Week 48 - (May 9) The awkard moment when your sister becomes your daughter

So I have a good four minutes to express some feelings for this week. First off. Thanks to everyone who has wished me a happy birthday!!! Love you all!! And sorry I will reply to the rest next week.

We found out our transfers this morning and it was superrrrrr weird and crazy again!! So I and Hermana Hopkins are leaving haha they are whitewashing fundo but lucky for the missionaries who are coming in because we left it in tip top shape with investigators of gold with baptism dates wahoo! I am just switching rooms in our apartment and going to the sector right next door to finish Hermana McGregor’s training! She is from Utah and she is so dang cute, I am so excited. I will still be in the same ward but just in a different sector. This one is called LincanRay and it’s absolutely huge with tons of hills. I think that God is trying to tell me that I need to get back into shape. But it will be nice because I can help the missionaries who are whitewashing fundo with investigators and stuff. But that was a surprise I am so excited to stay but not stay. 

Ginette yes is the mother of Nicolas and SHE IS SO AWESOME. She was sitting next to me and goes hey I feel something. I feel like I need to get up and share my thoughts (during fast and testimony meeting) and she gets up and tells everyone ¨¨ï know that I am not a member yet but on May 21st I am going to baptize me into this church because I know that it is true. I have been searching for the correct church for years and I know that God sent me the missionaries so that I could get the Book of Mormon and find this gospel. We went to her house last night to teach her about fasting and tithing and she told us that she had been fasting all day long because she heard that is what you are supposed to do. Her husband listened to us for the second time and I know that their whole family is going to get baptized in the next few months. I love them. I am sad to not be able to go and teach them but I am happy that I get to see them at church.

I am so grateful for you guys and love you all!

xoxoxo

PS dad we ALWAYS have weird experiences like the lion rawrr don’t worry. 

Something random. We always count how many people are named Juan. We call them Juantactos like a contacto or contact but when their name is Juan hahaha I think I had like 300 this cambio really.

Love,

Hermana Kleinman

so my district leader bought me a cake

thats our zone and hermana mcgregor is in there wahhoooo

everyone always tells me i look like laura ingles from little house on the prarie so we found a little house on the prarie and when they tell me that we say yes!!! then we show them this picture hahaha

and i am going to miss hermana hopkins. picture unintentionally taken but sums up so much.

thats all love you guys

Week 47 (May 2) - verdadera intención

Let me just tell you a little bit about the life’s of my comp and I this past week. The weirdest things keep happening over and over. The rule is in our mission is that we can enter into a man’s house if he is alone but only if he is over the age of 35. You can NEVER tell the age of people here in Chile. Really though. You think that they are 30 and then they somehow are actually 60. I call it the Chilean secret because I still haven’t found out the trick to it. But anyways so every time we contact a man in his house we always have to somehow awkwardly ask if he is alone and then how old he is. hahaha so sometimes they get the way wrong idea. But the other day we were in this old man’s house and he seemed so cool. We taught him the restoration and we were bearing testimony and all the sudden he grabs my comps hand and I yelled NOOOOOO and then he straight up did a lion rawer at me hahahahahahahaha I couldn’t stop laughing and then me and my comp said bounce. (Our code word for when we feel like getting out of somewhere) we got up and walked out hahahha. I know he is a child of God but we aren´t ever going back....we got to find the people with verdadera intención if you know what I mean.

The members after the baptism are getting more excited to work with us and help out. We have done some night of families and we have been playing the only game I remember when we used to do them. The flour game...........I definitely lost on the first one. definitely got flour all on the face and then we were late so we had to book it home and we were just running through Chile with flour faces hahahaha people were like what the heck.

The mom of Nicolas and his sister came to our steak conference and they were crying the whole time and they kept thanking us for helping them know this gospel. It was so sweet. Going to be converts 100 percent before their baptisms.

This week EVERYONE was just going off on us about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon. They must have allllll woken up on the wrong side of the bed or something. But it was cool because it really strengthened my testimony of the restoration and the book of Mormon as me and my comp studied this week. Actually really cool story about the book of Mormon. We met this girl and she told us I know alllllllllll about your church and blah blah blah but we asked her if she had read the book of Mormon and she said no. we testified really strongly of it and then she goes okay. I will read it all but just to let you guys know, I will not be a Mormon. Then we went back a week later and she goes actually Hermana’s I might be a Mormon I really like this book. BAM. Power of the Book of Mormon right? 

Another cool thing happen with one of the chosen investigators. My comp challenged her to be baptized and she goes obvio hermanas its part of the gospel of Jesus Christ. She’s sooooooo cool.

I love fundo and my comp. so much. I think that I actually might leave next week because I think that my little trainee Hermana Hopkins is totally ready to train. She is awesome.

Shout out to Mama Robyn because its mother’s day on Sunday and I want everyone to know how thankful I am for her in my life. I love you mom!!! 

Can’t wait to see you all on Sunday. It is going to be the best birthday ever!! Yesssssssssssss. This week was so awesome can’t say this enough. I love my mission. I love Chile. I love the Lord. Love you guys.

Xoxox

Hermana Kleinman

Flour game with Nicolas and his fam

our ex-mamita (she dropped us this week...dang it. so now we are in the search for someone else to wash our clothes) but she comes with us a lot shes so cute

 HAPPY BIRTHDAY HEATHER!!!!!!! 

Week 46 (April 26) Brownie? or brawnie?¿¿

hahahaha this week has been so much fun. Today we had a zone activity and we played broom hockey and killed it. 

We saw another miracle with the mom of Nicolas (who just got baptized)....we were teaching principles of the gospel and she goes Hermanas? Can I share something?  We were like uh yes of course. Then she went on to tell everyone there about the opposition that she is having with her family. She told us that everyone in her work and family are saying things to her like ¨Ginette...you are Mormon now? Why? And just baggin on the Mormons. And she said that she told them all ¨no I am not Mormon yet. but I will be one day and I will be because I can feel something different in the Mormon church and not in this church and then she went on telling us that she knows these things that we teach are true because she has seen the change in her son and she wants that for allllll of her family. She is so awesome. We put her baptism for the 21st because we want her and her daughter to get baptized together. I love their family. 

We have another really cute couple Carmen and Luis. we had knocked their door and she let us in. she told us that she had gone to the Mormon church before and loved it but never went back because nobody ever invited her............we obviously got right on that and invited her. She came and loved it. Her husband is kind of deaf so when we go to teach them we talk and then she translates by yelling in his ear in the tu form hahahaha it’s so cute. I love my area and love being a missionary like always. Love you guys!! 

Remember to look for the simple things in life that can always make you happy.

Love,

Hermana Kleinman

the rain and the muddy season has hit. hard. 

Week 45 (April 18) You can´t beat the timing of God

First off... congrats to Brent and Clara on the wedding!!!! You guys looked awesome. And I am glad I could be there with my cutout and all. so happy for you guys!!!

Second off. HAPPY BIRTHDAY COURTNEY!!! Love you Sista.

This week was pretty steller if you ask me. Nicolas Valenzuela got baptized. Let me tell you about this Nicolas. The other week he was on the bus sitting behind Hermana Rich and her Comp. They over heard him saying that he was searching for the true church because there had to be one and he wanted to get baptized into it. His friend then started to explain the apostasy (it turns out that he was a menos active) She freaked out with her comp and was like we are Mormon missionaries!!! We teach about this!!! She got her info and he lived in our sector. He was basically a golden investigator and I don’t think we did much. It was all the spirit and the Lord. He is 19 and wants to go on a mission when he can. He is AWESOME. He used to be in a realllllllllllyyy bad state in his life and he used to not believe in God. Things opposite if you catch my drift. It was the coolest thing to see the spirit work with him and to see him change literally 100 percent. We are now working with his family to get them ready for their baptisms. Super prepared. The mission is the coolest thing in the world

Another miracle with that mom Valeska and her two kids. She called us this week with some doubts about a few things and we hadn’t seen her all week. We had been praying for her sooo hard. We were walking in the street last night and she literally appeared in front of us out of nowhere. She was super happy to see us and told us ¨Hermana's I know I have my doubts but I am reading the Book of Mormon and I know that I will resolve my doubts from that and can you guys please come to my house tomorrow?¨ it was such an answer to prayers.

Lately I have been thinking a lot about this. God´s timing and I just can´t believe how perfect it is. It blows my mind every time. I know that Nicolas was prepared and was put in our path perfectly. I know that there are ALWAYS people waiting for us but it is up to us to be ready to follow the spirit and find them. I am so happy to be a missionary and to see miracles literally every day. I hope that you guys can look for missionary opportunities in your lives every day. Love you all!!

Love,

Hermana Kleinman

Baptism of Nicolas Valenzuela and his mom and sister who came to the baptism and loved it. The mom is also searching for the true church.

the ward was pumped to see a baptism because it’s been since November think. wahooo!

Week 44 (April 11)

hahahaha it is starting to get realllll cold down here in Chile. 

Sorry this week was SO great and I don’t have time to tell you guys about it. I am the worst. Basically we have a miracle Nicolas and he is going to get baptized this week. 

We are still teaching the people who came to general conference and they are on track for their baptism date this month too. Dang it I’m so awkward. (They are on track). hahaha 

My companion Hermana Hopkins is going to send pictures and write a super good email so keep stalkin that blog of hers :)

I love you guys!!!

Love,

Hermana Kleinman

FYI Hermana Hopkins Blog is http://hermanahopkinschile.blogspot.com/

Week 43 (April 4)

I hope that all of you watched every single one of the conference sessions. And if you did...watch them again. SOOOOOOO GOOOOOOD. I had written a bunch of questions for my life, for the family, for my investigators and for the mission and every single one was answered. One of my favorite talks was the family counsel one and the last one that Elder Holland gave. 

This week has been super interesting and super awesome. We have seen tons of miracles. So I am with Hermana Hopkins and she is from Colorado near Colorado Springs. She is the cutest thing in the world. And already speaks better Spanish than me so that’s nice. I don’t even feel like I am training her. I was walking one day and I was like you know what you are JUST like a Sullivan. And she was like waittttt I am related to Sullivan’s!! haha she is like a brookieboomboom I love it. 

Let me tell you about our living situation. We live in the nice apartments on the fifth floor and the view is incredible. SO COOL. And they are super nice too. We live with.....HERMANA RICH!!! My trainer in the mish. And she is training someone else named Hermana McGregor from Utah. It’s the best thing in the world. Four greengas conquering the world in Chile. But Hermana Rich is also a sister training leader. So this weekend she had to leave to Concepcion to go to meetings. So we were in a trio with my comp and with Hermana McGregor who has not even a week in the mission. It was so much fun hahaha.

We work in an area called Fundo el Carmen and the other Hermanas that we live with work in another sector but we are all in the same ward if that makes sense. It’s really big here. And it’s a ward. With like 130 people attending!!! yesssssss. I am so excited.

This week we were praying for the investigators that we have found that they could come to conference. We had this feeling that someone new and awesome was going to come. The night of Saturday Hermana McGregor contacted someone in the bus and the mom was awesome. She lives in our sector. In the morning of Sunday we had felt like calling this girl that the other Hermana had contacted in the bus. We did it and she was like yes I have time at 5! And we were like uhhhh perfect. We explained and invited her to conference and she said that she would come. We went to pick her up in between sessions and she brought her two little boys. She said that she felt really inspired and lots of the questions that she had were answered. On the bus back to our area she looked at us and said you know what Hermana’s....I think you guys really need to visit my mom. She lives alone and doesn’t have a religion. We were like obviously. And then my agenda accidentally got left on the bus. They found it and we ended up at their house and met her aunt and mom and they are the coolest people. I am so excited to work with them. 

We have a few other REALLY cool investigators that are miracles but that is the miracle that I wanted to tell you all about today. I am trying always to focus on the miracles and I am feeling that the hard things are going away. 

The rain started again this week. It hit us hard without umbrellas hahaha. I love Chile and I love this area. I AM SO EXCITED!

You guys sound great and I am thankful for the best fam bam in the whole entire world. Love you all.

Love Hermana Kleinman

PS Hermana Hopkins to the right of me, Hermana Rich and her comp Hermana McGregor

Week 42 (March 28) When the rollercoaster does an upside down flip

I hope that you all had an awesome Easter!! This Sunday was my favorite that I have had here in Gorbea I think. Well one of them. All of the talks were soooooooo good. I didnt have to give a talk in church!! That hasn’t happened in a while. But Easter was so awesome here because mostly everyone does believe in Christ and everyone was so happy yesterday in the streets. Chile is good place.

We had a super cool week and a seventy and President Wilhelm came and talked to our whole mission. They talked about the importance of the little things we do every day and how it effects baptism and people’s salvation. It really impacted me.

We also this week found tons of new people to teach and committed lots of people to church. Super successful week.....Then Sunday morning rolled around and we got a few calls from investigators with a bunch of excuses. We were kind of frustrated so we decided to go out and get them. we found a few. one came to church with us and loved it. Julia is her name. Her mom is an inactive but Julia wants to get baptized so we are working with the mom. 

We were sitting in sacrament and waiting for a good 35 minutes to start because they forgot to bring bread for the sacrament. And right after we started one of the coolest investigators Victor (not the one in jail) walked in and I was SOOOOOO surprised slash happy. He stayed for all of the hours and LOVED it. He is 25 and is reading in Alma. Has a testimony of the Book of Mormon and so we will see him baptized in a few weeks. He is the nephew of Pablo who also loves the Book of Mormon. It was a miracle because we had been praying for him all week to have (ganas) you say in Spanish but I guess it’s like desires to go to church. And he came!!!!!!!! Prayers do work. 

This week the most random things happened. We were teaching new people and right at the beginning the lights went out. Hahaha totally had a lesson in the dark. In the nighttime. That was interesting. I am going to miss Hermana Bowling.

I say that I am going to miss Hermana Bowling because this morning we went bowling as a zone and we had to get strikes to find out our cambios. We found out that I am leaving Gorbea and I will be in a huge city in Temuco opening a sector. I am going to finish the training of another Hermana and Hermana Bowling is going to stay here, lead the sector and finish her training with a Latina comp!!! It’s weird so I guess I will have two daughters in the mish. The new president is changing everyonesssss trainers this cambio. It’s the craziest cambio ever!!! But I will be with Hermana Hopkins. She came with Hermana Bowling. And is from the USA too. I feel kind of scared but my trust is all the way in the Lord. I know I can do anything through him and so can you guys.

Love you all!!

Hermana Kleinman

Luau!!!! as a district