September 16, 2009
Hello Everybody!
Currently I am in the town of Hibbing. Our area is the 2nd largest in the mission. This transfer I was called to be a trainer. My companion is Elder Bair. Elder Bair is from Montana. He is a very hard worker. They don’t call ‘em corn bread feed (fed??)for nothing. Later in this transfer I was called to be a District Leader. This was because we were too far from any other district. So, we’re all alone.
Elder Bair and I have been working hard tracting and finding new people to teach. We now have a pretty good size teaching pool. We spend a good chunk of our time searching out and finding less-actives. The mission plan is to teach these members the lessons again to re-light that fire they had at conversion. We are seeing good improvement. The ward is helping us out a lot by finding more people to teach.
Some good experiences that I have stumbled across on my mission…in my last area the Lord blessed my companion and me with 2 baptisms. After I left that area 2 of the investigators that we were teaching were also baptized. In my last area we also worked with less-actives and we started to see 2 families come back to the gospel.
For the 7 months that I have been a missionary I have seen the Lord’s hand in His work countless times. I am very excited to be a servant in Minnesota. I would never change my decision to go on a mission. (The Church is true, the Book is blue, and Jesus was a Mormon!)
The best part of the mission is to see people’s lives change for the better. To look into their eyes and see true happiness. I am grateful for this gospel, to have grown up in a great ward, and to be blessed with the family I have.
Dad. I love you.
Elder Grondel the Younger

just some fun pictures

Elder Grondel and Elder Bair at the end of Zone Conference

hey mom! whats going on. is sounds like things are going good. sucks that you have a bad tooth ach. and it sounds like travis is doing well. so thats a good thing for you. and hahah yea thoes pic wre pretty funny ias i put in in the mail box i totally forgot that i had them, but it was too funny. so this week has gone by soo fast but it was good we worked really hard and we got a lot of lessons in. we picked up 2 new gators and as of right now we have 3 people that we have in mind that are close to being baptized so thats good, we had zone conf. this past week and t was reall good all the questions that ive been having about the work were answered there and now im on fire things are going really good. e. bair and i are getting along pretty good he is learning so fast and he is a very hard worker. i m glad that i had him. oh and brian his comp. is elder nebz. he was in the mtc with me. he was the one that had to say that prayer at the mtc remembe. haha hey brian was there. thats weird. but yea brian is very lucky to have nebz. nebz is one of my best friends up here. i know he is havig a great time. so i hear that you have work today thats a bummer, we are over at the koskis right now eatting breakfast and then we are going to work on their hunting shack so that should be fun. but things are going really well this week ill have to get into more details in my letter. i really feel a change in the wind right now, things are looking up. and i hope that i dont get transfered that would suck finally things are picking up. i hope that everything works out. oh and i finally got a letter from grand ma finally but yea thats good. well i hope that all is well at home. right now would be my fun season with college football. you know that. well i hope that you have a great day at work adn i hope that you know that you are the best mom in the whole world. because you are. i love you mom and you know it~elder gron del the younger