A Letter (Personal Letter)
A Letter to God.
Lencho was a dedicated farmer. He was expecting a decent harvest. However, to his grief, a hail storm came and destroyed his harvest completely. Lencho was very sad. However, he had a strong belief in God. He was certain that God would help him. Also, he was an extremely straightforward man. Although working for a long time on the farm, he knew writing. Thus, he composed a letter to God. In the letter, he asked God to send him one hundred pesos. At that point, he went to the post office and put his letter into the post box.
The postman removed the letter from the letter-box. He read the address on it and laughed very much. Also, he rushed to the postmaster and demonstrated to him that strange letter. Moreover, the postmaster also laughed in the same way when he saw the address of God. However, on reading the letter, he got very serious. He lauded this man who had unquestioned faith in God and decided to help him in terms of money. He asked the employees of the post office to give charity. Moreover, he gave a part of-of his salary too. However, they were able to collect only a little more than 50 pesos as requested for by Lencho. The postmaster put the money in an envelope. It was addressed to Lencho.
On Sunday, Lencho once again came to the post-office. He asked if there was a letter for him. The postmaster took out the letter and handed it to Lencho. Lencho was not surprised after seeing the money. But when he counted the money, he became angry on God. He was sure that God could not have made a mistake. He took paper and ink and wrote one more letter to God. Then he put it into the letter-box.
After Lencho had left the place, the postmaster and the employees read
the letter. In it, Lencho had complained to God that he had received
only seventy pesos. Also, he requested God to send him the rest of the
money this time. However, he asked God not to send the money through the
mail. He wrote that the post-office employees were a bunch of crooks
and thus might have stolen the money.
Personal letters are informal letters written for individuals, usually only two people who know each other are involved.
- Date (Tanggal) = Usually this date is written on the top left. This date indicates when the letter was written.
- Address (Alamat) = This section is the place where you write the letter or the address from which the sender lives. The address is written at the top right.
- Salutation & Name (Salam & Nama) = This section includes the greeting and the name of the recipient of the letter. For example, "Dear...", "Dearest...", "Sweetheart", "Darling", "My love", etc.
- Introduction (Pembukaan) = The opening of a letter usually begins with an opening such as a response to a previous letter or it can be the beginning of self-introduction if you are just starting out in correspondence.
- Body (Isi Surat) = This section is the content or essence of the letter. In this Body section, you tell all the contents of the letter that we want to tell.
- Closure (Penutup) = This section indicates that the letter is coming to an end.
- Complimentary close (Salam Penutup) = This section is a short concluding phrase such as, "With love". "Sincerely yours", "With love", and so on.
- Signature (Tanda tangan) = This section is below the complementary close, you can put your signature or it can be just your initials.
Example expressions used in personal letters:
- How are you?
- Hope this letter finds you...
- Thank you for your last letter.
- It was so good to hear from you.
- Sorry for answering late
- I am sorry I should have written earlier...
- Haven't heard from you in a while so I thought...
- I am sorry to inform you that...
- I am looking forward to seeing you soon.
- I am looking forward to hear from you soon.
- My best wishes for the coming test.
- See you.
- I will write soon.
- I will have to stop now.
- I am waiting for a quick reply.
- Looking forward to see you again.
- Bye.
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