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!