Elder Scott McMillan

Looking back on the weeks, they are all pretty similar with minor differences. This week's difference was I got bit by a dog.  It's like a right of passage walking the streets of Chile that are infested with stray dogs.  Envision Scott walking members home from church when a huge German Shepard jumped out of the bushes and took a chunk out of my leg.  While thats a good story, the reality is I was knocking some doors with my comp and this tiny little wiener dog snuck up on us (like we didn't even know it was behind us) and bit me in the calf.  I didn't know what happened but suddenly felt a sharp pain in my calf to look down and see a little rat dog and my leg bleeding.  The dog disappeared, we tried to find the owner to no avail and so I got to experience the Chilean Urgent Care to get my 1st of 5 rabies shots.  Let me tell you, the Quellon urgent care is sketch.  It took them too long to figure out I wasn't from Chile and my name was Scott, not Danie...

  Yooooooooo....s o this week we had interviews with President Gervic. He and his wife (Hermana Gervic) pretty much mean the world to us missionaries here in the Chile Puerto Montt mission. They are kinda like our parents, bosses, and teachers all at the same time, while somehow also being our greatest support and feel like best friends who listen to and help us. They are really awesome people. They are from Chile and President worked for the church before being called as mission presidents.  You serve for 3 years with your spouse and your kids come along if they are young.  I always knew President Gervic was awesome but didn't fully understand his sense of humor and awesomeness due to my lack of Spanish. Now that my Spanish is decent I can actually have a normal conversation without having to think so much. Once every 6 weeks we get to have interviews with President Gervic where we generally bring questions and he gives us advice. Its super informative and helps a lot an...

Today for p-day we went to Castro which is like an hour and a half away. Not exactly how I wanted to spend my p-day but our zone organized an olympic activity and my companion wanted to go so off we went.  We didn't get out on time to get the nice luxury bus so we had to take what I call the bum bum bus. It's this really tiny bus that is small even for Chilean people. It's quite a bit worse for someone who is like 6 inches above the national height average. My mood of not wanting to go in the first place didn't get better on the bum bum bus but all is well and the day ended up ok. I got to talk to my parents and siblings which was nice to talk in English.  I finished Saints which was great and now I am listening to it. I made the most of it even though I would have liked to do nothing on p-day.   And why did I want to do nothing on P-day?  The week was busy and I was so tired. It felt like we were constantly walking around just trying to get ...

W hats going on everybody...its Elder McMillan here back with another weekly update. If I did a vlog thats probably how I would start it. We had kind of a crazy week in Quellon even though I spent like 4 days away from my sector for zone conference in Puerto Montt...  Zone conference was super epic. I get to see the grand total of the 2 people I know in the mission outside my district!!  While most are dead who I know, I  did get to see my fellow CCM survivor Hermana Palmer! It rained a lot in Chile this week. It takes a long time to walk to your location and you get soaked in pouring rain.  An important side note is that I am in a full suit and tie during all of this traveling. On the way back from Puerto Montt they played a Jackie Chan movie (Rush Hour 2) which I didn't  really understand in Spanish but the fight scenes were pretty funny and the beginning of the   new Willy Wonka which seems a little strange. Kind of nice not having TV.  We arrived b...