it so much! It was great to see so many familiar faces! The Bishop had me get up there and bear my testimony! It was awesome! So when I first left this area I wasnt able to say bye to anyone because it was a last minute change for me to leave. So yesterday I got up and said sorry for leaving and not saying bye but dont worry because I AM BACK! 

Well that is all for my week! I am excited for this week! It is going to be a good one! We have a lot planned and I am way happy! Well I love you all so much! Thanks for the emails! Have a good week! 

Love

Elder Grochmal 

 Me and Elder Weber and Elder Knight

 Elder Droubay giving me a gift! hahahaha

 Our crazy district! 

 Elder McMillan!

 Elder Droubay!

 Elder Knight! 

 New Apartment! 

Dear Family and Friends! 

First off thank you to everyone that sent me an email for my birthday this week! It was so nice to read them all! My birthday was really good! We had a great week! This upcoming week is transfer week. Like I already mentioned Elder Knight is leaving and I am staying as the Assistant. But there is change happening. The Assistants are changing areas!!! I am so excited. I specifically asked President for the change. He really wants the Assistants area to be the perfect area and to be an amazing example. So I told him that here where we are isnt the best and asked if we could move to Center Kiev! I am so excited! I already served there for 2 transfers and I am so excited to go back! It is going to be so awesome to return back there! My new companion will be Elder Rich. He is one transfer older than me! I am so pumped! 

Tuesday we had district meeting then we did some stuff in the office then got on a train to Kodyma. It is the little village that has a small branch. I have been there twice already. We were going down to go on exchanges! The train ride was soooooooo hot! It was soooo crazy! 

Wednesday we spent our day out in the village. It was lots of funs! We visited a bunch of members and then we ate some duck with a member! It was soooooo delicious! 

Thursday we had a lesson with the family that we have been working with! We talked to the mom for a while about the church. It was a really good lesson. She is coming along. It is a bummer that Elder Knight and I are both leaving but I know the next Elders will continue to work with her! They made me a cake for my birthday!  

Friday! MY BIRTHDAY! We had a mission leadership council in the morning! It was really good! Our new President had alot that he wanted to talk to us about! It went really good and we discussed alot. Something really cool happened too. So right after lunch the whole leadership council started to sing Happy Birthday to me! It was so awesome and made my entire day so much better! 

On Saturday we went and did a bunch of service for a member outside of Kiev! It was good. Then at night we had sports night which is always fun! 

Yesterday was my last Sunday here in this ward! It was sad to say bye to the members. I was sad that I only served here for 2 transfers but I am excited to move areas! It will be lots of fun! Last night we met with some members and they made me a birthday cake! It was so awesome! I just love the members here in Ukraine! 

Well this week will be a good one with transfers happening. I am sad to leave Elder Knight! It was two of the most funnest transfers that I have had on my mission! I know I was blessed to get to serve with him! Well I love you all and hope that you have a great week! 

Love

Elder Grochmal 

 Trying to direct wind flow into our room on the train!

 Little village library!

 Town bell tower!

 Awesome Ukrainian Village

 Two Elders up there helping!

 I dont know what these were but they were good!

 The girl on the left is a member and then the middle is the mom we are working with!

 Elder Knight and Boyce!

 Birthday cake from last night!

Amazing members!