Week 62 - (August 15)

I´m going to apologize right now first because this is going to be long and second for my English.

First we missed two days of work because we got to go to our mission counsel. It was awesome. There are a bunch of new district leaders and so they were invited too. There was about a fourth of our mission there. the zone leaders, sister training leaders, district leaders and the missionaries in the office and president may. President talked to us about 7 things that we can do to have the spirit. He told a bunch of stories from his mission and it was awesome. They are seriously great people. The assistants talked and then my companion and I got to talk. We talked about how to be a Sister training leader and our responsibilities. We then traveled 7 hours back to our sector. We had to do a few intercambios with the Hermanas that we are over this week so we didn’t have much time to work in our sector. The 12 sisters that we are over live in two other houses. One house is about an hour from our house and the other is about 30 minutes. We get to work with all of the sisters in the south! It’s been cold and it just started the rain streak. I don’t think we will see the sun for like 10 more days. Actually hey dad Hermana Nelson and I had an intercambio this week! the one that you found her blog hahaa she’s super awesome.

We had SUCH a cool miracle on Sunday. So Saturday night we were planning our day Sunday. a lot of our visits fell through so we were searching through the former investigators in our area book and planning to visit a few. we made a paper of their directions and put it away. Sunday morning, we called to confirm with the people who had committed to come to church and they alllllll fell through. so we got ready super-fast to go to the chapel to look for people we got contact and bring them in for sacrament. we were praying to leave and we felt like going back into our room. we saw the paper of the old investigators and put it in our bags. we couldn’t find anyone interested outside of our chapel and so we entered to take the sacrament. we were sitting there and we were super sad. right after sacrament ended we looked at each other and we had both thought of a name (Carolina Rios a name on the little paper) we felt impressed to go and knock her house. we left after the sacrament and found her house. we knocked and knocked and finally a head popped out. we obviously had woken her up and she was super confused. We said Carolina? We are the missionaries and she goes yeah I know! one sec! she then opened the door and told us to go in. she asked us how we knew her name and we explained the paper and how 10 minutes ago we felt super strongly to leave church and knock her house. she almost started crying and started telling us how 3 days ago she couldn’t stop thinking about the missionaries who had passed by her house a year ago. She told us that her friend this week invited her to her church and Carolina said no her friend then told her to look for the path and church that god wants her to take. She said the first thing that came to her mind was the Mormons. We explained the spirit and invited her to church (there was a meeting of a different ward 2 hours later) but she wasn’t too sure she said that she will think about it. We left and said a prayer to first give thanks and then to pray that she could feel the need to be there. We went back to church and listened to the end of gospel principles. We walked out and Carolina was standing there!!!!!!!!!! We ran to her and she stayed for sacrament of the other ward. At the end we asked her how she felt and she told us it was an answer. We challenged her to be baptized and she accepted. She is a single mom of 5 children. I love her already. we made a goal with my comp to never let a Sunday pass without someone in the church. I know that when we do our part Heavenly Father does his part. He loves us. I love him and you guys.

Hermana Kleinman

Week 61 - (August 8)

This week has been filled with tons of things. The life in the mission just got like 20000 times busier but I love it!!! My companion Hermana Ricagno is awesome. She has the same time as me in the mission and it is SO great to work with someone with experience in the mish. it has been a while. not that my other comps were bad or anything but it is just different. wahoooo!!!

This week we have been working a lot with a man named Mario. He doesn’t have one leg but he loves church and he reminds me alotttt of grandpa pop.

The mom of Jonathan (Mirium) accepted a baptism date last night super firmly too. yay!!

I’ll send you pictures next week.

We have to travel to Concepcion right now for consejo. We have to give a capacitation in front of all of the leaders of the mission!

I love you all so much and sorry I don’t have time today. xoxox

Love,

Hermana Kleinman

Week 60 (August 1)

WOW. I have lots to tell you guys. 

First off, I want to tell you how special the baptism service of Jonathan and Leonardo was. One of my favorites that’s for sure. There were tons of opposition this week. The morning of their interview for their baptism. Jonathan called us and told us that he was up all night looking on the internet and he was doubting everything. I was thinking that Reed needs to take down the ant Mormon websites hahaha. but we went and talked with him and that night they had their interviews and passed. When Leonardo was going to sign his baptism record the elders said that he was so excited and said I am going to be Mormon!!!!  the day of their baptism was crazy. we had to wake up at like 5 to go and look for the baptism clothes at the house of our mission leader. He accidentally fell asleep and we were outside of his house for 2 hours knocking in the cold. FINALLY, he opened up ahhhh. then we went and got chased by some lamas hahahaha. Their baptism was at 7 and we went to their house before and walked with their whole family to the church. TONS of members came it was awesome. President and Hermana May were also there for a little! it was super spiritual and the mom Mirium was balling. She said that she felt so happy to see her kids make that decision. The next day they were confirmed and their blessings were so special. We recorded them and are going to write them down so that they can remember forever. It was such a good weekend. Oh and I got to give a talk in church. It was on missionary work but I based it on the question what would Jesus do? 

ah sorry I don’t have tons of time but we have changes!! my companion is leaving and I am staying here in Temuco. I am going to have 6 months in this ward!! What? and my new comp is going to be from Argentina. I love her! President May called me on Saturday and called me to be a Hermana Cap. We are going to be in charge of 12 Hermanas

here’s some pics-

the lama

baptism

and my comp and I won our Copa of our zone!!.

Week 59 (July 25)

So remember Johnathon and his brother? the sons of Mirium. they are on schedule for their baptism this Sunday!! wahhoooo! we were able to work with them a lot this week. It is awesome to see the change in Johnathon who was so hard hearted at first. we called him last night and he said that he is super happy because he went to church today. 

We had interviews with president may and his wife. they are AWESOME. I am so excited to have them in our mission. I was able to received tons of counsel and revelation that I needed. He asked me a question about our Savior, Jesus Christ. He first asked me how my relationship is with my Savior and how have I been able to strengthen my relationship recently. It really helped me think about a lot of things. And now I want to ask you guys to do the same thing. How is your relationship with the Savior and how are you working to continually strengthen your relationship with him?

I love you all, and I love my Savior.

Love,

Hermana Kleinman

my comps first american hamburger!!!  

Using umbrellas are kind of pointless here hahhaa. it rains sideways so if you want to be protected you have to hold the umbrella sideways

We had a family home evening with Johnathan and Leo and one of my favorite families in Chile. actually one of the daughters, her spouse is from mesa Arizona and she is going back in January!! it will be fun to keep in touch with this family.

Week 58 (July 18)

My companion is teaching me how to speak in Guarani. It’s the second language in Paraguay!! It’s so much fun!

But this week was rockin. Jose is still progressing, he couldn’t come to church because he was super super sick. Everyone is sick here. And what’s weird is that it is winter break here like we have two weeks in December? But they have it in July! But he is doing awesome.

Our investigator Jonathon, he came to church on Sunday again. During the week we had challenged him to baptism a few times and he said no. he told us on Sunday that he feels so so happy and so much peace in his life right now. We had a lesson after church in front of the baptism font and he accepted a baptism date!!! We challenged him and he said ¨¨yes!¨¨ wahooo!!! It’s crazy to see the changes in his life in these past two weeks. The ward is excited to help these three brothers and to help so that the whole family can be converts.

We are doing a challenge with our zone and we have to do different things every day of the week. It’s something to motivate to complete goals and be animated. But one day we had to contact with food and find new people to teach. We made cookies the night before and contacted with them at houses and in the street. haha it was so much fun and I was so surprised that people actually wanted to eat homemade food from 2 foreigners. We found the cutes grandma ever.

I love you guys so much and really do pray for each and every one of you every night. I wouldn’t trade anything for what I am doing right now. 

PS. Mom thanks for your letter to my comp!! Your Spanish is so good!!! Mixed with a little Italian haha you guys are the best. Really.

Love, your favorite missionary in the world

Hermana Kleinman

Here are some pics

They say Once here for their dinner. It’s a Chilean thing

The million cookies that we contacted with

The cute grandma that we found contacting with cookies

annd we had an intercambio and I was with Hermana Lopez de peru and we left with one of my converts Javiera!! so much fun

Hermana Lopez turned 23!!

We found the cutest house in the campo. Two men live there from Germany hahah random

This is our sector. The map in our room it’s huge. It takes like 20 minutes in micro the small buses to go from one end to the other

Week 57 - (July 11) - I climed A Snowy Mountain

this computer is not super high functioning.

but this week WAS SO GOOD DANG. we have been kind of struggling helping the new investigators come to church so we have been praying super hard for inspiration. we thought of a few members and assigned them to the people we want to come for sure for sure. and it was awesome. the members came and committed to walk a few investigators to church. (there aren’t many members with cars)

but I want to update you guys on Jose Ramirez. super cool. he called us this week and said Hermanas!! I have been doing my prayers like you guys said I needed to do and I received some answers. he told us to come over the next night. the next night he then told us that he made a promise with God and God completed. He smokes a lot and doesn’t well didn’t have work. He said a prayer and he told us that in his prayer he told God that if he stops smoking and starts doing the right things he wants to find work. Two days later he found work!!!! he was so excited and we had planned to teach the word of wisdom that day. it was perfect! he accepted and hasn’t smoked since. MIRACLE. we have a service project to go and clean his house so it can smell better and he won’t have as much temptation. but another thing about him. he came to church on Sunday!! and there was a man from another ward there that day. the man told us that he had felt an impression to come to our ward that Sunday but he didn’t know why. he came and it turns out that he is one of Jose Ramirez´s super close friends!!! soooooooooooooo cool. the holy ghost rocks. he is going to accompany us this week to visit Jose. Jose is on track for his baptism.

One of Mirirum´s son (Jonathon) we found him one day when she wasn’t there. he told us that he is super closed off to God right now because he is mad at him and we had a lesson really spiritual and you could see him change a little throughout the lesson. he came to church on Sunday with his brothers and loved it!!! he told us the first visit that he would NEVER pray and our lesson on Saturday he said the closing prayer!! I love seeing the holy ghost work miracles in the lives of people. it’s something that I hope I can see for the rest of my life because it will never get old.

Our reference Manuel is doing awesome. he is scared to come to church so we have plans with him to do a tour and all that this week so that he can come this weekend.

We are doing something that I have never done before in my mission and it is working super well. After every lunch with the members we are teaching the restoration in 5 minutes. we tell them to think of one of their friends who isn’t a member and they have to play their role. we taught them and then we ask them what can we do better. they tell us and we commit to get better at teaching and they committed to bringing their nonmember friend to the next lunch. ha-ha it was fun and worked super well.

This week has been freezing. today for our activity of zone we went and hiked a volcano!! it was soooooooooooo pretty. snowing so hard so you couldn’t even see the volcano. ha-ha we got to the top after climbing for 3 hours. it was like Camble back Mountain but 20 times longer. and snowy. We got to the top with our zone and we broke into an abandoned house to eat lunch. hahaha it was so fun.

love you guys all so much!!! enjoy the sun for me and i will enjoy the snow for you all. I know that Jesus Christ is our Savior and loves all of you. john 16:33. and I know that we can only have peace through our Savior Jesus Christ.

Love,

Hermana Kleinman

I forgot to tell yall. i met our new president. President May. SO COOL. really. ill tell more details the next week. gotta go teach some lessons. 

these are the Hermana’s that I live with

my little companion

The national tree of Chile and I thought it was so pretty with snow

and our zone!! one of my zone leaders (Elder Johnson) is from mesa. small world right?

Week 56 - (July 4)

HAPPY 4TH OF JULY!!!! I hope that you all are enjoying America right now!!

This week was awesome. We went and had a visit with Manuel (who requested the book of Mormon and missionaries) annnddd it was the coolest lesson ever! Seriously. he explained to us that he has actually been waiting 2 years to get a book of Mormon in his hands and that one time he saw that his coworker had one and he asked to borrow it but she said no because she hadn’t finished. haha don’t ever do that. Ever!! He said that he knows that what we have to tell him is something important because something always comes up when we put a visit with him. He told his family that he was going to meet with the Mormons and they started saying no we worship the devil and all that good stuff. But he explained that he knew that was just opposition, he was SO happy to have a book of Mormon in his hands!! He works on Sunday we found out when we invited him but he said that he is going to change his schedule so that he can start coming to church. Really a miracle. He moves at the beginning of august so we are going to work hard and help him to get baptized before he moves.

We also had another really cool lesson with one of our new investigators Jose. We taught him the book of Mormon and at the end we asked him now what does this book mean to him and he looked at us and said well the truth! No other church has this book so for me it means the truth. It was a special moment.

We are teaching also someone whose name is Miriam and she has 7 kids. She has had a really hard life and was looking for the truth when we knocked her door. Every time we go we find one of her kids and are able to teach them! They told us that we are getting to each and every one and Miriam was pretty happy about that. Super cute.

We are seeing miracles here in Chile through the hard times but we are trying our best and i know that God is going to bless his children here. My comp was really sick this week but is a lot better after lots of prayers and blessings.

Hahahaha funny story really quick. It has to do with a creepy man again. so we knocked this one neighborhood one night but it has a guard. We didn’t know that we couldn’t knock it and we found some really awesome people. We walked out and the guard stopped us and asked us if we were knocking. We said yes and he told us not to do it again and he warned us that if we do it again he will kiss us for every door we knock. We assured him that we won’t know one more door there. Gross. Long story short I changed companions and we contacted a reference there and he went with us. The reference wasn’t there and so I started walking away really fast knowing that he was going to try and kiss us but I forgot to tell my comp and I looked back and he had grabbed her hand and kissed it hahaha it was terrible. I yelled at him in the best missionary way and we ran. Mom and dad get ready to kiss lots of people here because that is there custom.

know that there is a missionary who is praying for all of you down here in freezing chile!

love you all so much!!!

Love,

Hermana Kleinman

This is my sector Temuco and Miriam with her grandkids!