Dear Family and Friends! 

This past week was another amazing week. The work here is going just awesome! I dont have much time so this will be quick! 

So we have a new investigator that we just found this past week. He is such a cool guy. He is a teacher at a school. So he came to church yesterday and he loved it so much. Also during sacrament as we were sitting there, he poked me and was like do you see that guy over there? I was like yah, he was like that guy baptized me into the Russian Orthadox church when I was a baby. He is my God-Father. CRAZY!!! So after sacrament they talked for a really long time. The member told him about his conversion and about the church. So this week we are meeting with the investigator and the member to have a lesson. It is going to be so awesome. I am way excited! 

We have a few other people we are working with right now who are doing great also! We are very busy and not stopping. The work is moving forward here. The sisters in our area are doing aweosme and have a few baptisms coming up so that is exciting for the branch here! 

Sorry for the shortness but we have to go! I love you all so much! I hope you have a great week! 

Love

Elder Grochmal 

 Taco night. Kid on the right is a member. The one on the left is an investigator!!

 Bob being Bob

 The District #15

 This chocolate smore thingy is soooooo good! 

 We played some basketball here last p-day with some members and investigators!!!

Dear Family and Friends!

This has been another great week here in Bila Tserkva! We received transfer information last week, my LAST transfer information. Nothing is changing. I am staying here with Elder Hunt for my last transfer! I am way excited! One of the sisters here is going to be training another sister from America. This is really cool. This is the first missionary from America to come to our mission since last December 2013! It has been over a year. This is a really exciting time for our mission to finally receive some new missionaries from America!!!

So this past week was very good! We were very busy and had some great meetings!

We me a new man last week and we were able to meet with him this past week! It was awesome. We talked about the Restoration and he loved it. He is very interested and wants to know more.

Remember I told about a kid we met while playing some basketball. So that kids dad heard about us and wanted to meet us. We meet with him and he is so amazing. He is searching right now for the true church. He wants to know all aobut our church. He wants truth. We had an amazing first lesson with him and gave him some stuff to read. He really wants our message to be true, he told us. We talked about prayer and that he can know its true through the Holy Ghost. He agreed to read and pray!

I have told you about the lady refugee from out east. She is still doing awesome. The sisters have been meeting with her. She is getting baptized is about 2 weeks so that is great news!

We have been also working alot with less-actives. It has been great. Yesterday we had SOOOO many people at church. It was amazing!!! The branch here is doing awesome right now and the less actives are coming back!

Also our English program is going awesome right now! We have lots of new people coming. Last week a new man came that is also a refugee from out east. He is such a nice humble man. He is really interested in our church. We talked to him about prayer during English. He even prayed at the end of our English class! It was so awesome. His english isnt amazing but he tried so hard to pray in English and the spirit was so strong!

So everything is going great! I still cant believe I am starting my last transfer! I am so excited for these last 6 weeks! I love serving the Lord and I never want to stop! I love you all and I hope you all have a good week!

Love
Elder Grochmal

Dear Family and Friends! 

This past week was another awesome week! A fast week for sure! I dont have much time so I will just summarize my week real fast. Sorry! 

So we had to go up to kiev twice this past week. Once we went for registration. My companion had to get a new document thingy allowing him to live here. It took forever! Then we went up again because we had interviews with President Packer! MY interview was so awesome. I love my mission president so much. He is so amazing. It was my last interview before my exit interview when I go home so that was strange. We talked alot about finishing strong and not letting up at the end! I really enjoyed it and learned alot from President PAcker! 

This week we were able to meet with our investigator that is a refugee from out east. SHe is doing awesome. We met with her once and talked alot about the Holy Ghost and receiving answers to prayers. It was a great lesson. We have decided though to let the sisters here in our area work with her. So we passed her over and the sisters are doing awesome with her. They set a baptisimal date with her for next month!!!! So exciting!! 

Our other investigators are doing good. WE met with lots of them this week and they are all making progress. We focused alot this week on the Book of Mormon. We helped all them understand the roll and importance of the Book of Mormon. Great week! I dont know what it is but this area is just full of amazing people. I love this city so much! 

We have to run! I hope you all have a great week! I love you alll! 

Love

Elder Grochmal 

 We found a burned car in Kiev! 

 Going into the Subway!

 I know you will like this mom! Such a cool husky!

 We got about a foot of snow in one night!!! 

 Stan the american has lots of Goats and Sheep!

Dear Family and Friends, 

This past week was another great one. Its crazy that January is over already. Time flies when your serving the Lord! 

We had another very bust week! 

We met with one of our investigators a few times. IT was awesome. He really opened up to us. He told us a lot about his past. We had an amazing lesson with him about the Book of Mormon and prayer. We had committed him to read and pray but he had not. We committed him again and promised blessing. The spirit was so strong. These kind of situations just make me love my mission so much. I love being able to testify and promise blessings as a representitive of Jesus Christ. He is doing awesome and is contuning to read and pray!!!! 

So we got a new investigator this week. She is a refugee from out east. There are lots of those around here. It is just too dangerous to live out there right now! She is living with some members here. So we met with her and taught her the Restoration. It was awesome. She really enjoyed it. SHe is obviously in a very difficult situation right now and the Gospel is what she needs in her life. The lesson went so good and she definetly was touched by the Holy Ghost! 

So last p-day we went and played some basketball at a gym with an investigator. It was so awesome. While we were there we met a kid about our age. He also moved here because of the war. WHile we were sitting out a game, I sat there and talked to him for a while. I ended up teaching him the restoration really fast as we waited. He loved it and was interested. He has been an athiest his whole life but was very interested in our message. It was so awesome. 

During the week we also continued to work with lots of members. It was great. They are so awesome and they love helping us out! 

THat is all for my week. It was busy. We have lots of great things going on right now! I love serving the Lord. Not much time left, so I have dedicated everything I got to finish strong and not have any regrets! Like my dad said, Its like the bottom of the ninth inning in a baseball game with the score all tied up. No time for slacking off. I have to put it all out of the line to finish strong!! 

I love you all! Have a great week!! 

Love

Elder Grochmal

 Out on the frozen river!!

 Playing some basketball. It was so much fun!