Week 37 (February 15)

This week was CRAAAZZYYYY.  But so awesome. 

So on Monday we went to Conce and I worked there with Hermana Lockling on Tuesday because she is training too. So our house is like a training house. Then on Wednesday we picked up our hijas or our new companions and I am with Hermana Bowling from Star Valley, Wyoming. SHE IS THE BEST SERIOUSLY!!!! I am soooooo happy and so relieved that my daughter is cool. She is sooo so excited to work hard and be here to be a missionary. These next three months are going to be the best I am so excited I can’t even wait. She’s a straight star.

We then traveled home for a whole day and so we finally got to work this weekend. 

We have seen so many miracles. People keep coming up to us like hey we talked to you guys one day but you never came by? Come by this day? Like uhhhh okay no problem. 

We had kind of a stressful Sunday we started late because there wasn’t enough priesthood. Our president of the branch came for two weeks here and then he just left again to work and did the counselor and so we were waiting for some elders close by to help us out. but then we finally got started and the quorum president was directing I think you say? And he was like uhhh well the people to give talks aren’t here so Hermana Kleinman? So I just had to go up and talk for a while. HahaI know that this branch will be really good for my companion she is going to learn a ton. I learn so much every week.

I am going to tell you an experience that we had that i think marked me for the rest of my life I am not even kidding. I had allwayssss felt like we needed to knock this one house when we go by it in a bus. So we finally knocked it and this lady came out right away. We starting chatting and she told us that she can still remember this first missionaries that came to Gorbea and their name and everything. She then somehow told us that her spouse had died like 5 years ago and she was mad at God and didn’t understand where he was and why that had to happen. We explained the plan of salvation a little and I told her that I had always felt like i needed to knock her door. She told us that she felt like she needed to open the door up right away when she heard us yell alo!! She then looked at me and said ¨how long have you been here in Gorbea? I said three months.  And then she asked ¨why haven’t you come to visit me before?” That seriously cut me to the core and I felt kind of sick. I learned a huge lesson to ALWAYS follow the spirit. If it’s a good thought. Just do it.

Love you all SO much. My family is the best.

Love. 

Hermana Kleinman

This is my hija on the left and my mom Hermana Rich on the right. Oh yeah Hermana rich is my sister training leader now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So I get to see her a lot it’s the best EVA.

Week 36 (February 8)

Let me first just tell you about Dolores. Dolores was baptized this past Saturday and it was literally a miracle. So we were going to a lesson with a member in our ward. We had about 40 minutes before the lesson so we thought a yeah we will knock some doors. We walked by this house and my comp was like hey she has a pass along card in her window lets knock it. We knocked and entered with this little grandma who’s name is Dolores. She talked for ever. She has had sooooooo many problems in her life and probably has had one of the saddest lives that I have ever heard of. The member gave her a blessing of health and we left. We thought eh she’s just another catholic grandma. We kept feeling like we needed to go back and so finally we went back. She said I thought you guys were never going to come back!! She talked again for everrrr but me and my companion were working on listening that week and so we listened. At the end of our lesson she said that she has never felt the Spirit in a church before and she wants to. We invited her to come and she came. She was so happy because she felt the spirit. She was baptized three weeks later!!! Miracle. It’s really special with her too because we did an interchange and i was with a Hermana of Chile. Dolores couldn´t understand her and she could understand me perfectly. It’s really cool to see the promises that I received in my setting apart blessing take effect. She’s the cutest ever. And we found out that she isn’t catholic but she lies to everyone so that she doesn’t have to let them into her house hahahhaa. She’s the coolest.

Also we found out changes this morning and my companion is leaving me to be a Hermana cap. And I am going to have a baby!!!!!!!!!!! I AM GOING TO BE A MOM!!! I am going to train someone and it is going to be soooooo much fun I cannot wait. So I will be here in Gorbea for sure for 6 months. But tomorrow I have to travel all the way 8 hours to Concepcion to get my companion. 

Oh yeah also we had a really cool activity with all of the members about the restoration and the book of Mormon. They were all crying and we gave them assignments to read the book of Mormon every day. And now we were receiving references finally. 

I love this area SOOOOOO MUCH and I am going to miss my companion a ton but i cant wait to show my new companion how cool the mission is. ahhhhh I AM SO EXCITED!!!!!

We have awesome investigators and that inactive family that we found of 21, some of them came to church on Sunday wahhoooo finally. And the family that my comp dreamed about they have been in Santiago so we finally had a lesson with them this week. They accept everything that we have taught them and she told us this time that ever since we have been coming her everything has been getting better in her house. They haven’t come to church yet but are reading and praying so they are progressing little by little.

I hope that you guys had so much fun in Mexico. I miss Mexico and the beach. I love you guys so much!! The whole world full! You guys are the best. Have the best week.

Love, 

Hermana Kleinman

Dolores Flores

My District

Week 35 (February 1)- I snuck out and told my neighbor i am getting married!!

hahahaha the subject of this is a direct quote from one of our investigators named Dolores. Her neighbor is anti Mormon and she came to the baptism of Isidro in allll white and told us that the first thing. She is the cutest little grandma in the world.

This week was soooooooooo good. I really don’t have tons of time so sorry. A really good letter next week.

This week Isidro was baptized!!! Let me just tell you about him real quick. He was a man off the street that comes to church every once in a while. He didn’t have a phone so we couldn’t find him for weeks. One day we were eating lunch and we saw him and we sprinted to talk to him. I used my stalking skills and we found out he does have a phone and we got his number. I think I have learned more patience with him than any other investigator. And I have seen the BIGGEST change in him. It really is crazy. But he was baptized and he was sooo happy. And he gave the closing prayer in church and he started crying and he told us he feels like he has more comfort in his life after he had received the Spirit. 

He told us that we were his angels and then he wanted to take a picture of us like this hahaha.

We also had a competition with four zones here in the south and today we had the final round and we played quittich. From harry potter hahaha. It was so fun and we won. woohooo!!

I love you all so much!

Love,

Hermana Kleinman

We caught the snitch aka the pig

hahahaha awkward moment. The owner of this cyber was like hey you guys are going to be here for much longer? And I wasn’t really paying attention and so I said ya le queremos tambien. hahahha which means like yeah we love ya too. Dangit. Things just got really awkward. And we are trying to find ways to teach him. Maybe this is our in? I think I just broke the ice that’s for sure.

Week 34 (January 25)

Weellll this week was another cool week here in the mission. We found new people to teach and taught a bunch of lessons.

We had interviews with President Bluth and It was just what i needed. I love him and Hermana Bluth so much. Then we had this worldwide conference with allllll of the 75,000 missionaries in the world!! it was SOOOO GOOD SO GOOD. They talked about the basics of everything and how we need to baptize converts. It was really good and we received tons of revelation for our sector.

We have changes in two weeks and My comp is going to leave for sure because she has 6 months here so I will probably stay. Super cool though because I love Gorbea. We have tons of people to teach and it’s stressful but a good stressful. .

Isidro has changed so much and had his interview yesterday and is going to get baptized this Saturday. woohooo!! 

I don’t have lots of time sorry and the internet isn’t really working for me but I love you all so much!! 

Shout out to the Bagley’s for their package to me!! Best ever!

Love,

Hermana Kleinman

Here is a pic of some of the fruits that don’t exist anywhere but here. These are called avericocus. SOOOO GOOD. 

Week 33 (January 18) God exists. Seriously

First I just want to tell you all how cool Gorbea is in Chile. Really. The other night I couldn’t sleep and I was looking out our window and then I got so scared because I saw a bunch of green little lights. I then woke up my comp because I thought we were going to get attacked or something. She was like really..... those are fireflies!!!  But really we have fireflies in our backyard how cool is that? 

There are also fruits here that don’t exist anywhere else in the world. There are these things that look like grapes but are mini plums. My new favorite things ever. 

Every day we walk around I am SO happy because there are flowers and fruit everywhere. I am living the dream to be honest.

Listen to this sweet experience that we had today and tell me that God doesn´t exist. We found this family recently and we were planning inspired questions to ask them for a lesson. My companion started crying and was like I know exactly what she is going to say (the mom) in the lesson. I know this because they are our friends that we needed to find together!! Then she told me a story about how she was praying if she should go on a mission or not. She had a dream and I guess in her dream she was planning for a lesson with a companion with blonde hair and I guess what I said while we were planning was exactly what the companion in her dream said. The dream goes on to the lesson and she dreamt what the mom was going to say. The day after her dream she knew that she had to go on a mission to be companions with the comp in her dream and to find this family. And she has been waiting her whole mission to find this family.

We went to the lesson and to be honest I was thinking what the. My comp is a little crazy. We had the lesson and the mom said EXACTLY what my companion told me what she was going to say. I started crying in the lesson. The spirit was so strong and I can’t really even begin to describe this experience. The mom then went on to tell us that she feels like she has known us both for a long long time. Ah I have chills just thinking about this experience.

It turns out that when my comp had this dream that’s when I started feeling like I needed to serve a mission. 

I love the mission. I love knowing that God loves all of his children and his timing for everything is PERFECT and everything really does happen for a reason. I wouldn’t rather be anywhere else but here in Chile.

Love you all. I pray for you all every day!!

Also shout out to Bishop Rowley!!!! That is so exciting!! Sad about his dog but he and sister Rowley are going to be such awesome mish presidents

Sorry I am writing again and I know I talk about Irene who is reading the BOM too much but she just called us to make sure that we have read the Book of Mormon today and shared a scripture that she learned from her studies today. 

Week 32 (January 11)

This week had its ups and downs like all weeks but I am trying and learning to focus myself on the ups. When I focus on the Ups the downs don’t even seem bad at all.

My companion got really really really sick this week. She has a virus in her stomach from a couple of months ago that came back to life. So we missed a few days of working. Then our President of our Branch came for a day and told us that he wants us to be in charge of the church while he goes back up north to work and that we need to plan the activities and things like that. It´s cool because he has tons of confidence in us but also just lots to do here!!. But that’s good right? We are always busy. I learned a lot of patience this week, how to look at the ups, and how prayers are always answered. 

I was praying so hard that my companion would feel better and finally she did!!! Miguel (the recent convert) left with us one day to go to our citas. He is soooo awesome. Seriously golden. And it’s perfect because he has 70 years and so do all of our investigators. When he shares his testimony of baptism it’s so powerful and the spirit is always so strong. He received the priesthood and passed the sacrament this past Sunday too!! 

Isidro is doing really good he has another baptismal date for this month. 

Also

We had our gospel principles class and an elder was there teaching and he asked everyone in the room their favorite thing to do and Irene (our investigator) said to read the Book of Mormon. It was so awesome.

It was really cool to see how even though my comp has had lots of health issues, we were still able to see a ton of success and miracles this week. 

We are reading the Book of Mormon together as a mission with the question of how can we bring more souls unto Christ? And it’s actually crazy at how much revelation you can receive when you read with one question in your mind while reading the Book of Mormon and not 5000 questions. 

I am so thankful for my family, for this gospel and for the principles that I learn from the Book of Mormon every single day. I am so thankful that I am in Chile and getting to have the experiences that I am having.

Love you all!!

Xoxox

Hermana Kleinman

PS mom I am glad that you are doing well with your throat. Love you!! Praying for you!

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