Week 8 (July 27)

This week was AWESOME!! 

Sorry I was super hyped last week and explained everything terribly. So the area I am in is called Angol. You can look it up it is about 4 hours away from Concepcion. We are in the sector called Alemania 3 and it is great. It is huge! It takes at least an hour to walk side to side. No bikes or anything. We walk walk and walk and sometimes take a collectivo. It does remind me a little of Mexico but not completely the same. The Chileans definitely have their own way of speaking and eating and living. We actually live outside of our sector with 4 other Hermana’s because it is a little dangerous inside of our sector. My companion is from Herriman Utah and her name is Hermana Rich...she doesn´t have a blog so you can´t stalk her parents...she apologizes because she tried but her mom just doesn’t know how and either does she. So there´s that. Good luck stalking. It is fun being with her! She is gluten intolerant and so with my lactose probs....it makes for some interesting lunches with the members hahaha. She has blonde hair as well so it is a curse and a blessing of being together in a country full of black and brown hair. Lots of people are curious to talk to us but some are just creepy! oh yeah and she has been here for almost 9 months! Almost her hump dayyyy!  

Some super weird and random things happened this week! oh ya ps i forgot to tell you guys that my first day here I cracked my tooth in half....whoops. okay not my tooth just my cap (again) so its not too much of a worry I just have to wait to get my debt card until I get it fixed!

The people here are so nice and it seems like every time we enter into someone’s house, they give me something. For example, one lady gave us lunch, the fatty meat of a spine of some kind of animal and then I told her it was my first time to have sopapillas! (big mistake) she then went on and gave us a grand total of 7 each. My companion was stuffing them everywhere in her clothes hahaha because remember she can´t eat gluten. Then the lady piled more food on our plates and then gave us shoes! 

This week we were as sick as dogs but still worked hard and found sooo many miracles. We had nicolas´s baptism!! It was amazing and the spirit was unreal. He is a rock solid kid. I will send some pics. We also are teaching this woman named Carmen who is so cute. She came to church even though she had been throwing up the night before. How cool? Literally everything we prayed for this week happened. We were able to work hard enough to get the week of excellence which is one baptism, 3 investigators to church and at least 140 contacts.

We had intercambios one day and I got to work with a hermana that we live with. We had a HUGE miracle. We met this guy named victor and he was crying when we taught him and we challenged him to baptism and he accepted. Huge testimony builder.

Mom and Dad for your questions, our ward is big for Chile, about 100 people in total.

We have a washing machine but someone in our ward is going to start washing our clothes.

We dont get ipads haha

My companion likes to work out yes! And no of course we don’t sleep in c´mon parents

Love you all so much! Read your scriptures and you will be happy :)

Love,

Hermana Kleinman

PS the pictures are of Nicolas´s baptism.

Week 7 (July 20, 2015)

So WOW!  So much has happened since I last got to email you guys. The last week in the CCM was awesome. We got to go out and contact people and then we got to go on splits with the sister missionaries in the Santiago East mission. They taught me lots and it was such a cool experience! It made me pumped for the real deal field. Well I am basically the luckiest person in the whole entire world because my trainer is AWESOME. Seriously she is so so so so out of this world cool. For example, I came home for the first time to our house and she decorated our room with balloons and gifts and our first morning together she made us banana pancakes! I love her so much! Also she is such an amazing missionary. She has been teaching me soooooo much. She is just an all-around good example to me and I feel so blessed to have her as my mom on the mish!

We live with 4 other hermanas in this house that is pretty big for Chile! They are all so nice. Two of them are the sister zone leaders and all of them are just so great. The weather here is super super cold and it does rain a lot but I love it! It is so weird because when it rains the earth just soaks up all of the water, kind of crazy. The members here feed us like Kings. Kings not Queens. The portions are gigantic but the food is so yummy!!

The people here are awesome. My trainer really is a good example to me of just talking to everyone. We have hit our contacting goal every single day which is cool and it is just fun to talk to people in the streets. Some guy ran up to us and was saying like its you! its you! and we were so confused but then we realized he wasn’t some golden contact but he just thought I was the girl from the little house on the prairie hahaha.

The dogs here are actually insane and there are probably 700 on every street.

Our ward is super cool there are about 70 members in it and I had to get up this Sunday and introduce myself. Scary but I did it! my Spanish is improving slowly but surely. 

MIRACLE! There is this boy named Nicholas and he is getting baptized this Saturday! He is beyond prepared and is so so so awesome. He brings people to church and just loves everything about the gospel. We have seen so many small miracles this week it has been amazing. I love this work so much!!! I love being a missionary. I would encourage everyone in the whole world to go on a mission!

Love,

Hermana Kleinman

Week 6 (July 14, 2015)

Hi! I just want to let you guys know that I safely made it to Concepcion and life here is good so far! It is beautiful and my President is awesome.

Love

Hermana Kleinman

Week 5 - (July 7, 2015)

wowowow. another great week! and sorry for my bad spelling and punctuation. still getting the hang of these keyboards. so today is my last pday here!! less than a week left and i cannot believe it. time flies.

HAPPY FOURTH! i hope you guys celebrated big because america is the greatest. except mom and dad i do support you guys celebrating in the west indies. jealous!! and looks like so much fun! so for fourth of July everyone here from north america basically wore red white and blue it was awesome. Presidente Doll let us watch copa america because i guess he counted it as a cultural experience haha. it was awesome!! all the teachers were freaking out. it went into overtime and then Chile won with the pk kicks!!! first time ever in 100 years that Chile has won so the city was absolutely insane. honking till 2 am and everyone was so happy!! we are only about a ten minute walk from the stadium so i kinda feel like we were in the middle of it all. so awesome though!! go chile!

this Sunday was solo español. the whole day. usually we do some classes in English but week 5 and 6 are all Spanish so it was a little struggle but i better get used to it right? haha it just takes so much brain power to sit there and translate every word in my head but i love that i can actually understand and get things out of lessons just like i would in English. we packed one of our suitcases this week with all of the heavy items in it and it got shipped to our missions. so no backing out now right?¡ i even shipped my English scriptures away. i have been studying in my Spanish ones and it has helped a ton. but i know that all of your prayers are definitely helping me!!

So this week is a cool week. we get to go contacting in the Santiago East mission tomorrow! i cannot wait! it is so fun to talk to the people here. me and my companions have made some friends in the mornings that we see every so often so hey maybe we will see them while we are contacting and get their information! we also get to go on splits this week as well. i absolutely cannot wait!! ahh! as much as i love it here, i cant wait to get out of the ccm.

me and my companions have learned so much with teaching our investigators here already. it is so cool because every time we teach one of us will get the thought to ask a certain question or share a certain scripture ect. and someone else in the companionship says exactly what i was thinking or about to say!! it is amazing! 

Thanks for your story mom! i loved that and i also love how you and dad are having fun in the west indies and you still share the gospel mom! every where you go, you always are talking to people and sharing the gospel and you have been the best example to me. this work is so important! i kind of want time to slow down a little because i only get 18 months out here! i love you all SO much and pray for you all every day. 

i probably won´t email next week because i will be getting my trainer and i will be in conception!! wahooooooo! there is me and one other Hermana from Argentina here who are going to my mission and about 10 elders. 

xoxo

love,

hermana kleinman

Week 4 (June 30, 2015)

HI! This week was probably my favorite and fastest week here yet! Not my favorite because it was my fastest haha but many other reasons that I will get to. So dad there is no gym here we get to leave the MTC every morning and we run to this park that is about a half mile away I would say. We usually play soccer with all of the elders and it is super fun. The people of Chile join in our games all of the time (little kids, teenagers, you name it). Or there is usually a game of basketball going on. Luke Worthington is here from BYU basketball so it is hilarious to see all of the tiny short Chileans play basketball with him. To answer more of your questions dad, we have Spanish classes mixed in with teaching classes every day and it is a different schedule most of the days which is nice but it is still repetitive. Learning lots though! The teachers here are unreal and so amazing. one of them (my personal favorite) Hermano Pino. The coolest guy! He plays about every instrument and can beat box like none other. His story is super cool because he had the choice to be on the national Chilean soccer team or serve a mission and he served a mission and has some pretty cool stories. He gives the best lessons and is just super smart in the gospel. I definitely look up to him! it is Copa America time and it is being held in Chile. it is like the world cup of south America and Chile won last night so they are going to the finals!! Presidente Doll is going to let us watch the game on Saturday how cool is that?¡ the fans are crazy and I think I told you guys that we see them outside of our window all of the time. It is so fun here. Every morning there are about 5 thousand bikers honestly and i have almost gotten hit by so many. Woops. Still alive though. Our presidents are so cool. Once every two weeks all of the elders get together and have a tie exchange and then the Hermana have a party and Hermana Doll makes us cake and ice-cream. This MTC is so personal I feel like. All the teachers are so attentive to your needs and it’s great. We have been kind of going crazy because who wouldn’t from sitting in a classroom allllll day? But life here is awesome.

Sister Marquez was here the other morning trying to find me mom and dad!!! How cool is that? I am going to email her and president says that she can come see me so that is super awesome.

I had some sweet spiritual experiences this week. Too many to type but mom I wrote you a letter about one of them that I think you will love. The temple this last week was SO awesome. Favorite session that I have ever done. They do it in Spanish here and then you listen to it in English with headphones. But this week since there are so many North Americans here now they did an all English session which was cool. We get to listen to devotionals on video every week and this week we watched the famous one by elder Holland about salvation isn’t cheap so we as missionaries need to give it our all. SO awesome and I love Elder Holland. What a powerful speaker!! But something cool that I do want to share with you guys is my talk experience. So you know how we have to write a Spanish talk every week right? Well this week it was on repentance. The first thought that came into my head was great. I am definitely speaking because I can’t even pronounce repentance in Spanish. well as I was writing my talk I kept having this feeling to share a certain story on repentance but I kept just brushing it off because I didn’t really want to and I didn’t know how to say most of the words so I was lazy and didn’t want to look them up basically. The morning of Sunday I had this strong feeling to write my experience in my talk and again I just brushed it off. As we were sitting in sacrament, a voice told me heather you are speaking and need to share your experience. So then right after sacrament was over they announced the speakers. Sure enough I was the last Hermana out of the 3 that were chosen to speak. I was so nervous because of my bad Spanish and the fact that I was feeling bad for not listening to the spirit to put my experience in. as I was sitting on the stand again I had the feeling to just trust in my Spanish and share the experience. So I got up to speak and said my talk and before I bore my testimony I started to share my experience and the words literally came to my mouth. I don’t even know how and I didn’t even write them down. It was soooooo cool. later that night this elder came up to me and gave me a note that basically said my experience in my talk that I shared helped him with what he is going through and he had been praying for the whole MTC for an answer to his struggles. This gospel is amazing and so unbelievably cool. I am glad that I was able to listen to the spirit finally and help someone out. I learned my lesson though that it is better to just listen the first time. I love being a missionary and I love you all!! Thanks for all you guys do for me and you are all in my prayers!!

Love,

Hermana Kleinman

Week 3 (June 23, 2015)

hola! this week was a blast. 

so first let me begin with pday. we went to a liters it is like the Chilean Walmart and we bought a few and maybe too many snacks for the week so that we can survive the food here. ALSO HAPPY LATE FATHERS DAY TO ALL YOU FATHERS OUT THERE!! and happiest fathers day to you dad!! i am convinced you are the greatest dad out there. and thanks for the snacks at liters...

We explored Chile and found the cutest little bakery ever. and the best best pastries ever!!! it was a good day. i had a ton of gringo moments. whenever i say something to a Chilean and then i think in my head, gringo detected. but my Spanish is improving by leaps and bounds so thanks for any prayers that have come my way. today we get to go to the temple again and i cannot wait!

my district is way cool i think i have mentioned that before. ill send a picture of them. one kid has the same personality as Taylor and it cracks me up! but we were getting sooo unfocused and not progressing a whole ton so one day we totally switched out attitude and things have been so much better and i feel like ever since then i have been able to learn a whole ton more. 5 new districts came and so the CCM is packed now. it is kinda crazy. we had to say bye to the other districts who left and it was sad!! cant get attached to anyone in the mission though right because it is going to be a year and a half full of goodbyes. but really it is so fun here and spiritual. mom you were definitely right about that one. we have been doing weird things to entertain ourselves like your pranks that you told me about that you pulled in the mtc mom hahaha. we made our teachers do soy sauce shots if we got a Spanish sentence right. things like that. so weird but so entertaining.

we have been improving teaching and we just practice all of the time lately. it is great! We watched the video on the life of Thomas s Monson and you guys should alllll watch it. so good. but i dogged the bullet for giving a talk again. no but even this kid got up and he could barely speak any Spanish and he has been here longer than me but i love how strong you can still feel the spirit even though someone isn't speaking the perfect language. i love it. 

hmm what else happened. oh yeah mom i singed a huge hole into my skirt with the iron. i need your skills and obviously need to work on mine!! i am so jealous that you guys get to have lola with you for months. i miss dogs. there are so many here but i cant touch them because there is a change of getting rabies which is so dumb!! i love it here though so dang much. there was a quote from Elder Bednar that said something about how you are called to serve the people in your mission and also your companions. i know that i was put with  my comps for a reason and i know that i am in this specific mission for a reason. i love you all!! thanks for being the greatest. 

xoxoxo

CHAO! (they dont use adios here)

love,

hermana kleinman

Week 2 (June 16, 2015)

Chile is probably my new favorite place. so great because this is the only MTC in the world that lets you go out and explore on pdays. last week we got to spend a few hours in the city. the city is so cute and charming and it reminds me of Europe!! the bread here is out of this world. i´d compare it to France. we tried some empanadas from some random little place and that probably was a bad idea but they tasted yummy. dad you would be so proud of me knowing the foods that i am trying here! the people are super nice here and everyone says hi to you. our room if you look out the window you can see the tallest building in south america so thats pretty cool. it is sooooo cold here in the morning and it doesn't get light until 8 am so we get to sleep in a little later. props of Chileeee. we got to go to the temple last pday and it was beautiful! the celestial room looked just like the Gilbert temple to me but a small version so i felt a little piece of home. the temple was just what i needed. calmed all my stresses and this week has been unreal and so good. i was super stressed about the language the first week but i heard a quote that says ¨if you are going to put your faith in God then you need to put your faith in his timing¨´ i realllyyyy like that quote because i just realized that i will learn the language as long as i am doing all that i can do and i am mainly in the mtc to learn how to teach anyways. me and my companions are learning to teach super well together. it is kinda hard to teach in a trio but i think we rock it and we are learning sooooososososo much every day! it is cool because the fake investigators that we teach are actually real people that our teachers taught in the mission field so it makes it feel more real. this week FLEW by. so fast. my district is so much fun. we are all the best of the best friends and sometimes its a negative because we can´t focus but i think of it more of a blessing. i cant even begin to tell you guys how much i love it here!! sundays here are my favorite day for sure. my spiritual bucket gets filled so much and carries throughout the week. we each have to prepare a short talk in Spanish every week and then during sacrament Presidente doll announces random people to give their talks. haha kinda scary but i came off free this week. i feel like i have learned more in these two weeks than most of my life. copa america (the soccer tournament) is going on right now here in Santiago so every night you can here everyone getting ready and crazy for the game while we are studying in our classroom haha. oh my gosh the fruit here is either so gross or SOOOO good. i live off of it. i feel like i am living the life. we get out laundry done for us and we come home to cookies a lot of the nights from our Presidents wife.we had to say bye to a few districts last night but more are coming tomorrow. it is weird to be the not newbies anymore!! i did feel like the people who had been here for just a few weeeks more than me were so much older but now we are going to be the older ones. seriously i love being a missionary though. every day when i wake up and get to put my tag on it is so great. i can feel all of your prayers so thank you!! i love you all. keep being awesome and go to the temple! 

Companions (Hermana Jacobson and Hermana Freedman) And Classroom

Enjoying PDay in Santiago Chile with Companions

Riding in a Cab with Hermana Freedman