Monday, June 27, 2011

Two more letters :)

Letter 4 - June 17
Good morning today
so the mavs are the champions that is awesome dirk is the man!
i'm emailing early today cuz from 9 to 11 we have sum meetin with these argentina agegents pple and it pretty much makes our morning all wack so we are doing laundry now!
and with the meeting we might be able to go see the real world like cars and people and buses hahaha  cuz we might have to be driven sumwhere idk ..we also have it nxt thursday and i think there is a better chance of going sumwhere on thursday

its hard to focus most times when we r reading in class my mind always starts to wonder and its buggin me ill be on a page for like 5-6 min i've always struggled with that in reading but mostly when there are pple around me its toguh ill see sum 1 move or sumthin and i just lose focus then i have to read it over and over again to remmber wat i read. idk how to get rid of it i guess practice. and i lose focus to when teachers and students are talkin. and im just like i have no idea wats just been said. so im going to keep trying hard to focus idk i guess keep praying for me and ill tell u nxt wk if its the same

Aunt Karen, Reggie, Uncle Paul.  Paul and Karen will be heading to Riverside, CA where Paul will serve as the Mission President.

Spansih is confusing the best way i can describe it is Math with Words but im not freaking out or anything its just like shooting a jumper it'll come with practice and stuff!

everyone is like freaking out about it and im just like chill its actually pretty funny seeing pple pull there hair out and stuff...rome wasnt built in a day

"Forrest gump like made american history" - dobson

we got sum nice BofM in spanish but they are a lil to big for my scripts bag

on Monday when we teach our "investigator" who is our teacher Hermano estevez he wants us to do it all in spanish so thatll be fun and interesting.
My comp freaks out and stresses sum times so i think its good im with him so i can calm him down

Elder Roberts and his companion.
I can understand when our teacher is talking in spanish not perfectly but i put wrds together so they make sense its cool!

this wk for gym the gym is going to be used up for meetings so that means nnnnooooo basketballlll  but we'll be outside playin i'll still do my work out and i'll also get a tan so by the time i get to argentina i dont look like gordon hayward lol

Rosemary M Wixom came and spoke to us on Tues shes the primary general pres it was good

Soo dad will be like a mile from me hmm ill be lookin jk

U can hear all the efy kids yell sumtimes when u go outside

i saw a baby the other day lol a real kid

i hope we can watch sum firewoks on the 4th i was just thinkin that there is that stadium of fire down the road so we'll be able to hear that!
rumor is that its fathers day on sunday dont worry i sent a card home that should get there soon

which blessing oil stuff have i blessed is it the one in the bag or my backpack? i cant remember.
found my pat blessin the color one but idk where the lamenatd one is

i got a tie sum elder gave me so ill use that as trade bait cuz pretty much no one has good ties

well i guess im done
luv yall miss yall
Elder Reginald G Roberts

Letter 5 - June 24
Hey hi there everyone!
I heard yesterday that jimmer was drafted by the bucks! but then i read alyssa's email about him being traded to the Kings!! That is awesome Oh  that is awesome!
and Jazz picked Up Enes Kanter And Alec Burkes I'm calling right now Burkes is the Next Kobe Bryant i called it b4 the draft and the jazz will not go wrong there. Perfect choice!

Well everything is bueno here! tonight we get to hear from an apostle probably around 4!
I haven't seen paul karen kevan or nancy but i'm lookin haha
Uncle Kevin, Aunt Nancy, Elder Reggie, Aunt Karen, and Uncle Paul at the MTC.
Oh its funny on preparation day or when i'm in street clothes and i'll see sum missionaries walk by i'll think to myself "Sweet Missionaries" like when we see them at wal mart and stuff hahahaha its kinda a blonde moment...i guess i do that cuz we've never had any missionaries at home and stuff, so seeing missionaries is still new haha

Tomorrow we will be getting new zone leaders and that will make us the oldest group in our district so we are the Vets now that is pretty weird!

in our district we have sum athletes sum elder Schaap from New Mexico is playing football for BYU (so if u want me to say any mean things to a real cougar, ill take ur suggestions. like Utah rocks!! hahaha jk) then there is a kid who plays Baseball for sum college in AZ and he says he could probably get drafted if he wanted, then there is a kid on the Byu track team from Texas he was saying he was 21st in the country in Hurdles! So its pretty sweet being around other athletes!
Oh and that Elder Webber or Weber  who said he was on tooeles champ team like 5 yrs ago, i guess he plays ball for BYU and he used to play for UVU so maybe Aaron England might know him, he said he like redshirted for the cougs last yr. its sweet cuz i could beat him one on one, he said he changed his shot to look like jimmers cuz jimmer is his idol! he said he went to a private school after coach alverson died so that is y i have no idea who he is

Spanish is still not making much since but it'll come no worries sum things i just get and others are just way wack and makes no sense, i can understand but not speak much
its sweet if u say leera that means "will u read" so sometimes one word means 3 words in eng.

I still don't sleep much  but i get way tired sumtimes in the day so i will walk in circles sumtimies when i study so i stay awake haha i thought of it yesterday!

We talked with an argentina console guy and he just answered questions for about an hour an a half. he says  pple are reallly poor and we might get robbed  so we have that to look forward to hahaha and they are really family oriented there "we believe that families can live together forever" will probably be my opening line for every house hahaha

our teachers have been telling our district that we need to leave babylon behind and slang language... that is hard haha

wat else to say!
 i got the package  thanks. i'm going to send this i have 4min so u can ask me questions

luv yall miss yall
Elder Reginald Grant Roberts
ps and how are the Roberts fams and Smart fams doing :)

Photos courtesy of Uncle Paul.

Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Letter 3 (with pictures!)

Wassup again!
Sorry mom i'm late emailing u my comp had to get a haircut!
Mavs up 3 2 ugh i wanna watch but whatever i'm fine.

Yoshiwhatever Kikuchi came and spoke to us and i thought how that was supposed to be my name since he was speaking when i was born. he was an awesome speaker telling his life story. for the sake of time i won't tell u haha.
L-R: Me, above my right shoulder Elder Lang, tall blond Elder McDaniel (we talk ball), Elder Dobson (one of the funniest dudes in the world), sitting is his comp. Elder Cooper, Hermana Smith is squatting, standing is Hermana Toronto ("Peanut butter time" - she is hilarious), then my companion at the other side.

 My branch pres Stutterd used to work as an advisor for 3 US pres... Ford, Raegen, and the 1st Bush and he's been on airforce 1 for over 21 million miles
and every one thinks hes a 3 nefite cuz hes always going to like iraq or france or jordan...and he pretty much knows where the exact place where everyones from...his wife's dad or sumthn helped organize Stansbury or sumthn hes a great guy!

Haha this is funny i swear all the pacific islander elders smell waaay good lol im not trying to sound creepy haha even tho i am sounding creepy but they do! ill have to visit the islands and buy sum soap or watevr they use hahahaha
"Hna Toronto wanted to jump off this HS musical style and she asked me and Elder Dobson to do it with her.  I was like "Fiiiiine"...don't worry we are not holding hands haha it looks like it bahaha" - Elder R.

 i always seem to wake up like at 4 every morning and my body is like wahooo ready to go then i look at my watch and i still have 2 hrs its weird

thanks for the packages and the nba updates....and as a representative of the Reginald name club my man Reggie Bush needs his Hesiman and championship back. us Reggies need to go on strike or sumthn idk hahaha...reggie miller will lead us haha

i saw ben tripp

From THE Stansbury Park to Bahia Blanca (Reggie is referring to Stansbury as THE Stansbury Park (as in THE Ohio State)


spanish is pretty hard its just confusing but im really good at memorizing words
and its pretty funny we talk bout conjugated wrds and adverbs and im like wat the heck is an adverb and conjugation stuff so im also kinda learning eng and span haha i probly should have payed more attention in english lol

The song Come Thy Fount is basically my fav song its not in the hymn books but wen i die someone needs to play that i swear i feel the spirit every time even when i whistle it
its pretty cool i try to think of a song of the world haha and sumtimes i just cant remember at all the wrds so that is like a cool weird blessin since i probly heard the song 2 wks ago its cool!

There is a Jordan Wynn lookalike running around here and i just start laghing cuz i think of Wynns gorgeous mustache hahaha i should go get his autograph
Reggie and companion pointing to Bahia Blanca

where is the other half of my patriarchal blessing the colored one? and didnt dad give me a shrunken one... i remember u tellin me and showin me where ur putting it, i just dont remmeber the part where u put it hahaha

sorry if my typing doesnt spell good haha it takes too much time to delete and spell correctly lol

Dobson is hilarious we were all talking last nite and he just cracks us up "im walkin on the ceilin yalll" as he has his feet on the ceiling on his bunk haha
i'll probly pick up cooper an dobs accent

i heard ther was a volcano in argentina, and sum kid said to dobs "you didnt here about it?" dobs said "oh yeah like we go and watch the news each nite" it was a moment you had to be ther for and plus his accent make him 1000 times funnier

Im sendin pics home today so thats what u can look forward too!

well i have 4 min and maybe if ur on we can talk back and forth so i'll be endin this now

Love Yall
Miss Yall
Elder Reginald G Roberts
Elder Roberts, Sunday June 5th

Tuesday, June 7, 2011

Letters 1 and 2

Sorry this is so late - here are Reggie's first and second letters.  He sounds so great!  Here is Letter 1:

Buenos Tardes everyone
Things are going great here, I'm loving every bit of it!
Food is good mom, I'm eating healthy fruits with every meal.  I haven't had any desserts or anything cuz i don't want to get fat.
Fortune from lunch right before dropping Reggie off

A lot of new missionaries are overwhelmed here this first week haha i'm just workin hard and having a blast!

My companion is Elder Sterling from Reno Valley Cali and that is by Riverside so Paul and Karen will be there area mish presidents so that's pretty sweet to know!
He is good to have as a comp. He's sumtimes is a negative nancy haha he'll say "I'll never get this espanol" or "I'm overwhelmed" and stuff like that...I dont like it cuz im positive all the way lol if he says negative stuff it just goes thru one ear out the other, i choose to be happy cuz i dont want to be miserable!

Fortune from lunch right before dropping Reggie off
Espanol es bien i just try to get better everyday at a time one step at a time i'm not stressed about it because i feel blessed to have the chance to learn it so i'm just like "Wahoo Espanol yeah!!" while others choose to be ovewhelmed haha.
"simplicity equals Fast" Cam Newton haha so i try to simplize stuff

I have a bottom bunk so i can pray right by my bed its awesome so i dont have to jump off and on to top!

There are 10 in our district classroom thingy lol the other elders we room w/ are Elder Dobson hes a S.Carolian and has a Forrest Gump accent hahahaha "I love u Jenny" "Life is like a box of chocolates" we have him saying quotes like that hahaha his Companero es Elder Cooper from Texas so hes kinda a Mavs fan but he'll say Ya'll haha. They both crack me up! we also have Hermanas en our district they are always positive and happy so they are positive like me so im not like the only one positive in the room haha.

Reggie's last shot in Stansbury
Workin out is Awesome!! i am keeping up with my 300 push ups a day ill do 30 PU then an ab wrk out then calve raises then 20 Pu abs calves 30 pu abs calves all the way upt to 300 push ups!! so by the time i get home my legs will be cows (get it calves/cows) hahahaha some kids here dont really have a wrkout plan so they just kinda stand haha aftr wrknout i play some ball!! mostly Freethrows!  In a letter to Scott and Alyssa Reggie said that everyone calls him "machine" because he just cranks out his workout without stopping!

My P-days will normally be in Fridays so i will be Emailing Fri so look for me there!!

I wrote home on Fri so that could be there Monday idk

im running out of stuff to say hahaha

oh do i have more socks hidden somewhere in my bag i have about 5-7 pair i guess i dont need anymore i just thought i had more
i may need more notebooks but i guess i could buy them haha

I love you guys
keep praying for me
I got your mail V thx
I g2g ill keep writing letters cuz im not as fast as a typr as a writer lol
p.s. wats the series scores etc. gracias

Adios love
Elder Roberts

Letter 2:

Well hello everyone!!
i just read dads email bout the NBA finals oh man that sounded awesome!!! and Shaq retiring, i will miss him in the game, he is awesome!!

First off dear elders stuff is awesome it probably didnt sound like i got them the 1st time cuz like an hr or so after sending the first email we got mail and so ive received all of them thanks for them they are gorgeous!! Lol I think they said the system wrks where if u send sumthn tues to dear elder then i get them a day later.
Fortune from lunch right before dropping Reggie off
my comp is district leader so i go with him to get mail so i'm always the 1st to get it.! so don't stop dear elders we get mail after lunch and after dinner so twice a day!!

 i love the sports updates don't worry they don't distract me haha

i made a list of stuff i needed to email u guys about cuz last time i forgot sum stuff

we've had 2 fireside things one with elder stephen a allan and then elder packer in the 70 they were pretty good. i guess elder packer was just in England and i was thinking "hey Weston is there!" i got his email by the way

Oh I leave for Argentina on Dads Birthday July 25th so that will be a great day and my service ends on May 28 2013.. sorry mom youll have to wait 3 extra days

Reg and Lucy say farewell for 2 years
I can pray in espanol and bare my testimony also, i think i can talk faster in espanol then in english its weird haha

I got the package of awesome stuff gracias!!! im still trying to figure out how to send pics i heard u have to print them off so idk if i can email them ill check if i have enough time.

Hilarious quote from Elder Dobson the so. car forrest gump talker haha... so in class someone brought up the name Esther and dobson said ´´ Esters when u paint eggs´´ it was so funny!!

i see alot of pple i know here its cool sarah benson, baylan, taylor ware, tyson hutchins, and also our cuzn from Tingey side Elder lowry isnt his name Taylor hes here goin to Chile

on the 1st day here there was a camera in the lunch rm and so i gave them a peace sign while i walked by and i also saw sum kid get interviewd.
 how is lucy doing are u guys walking her haha


At our meals we sit with our district and i eat peanut butter sandwiches to gain weight with every meal, and id always say Peanut butter time, then we learnd about how to tell time and now its a big thing to say ¨´Que hora es¨´..what time is it and one Hermana in our district says Son las peanut butter time.

Dang i have 5 min. ugh

It was cool yesterday everyone started to talk about all their famous relatives and then i was like my uncle is earl tingey and he's tight with the prophet and the 12 and a lot of them came to my gmas funeral and i also metioned kevan i blew them away ... i have the coooolest fam ever!!!! they were shocked
its a mini world here seeing pple from all over the world its cool

Thanks for all the emails letters.. i love letters and dear elders they are fantastic keep them up haha
Fortune from lunch right before dropping Reggie off

Love u all
Miss u all
Love Elder Roberts