Hello Family and Friends!

This past week was another good one! Things are going good down here in Cherkassy. We found out transfer information and I will be staying here another transfer with my trainee Elder Kokorev. I am excited! It will be another fun transfer!

So I dont have much time to write. I have to keep this short!

So this week was good! We were very busy. We have one investigator who we met with a couple of times this week! We taught her about the The Plan of Salvation and The Gospel of Jesus Christ. She really liked it. There was a baptism here on Saturday and she came to it. She kept talking about having such an amazing feeling in the church. We talked to her alot about the Holy Ghost and she is doing awesome. The baptism was really good. The sisters taught the girl who got baptized. Her dad baptized her. Her dad is the Elder's quorum president here and is so awesome. He was so happy that his daughter decided to be baptized! It was a great day for the branch here!

We have been working with some less actives. There is one family in particular that we have been working with. They used to be super active but starting not coming and fell away. But we have been going to them and doing lots of service and helping and yesterday the whole family came to church! It was the first time in years!!!! IT was such a miracle! So amazing!

Well that is all. This week we are going up to Kiev for a zone conference on Thanksgiving! I hope you all have a great Turkey Day! Love you all!

 Playing Ping Pong after English

 Treats for the Baptism!

 Baptism!

 My companion eats weird fish and onions.... very strange!

 My lunch I threw together yesterday. It was so good!

Dear Family and Friends!

This past week was another great week! Time is just flying by and it is so strange!

So monday night we went over to the branch president and had FHE with him and his wife! It was a great night and we had lots of fun with him!

Tuesday we had district meeting in the morning which was great. We then had a few lessons during the day with an investigator and then with a less active member. They were both great lessons!

Wednesday we woke up and traveled to KIEV! We had to go for interviews with the mission President! We do interviews about every 3 months! It was so awesome. I just love President Packer so much! He is such an amazing man and we had such a great interview! He helped me alot and gave me some great ideas and things to do as my mission is coming to an end. I only have 4 months left and I want to make it the best 4 months ever! I am so excited for these upcoming months and I am goign to give it my all!!!!!! So after the interview we started an exchange with the Zone Leaders. I stayed in Kiev with Elder Davis and my companion went back to Cherkassy with Elder Sant. It was so awesome to be back in my old area! I just love center Kiev so much!

Thursday was such an amazing day. It was so awesome to be back in Kiev and see so many people I know! So we had lunch with a member which was awesome. We then went to a member of the Bishopric's house. It was so awesome. He was so happy to see me. He called me "The Eternal Missionary in Center Kiev"! It was so funny. After him we went and had a lesson with an investigator and it went really well. We then got on a bus and headed back down to Cherkassy!

Friday we did some planning and then had a lesson during the day with an investigator. She is so awesome and really doing well. We talked about the Plan of Salvation and she really liked it. At night we met with a less active member and it went very well. We talked alot with him about life and different things! It was a great lesson and hopefully helped him a little!

Saturday we went and did some service with the sisters for one of the Sister's investigators! It was such an awesome experience. She is pregnant and need help around the house. We painted and moved furniture. SHe was so happy and grateful that we came and helped her. We then had english at night which was great as always. Some new people were there!

Yesterday we had a great Sunday! After church we went out to a little town about an hour away and gave the sacrament to a lady who had cancer and cant come to church. It was a really good experience and we had a great spiritual thought with her. She is the nicest lady ever.

Well that is basically all for my week! It was a good one! Thanks for everything! I love you all and hope you have a great week!

Love

Elder Grochmal

 BURRITOS!

 SO GOOD!

 KIEV!!!

 The biggest carrot ever!

 Borsch! So good!

Dear Family and Friends!

Another great week here in Cherkassy! We have been staying very busy and have lots to do!

So during the week we had lots of good meetings and some new investigators from English! On tuesday we had a really good lesson with a new investigator. We taught her about the Restoration of the Gospel! It was such a good lesson!

So I want to say a cool story that happened on Saturday. So we had a big activity here in our branch. It was called the day of open doors. So basically all the members were here and we brought investigators and others to the church and the members told about the church. It was really awesome. So the morning (and the days before) of the event the missionaries hit the streets advertising trying to get people to come. It wasnt working. Nobody was interested at all. So the event started and some people from english came and some friends of members came and it was good. So the whole time us missionaries were not in the church. We were outside trying to invite people into the church. We stood out there for hours and hours. I started to lose faith that anyone would accept our invitation to come in. We asked everyone. So it coming to the end of the activity and nobody wanted to come in. We will standing in front of the church and a man walked by smoking a cigarette. So stopped him and asked him, "Have you ever been inside this Church?" He said nope. I said would you be interested to come in and learn more. He said umm I busy I cant. Then he asked me about our english classes because his friend told him. So I told him and then I invited him again. He said no its ok I am not religious I dont really care. Then once more I invited him to come in for just 20 minutes. And he reponsed well like I dont know what will happen in there. So I explained everything to him. Finally he said to me, "Я зайду" which means I will come in! IT WORKED!! I was so happy. He came in and the members were so nice to him and talked to him and gave him a church tour. It was awesome. After I talked to him for a while and he really liked it and said he will come to english on wednesday and we can talk more. I know that all our hard worked finally paid off. I know that even if this man isnt baptized, at least he now knows what goes on in the church that he walks by every single day! It was such an amazing experience!

Yesterday at church I gave a talk in Sacrament about the Priesthood. It was awesome. I love giving talks in little branches like this one. In the big wards in Kiev it was way scary but here in it so awesome because I feel so much more personal with the members!

Well that is all for my week. I really wanted to tell you the story! Well I love you all and hope you all have great weeks!

Love
Elder Grochmal

 Out in a village again!

 Bath tub.

 Shower...

 The stove...

 R.I.P. Rusty

 Some soup that my companion made. it was good!

 The Day of Open Doors!

Dear Family and Friends!

This past week was another great week! I am really starting to get used to my new area here in Cherkassy! This week we had the opportunity to go to Kiev for a Conference! President Callister, the General Sunday School President, and also Elder Bennet, from the seventy, were both there and taught us some amazing stuff!

Well I dont have much time today because we are busy and have places to go but I will just tell you a quick summary of our week!

On wednesday we went out to a village and did some service for a less active family. It was very fun and always so awesome to be out in the villages!

Friday is the day we went up to Kiev. The conference was so amazing. President Callister taught us some amazing tips on teaching with scriptures. It made me just want to memorize where every scripture is in the Bible and Book of Mormon. Then Elder Bennet taught us about working with less actives during the winter months. It was some great advice. I am really excited to start using all the information that we were taught!

Throughout the week we had a few lessons with some new investigators from english practice. They went very good. We are just starting with all of them so they are still new. We had some great amazing lessons though and this week should be another awesome week!

Yesterday we went out to another village about an hour away to give a lady from the branch the sacrament. It was a really good experience. The lady is so awesome but had cancer and is really struggling. It was really sad. But the crazy story happenned after. So we go out to the main road and by main road I mean aweful barely fit two cars on it road. So there was supposed to be a bus that came at a certain time and it never came so we waited about 40 minutes and finally a bus came so we put out our hand to stop it and it just kept driving!! It started to slow down a little but then saw 3 of us ( a member was with us) and it just left! So we had to wait for the next one. Also it was about 25 degrees outside with super strong winds! hahaha. We were freezing! So we waited for about another 45 minutes and finally a bus came and stopped and took us! It was such a crazy adventure out in the middle of no where!

Well That is all for my week! I love you all and hope you have a good week!

Love

Elder Grochmal

 My companion playing chess

 Out in the village!

 Picking corn!

 This machine is for making honey...

 MIDDLE OF NO WHERE!

 Elder Weber!

 Elder Boyce

 My church building down here in Cherkassy!

 President Callister roll playing with some missionaries!

 Elder Bennett!

 Fireside

President Packer!