This photo is after Caleb was in Chile for just a few hours with only 2 hours of sleep. He says he doesn't understand a word of the Chilean Spanish! We got this wonderful photo and a very nice email from Pres Cook letting us know he arrived safely, what he did the first day, where he is serving and information about his new companion. We also get the weekly mission newsletter which is so nice to stay informed and feel a little part of what is happening in the mission. So glad he is having this opportunity to serve the Lord!
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| Elder Caleb Stam with President and Sister Cook |
I really really like my mission president. He's a really cool person. I didn't get to talk to him a ton, but he does seem really cool, and all the other missionaries here love him. There were 21 new missionaries in this mission. 17 of them from the Mexico MTC, and 4 from the Chilean MTC, but surprisingly, none of them are latinos.
Things in Chile are actually pretty nice. To me at least. It's a little bit like Cabo, just with only houses. Our house is tiny. It's like the size of a one car garage, and there's no hot water for showers. They heat their water super weird too. I don't really know how to explain it and I'm not going to try. Ask Chad Maughn, he probably knows. The flight went well. We were on a gigantic airplane. It was huge. We got two meals on it, but I only got about two hours of sleep. My new companion is a really awesome person. He knows a little bit of English, he's trying to learn English, but he doesn't know very much right now. I don't know how fast I'm going to learn Spanish. I do not understand one word people are saying. I could understand almost everything in Mexico, but here, it's completely different. It doesn't even sound like Spanish. They add the word po randomly at the end of words. So when they say yes, they said sipo. I don't understand a word, and I don't understand Elder León hardly at all either haha. I should learn fast though. There are four missionaries in our house, and they all learned fairly quickly. One of them said that they could speak well after just four months. It seriously looks a lot like Mexico though.
None of the houses have any form of heating, and it's cold until noon, and it gets cold again at like six. My companion says that it's always really cold in the morning, even in the summer.
Yup, my companion is my papa haha. And I was born in la bandera, which is the place I'm serving right now. We should totally come here some day. I think you would like it here. It's way different. Me and my companion were white washed into the area, so we had to start from scratch. Our first day we did contacting the entire time. Oh and the schedule here is different. We wake up at 7:30, and we go to bed at 11:30. Apparently Chileans stay up late.
Love,
Elder Stam
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| Elder Andrew Rietveld and Elder Stam at the Mexico MTC before Caleb left. They are related now cuz Andrew's sister Shelly married Caleb's brother Joshua. Cool huh! |
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