Week 31 (January 4)

First off....congrats to the new baby Madeline!!! She is SO cute. And congrats to Brent and Clara!!! I have another amazing sister in law woohoo!! Exciting things in the good old 480.

This week has been really random but also really awesome. I learned more this week I think than any other week in my mission.

We got permission from President to ride bicycles here in Gorbea!!! Best thing of my life. Seriously. It made things about 60000 times faster. I also have never been so tired in my life. We rode to this one pueblo a little far and i was so surprised when people let us in their house because we were so worked. 

We also have a bunch of new things that our mission is changing. Normally our key indicators are contacts, lessons with member, new people, and investigators in the church. Now we are only going to count lessons with member, new people, and investigators in the church with a baptismal date. I think it’s going to help our mission a ton. 

Isidro didn’t get baptized. Long story but he has a doubt so in a few weeks.

Irene (our investigator) was sitting by me at church during fast and testimony meeting and she told me that she feels like she needs to get up and say something but she’s too nervous. I told her just to do it. So she gets up and she bore her testimony about how she has seen miracles in her life and it is all thanks to this gospel. She also said I have seen a ton of other churches but I know that God is only in this one. Hahaha a little palo is what we call that one. She is so awesome.

ALSO MIRACLE WITH GUIDO!!!! He is the dad of the familia fica who we eat with a lot and he is the only one in the fam who isn’t a member. The night before New Year’s Eve we had free and we were allowed to eat with a family and celebrate. We ate with their family and we went around the table and said our best moment of 2015. He said that his was getting to know this church and he now realizes that it is perfect and he is going to get baptized. I couldn’t believe my ears. I love their family so much.

These are just a few of my favorite parts of this week out of hundreds. I love you all so much and thanks for everything that you guys do for me.

Love you all the way from Chile!

Love,

Hermana Kleinman

pretty Gorbea and my bike. Ps i was using pants because it's pday

We ate a lamb that I watched get killed. and this is Hermana Rowden

my comp the MAQUINA Moran and our bikes. good times

Week 30 (December 28) - Happy New Year

FAMMMBAMMM!!

It was sooooo good to hear all of your voices!!! A little weird but so good. It was so awesome to hear that you guys are all doing good.

So this weekend was really cool and I will tell you a little bit about it. We did a zone attack in Gorbea and then each missionary went with a member so we had tons and tons of people in Gorbea searching for less actives. We found a bunch of info for all of them.

We had a good day in church. My companion is a maquina. Machine. On the stand the first counselor was like uhhhh this person has a talk but they aren’t here so Hermana Moran? and she went and gave the best talk ever. Then I got to teach the lesson in principles of the gospel. 

I was studying the Book of Mormon and the Restoration this week and I was reading in D&C 84:54-57 it was pretty strong for me because the whole church was condemned because they didn’t use the book of Mormon enough in their preaching. SOOOooo we were thinking about our investigators because a lot of them can’t read and we came up with some good ideas. But I am telling you guys this because we have one investigator who’s name is Irene (so ready for baptism but needs to get divorced and married) she can’t read at all. BUT she can read parts of the Book of Mormon and she is understanding!!!!!!! Its seriously a miracle. I have such a strong testimony of the Book of Mormon and it grows every single day as I read and apply the words in my life. I want you guys all to put goals for the New Year (obviously fam tradish ((but you can’t put them in the cabinet and never look at them again))) but add the book of Mormon in your goals this year. I know it will help all of you in every single part of your lives. 

I LOVE YOU ALL AND HAPPPY NEW YEAR!!!

PS one of our investigators Isidro might be baptized this Saturday YEA

Love,

Hermana Kleinman

The two other hermanas that i live with. Hermana Rowden and I wore green because we are GREENgas

 Our house with the best packages in the world YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME 

Week 29 (December 21)

HAPPY CHRISTMAS!!!! 

That´s what everyone says to me in the streets here. Haha it´s so cute.

I am SOOO stoked to see you guys over skype!! Google hangout sounds perfect. We are going to skype at a partial member’s house. They are the ones who feed us 3 times a week. Familia Fica. I think we are going to skype around 8 our time so that is like 5 or 4 your time? I want to see alllllll of the family and hopefully the new baby?!!! I AM SO EXCITED FOR HER!!

I am glad that you guys are doing missionary work and are pumped about it. That makes me so happy!!

This week was SO AWESEOME!!! We seriously had a week of miracles I don’t even know where to begin with everything. I think I can just explain over skype to you guys.

We found this family who are inactive but just wait.........she has 20 siblings. 20!!!!!!!!!!! Who all live in this one pueble called quitratue in our sector. We hit it off with her and her husband. Wait that sounds so weird. But she is so happy that we found her. Part of her family are members and part of her fam aren’t. We have major plans to baptize and reactivate with this family. We are so so excited. 

The members are helping a ton and it is making a huge difference. Our Branch President went away to work for a few months so we just have our First Counselor. Haha it is so fun being in a Branch. Our goal is to make it a ward one day. Why not?

I can’t wait to see you all this Christmas!! 

Love you all the whole world full and more.

xoxoxo

Isais 9:6

Love,

Hermana Kleinman

Random things that we see here in Gorbea everyday 

SO PRETTY 

I am thinking about living here forever. Hope you are all down to move here one day family!!

Miguel gave us these our first lesson after his confirmation and we were crying because he is SO happy and looked so much different but a happy different.

Week 28 (December 14)

So many things happened this week. I am going to make a bullet list story.

1.     I was thinking of Blanca, our miracle in Angol on Monday and I looked at the list of people who got baptized and SHE GOT BAPTIZED!! It was really cool because the night before I left to Gorbea we had a lesson with her and she was crying and told us that she has this happiness with her that she has never felt before. We explained to her that this gospel brings this happiness. She cried some more and said this is my answer I want to be baptized. And three weeks later she was.

2.      Miguel made us lunch one day with a bunch of uncooked meat. We got SOOO sick.

3.     We woke up one morning and drove to Angol for our Christmas Conference with President and alllll of our mission. IT WAS SO AWESOME. I learned so much and we ate really good normal American food.

4.      We had some really cool lessons this week and found some really awesome new investigators.

5.      anndddd Miguel and Maciel were baptized!!!! Basically all of our Branch came to the baptism and it was so golden. We had lots of struggles with the water but finally got some to come out.

6.     We were praying all week to find a family to teach and on Sunday this man came named Jose Luis. We talked to him and he was like yeah come on over today. We went and bam. All of his family was sitting there waiting to listen to us. SOOO AWESOME. And he saw Miguel get confirmed and he told us that he wants that. Miracles everywhere.

7.......and last but the best......HERMANA MORAN IS STAYING IN GORBEA AND WE HAVE MORE WEEKS TOGETHER!!! We are soooooo so so happy!!

There were probably a lot more points that I missed in my week but this was the jist, gist, ? I dont remember how to spell. woops.

I am so excited for everything that is happening here and I am so happy to be a missionary. Every morning I wake up and I get so excited to be here. 

Love you all the whole world full!!!

xoxo

Love,

Hermana Kleinman 

PS SHOUTOUT TO TAYLOR!!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY BROTHER I LOVE YOU

The Christmas Conference and I got to see Hermana Rich!!!!!

Miguel Gaete and Maciel!!! 

My district and after hours we finally got some water to come out of the font...

after hours of struggle

Week 27 (December 7)

Sorry I really don´t have tons of time today. But I want to give a huge shout out to the BEST mom in the world!! HAPPY EARLY BIRTHDAY!!!! I LOVE YOU!!!!!!

Also good news. So Miguel is set beautifully to be baptized this Saturday on the 12th so happy birthday momma. He is so golden it´s insane. He prays every prayer at the end of our lessons and always prays that his baptism will go over well. It is so cute. We call him the abuelo escogido. The chosen grandpa. So we got to get some things ready for his baptism.

Also another little girl is getting baptized the same day named Maciel. She is so so cute and so smart. 

Marina is SO awesome. She brought us to one of her friends because she wants her friend to have this happiness in her life too. Do investigators ever do that? Never! Go marina!

President wrote me this week and told me that he feels like I am going to find a family this month or next month to be baptized. haha no pressure right? I for sure am going to work hard and find that family. 

We have cambios this next week and so I think Hermana Moran will leave. So sad. 

I love you all and I want you all to know how happy I am and how sad I am at the same time because time is going by way to fast. 

Love,

Hermana Kleinman

Actually quick story. Slap on the face story. We have two investigators who want to get baptized but they aren’t married. We brought them to the registro civil this week to put a date for their wedding and we went up there and all of the sudden (the woman) got all shaky and goes uhhhhhhhhhh I have a confession!!!!!!!! I was married one time and I am still married but I don’t think it should count. hahaha I was like ARE YOU KIDDING 

But anyways we will get them divorced and married and baptized in no time

And yes I have heard of Hermana Degroff but haven’t seen her!

Pictures 

me and Hermana Rash 

and dad they have cherry trees EVERYWHERE here and everyone just hands you cherries for free on the streets. this is one of our investigators who has tons of trees in her backyard. And all the Hermana's from the 3 adjacent zones. We had a conference of Hermanas!

Week 26 (November 30) - I HAVE PULGAS!!!

I hope you still all love me because I have pulgas. I think I got them from this puppy in the street. IT WAS SO CUTE so I touched it and now I regret it. But I stripped all my sheets today and am washing all of my clothes so that I can kill these gross things.

Anyways happy late Thanksgiving!! I totally forgot that it was Thanksgiving this weekend! I hope you guys had the best time and ate some good food. Sounds like you guys did!! Brent in Utah with Clara ;) and the whole fambam in our house. Sounds like a party.

To answer your 3 questions dad!!..Yes we speak Spanish 24/7 and she can speak English when she tries. She understands tons and tons of English so when I have a question about a word or something she knows. Super nice. annddd no still can’t roll my r´s hahaha but I can a little so its progress! Everyone here thinks I am from Germany though because of Kleinman. And yes you guys get to skype with me on Christmas!!

It is finally getting warmer down here. YESS I think summer starts on like December 16 or something. But I am sooooooooo happy so so happy. And yes it is really small. So there are about 30 active members in our branch. Including the missionaries. There is the Branch Pres, and his first counselor and that’s all because there aren’t many priesthood holders. Then me and my comp are in charge of the relief society because there isn’t a presidency. And the other companionship is in charge of young women’s. So we are the presidency basically. And we also have to plan activities because our branch president wants more activities but there isn’t anyone to put them together. So we get to do that! Our goal of people in church was 42 and we got 43 this week. It makes it easier to know everyone really well and fast because there aren’t many people haha. But our branch president is soooooooo so awesome.

There are about 1000 people here i think is the statistic and so yes I will definitely talk to everyone becasue our mission is a contacting mission and contacts are one of our key indicators every day and week so we contact at least 150 people every week. That is our goal as a mission. 

Gorbea is SO PRETTY. geez. There are other little pueblos around Gorbea and we go to different ones in the morning. There are so many awesome people here!! AND THE PEOPLE ARE SOOOOOO HUMBLE. So humble. I AM SO HAPPY. It makes it so much better to teach people who are humble. Such a difference. They don’t have much here and it makes me so happy to have what I have. 

We eat lunch with 3 families. One family 3 times a week and sometimes the other two but we eat lunch in our house more in this area. 

Hmm what else. Our house is really nice and wooden I feel like I am in a cabin.

We had lots of miracles this week but I want to tell you guys about two. We met this man named Miguel my first week and invited him to church in the street. He came!! and so we taught him this week and he was reading in the book of Mormon and in the bible (on his own time) and he found two scriptures that were like the same basically so he said of course this book is true it testifies of the bible! Haha we were like yes Miguel yes!! And this Sunday he came again and he was telling everyone that he is going to get baptized on the 12^th so they need to come. He is the cutest old man ever and he lives right behind an active member so it’s perfect.

Other miracle, her name is marina. We found her in her house when we were knocking and she told us to come back another day so we went and we taught her. We were explaining a little about the Book of Mormon and while we were sharing we had a picture of Jesus Christ for her to look at, she said. I have seen that picture before!! i had a dream one time and I saw this picture and she said that she knew in her dream she had to find the religion with this picture and follow it. The spirit was soooooooooooo strong. She came to church and loved it.

The work here is awesome and i am loving life. Always every minute. I am so thankful for all of you and i love you guys!!! 

Love,

Hermana Kleinman

We had a soc soc activity and these are the members in our relief society!

Hermana Ilda was my companion for 4 days. The first member in Gorbea 30 years ago.

Hermana Moran and just walking from pueblo to pueblo

Week 25 (November 23)

Let me just begin by telling you guys how crazy this week was. So I got to Gorbea after a long bus ride. And then first day was normal and we had our district meeting the next morning. Normal. Oh and by the way I am in the smallest zone in the mission and there are 14 people! We had to take a micro for like 30 minutes to get to our zone meeting. There are two districts in this zone and in my zone they are all Latinos except for one of the zone leaders. Then after our district meeting we had to buy food because the only place to buy food here in Gorbea burned down like a little over a year ago...but we did that and then came back to our little pueblo. We were waiting on the side of the street and it was raining reallyyy hard (I thought I escaped the cold but I was wrong) my companion slipped and fell sooooo hard. Like body slammed to the ground. She got up and was soaking obviously so we went to the house to change. We then had a lesson with some new people we found and after the lesson my companion couldn’t get up to walk. Haha dangit. So we were like what the heck happened? Oh yeah you fell and almost died. So the nurse of our mission told her to go to our house and rest. Side note... I LOVE MY COMPANION! She is so cool and soo0o funny. She is helping me with my accent so I don’t sound so greenga hahaha. She is so awesome. But we were in the house and her hip was killing her. I left and did exchanges with the two other Hermana’s in our house so that we could work a little in our area and in their area. I came back and my companion was still in so much pain. So finally at like 1030 at night she couldnt handle it anymore and a member here (the coolest member i have ever met) took us to the hospital. It turns out that my comp dislocated her hip!!! so bad. they put it back into place and gave her shots and pills and stuff. So the rest of the week she was on bed rest and I did exchanges with members and with the other Hermana’s. haha it was a little hard because I don’t know this area at all but obviously possible with the Lords help. 

Our branch is so tiny. The smallest chapel i have ever seen but I LOVE IT HERE SO MUCH!!! There are tons of awesome investigators that we have and I am so pumped.

My comp is feeling a little better and I am so excited to work together with her this week. 

Love you all!!

Love,

Hermana Kleinman

We had lunch yesterday in a recent converts backyard and his name is Renee (Renee here is a man’s name) and it was sooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo pretty and with the family (coolest fam).