Dear Family and Friends! 

This past week was a great week! We had a baptism!!!! The lady that is a refugee from the east got baptized on Saturday! It was so amazing!! It was really a special baptism because us and the sisters all worked with her and it was really a team effort with the branch!! 

So this past week I went on exchanges with Elder Hess! He is the elder that I trained way back in Odessa over a year ago! He is so awesome. I went up to kiev to have the exchange with him. I learned alot from him. He has really grown and has become an amazing missionary. 

While I was on exchanges me companion and the other zone leader met with one of our investigators. He is the one that came to church last week! He is so awesome. They had an amazing lesson with him about the Restoration. He loved it and wants to know more. He is currently reading and praying! We saw him on Saturday and he is still doing great. He is still reading and still praying about the Book of Mormon! 

Saturday was the baptism. So right now we are current in a rental building because our old church building is being rebuilt. So we dont have a baptisimal font here but luckily they havent started any major construction at the old building yet so we were able to have the baptism there!! The building was a mess! We went there early in the morning and spent a few hours cleaing and organizing! Also the building had no hot water so the font was freezing cold! By the time the baptism started though the building looked amazing and the members were shocked! It was a miracle that we had the place looking so good in such a short time! The baptism went awesome. Amazing talks were given and at the end she even bore her testimony! It was so amazing. She has made such a big change in her life. I remember about a month ago when we taught her the first lesson! She was so shy and didnt really want to make any commitments or anything! Now she is just amazing and has such a strong testimony. It was really a strong testimony builder to me to see some make such a big change in their life. I know that this Gospel is true and can change the lives of people! SHe has recieved so many blessing since moving here and meeting the missionaries! The church is soooo true!!! 

Well that is all for the week! We were very busy and had lots of stuff but those were the highlights! I hope you all have a great week! I miss you all! I love you!!! 

Love 

Elder Grochmal 

 Stan's truck!

 We used these to try to make the font warmer!

 We only had 18 chairs left over in the church. Some people had to stand! 

 green water like always

 YANA! 

The branch president speaking! HE IS SO AMAZING!