well, Thomas Monson is now Baptized. Great highlight of the week. He also said that he had Zone Conference and was able to visit with some old Mission friends who he came out with. He has been out 18 months now so we sent him a pizza to let him know we were thinking of him. He loves serving. He has a great testimony about what he is doing. I hope that you enjoy the pictures this time. I just needed to get these pictures in this week.

well this week was pretty fun as you can see i fulfilled my dream of riding a tandom bike on my mission now i just need to do that while we are actually doing misionary work. haha other pick, im glad to get my bike back and im loving it. and i made sure that i wasnt going to hit the baby ducks i couldn't do that.

but this week was pretty fun we did a lot of running around and we were helping out the other teams in the area . no one to church this week but we are hoping to see a lot more come next week. thank yuo so much for your prayers i hope to hear from you all soon. have a great week.

While at District Training meetings Elder Grondel was able to have a little reunion with his Mission Companions. He had a great week learning about the Media Program or in other words Mormon.org. He will be transferred this week to New Brighten. He is still in the Minneapolis area. He will also cover St. Paul. He will be a Zone Leader so he will have new responsibilities.

This is the Family the Elder Grondel lives with. Brother and Sister Cain in Edina Minnesota

Good Morning Elder Grondel and Elder Brown

A visit from home Bro. and Sis. Zohner , Cheryl and Wade Hymer and 2 of there boys and Kris Reber and Norm and Joann. I am sure that he was surprised but happy to see some faces that he knew from home.

hey mom! i just got done writing you a letter that has like my entire week in it. but ijust kind of go oer it again. haha well this week was great we had the baptism for Jumah not too many people came but that shows the true colors of the lake nokomis ward. but anyways. it was great the spirit was strong and she felt it so much, and sunday was great as well the confirmation went so great very strong spirit. after the baptism the koskis took us out to red robin it was so good i miss that place so much i was so glad to see them again. they are great people. the plan to come out her sounds fine idk. it sounds like a long time tho. but thats cool with me. who would all come?
e. brown and i are doing so well. we are working hard and we just try to be happy.
so i had interview with pres. this week went well he told me if i wasnt enrolled in school that he wouldnt let me go home. haha so thats interesting. something to think about but im already enrolled at csn so no worries ill be home. haha
the weather here has been crazy. tornados everywhere but where we are . so i just looked at the time on the comp and i hae like 5 mins so ill have to type fast. but yea this week went ghreat we are going to be finding more people to teach. i love this work.
most of it is in my letter

i love you so much mom thank you for everything i love you

blayne

Elder Grondel is doing wonderful as you can read in his e-mail home these are just some short portions of his letter.

hey mom hows it going. this week was a blast. i loved it, jaeheon got baptized and we went to the braves game. they lost that game but the rest of the week they won. so thats good. it was just amazing to have all the things i love to do happen in the same week. so the pic. the ones of the baseball game, then its jaeheons baptism and then this week i bought a lucuador mask and i had people put it on haha and then the one with the creature in the lake its real. haha jk and then this kid is from vegas. its e. peterson, he is a convert of less than 2 years. hes such a kool kid.
yea this week was really great./ and next week of this week should be great to. jumah is still on for being baptized this sat. and they came to jaeheons baptism and she brought her kids and one of them is hanna and she came up to us at the end of the baptism and said i want to be baptized!!! it was so fun. and yesterday at church we went into primary and i played the ukulele and we sang with the kids and hanna was there and i over heard her talking to a girl and she was pointing at us and she said those are my elders. haha it was so cool. this week has been blessing after blessing its going great. but one thing the card has not come yet. idk if its coming today but it hasnt come yet.