Dear Family and Friends, 

This past week was another amazing week here in Kiev! We were very busy as usual. Here is what happened:

Tuesday we had district meeting in the morning. After district meeting we went to the mission office to have a little meeting with President Packer! It was really good. We just discussed some things about the mission. We then at night had a lesson with an investigator. It went way well. He was a new investigator from English. We talked about the Restoration of the gospel and he really liked it1 we committed him to read and pray about it! 

Wednesday we went on exchanges with some zone leaders. I went with Elder Shultz! He is so awesome! I went out to a city called Zhytomyr. It is about 2 hours away from Kiev. It was a really good exchange! We taught 3 of their investigators. It was overall a great exchange! 

Thursday I was back with Elder Rich. We had an awesome lesson in the afternoon. There is a recent convert here in our ward and he is deaf. His wife did not get baptized but recently has been interested. We went over and taught her. There is a lady in our ward who translates because she is also deaf. It was such an awesome lesson. Then after the lesson he asked me to give him a blessing. It was such a cool experience. I know he couldnt hear me but the spirit was so strong. 

Friday we went on an another exchange with the zone leaders here in our district. It was way good. I was with Elder porter. We went and did some service for a member! Good times! We then had a lesson at night with another investigator! Another awesome lesson about the Restoration and Joseph Smith! 

Saturday we had English during the day which was aweosme of course! After english we did some planning and then had a ward activity at night! IT was a good activity. It was like a night of poems and music. It ended up being pretty cool and the missionaries actually performed a song! IT was way good! 

Yesterday was a great sunday. It was Ukrainian Independance day. There was a huge parade in Downtown Kiev. We saw some of it as we walked to church. Seemed crazy. It was mostly war vehicles. Church went really good. After church we went and stopped by a former investigator and we were able to talk to him and his wife for a while. Good potential. 

Well that is all for last week. It was a really good week. The work is really moving forward here despite there being a war going on out east. It has been amazing to see how the Lord is directing our mission in this rough times in Ukraine! Well the church is true and I love serving the Lord here. It is crazy to think I only have 7 months left! I am so happy that I do have 7 months and that I still get to serve here for that long! I love you all and hope you have a great week! 

Love

Elder Grochmal 

 District meeting lunch 

 Elder Weber and I

 War vehicles driving through Kiev

Hello Family and Friends! 

This past week was another awesome week here in Kiev! I am just loving it so much! This morning has been so amazing. Our mission president invited us over to his house to hit some baseballs in his batting cage! I was in heaven! It was so much fun to get to hit some balls! It was been so long! So this past week we did a lot! 

Tuesday we had a zone meeting! It was really good. The zone leaders ran the whole meeting and they did an awesome job! After the meeting we went to do some service out in a little village! It was lots of fun! After the service I went on an exchange with Elder Weber for the flight so we could teach a lesson! It was a really good lesson with a less active member! 

On wednesday we had a few lessons during the day. We had a really good one right before english with 2 investigators. She are a married couple. It was such a good lesson. We taught them about the Plan of Salvation. It was so awesome. We then had English class and lots of people came! Our English practice here in Center Kiev is going so good! 

Thursday I went on another exchange with Elder Bolt. He is one of the zone leaders. It was such a great exchange. We went and did some service also and then we had a meeting at night with a cool family that are not members. It went really well.

Friday I got back with Elder Rich and we had some meetings with some investigators and then members! It was a good day.

Saturday we had english during the day which was awesome. We then had sports night. We played soccer. It was so awesome because it started to rain! It made things so much funner!

That is all for this week! It was so good. We have been so busy and I just love it! We have lots of really good solid investigators that are doing really awesome! Thanks for all the letters! I love you all so much! Have a great week! 

Love

Elder Grochmal

Elder Weber

Elder Knight

Elder Porter

In the park!

Hitting in the cage!

 McDonalds at the Packer's house! 

Hello Family and Friends! 

Unfortunately, today I dont have much time to write but I will try to fit all I can! 

So this past week was so good! We were very very busy! 

Tuesday we had district meeting and then we started an exchanges with two zone leaders from the same district with us. I was with Elder Weber who is from Nate's ward down in San Marcos. It was so much fun to be with him. We are soooooo similar. He played baseball in high school just like me so we had some good times talking about that. haha. We had two lesson that night with members! They went very good!  

Wednesday we were on exchanges again and were pretty busy. We had a really good lesson at night with an investigator. 

Thursday we went and did service out in a village for a member! It was so awesome. We then had a member visit at night. 

Friday we met with President Packer. We did transfers with him for the next transfer. It was way cool. Very spiritual experience. There was lots of revelation received to help decide where missionaries will be serving! 

Saturday. WE had English and then sports night! It was way good. We had a good turn out! 

I know that I am probably forgetting to write a whole lot of stuff but I am in a time crunch because we have to go meet with an investigator! I hope you all have a great week! I love you all so much! 

Love

Elder Grochmal 

 This is Elder Knighton and Manning! They left our mission this past week! These two had so much influence on me and made me the missionary I am today! They are amazing and I will never forget how much they helped me and taught me in my mission! 

 P-Day Skateboarding with Elder Weber!

 Borsch!

 The Dniper river!

Little village!

 This is Brother Pigulevich! He is our Ward Mission Leader! He is soooooooo awesome! 

 My good friends Zhenya Smorack! I love this guy soooooo much! He was the former bishop! 

 This pictures are from a week ago but i just got them from some sisters today!