Love having a Latin comp!

Castle in Tandil

Hola Familia

HAPPY BIRTHDAY VERONICA! Yeah you're old. Wahoooo! I hope U had a gr8 Day YEAHHHH!!!!

Wow does my comp speak favring fast and it's awesome! At the beginning of
the week I felt like I had like 6 months again in the mish cuz comp
haha is a motor when he talks! And he's gr8 at mumbling too haha!
Sometimes he'll say somethin like gfyhguafdfgdjfge? and I'm like, "Huh, what?"
lol But it's gr8.  gr8 practice and it's a blessing. I remember Elder Thomas
once said when you have a Latin comp it makes you realize how much you don't
know. haha Yeah in our district we have missionaries from Peru, 2 Argys, Chile, Uruguay and
sister's from Brazil y Honduras. The sis from Honduras has a funny accent. I
like hearing accents from other countries and meeting people from
around the world. I think the Paraguay people have the funniest accents
and also Spaniards with there lisps. Speaking of Pres. Dad asked if I see
him much. Unfortunately No I've seen Pres. Parreño 2 times. Zone conf and
area conf and I saw Pres. Detlefsen like 4 or 5 times. That would be sweet to
be able to talk to them and get to know him. But it is what it is. b4 I
forget, how do missions in the states do transfers? Like how do they travel?
Cuz here we do buses and they don't really exist in Utah. How is it?
haha They should make you guys walk to make up for 2 yrs of driving haha
jk. I love walking for real, it's relaxing.

That Temple dedication sounded gr8. That's awesome how they said Brigham Young
and Pres. Snow were there. That reminds me of yesterday in church a
member in the presidency or somethin was talkin about temples and was talkin
bout the temple in Chile where he served. He told a story of a worker
or someone that had to do some finishing work the night b4 the dedication
and he said he could feel and knew that there were other people in the
building besides just him. And in the dedicatory prayer the guy said that
Nephi and his family were in the temple doing like inspections to see
if it was ready!!! How awesome!!! I do miss temples! I fell in love
with them in the MTC and I miss them. I want to go now! *)

Kyle Korver attended church yesterday, oh I mean Rodrigo haha. He's
awesome! He wants to get baptized bad and we set a date for the 29 Sep and
he was kinda disappointed that he has to wait a lil longer cuz he didn't go
to church last week cuz he was sick. But it's awesome! He really wants to
get baptized. His mom also likes it when we go by their house. She suffers
from panic or however you say it, she panics a lot and haha she asked if
she has to go all the way under water for baptism. haha She's cool!

Sweet! Thanks for sending me a camera. I promise to take millions of
fotos for you kids. Sometimes you don't realize what you have til it's gone, like
a camera haha. I remember when Elder Templeton was supposed to receive an
electronic dictionary and when he got the package haha he was like,
"What? Where's my dictionary? Aw what the freak? No they forgot!" Then we
were like, "Did you look in the mac and cheese box..?" "Oh, here it is!" hahaha

It's cool with a Latin comp cuz you can learn lots of words like burp and
scarecrow, that's if I understand him haha jk.

Sub thats cool you're going to that dance thing with who? And you should do
a Euro mullet or like blue hair like a girl I saw yesterday. Yesterday
is a word that I almost say in English at times idk why. But yeah mullet
or fro or bald like me haha jk, I'm not bald, it's swag. Who else has it?
King James and Dr Phil jk I'm not like him haha. Made u laugh.

Lets see. What have I been pondering bout the last lil while? I've been
thinkin bout how people can see and feel the spirit when we're around
them. Like Lujan, mom of Rodrigo. She said I feel better being around and
talking to you then with my friends. Also with simple contacts, with
people that we've been by there house 5-8 times, without being ables to
teach them, but when we ask if they need anything and say no, they also
say, "Whatever you need I'll help you guys." And I feel good when we eat with
families and they're like, "Oh the missionaries wahoo!" And a lot of people
see us too and wonder bout us. Like, "I always see you, but have never had
the opportunity to talk with you."

Oh, I was thinking the other day - Hey sub and v, you should get your
Patriarchal Blessings! They're awesome! But like if you feel ready and
everything. I was thinking bout that the other day, actually a while. If you
can do it :)

Well I'll put fotos on. Thx for all! Keep praying for me and my mind
that I can focus good.
Love
Elder Reginald Grant Roberts

Staying in Tandil with a new Comp! :)

UTAAAAAAAH YEAAHAHHAHHH Tomatela BYU yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
Sweet, I'm happy again!  Go Utes Baby! da dun da dun da dun Ute song Yeaahhhh!

So we got transfers and…. I'm still in Tandil and Elder Templeton went
to Olavarria in one of the branches there. Not the same as mine, but
close. My new comp is Elder Morel. When they were telling me who he was
no one really knew if he is Latin or USA and everyone was saying for
sure he's USA (yankee) but I was like hmmm I'll believe it when i see it
and it turns out he's LATINO yeeeeaaaaah! Go utes! Go latinos yeaahhhhh
yeaahhaha  Can you tell I'm excited? haha

Elder Templeton and I had 5 months together and he's awesome. It's amazing
to see the change he's done in his life. Awesome dude. Elder Morel is from
¨La Plata¨ in Argy about 10 hrs from here. He has almost the same time out
as Elder Templeton, minus the extra time in the mtc. They came to the field
together. He also mumbles too and talks fast! yeaaah Just what I wanted
to perfectionize (I don't think thats a word) my espñ skills. He also
wants to learn english. He was saying like all the words he knows on
the way to write you guys, ¨family, brother, dog ..table, CNN, ESPN, happy.¨
He's awesome! A funny person too. He's also really Argentine haha which is
awesome! After they pull jokes here they do a ¨ahhh¨ kinda thing. It's gr8.
I do it too ahhh.

This will be the longest area I've been in. It's cool, my work isn't done
here and Heavenly Father still has things for me to learn here.
Elder Nolan is on his way home. A gr8 friend in the mish. The time has flown by wow!

The other day we found a 20 yr old named Rodrigo and his mom Lujan.
They're awesome! 1st off he favring looks like Kyle Korver, like for real.
He is more to him than Ashton Kutcher. It's loco. He's also a model
hahaha. But he's a believer in Christ and wants to get baptized and go to
church bad. He couldn't go yesterday cuz his stomach was hurting him. We
were talking to him about the church Saturday, preparing him for Sunday, like
if he had questions, etc and he's like, "Can I be a missionary like you guys?"
and we were like, "Yeah!" Then he's like, "Mom, I'm going to be a missionary
like them." She's like, "Ok." He's so cool.

Julio Lopez is doing alright. We just need to find him when he's not
drinking, etc. Cool guy, but needs to put down the wine. We'll keep
working with him.

Ohh I'm so excited for General Conf! I'm drooling with my mouth open! Can't
wait! Does anyone else have like Pres. Uchtdorf craves for his talks and
Pres. Monson and everyone? I hope I'll be able to see priesthood for the
1st time in the mish haha.

The people love Pres. Eyring even more now cuz he came here and it was
Elder Ballard that came. Correction. I always get M. Russell and Russell M.
mixed up haha. if u forgot utes won!

I think I'm the only Yankee(USA) in my district here wahoo haha! It's cool.
What else? We're lookin forward to workin hard here and seeing some miracles. :)

love U all! Keep up the prayers and good work. Stay in school.
Love
Elder Reginald Grant Roberts

Temple Dedication in Argentina!

Wahoo! We got to go to the temple dedication. They gave us lil green
cards to get in. It was gr8!

On Saturday it was the temple celebration. It was pretty cool. It was a broadcast of
youth dancing and music and some lil talks from Pres. Eyring and Elder
Nelson. It was cool hearing the translator and being able to understand
both people. Pres. Eyring said, "Pres. Monson would love to be here! I know
he'd just sing somethin in Spanish to you guys." hahaha The theme kinda
thing seemed to be centered on the promise bout the church here in South
America and how the church will grow and be strong here like an acorn tree.
It grows slow, but then it's strong at the end.
Temple's are awesome! I want to go to one now! :) Go to them when you can
please! It's been bout 3 yrs since they've had a temple in Argyworld so
they were pretty pumped for yesterday!

We found a guy named Julio Lopez the other day and he said he's lost
pretty much everything from being an alcoholic and said he wants to
change. He loved our message and he was like, "Yeah it makes sense to have
one prophet and it seems wrong that God would say you're catholic, you're
Jehovah Witness and not all in the same church." We went by the next day
and his wifelady said he got called to work in the field so he might
not get back til the end of this week. But it was cool to see him so
happy about our message. He wants to go to church and his wifelady said
they were reading that night from the BOM.

Today we went to a lil castle thing that's here in Tandil. It's not
really a castle, it looks like one, but its a restaurant inside, but its
sweet and has a gr8 view of Tandil cuz its kinda on a mountain. I bought a
memory card and Elder Yost let me borrow his camera. He's awesome!

I bought a card for V, but the line thing in the mail place was full!

Today is the last week of transfers. It's the last one for Elder Nolan, my
friend from Olavarria and he is my dis leader here. Woow time flies! I
remember when he had 10 months :/

The weather is getting good. I think they said it was going to rain
everyday here last week, but I think it did once haha.

love u all
church is tru
Elder Reginald Grant Roberts

Alonso's Baptism!! He's soooo cool!

Hi haha

The weather is getting better wahoo! The other day they were saying it
was bout 70 degrees yeah!

I'm pretty excited for this weekend. Sunday is the temple dedication of
the Buenos Aires temple and they're showing it thru the satellite thing at our
church. But the thing is I don't have my recommend aww and probably more
then half the missionaries, cuz they told us we didn't need it, so we
left it in the offices in Bahia. So we need to call them and ask if
they can send our recommends so we can enter cuz only the Pres. of mish
can do temple recommends for the missionaries and so yeah the packet
thing that we get each week should have our recommends and it should come
Saturday :/ I hope I can go Sunday cuz it'd be awesome!! So I'll be
praying extra hard that I'll get mine and you should too haha.

There was the bapt of Alonso and it was awesome! He shaved, cut his
hair and looks gr8. He's like 65 and he hugged me like 15 times cuz he
was so happy lol. He said,"I'm the New Alonso," I have a new life! Sweet
and he was confirmed yesterday and after he was standing there in
tears for like 30 sec. Also he was the 1st one to bear his testimony!
He's soooo cool! I took a pic with him ..honk lol don't have camera lol
but Elder Morales took one of me with him so when i get it, I'll throw it
to you people.

Thanks for the Argy temple fotos. I've only seen one foto of the temple (BA)
and it was gr8 to see other views. I want to gooo!! Pres. Eyring will be
doing the dedication.

We finally found Tony y Maria. It was a lil weird. They just kinda like
fell off the face of the earth. We talked to them (Maria and her sons)
and she's like, "Sorry I've been really busy. My sons have been a handful
and kind of gotten in trouble." But they're doing good and I'm glad they're
still interested. I was a lil worried for them, but for now it's all good.
Thankfully! We're kinda focusing on her sons Kevin 15 and Agustin
13 (Agu) and I can tell that she's kinda worried and thinks bout them
a lot and so we talked bout bapt with her kids and Agu said he'd do it.
Kevin might take some more time but Saturday we're going to take a tour
of the church with them and it'll be at the same time they'll be playing
soccer at the church. So we're trying to get them more familiar with the
youth and the church and I know if the kids progress it'll give Tony y
Maria more motivation to keep going to church etc. Her boys are awesome!
They ask a ton bout USA haha. They asked if cheerleaders really exist
in the schools haha.

I got the lil packages from Gma Smart y Merlyn THANK U! They're gr8 stuff!!
I also got few dear elders from Alyssa Gracias!! I'm trying to think of
her questions she had. umm oh there was one - If I have funny translating
stories hahaha. I used to say that the apostles were killing themselves
hahaha oops. Also told a kid that like every day there's huge storms in
my neighborhood and that houses fall etc. What else? And just a few of
¨don't repeat that word¨ things haha.

Alyssa also asked if I feel like the Pres in the mish have helped me,
like it has for other returned missionaries. I love both the Pres's that
we've had. Pres. Detlefsen is a legend haha hilarious guy, but says stuff
like wow powerful! He has a gr8 vision. I remember he'd always say when
they call a temple in Bahia you will jump out of your seat and start
screaming and then you'll see another guy like 30 rows over there
screaming also. And it'll be a gr8 day haha! Pres. Parreño is a capo! I love
how he talks bout change and becoming perfect as god is 3 n 12:48. I
remember Pres. Detlefsen said if you don't change now in the mish you'll
never change. If you keep being the same, you'll return the same.

I don't know if that new credit card thing in Argy will effect me. I haven't
heard anything bout it.

Well, I'm going to end and try and send some fotitos for you.
thx for all your prayers thoughts etc. Keep them up and more and that I can
get my recommend :)
Gracias por todo son Capos
Love
Elder Reginald Grant Roberts
Oh, I just remembered when I was with Elder Morales for divisions, we entered a
house. I asked a girl, "What's your name?" She said, "Regina." "And your dad?" "Roberto." I was like, "HUHHH? For real? ME TOO!" haha! It was pretty sweet! Daughter named Regina, Dad named
Roberto! To bad he's favring weird lol. luv U´s!