Week 41 - March 14

Let’s just say that I am thankful for my comp because she has suchhhh a good voice. All of my comps have had really pretty voices and I am so thankful. Everyone always asks me why I don’t have a good voice, because apparently because I’m American I should.....hahahahaha they just don’t know the Kleinman family.

We had to go to Conce for one day this week really fast and we got to meet the new president. He is from the south of Chile and this is his 3rd time to be a mission president. His name is President Wilhem and he speaks Spanish and German. Not English. He and his wife are soooooooo awesome. They gave us some of the coolest advice. He is a lot different than President Bluth but I guess he is who our mission needs right now. He asked me how many investigators we had, then how many are progressing, then for how many baptism dates we have, and then their complete names. It was an awesome learning experience for me that if we want miracles for our investigators then we need to know their complete names by heart because we are always praying for them and with their full names. And it’s true because how many Juan’s are there here in Chile? I think I have talked to at least ten thousand. Actually probably more.

SOOO we have been working on more specific prayers with complete names and are the miracles just coming. We have this one investigator names Pablo Barrientos and we can never ever find him but it’s frustrating because he is so golden. So we have been praying hard to find him. We found him this week and we asked him how his readings in the Book of Mormon are going and he whipped out his book and showed us that his is in Mosiah 18 and he was excited to read about how alma was about to go and teach and baptize people in the waters of Mormon. He said that he always feels desires to read the Book of Mormon, knows it is true, and he loves it. He accepted a baptism date and then he came to church the next day all the way away. 

We had church 20 minutes away in bus because there was a video broadcast from a seventy and from Russel M. Nelson. Who knew that he speaks Spanish?! I didn’t. He spoke to all of Chile and it was awesomeeeee. So good. Our investigators who came were pumped and loved every word they said!!

I am learning so much every day and time is going by way to fast. Being a missionary is the best. I am going to figure out a way to make it slow down.

Love,

Hermana Kleinman

everyone knows Gorbea by this plane that they have at the entrance to this town one day we walked around and then we realized i look like a hunchback. embarrassing. Annnddd we get fed rich sometimes!! this was with famly Fica. they have the best food ever.

Week 40 (March 7) - River Baptism Why Not?

So basically I don’t have tons of time today but i am going to send some pics. This is Gaby and her parents. There is always soooo much opposition with baptisms and we went and started the font in the morning and went like two hours later to check it and the water wasn’t working. Haha turns out they turned off the water here in Gorbea. Typical. So we called the mom of gabby and told her what was going on and we were kind of kidding like yea so let’s go to the river?! And she’s like well why not?"!! So they brought tonssssssssssssss of people to her baptism and we were just walking through Gorbea with this mob and marina the mom of gabby was inviting everyone in the streets to come. It was soooo fun and SO COOL. Honestly I think my favorite baptism I have witnessed in my life. 

this is my grateful slash happy face from the valentines day package. I LOVE YOU GUYS!!! 

Week 39 (February 29) - Rollercoaster

First I want to tell you all what is going on in our mission right now. A few days ago we received calls from our district leaders that our mission President (President Bluth) lost his voice, went to a doctor and they sent him home to the US to Salt Lake City to a specialist doctor. He has a tumor in his throat and they aren't sure what it is right now. So right now the assistants are filling in for President until they get a replacement one from Chile. It is so sad and we did a fast as a mission for him and his family.

But what we are doing for him is that everyone is going to email their friends and family so that they can send pictures!! With this on a paper "En _________ oramos por usted" (En el espacio blanco pongan el pais donde estan sus familias) Tambien pudeden agragar mas comentarios si quieren. So like example (en mesa arizona oramos por usted) then next week please send me these pictures!!! So that we can help president feel animated.

But this week was crazy we had THE COOLEST lesson with that miracle Victor guy. He started crying and told us that he had been reading the BOM and knew it was true. At the end of the lesson he told us as we were walking out to the street that he wants to change. He had some sort of weight on his shoulders and he wanted help but he said let’s talk about it next time. Then a few days ago he called us in panic and told us that he couldn’t come to the church to have a lesson because he was in trouble but he seemed panicked and then hung up. We have been trying to call him but his phone is off. THEN Miguel called us and told us that he was talking to his old friends from the police and he was talking about victor and they told him that he just got put in jail. Soooooooooooooooooooo dangit. We think the thing that he wants to repent for is the reason why he is in jail. dangit. But we got permission to go give him a BOM to read while he has time. 

But speaking of Miguel he blessed the sacrament for the first time this Sunday and it was sooooo cool to see him!!! He was practicing all week haha.

We also have been helping this inactive family and the mom is totally active with an awesome testimony now and we are teaching her son of 16 but her daughter of 9 is going to get baptized this weekend. 

We were able to see lots of our investigators in church this weekend and less actives. Oh we also had a conference with Elder Bednar for all of the missionaries in South America and he basically ripped us apart it was so awesome. I learned so much.

I love the mission the whole world full and wouldn’t trade this time for anything else. I know that we have the restored gospel and the gospel is for everyone.

This is my zone. Best zone everrrrrrrrr!!!!!.

Love,

Hermana Kleinman 

Week 38 (February 22) - What the Miracles

So I realized that I put berries and berries in my last email but never explained. Here they call it the berry plague because they grow EVERYWHERE so we just are walking and are always eating berries. Yessssss. it’s like 100000 times the cabin.

The weather here won’t make up its mind right now it is REALLY cold in the night and morning and then REALLY hot in the day.

We had a tri-zone conference this week with President Bluth and it was sooooooo awesome. Seriously. I am so thankful that I was called to be in his mission. He is so inspired. Listen to this.

I now know that Hermana Bowling was definitely supposed to be my companion. Her first day here in Gorbea we were walking down this one street and this man yelled at us and said ¨hey!! When are you guys going to come share something with me at my house? We got his number and then put a time to go. He couldn´t and then couldn´t and finally could. We went and he is this owner of this hugeeee football or I guess you say soccer field in Gorbea. We were chatting on his lawn and he started getting emotional and he said that he had to tell us something. He said that he had a dream back in 2005 and he has never forgotten it. He told us that he always saw me and my other companion walking around Gorbea and always recognized me but never wanted to talk to us when we tried because my companion wasn’t the other one in his dream. So when he saw me and Hermana Bowling, he felt something warm and SO strong that he had to talk to us because she was the other person in his dream. He told us that he knew that we were here to tell him something important. He then started telling us about how he had died a few years back and was completely dead for 22 minutes. After he got revived he felt like he was still living to learn something else in this life. I asked him when he had died and he said in May of 1996. I couldn´t believe it. That is when I was born!!!!!! I freaked out and started crying I told him and he started crying. He told us that he has NEVER wanted to learn anything from the Mormon missionaries but now he can’t deny and he knows that he has to follow what we are going to teach him. We also found out that his son plays for the soccer team of Chile hahha what. We have like an actual cita lesson with him tonight and i am so pumped!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This family that we are working with is getting reactivated and it makes me want to cry. The mom is the best and she was so so so happy to be at church with her family

We also had contacted this guy like 3 months ago and he had heard about the book of Mormon and so we gave him one on the street and testified about it. We FINALLY found him last night and HE IS SO GOLDEN!!! He is reading in 2 Nephi and he has been reading for the past three months with his niece. What the miracles.

I am SO happy. My comp is a rockstar. She is learning so much Spanish so fast it’s insane. She challenged someone to be baptized in her first week and he accepted perfectly. 

Keep learning Spanish mom and dad!!! I am so happy and keep going to church in Mexico. I am so excited to actually understand sacrament meeting. 

love you all!

love,

Hermana Kleinman

We had our zone activity today at some waterfalls. I’m living the straight dream that’s for sure.

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.