If anyone would like to send Matt a letter or package, this is his address that goes straight to his Mission Home:
Elder Matthew Christian McLean
Chile Santiago East Mission
Pedro De Valdivia 1423
Providencia
29 Santiago 29
Chile
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Matt's Second Letter
I am kind of missing the snow right now. It is really hot here in Santiago. This week has been crazy. The other day my companion and I were sitting at a bus stop and a guy that was really drunk came up and sat right next to us. I was sitting in the middle of my companion and the drunk guy so the drunk guy leans over me and tells my companion, ¨With all due respect, people from the United States are stupid¨ and of course I can´t understand him because a. it´s spanish, b. he is drunk and slurring his words. So my companion says, ¨Hey that isn´t very respectful,¨ then the drunk guy says, ¨Are you saying I´m wrong?¨ My companion says ¨Yeah¨ Then the drunk guy says to me, ¨Am I wrong?¨ And I can´t understand him so I say ¨Sí, sí.¨ Then he walks off. It was crazy. Anyways, everything is going good. Spanish is still really hard but it´s getting better. We were at the house of an inactive family and somehow got talking about pebre and I told them how Dad told me to try some. So they invited us over on Sunday night and made us some pebre. It was really good. I think it is one of the only spicy things that they make in Chile. Thanks for all the Christmas presents, you overdid yourself. That was way too much candy. But thanks. I´ll talk to you next week.
Love,Matt
Love,Matt
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Matt's First Letter from Chile
Hey,
I´m finally in Chile. It is awesome. I am having so much fun. My trainer is from Mexico so he is a native Spanish speaker. He speaks english but doesn´t speak it to me. It is really hot down here, but it is really fun. They speak so fast, it is insane. I can hardly understand them most of the time. But it is getting better each week. Dad is right about how they speak good spanish down here. In my district there is a Uraguyan and I don´t like his spanish very much, it is hard to understand. Everything is going great. My area is Puente Alto, and it is the most poor area in my mission, and maybe even of all Santiago. But that is a good thing, because from what I´ve heard the rich people aren´t very receptive to the gospel. There are two companionships in my area and we live in the same apartment together. It is fun because the other companionship is one of the Elders from my district in the MTC. Everyone is really nice and the Chilean people are really nice. Although everytime I get on the bus I feel like everybody is staring at me. Not in a bad way, just like they´ve never seen anything like me before. The food here is great, the bread is delicious. Every house we go to we get juice or some bread or something. President Morán is a really good guy. I can´t wait until I can actually speak spanish. That will help a lot. Right now I can catch parts of the conversation and teach lessons, that´s it. I got the Christmas presents but haven´t opened them yet. I hope everything is going well for you.
Love,
Matt
P.S. Oh yeah, and the Chilean kids are hilarious, it´s funny to listen to them because they can speak more spanish than I can.
I´m finally in Chile. It is awesome. I am having so much fun. My trainer is from Mexico so he is a native Spanish speaker. He speaks english but doesn´t speak it to me. It is really hot down here, but it is really fun. They speak so fast, it is insane. I can hardly understand them most of the time. But it is getting better each week. Dad is right about how they speak good spanish down here. In my district there is a Uraguyan and I don´t like his spanish very much, it is hard to understand. Everything is going great. My area is Puente Alto, and it is the most poor area in my mission, and maybe even of all Santiago. But that is a good thing, because from what I´ve heard the rich people aren´t very receptive to the gospel. There are two companionships in my area and we live in the same apartment together. It is fun because the other companionship is one of the Elders from my district in the MTC. Everyone is really nice and the Chilean people are really nice. Although everytime I get on the bus I feel like everybody is staring at me. Not in a bad way, just like they´ve never seen anything like me before. The food here is great, the bread is delicious. Every house we go to we get juice or some bread or something. President Morán is a really good guy. I can´t wait until I can actually speak spanish. That will help a lot. Right now I can catch parts of the conversation and teach lessons, that´s it. I got the Christmas presents but haven´t opened them yet. I hope everything is going well for you.
Love,
Matt
P.S. Oh yeah, and the Chilean kids are hilarious, it´s funny to listen to them because they can speak more spanish than I can.
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