Hola mamuchi y papuchi y Vero y Sabari y Alyssas y Scott y Lucy haha I had to write that cuz I figured out your nicknames in espñ here and you see the last 3 don't have nicknames yet. sorry
hey viejo Feliz cumpleaños espero que tuvo un dia espectacular con torta y dulces etc. te amo understand? ha
The olympics are on and every favring house has it on. hahaha What a challenge lol. Oh, I love the olympics so much, but I'm trying to focus myself good. It's a lil weird to have it in winter, but the weather here is good. The other day it was 55. Not bad for like January haha. When we were leaving a house yesterday of members, they had Argy v Lithuania, but i hurried and left. The biggest sports here for the olympics are basketball, they say basket or (basquet) and also tennis. Fun tennis Tandil fact - 5 of the top 100 tennis players in the world are from Tandil. There are 2 in the olympics, Juan martin del potro and Monaco. So if you see them, put on your blue and white and yellow and sing
the star spangled banner in spanish. Isn't that how it is? All the countries have the same song but in their language? haha jk
Tony y Maria are doing good. They didn't go to church. I think cuz she's been tired this week or somethin cuz she had to watch her grandkids. But they're doing good. We taught her daughter this week, so we hope she can start going to church too. We are going to help them quit smoking and
drinking and get them bapt as soon as possible! We have transfers this week and no idea what will happen. Maybe they send me to tom jones land jk. Comp and I have the same time you know, so who knows haha. We were going to go look around Tandil with some people, but we decided not to.
Plus I had to play some ball :)
The less active thing is going ok. We found out there are some who don't live there anymore, but we'll still continue to work with them. I like to make them feel good and be funny with the less actives and members haha cuz I remember Pres Detlefsen said that the less actives already know that
they're less active, so if we just get on there case it might hurt ha.
Chalito como andais con el golf y todo todavia esta jugando cada día? hay golf en los juegos olimpicos no recuerdo jaja me encanta español es tan bueno
I love espñ it's awesome!
The reunion sounds fun. And Dad, I tell people that you wind surf and they always say, "Wow he must have huge muscles." la verdad que sí haha. I got the package mom muchas gracias. wow those starburst are good haha. Never heard of it lol the morph thing. Yes Sub, PMG is awesome! It's gr8 for missionaries! Are you going to be a missionary? haha The kids just ended their winter vacations. Weird right?
The other day, actually last week, we were walkin at night and then the power cut haha. It was cool. All dark and seein the stars. I miss the stars. haha
Thanks for your love and support and prayers. I will ask for a shoe fixer store Mom. I'm thinking in Kayber, just repairing the ones I have. I need to ask members bout it and always forget until Monday or late Sunday. Awww I will do it haha.
Love
ReGiNaLd GrAnT RoBeRtS
ps church is true and b o m
Monday, July 30, 2012
Monday, July 23, 2012
Working on the less active in Tandil
Hola gente
Watsup!
Tony and Maria are awesome still haha! They couldn't make it to church
yesterday cuz she was sick, but we went by their house last night and
they're just so awesome. A point that I loved was he said I have sacred
scripture cuz he's reading the BoM cover to cover and he read us 1 Nephi
2:16, and after he said, "That's what I felt like when you guys came to our
house for the 1st time." I was like wow! Dang this guy is the man! We had
divisions and Elder Nolan from Olavarria was with me in my area and we
taught the plan of salvation to Maria cuz Tony was sick in bed. So we
had a good in depth discussion and helped her with her questions and
doubts. I think she really liked the bapt for the dead part. Then the
next day she saw Elder Nolan and his comp in the store and she told them
that Tony is talkin with his ex wife about divorcement! We still need to
baptize them. I'm willing to do everything I can to help them. They also
want to go to the open house of the Buenos Aires Temple!! Our ward
is renting a bus thing and taking a trip up there, but we cant go :(
haha
This week we'll keep focusing on getting them divorced and helping
them to quit smoking and drinking.
It was pretty cool, this morning I was trying to think of ways/get
inspiration on how to help this area of Tandil. And it's kind of a theme
here that there's a ton of less actives and while I was trying to think
of things to help Tandil, I felt like I should read a thing in the
Liahona from the last conference and I was just like, "Okay, whatever. I have
time." It talked a lot about less actives and ways to help them to come
back and it's also a way to grow the church. When I was reading it
I just let the spirit go and I wrote down everyone's name that's in our
area and thought of plans that we can go around with members to visit
them. One of the things that a less active girl said in this
talk was that it's hard to go back cuz your scared if you'll have to sit
alone. And you wonder if anyone will talk to you, etc. Of the members here there's 30
families/persons who are member or better said 30 last names members
here and only 5 of the families go to church. And like 3 are basically
every weekers. I was like, "Dang! Lets go to work!!" cuz lately the
excitement to work (for the others in the house) is really hard to get
them going. I'm learning a lot here. A lot of parenting skills. But I'm
happy to be here cuz I can make the change. And my goal is to get
everyone of them to church b4 i leave here (just thought of that). I've
really learned lately here that our purpose is to bring others to
Christ. Doesn't just say baptize. haha I'm not putting down baptism haha,
I'm just trying to work with what I've got. If your Jumper doesn't work you need to
drive. If that doesn't, be john stockton and dish. We've also heard from
members that the less actives really love it when we come by. I'm
kinda like, "Really? I didn't know we meant THAT much to them." haha
The weather here this week has been gorgeous. Like really, a few nights
were cold but a lot of sun and warmth. Maybe it's cuz I don't see snow. lol
DAD HAPPY BIRTHDAY I sent you a letter today!! party it up wahoooooo!!!! hahah
I'm glad I'm not a coug right now haha. Damian Lillard is a baller. I do
recall talking bout him to you dad, so I take like 4% of the success of
him who's he on.
Didn't get your package. The world is a better place with kyle gunther talking.
I know the church is true. thx for all your prayers and stuff and throw a
few in for my comp, cuz he doesn't want to be here. I'm trying to help him,
but he has his days. But it's kinda normal at the beginning of your mish.
Love u All thx for evrathang
Elder Reginald Grant Roberts
P.S. Forrest - Hola amigo mio usted es un capo
Watsup!
Tony and Maria are awesome still haha! They couldn't make it to church
yesterday cuz she was sick, but we went by their house last night and
they're just so awesome. A point that I loved was he said I have sacred
scripture cuz he's reading the BoM cover to cover and he read us 1 Nephi
2:16, and after he said, "That's what I felt like when you guys came to our
house for the 1st time." I was like wow! Dang this guy is the man! We had
divisions and Elder Nolan from Olavarria was with me in my area and we
taught the plan of salvation to Maria cuz Tony was sick in bed. So we
had a good in depth discussion and helped her with her questions and
doubts. I think she really liked the bapt for the dead part. Then the
next day she saw Elder Nolan and his comp in the store and she told them
that Tony is talkin with his ex wife about divorcement! We still need to
baptize them. I'm willing to do everything I can to help them. They also
want to go to the open house of the Buenos Aires Temple!! Our ward
is renting a bus thing and taking a trip up there, but we cant go :(
haha
This week we'll keep focusing on getting them divorced and helping
them to quit smoking and drinking.
It was pretty cool, this morning I was trying to think of ways/get
inspiration on how to help this area of Tandil. And it's kind of a theme
here that there's a ton of less actives and while I was trying to think
of things to help Tandil, I felt like I should read a thing in the
Liahona from the last conference and I was just like, "Okay, whatever. I have
time." It talked a lot about less actives and ways to help them to come
back and it's also a way to grow the church. When I was reading it
I just let the spirit go and I wrote down everyone's name that's in our
area and thought of plans that we can go around with members to visit
them. One of the things that a less active girl said in this
talk was that it's hard to go back cuz your scared if you'll have to sit
alone. And you wonder if anyone will talk to you, etc. Of the members here there's 30
families/persons who are member or better said 30 last names members
here and only 5 of the families go to church. And like 3 are basically
every weekers. I was like, "Dang! Lets go to work!!" cuz lately the
excitement to work (for the others in the house) is really hard to get
them going. I'm learning a lot here. A lot of parenting skills. But I'm
happy to be here cuz I can make the change. And my goal is to get
everyone of them to church b4 i leave here (just thought of that). I've
really learned lately here that our purpose is to bring others to
Christ. Doesn't just say baptize. haha I'm not putting down baptism haha,
I'm just trying to work with what I've got. If your Jumper doesn't work you need to
drive. If that doesn't, be john stockton and dish. We've also heard from
members that the less actives really love it when we come by. I'm
kinda like, "Really? I didn't know we meant THAT much to them." haha
The weather here this week has been gorgeous. Like really, a few nights
were cold but a lot of sun and warmth. Maybe it's cuz I don't see snow. lol
DAD HAPPY BIRTHDAY I sent you a letter today!! party it up wahoooooo!!!! hahah
I'm glad I'm not a coug right now haha. Damian Lillard is a baller. I do
recall talking bout him to you dad, so I take like 4% of the success of
him who's he on.
Didn't get your package. The world is a better place with kyle gunther talking.
I know the church is true. thx for all your prayers and stuff and throw a
few in for my comp, cuz he doesn't want to be here. I'm trying to help him,
but he has his days. But it's kinda normal at the beginning of your mish.
Love u All thx for evrathang
Elder Reginald Grant Roberts
P.S. Forrest - Hola amigo mio usted es un capo
Tuesday, July 17, 2012
Toni & Maria went to church and I met Pres. Parreño!
Holas
1st off, I love Toni and Maria and their family! Wahoo! They went to
church yesterday! We went over with members one day and they loved it.
Also, the members. It was good for them to see that we're normal people. haha And
we focused a lot on getting them to church. Their daughter,
Kapriel, attended, she's 7. They have 2 other sons from Maria, Agustin 13
and Kevin 15. Agustin got home late Saturday from Bahia Blanca, so he
didn't come.
They loved church! They went to sacrament meeting and it turns out that they
know more people then they thought. Also, we were in a lesson Saturday and a
member knocked the door and I was like, "What? Hey Hermana!¨ She is
already friends with a member that she didn't know was a member (Maria).
haha The talks in Sacrament were good too. They we about baptism and temples and forgiving. And
we found out that one of the hermanas works in the divorsement and
marriage thing, so we'll talk to her about them and she can help them
make things go faster! Also another daughter of Maria wants to hear from us.
And one of Maria's umm whats it called, nephews 11 came to listen and
they talked to Maria's mom about the church! Sweet, Right?!!!! They've
said how they feel peaceful and good when we come and when we leave.
They basically said whenever you need anything you can come to our house for
the bathroom, food, etc. Toni said, "Our hearts are open to you guys." ...my chin's
on the floor drooling!
Now we need to baptize them!!!! Tonight we're going to explain more of the
plan of salvation and temples and families, etc. I'm going to show them a pic
of you´s peoples. Who's pumped? I'm pumped and they want to have lunch with us! haha
The conference of the zone was good. We finally met pres and his wife. He
talked about love for the people etc and why we are here as missionaries.
It's funny, Pres. Detlefsen talked about death a lot and Pres. Parreño about
beginning haha. Pres. is a nice guy. Pretty funny. Kinda reminds me of a
nice grandpa. He'll be awesome. I told them about the Duncan's. He thought it
was cool. Also, Hermana Parreño is incredible!! She gave a gr8 talk
thing and probably my favorite part of the conference was when she was like, "At
times when you feel down, think of your family and how they're thinking of you and
they're envisioning you having success, doing gr8 things. And how they're
always praying for you and how they're always praying for you in the temple."
She said it with such power. I was like wow!! haha
I went to Bahia again haha. They called me Tues. So Wednesday me and Elder
Gassaway went to Bahia to do more visa papers things. I didn't have to
do much. Just be present and sign something lol. Elder Gassaway, before he came to Argy had to wait
for his visa and served a lil in San Bernardino in the Rancho
Cucamonga Mish.
What else? Roque and that lady are doing good. I think we need to go by
them soon. We were going to do the family night but she couldn't and then
comp and co ate almost all the candies when I was in Bahia ha fatties.
Happy birthday this week dad. I have your card. I tried to go send it, but
the building was packed as if there was a tom jones concert.
well thanks for your time
and prayers and everything thx for the package Nita
Love
Elder Reginald Grant Roberts
1st off, I love Toni and Maria and their family! Wahoo! They went to
church yesterday! We went over with members one day and they loved it.
Also, the members. It was good for them to see that we're normal people. haha And
we focused a lot on getting them to church. Their daughter,
Kapriel, attended, she's 7. They have 2 other sons from Maria, Agustin 13
and Kevin 15. Agustin got home late Saturday from Bahia Blanca, so he
didn't come.
They loved church! They went to sacrament meeting and it turns out that they
know more people then they thought. Also, we were in a lesson Saturday and a
member knocked the door and I was like, "What? Hey Hermana!¨ She is
already friends with a member that she didn't know was a member (Maria).
haha The talks in Sacrament were good too. They we about baptism and temples and forgiving. And
we found out that one of the hermanas works in the divorsement and
marriage thing, so we'll talk to her about them and she can help them
make things go faster! Also another daughter of Maria wants to hear from us.
And one of Maria's umm whats it called, nephews 11 came to listen and
they talked to Maria's mom about the church! Sweet, Right?!!!! They've
said how they feel peaceful and good when we come and when we leave.
They basically said whenever you need anything you can come to our house for
the bathroom, food, etc. Toni said, "Our hearts are open to you guys." ...my chin's
on the floor drooling!
Now we need to baptize them!!!! Tonight we're going to explain more of the
plan of salvation and temples and families, etc. I'm going to show them a pic
of you´s peoples. Who's pumped? I'm pumped and they want to have lunch with us! haha
The conference of the zone was good. We finally met pres and his wife. He
talked about love for the people etc and why we are here as missionaries.
It's funny, Pres. Detlefsen talked about death a lot and Pres. Parreño about
beginning haha. Pres. is a nice guy. Pretty funny. Kinda reminds me of a
nice grandpa. He'll be awesome. I told them about the Duncan's. He thought it
was cool. Also, Hermana Parreño is incredible!! She gave a gr8 talk
thing and probably my favorite part of the conference was when she was like, "At
times when you feel down, think of your family and how they're thinking of you and
they're envisioning you having success, doing gr8 things. And how they're
always praying for you and how they're always praying for you in the temple."
She said it with such power. I was like wow!! haha
I went to Bahia again haha. They called me Tues. So Wednesday me and Elder
Gassaway went to Bahia to do more visa papers things. I didn't have to
do much. Just be present and sign something lol. Elder Gassaway, before he came to Argy had to wait
for his visa and served a lil in San Bernardino in the Rancho
Cucamonga Mish.
What else? Roque and that lady are doing good. I think we need to go by
them soon. We were going to do the family night but she couldn't and then
comp and co ate almost all the candies when I was in Bahia ha fatties.
Happy birthday this week dad. I have your card. I tried to go send it, but
the building was packed as if there was a tom jones concert.
well thanks for your time
and prayers and everything thx for the package Nita
Love
Elder Reginald Grant Roberts
Wednesday, July 11, 2012
Hola lalala
Tomorrow we have a zone conf with Pres. Parreño which will be awesome!!!
I'm excited to finally meet him hearing about him from the Duncan's.
On the 4th of July I was in Bahia Blanca haha. On Tues the zone leaders
called me and said that they want me to go so I can renew my visa
stuff thing. They got my fingerprints, etc. I left 4th of July at 3 in the
morning and arrived in Bahia like at 9 and waited for other missionaries
to pick me up for like an hr haha. Then one elder said, "Umm bad news,
today they have a strike and so you have to wait til tomorrow to do your
papers." So I was like whatever cool. So I hung out with the missionaries
in the office. They're cool. There's always missionaries scrambling around
haha "I need to go to the bank. Who can come with me?" "Elder Roberts can!"
So I did a lot of changing comps. If anyone needed to go, I went lol. Then
I had lunch with the assistants. One is ending his mish this transfer and the other,
they asked him how much he has left and he like 1 yrish haha. I like
doing that too, how dad says to do it haha."How much time?" "idk like
forever idk forgot, like a yr" haha. I also was hoping of seeing Pres in
Bahia, but nothin. I got the package from the fam reunion, the smart one,
with everyone's names, etc thank you!!
We've talked with Toni once this week. We've had appointments, but he hasn't
been there and I was in Bahia 2 days. But when we passed by, he was saying
how he always has prayed for god for answers, but doesn't feel like he's
received any. And he talked bout his faith and stuff. We have an
appointment today and I think we'll focus on if he's doing good with
his commitments. We'll also let the spirit work too and stuff. Roque is
still awesome haha funny guy. He loves chess. We're step by step working
with them.
We talked with a lady yesterday and she was talkin to her dog in eng. She
lives in a richer part where big houses are. It was like our 1st
time going out that far cuz it's 1 hr 30min from our house and like 1hr
from where we normally are. I want to work more over there. There's also
a lot of just land with big houses, but someone needs us out there. This
lady's dad is from England and she had a lot of books and when we gave
her the b o m I said something like, "Well, we can see you like to read. You'll
love this book."
Today is like their Independence Day here. I still don't know if it's
today or 25th of May haha. It keeps changing. They don't really know
their holidays, but it's one of the bigger ones today lol.
To celebrate the 4th of July, today we went to the park and I played
Basketbal!!! When they played frisbee it was glorious. The weather was
gr8! Shorts and t-shirt, but at night it's more colder. My shoes are
still doing good. I'm thinking of picking some next week.
I loved the stories you sent me dad of your mish. That guy that prayed
kinda reminded me of Toni. We need to get him to pray!! Also, sweet the
Jazz trade. They'll be receiving more ink on the team haha.
We have a family night with some members tonight. They like doing fam
nights here in Argy. We're thinking of buying some candy
and explaining tithing, give them all 10 etc take away 1 etc. It's a fam
of 4 kids. The oldest is 12. I think they'll like it.
Church is true. If we give all to the Lord we'll be blessed.
well im out
thx for all be safe lov u
Elder Reginald Grant Roberts :)
Tomorrow we have a zone conf with Pres. Parreño which will be awesome!!!
I'm excited to finally meet him hearing about him from the Duncan's.
On the 4th of July I was in Bahia Blanca haha. On Tues the zone leaders
called me and said that they want me to go so I can renew my visa
stuff thing. They got my fingerprints, etc. I left 4th of July at 3 in the
morning and arrived in Bahia like at 9 and waited for other missionaries
to pick me up for like an hr haha. Then one elder said, "Umm bad news,
today they have a strike and so you have to wait til tomorrow to do your
papers." So I was like whatever cool. So I hung out with the missionaries
in the office. They're cool. There's always missionaries scrambling around
haha "I need to go to the bank. Who can come with me?" "Elder Roberts can!"
So I did a lot of changing comps. If anyone needed to go, I went lol. Then
I had lunch with the assistants. One is ending his mish this transfer and the other,
they asked him how much he has left and he like 1 yrish haha. I like
doing that too, how dad says to do it haha."How much time?" "idk like
forever idk forgot, like a yr" haha. I also was hoping of seeing Pres in
Bahia, but nothin. I got the package from the fam reunion, the smart one,
with everyone's names, etc thank you!!
We've talked with Toni once this week. We've had appointments, but he hasn't
been there and I was in Bahia 2 days. But when we passed by, he was saying
how he always has prayed for god for answers, but doesn't feel like he's
received any. And he talked bout his faith and stuff. We have an
appointment today and I think we'll focus on if he's doing good with
his commitments. We'll also let the spirit work too and stuff. Roque is
still awesome haha funny guy. He loves chess. We're step by step working
with them.
We talked with a lady yesterday and she was talkin to her dog in eng. She
lives in a richer part where big houses are. It was like our 1st
time going out that far cuz it's 1 hr 30min from our house and like 1hr
from where we normally are. I want to work more over there. There's also
a lot of just land with big houses, but someone needs us out there. This
lady's dad is from England and she had a lot of books and when we gave
her the b o m I said something like, "Well, we can see you like to read. You'll
love this book."
Today is like their Independence Day here. I still don't know if it's
today or 25th of May haha. It keeps changing. They don't really know
their holidays, but it's one of the bigger ones today lol.
To celebrate the 4th of July, today we went to the park and I played
Basketbal!!! When they played frisbee it was glorious. The weather was
gr8! Shorts and t-shirt, but at night it's more colder. My shoes are
still doing good. I'm thinking of picking some next week.
I loved the stories you sent me dad of your mish. That guy that prayed
kinda reminded me of Toni. We need to get him to pray!! Also, sweet the
Jazz trade. They'll be receiving more ink on the team haha.
We have a family night with some members tonight. They like doing fam
nights here in Argy. We're thinking of buying some candy
and explaining tithing, give them all 10 etc take away 1 etc. It's a fam
of 4 kids. The oldest is 12. I think they'll like it.
Church is true. If we give all to the Lord we'll be blessed.
well im out
thx for all be safe lov u
Elder Reginald Grant Roberts :)
Monday, July 2, 2012
Living the Dream! (sent months ago, didn't publish for some reason)
Hey watsup
1st off I think Jimmer was fouled. Bad call by the refs haha jk.
It's all good here. Weather is a lil more like Olavarria and not San Diego coldish stuff haha.
On Tuesday of last week I went on divisions with Elder Snow from Layton (and just b4 I don't forget, I don't know Juan Joglar, friend of Shari but I will ask around. There are 3 stakes here so I'll try to find him.) Anyways, he only has almost 2 months in Argyworld but his Spanish is good for only lil time. He can understand and talk good. I was impressed haha. My 1st month I was trying to pick out words haha. But he came to my area and it was kinda funny cuz we were lookin at the map for most of the time cuz I'm new here too lol. But it helped me to get the area down better haha cuz I think I still don't even know Olavarria. It was cool being the Sr comp. Lil different, but it went pretty good. We had one lesson where this guy David was asking these good questions that we could answer gr8 if we were speakin English haha. That was a hard part cuz he had gr8 questions but we couldn't get our point across as good. Elder Cano and I are passing by him Wed.
We had and inv come to church. His name is Dionisio and he's 80 yrs old and Saturday we passed by his house with a member (Kostiuck - the guy in the photo from last week who gives me besos) and that really helped him feel more comfortable about goin to church. Hermano Kostiuck is hilarious. He is an energetic guy and it's not rare for him to stand up and explain somethin with like his whole body haha.
Also, this week we passed by some Jehovahs witnesses and they let us in their house for us to teach and they also kinda wanted to take that time to teach us some stuff too. If I were a person without a religion and heard them talk it would be hard to follow them cuz there is nothin spiritual about it. They are kinda stubborn and you couldn't feel the spirit from their teachings which makes the spirit so important in our religion cuz we aren't just teachin words kinda like they were. And it was funny cuz they kept talkin and we were trying to leave cuz there was not much point in stayin and comp set the alarm on the phone as if some 1 was callin ¨oops gotta go¨ haha I remember dad asked about the religions here like a week ago and it kinda reminded me as if your religion is kinda your sports team. Just something I've kinda noticed.
Que mas my espñ is getting better. I don't really like speaking English. Thats kinda why I haven't taught comp much of it hahaha. It's fun to talk in espñ and to have your brain think of other ways to explain things. Mi encanta hablar todos los dias en espñ es divertido a mi estoy tratando tener mi espñ mas rapido cuando estoy hablando a personas.
Comp is funny haha. He's hilarious. I cant really think of funny things he says, but he's hilarious and at the same time hes a gr8 missionary. People love him haha.
We found some more inv and Pres set the challenge for until he gets released in June to get 1000 baptisms for the 6 more months. We got like 828 bapt all last year. He's really done a lot for this mission in raising the bar. I heard that probably in 2015ish they might have a MDP mission and a Bahia Blanca mission but it could be just a rumor.
We played some more ball today with the zone leaders, Elder Miñoz and Elder Corrientes (the american argy) he's white as snow, but is from Argy haha.
Now I'm going to send photos.
Love
Elder Reginald Grant Roberts
y ps thanks for the photos scott. I am a fan of graffiti. They have some sweet ones here. Who knows, I may have graffiti on the side of my house one day. Maybe of Jimmer hahaha and I love your Joseph Smith pic.
1st off I think Jimmer was fouled. Bad call by the refs haha jk.
It's all good here. Weather is a lil more like Olavarria and not San Diego coldish stuff haha.
On Tuesday of last week I went on divisions with Elder Snow from Layton (and just b4 I don't forget, I don't know Juan Joglar, friend of Shari but I will ask around. There are 3 stakes here so I'll try to find him.) Anyways, he only has almost 2 months in Argyworld but his Spanish is good for only lil time. He can understand and talk good. I was impressed haha. My 1st month I was trying to pick out words haha. But he came to my area and it was kinda funny cuz we were lookin at the map for most of the time cuz I'm new here too lol. But it helped me to get the area down better haha cuz I think I still don't even know Olavarria. It was cool being the Sr comp. Lil different, but it went pretty good. We had one lesson where this guy David was asking these good questions that we could answer gr8 if we were speakin English haha. That was a hard part cuz he had gr8 questions but we couldn't get our point across as good. Elder Cano and I are passing by him Wed.
We had and inv come to church. His name is Dionisio and he's 80 yrs old and Saturday we passed by his house with a member (Kostiuck - the guy in the photo from last week who gives me besos) and that really helped him feel more comfortable about goin to church. Hermano Kostiuck is hilarious. He is an energetic guy and it's not rare for him to stand up and explain somethin with like his whole body haha.
Also, this week we passed by some Jehovahs witnesses and they let us in their house for us to teach and they also kinda wanted to take that time to teach us some stuff too. If I were a person without a religion and heard them talk it would be hard to follow them cuz there is nothin spiritual about it. They are kinda stubborn and you couldn't feel the spirit from their teachings which makes the spirit so important in our religion cuz we aren't just teachin words kinda like they were. And it was funny cuz they kept talkin and we were trying to leave cuz there was not much point in stayin and comp set the alarm on the phone as if some 1 was callin ¨oops gotta go¨ haha I remember dad asked about the religions here like a week ago and it kinda reminded me as if your religion is kinda your sports team. Just something I've kinda noticed.
Que mas my espñ is getting better. I don't really like speaking English. Thats kinda why I haven't taught comp much of it hahaha. It's fun to talk in espñ and to have your brain think of other ways to explain things. Mi encanta hablar todos los dias en espñ es divertido a mi estoy tratando tener mi espñ mas rapido cuando estoy hablando a personas.
Comp is funny haha. He's hilarious. I cant really think of funny things he says, but he's hilarious and at the same time hes a gr8 missionary. People love him haha.
We found some more inv and Pres set the challenge for until he gets released in June to get 1000 baptisms for the 6 more months. We got like 828 bapt all last year. He's really done a lot for this mission in raising the bar. I heard that probably in 2015ish they might have a MDP mission and a Bahia Blanca mission but it could be just a rumor.
We played some more ball today with the zone leaders, Elder Miñoz and Elder Corrientes (the american argy) he's white as snow, but is from Argy haha.
Now I'm going to send photos.
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Elder Reginald Grant Roberts
y ps thanks for the photos scott. I am a fan of graffiti. They have some sweet ones here. Who knows, I may have graffiti on the side of my house one day. Maybe of Jimmer hahaha and I love your Joseph Smith pic.
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Hello again. Those fotos of that Argy food looks good. On the TV behind mom is the BOCA soccer game i saw with that yellow blue jersey haha. That does look like Argy sausage. It's good! (Note: Reggie's dad found an Argentina restaurant and we took photos of the food we ate.)
Weston! That's sweet that he's home. I loved that pic of him and Jill. That was great haha and with all the family at the airport!
So it's official that we do have a new pres. I haven't met him yet, but I'm way exited. Thanks for that foto from kevin and nancy. I will definatly introduce myself as their nephew. The leaders, like zone leaders, have a meeting with him Wed, then I think after that they'll go on a tour of the mish. So I'm guessing in the next week or 2 we'll meet him.
Pres. Detlefsen gave us 10 ways to get references from the members and other people. And he gave us a promise when he came here to Tandil that if we're obedient with it then we'll find the investigators that we need. It's like a commandment /rule that we find 2 a day. In Tandil, for some reason, it's really difficult to find inv and so that promise was inspiration to me and so we've been working with the members more etc. On like Thurs we touched a house and the guy said, "Oh, I went to your church like 20 yrs ago with my girlfriend but never got baptized, but I like your church." And he told us that we could come by Saturday. So Saturday night we go by and get there like at 6:50 and so I just started from the beginning how he knows the church (his names Toni). So we talked, then he's like, "I want to know the ¨No´s¨ in your church." Like no smoking etc so we explained all that and he's a smoker and drinker and understood good the concept. He's like, "If I smoke will your church reject me for my sins etc?" I was like, "Man, the church is the best place for sinners. We are all sinners, no?" And explained that we are all kinda like a family in the church, and he loved that. Then a lil while later his wifeishladyperson and their son, 13yrs, come and they sit down. And also then they have a ton of interest in the church. She said, "This morning were you guys around here?" We said, "Yes." Then she said, "Cuz I saw you and I said to myself I want to talk to you guys. You guys are just different you know." And also she and the son had a tooooooon of questions. Not like weird random questions, but great questions like tithing, word of wisdom, jo smith, worshipping false idols, whats the gold book, why is it the Book of Mormon. I have written like 15 different good questions that they asked us. We were in their house for almost 2 hr 15 min. It was gr8! We ran out of that house so happy and also cuz we had to pee so bad hahaha. It was so awesome! I'm so happy!! Next time you're in front of a mirror put your cheek against it and pretend I'm giving you all a kiss cuz I'm so pumped and I'd kiss you all hahahaha! They were kinda not sure if they could go to church yesterday and they didn't, but he's like, "Yeah I want to go and talk with the bishop." He also needs to get divorced and so we explained that they needed to get married, etc and they were all cool with it. He said, "Your church makes the most sense." I remember praying in my head that I could answer all of his questions and it went perfect!!!!
b4 I forget happy bday Abby abdominal!!! r u like 12 already haha jk
The weather was gre8 this week. I think one day it had to be like 60 degrees. It was gr8. I was in short sleeve for a while and we're technically in January weather supposedly.
I'm sorry my eng might be horrible. I love espñ. i love learning words. It's funny to hear the kids in the street playing soccer or somethin and I think ok I'll loook up that word, or I've never heard that one. A lot of them are slang haha. I know the Lord's blessing me with continually speaking espñ even if others don't in the house. One of my fav scriptures is the one - If you keep my commandments you will prosper, but if you don't you have no promise.
haha it was coool, the other Monday, last week, we were talking with a guy investigator named Roque and his friends with missionaries cuz they helped teach him eng but his interest in the church is mas o menos ummm how do you say that in eng wavery haha idk, but he likes music, like beethoven etc. Then he just got going off talking music and I was thinking, "Hhmmm, how can we not waste time just talkin bout music?" cuz he had his laptop and it was on radio, then all of the sudden "ding" "Have you heard of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir?" "No, who are they?" And so on his laptop he looked them up and we listened to hymns and he likes it. Maybe thru Mo Tab he can join the church and take more interest in it.
well i love u all a ton thx for all everything
Elder Reginald Grant Roberts
Hello again. Those fotos of that Argy food looks good. On the TV behind mom is the BOCA soccer game i saw with that yellow blue jersey haha. That does look like Argy sausage. It's good! (Note: Reggie's dad found an Argentina restaurant and we took photos of the food we ate.)
Weston! That's sweet that he's home. I loved that pic of him and Jill. That was great haha and with all the family at the airport!
So it's official that we do have a new pres. I haven't met him yet, but I'm way exited. Thanks for that foto from kevin and nancy. I will definatly introduce myself as their nephew. The leaders, like zone leaders, have a meeting with him Wed, then I think after that they'll go on a tour of the mish. So I'm guessing in the next week or 2 we'll meet him.
Pres. Detlefsen gave us 10 ways to get references from the members and other people. And he gave us a promise when he came here to Tandil that if we're obedient with it then we'll find the investigators that we need. It's like a commandment /rule that we find 2 a day. In Tandil, for some reason, it's really difficult to find inv and so that promise was inspiration to me and so we've been working with the members more etc. On like Thurs we touched a house and the guy said, "Oh, I went to your church like 20 yrs ago with my girlfriend but never got baptized, but I like your church." And he told us that we could come by Saturday. So Saturday night we go by and get there like at 6:50 and so I just started from the beginning how he knows the church (his names Toni). So we talked, then he's like, "I want to know the ¨No´s¨ in your church." Like no smoking etc so we explained all that and he's a smoker and drinker and understood good the concept. He's like, "If I smoke will your church reject me for my sins etc?" I was like, "Man, the church is the best place for sinners. We are all sinners, no?" And explained that we are all kinda like a family in the church, and he loved that. Then a lil while later his wifeishladyperson and their son, 13yrs, come and they sit down. And also then they have a ton of interest in the church. She said, "This morning were you guys around here?" We said, "Yes." Then she said, "Cuz I saw you and I said to myself I want to talk to you guys. You guys are just different you know." And also she and the son had a tooooooon of questions. Not like weird random questions, but great questions like tithing, word of wisdom, jo smith, worshipping false idols, whats the gold book, why is it the Book of Mormon. I have written like 15 different good questions that they asked us. We were in their house for almost 2 hr 15 min. It was gr8! We ran out of that house so happy and also cuz we had to pee so bad hahaha. It was so awesome! I'm so happy!! Next time you're in front of a mirror put your cheek against it and pretend I'm giving you all a kiss cuz I'm so pumped and I'd kiss you all hahahaha! They were kinda not sure if they could go to church yesterday and they didn't, but he's like, "Yeah I want to go and talk with the bishop." He also needs to get divorced and so we explained that they needed to get married, etc and they were all cool with it. He said, "Your church makes the most sense." I remember praying in my head that I could answer all of his questions and it went perfect!!!!
b4 I forget happy bday Abby abdominal!!! r u like 12 already haha jk
The weather was gre8 this week. I think one day it had to be like 60 degrees. It was gr8. I was in short sleeve for a while and we're technically in January weather supposedly.
I'm sorry my eng might be horrible. I love espñ. i love learning words. It's funny to hear the kids in the street playing soccer or somethin and I think ok I'll loook up that word, or I've never heard that one. A lot of them are slang haha. I know the Lord's blessing me with continually speaking espñ even if others don't in the house. One of my fav scriptures is the one - If you keep my commandments you will prosper, but if you don't you have no promise.
haha it was coool, the other Monday, last week, we were talking with a guy investigator named Roque and his friends with missionaries cuz they helped teach him eng but his interest in the church is mas o menos ummm how do you say that in eng wavery haha idk, but he likes music, like beethoven etc. Then he just got going off talking music and I was thinking, "Hhmmm, how can we not waste time just talkin bout music?" cuz he had his laptop and it was on radio, then all of the sudden "ding" "Have you heard of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir?" "No, who are they?" And so on his laptop he looked them up and we listened to hymns and he likes it. Maybe thru Mo Tab he can join the church and take more interest in it.
well i love u all a ton thx for all everything
Elder Reginald Grant Roberts
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