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My Mothers Day visit was so awesome. It was great to hear Elder Grondel's voice and feel his excitement for his work.
He just had another baptism this past week. The Baptism was for Jordan Vaiolatama-Kelemete. just some of his letter" We need to keep teaching him a few more things like the commandments and also put his service together. He is a Happy Boy. But not all the time, especially when he is hungry. He said that his famous line is "I'm Hungry"
He is currently working with an African Family with 2 little girls and a son and the Mom does not speak very good English but they are trying to help her understand. The girls want to be baptized, but Mom needs to know more. They keep coming to church and they Love the church. So we are going to keep working with them so that they can all be baptized together as a Family. And that would be Fantastic.
JaeHeon Kim, He is our Korean Friend. He is Reading the Book of Mormon trying hard to understand it because it is written in old school Korean. He's still not sure if Jesus is his Savior. That is going to be the big break. Its hard to know or even Comprehend who God is Let alone he Has a Son who died for us. But we are making progress, and his English is getting better.
Another big focus is the Less-Active members and we are just having fun meeting more and more Lost Sheep and learning more about them. I have Learned a lot about the Native American culture, we had Indian Tacos the other night. I felt so Dumb when I called the them Navajo tacos Ha Ha. but its all the same. We have a lot of part member families and one in particular This Lady her Husband is from Eveleth. That was in the Virginia Ward. So I have making an effort to get into their home. Whats crazy is the Husband comes to church like every week, so there is good potential. So we shall see.Yea things are going well. We are doing good Elder Brown is a good guy we have some things of interests in common so things are going smooth. Just working hard and staying positive. Love Blayne
This we most of Elder Grondel's last letter. We appreciate all those that care for him and write and send packages as well.

well things are going great here in south Minneapolis. the first part of the week went by pretty slow but that's ok. we have been finding most of the time so we are out on the bikes. the weather is getting better this past week it wasn't so nice with the wind but its supposed to get up to the 70's this week. isn't that something! I'm excited. we are working with a Korean investigator right now and he is doing well its still slow and hard for him to understand but we are being very patient with him and its going great. this past week we have found a lot of great people to work with and to talk to. some less- actives and people around the neighborhood. with conference coming up this week! i made flyer's to pass out to everyone we talk to and for the most part they have a positive response to them and now i have other teams of missionaries asking me to make them copies. i don't want to count all my eggs but i have a good feeling that we might get a good number of people showing up to our church to here the prophet and his apostles. the ward that i am in is the lake Nokomis ward. right next to cedar lake. which is great because i can go to church and see all the great members that i grew to love. i wish i could do that with all my wards. although right now this ward is struggling a bit and it seems that the ward and the previous missionaries were more focused on numbers instead of inviting other to come unto Christ. but things are going great now Elder Davies and i are doing great working and teaching together. although he might say different....haha lets just say biking up and down hills and across the area isn't one of Elder Davies favorite things to do. but i love it. the air is nice and the snow is gone. spring is here and i can't wait for the summer to begin. The time sure does fly when you're out here i love every min. of it. even the early morning . it is great to be out here on a mission representing my Lord and God and my Family, thank you for everything that you do. i love you all. ~elder grondel

Hey Mom!
Well this week has been another great week we were able to teach 21 lessons again. Elder Perry is coming on the 23 and the goal for the mission is to have every companionship teaching 20 lessons and I think this is the 3rd or 4th week that its been done in Cedar Lake its awesome. So we have a baptism next week on the 26 I'm excited about that, its is Christina I've told you about her she is the golden gator but yesterday she gave us a scare. She didn't come to church becuase she was sick but she also got anti. She was told the normal stuff about polygamy its was really dumb and she takes things way out of porportion, but we went over to her house and had a member come over and tell her that he only had 1 wife and give more of the spiel, things are good there. George is great he came to church and he still wants to be baptized. Someone at his work said something about mormons and he stood up and told the guys whats ups and told him that he was a mormon. It was great he truely is coming closer to Christ. As of right now we have 9 gators and 4 of them have dates sets of working no it. the Lord is blessing us right now more than we can think of. E. Hale and I are doing great he is like Winstin I swear . He doesn't have a long attention span but its ok we are working with that haha but its is going great I laugh all the time. The ward is doing great they are trying to help out when they can. we still dont have any dinners haha i know crazy but thats how it goes. how we stay skinny. haha
Thanks for the package too bad the gum ball thing broke thats ok i dont know too much about counting down the days. I need to stop eating candy, Ithink Im going hop on the bike more this week. My bike works great now that it is fixed. Oh and i told you E. Perry is coming! Isn't that great this will be the 4th time to see him I am pretty happy he is one of my favs. Well I hope that all is well. I pray for the family all the time i love my family and i never want to miss a moment to tell them I love them. I love you mom I hope that you have a great week. Tell Dr. Grondel he need to get the job done. I love you mom

~blayne

Mom!
Hey hows it going? I just got done e-mailing you . So far things are good. We (our District and Zone Leaders) are watching the Other side of Heaven the only video we can watch not church owned.
On our way up here we stopped by George @ work and he was so happy to see us. We wanted to know if we were still on for our appointment. He has to work so we made another appointment for tomorrow. And Elder Smith asked him what he has thought about what the Missionaries have taught you. and his response was "Amazing" if that doesn't make you feel good.
Not much has really changed with the companion. He still the same, waits till the last second or waits till its to late to do anything. And he is scared to walk on the ice or if it it looks like ice. He walks slower than a one leg grandpa. HaHa but really he is slow.
So anyways Mildred our other investigator she got kicked out of her house the other day. Because she is coming to church and reading the Book of Mormon. Its really sad. I talked with her last night when we had a lesson we gave the Baptismal challenge and she said that she wants to but she has that concerned look on her face. And I asked if she was ok and she said yea. I asked if it was her Boyfriend? And she said "I have my own and I need to do what is right for me" I know she will find a way to get Baptized.
No too much has been going on since the last time . The bus pass is nice but now its like Elder Burrows has his own car that runs 24-7. Its good to sit and talk to someone. They can't really run away unless their stop is soon. I started talking to a Lady and she said all I know about the Mormons is you worship Joseph Smith and I told her and showed her a pamphlet and she saw that God and Jesus are separate and she wants to know more. So the bus is good.
Mom thanks for the mask it was exactly what I needed. Thank you I love you so much can you believe its been 11 months ! I Love You.

Elder Grondel

11 months

My Brother from another Mother Elder Brooks