Tuesday, December 27, 2011

E Tres UNO

1st off Merry Christmas everyone! Hope everything's going perfect! Comp just said at 4 o'clock argy time (12 utah) we will be on Skype. He'll be going 1st,  so I'll get on bout 1or 1:30 utah time. If you need to contact me I'll probably check my email b4 I get on or something.

It does not feel like Christmas at all haha. It's pretty weird. There's no Christmas music. No big decorations. Maybe some lights here and there and maybe a santa thing outside their door. And the most popular decoration is probably the 2 foot high tree thing hahaa. But other than that, not much christmasy stuff. I do love Christmas in summer. It's so hot that a man just walked in with his shirt off and he probably weighs 3 times my size hahaha. I will enjoy the 1st day of summer on the 21st aww yeah lol. It's not extremely hot for me, but my comp hates it haha.¨pobresito¨ the only uncomfortable part is probably having to wear these pants the whole day, but I love the heat. I'm not sure if they focus on the birth of Jesus much here (to answer your question) (LIKE WITH OTHER PPLE)oops caps lock..but really it just feels like a normal week in the middle of the year except that the calendar says December haha. It doesn't have that feel of Christmas except wal mart haha. They've got the Christmas fever and Bieber fever. Saw jb's Christmas cd. Do you have it sub? haha

It's kind of a half P day today. We went shopping at walmart and email today. It's not really p day cuz we have the activity thing in Mar Del Plata this week. We leave from here in the night on Wednesday, like 5 or so. Then arrive like at 8:30 in mar del plata, the next day. There we can play sports. BBALL, USA football etc. But you know for sure you can find me - on the court! I'm pretty excited to go cuz I guess mar del is one of the prettiest places in Argy. I'm defiantly going to take my camera and send some pics your way. Pres will be there. Then we get on a bus like at 10 Thursday night and go back home. We'll probably get home like 1 in morning.

Hows Vegas life everyone? Hope it's warm. Give a high 5 to a tower for me or something haha.

My espñ is doing really good. Yesterday i pretty much understood every word in priesthood class. And it's cool to talk to the kids in our ward and understand them. It's sweet. Hey we got the Liahona from conference!!! It's en espñ, but i think the zone leaders should have some in eng.  It's kinda harder for me to read and understand espñ. I can read fine with pronunciation etc its just remembering what I said. It is hard haha. I did get 2 cards from gma merlyn in the mail thanks!

Cecilia didn't attend church. Nor anyone else :( That always stinks. But hey that was 24 hrs ago. Haven't been in contact with Alberto. Haven't seen Carmen in a while cuz she's been in the hospital. We've been working with the grandkids of Pedro y Lucinda. They're members, but less active and we're teaching their 8 yr old grandkid, and her cousins (3 of them in same family). They have been taught by the missionaries b4 right b4 I arrived here.  One of the cousins got in trouble or something and the mom punished them by saying they can't attend church anymore hahaha. Pretty silly, but that was like 6 months ago.  We talked about working on a ¨baptismal family tree¨ where you baptize a mom, then her kids, then her cousins etc for example. And so we're thinking that if we can baptize the 8 yr old (Priscila) then maybe the dominoes will fall. They've all been to church b4 a few times. So we hope we can get them to church probably twice more then baptize them on 31st cuz we're trying to get the 3 baptisms for this month so we can get 1000 as a mish this yr!

What are my plans for Christmas? Talk to you guys of course!! Then idk haha. I think we'll have lunch with our neighbors the Galli´s. Our church is from 10:30 to 11:30. Other than that, not much else to do. We'll open our gifts, maybe after church or b4. Then listen to Christmas music haha.

Have fun this week. Be safe. Think bout the birth of Jesus and what Hes' done for us. It's amazing what he really did when you think bout it!

Hope you get all you want from Papa Noel y su elf's.
Merry Christmas and see u LIVE next Sunday!! ino puedo esperar!
LOVE
Reginald Grant Roberts
ps  I sent the package finally. Should get there probably 28thish. Sent it Tuesday.

Monday, December 12, 2011

Nothin really but sunshine here!

Holo haha
All good down south. Nothin really but sunshine here!

Cecilia and her son Julian came to church yesterday, like 10 min b4 sacrament meeting ended. Then Julian wanted to go. Alicia, (recent convert) who we've taken on some lessons to Cecilia's with us said that, "They can come to my house and I'll teach them a lesson. Plus I'll teach my daughter." We were like thanks Alicia, you're awesome cuz I guess when Julian wants to go you can't do much except do what he wants. Alicia loves to share the gospel. She's so cool. She's slowly working on her daughter and loves to go with us to lessons!

Saturday we did a fast to help us try to find more investigators. We were just done talking to a person, a future investigator, bout when we can come by later and then we saw this guy at the end of the apartment lil place. We decided to go and talk to him cuz we're trying to talk to everyone. So we asked him if he knows an ¨Alberto¨ someone that lives close to there and was a former investigator. He's like, "Yep, that's me. But I don't have any interest." But we kept talkin and then he let us in his house. It is a one room house. Pretty humble place. Could fit a bed, sink and table and 2 chairs. So we talked with him and it was kinda a lesson where he had sorta interest but he was still kinda seeming like he might not want to hear more lessons. Just something like that. Then we talked bout baptism and then asked if we could pray. So my comp did it and gave a good prayer. Then after the prayer he was like, "Okay, I'm going to be serious. When I closed my eyes I saw a light (or something) and felt good." My comp explained that that's the Holy Ghost confirming to him that these things are true. He started to tear up and we gave him a hug. He said, "I'm going to read and go to church." And then said that we could pass by in the morning to take him to church. So we went to his house, but he was a sleep like a log! We knocked at his house for like 20 min haha. But nothing! So we're goin to pass by his house, I think on Tues and teach more.

Carmen had an operation on her intestines or something. She's always kinda had health problems, but she doing good. Still need her to assist church (she one with hubby in jail).

Other than that things are goin pretty good.  Espñ is doing alright. I told a kid that my house has crumbled down from a storm yesterday haha. Yeah I didn't understand his question hahaha. He was askin if my house has ever fallen and I thought he asked if it's ever happened with weather in usa hahaha. It's still kinda hard to understand people. Oh well.

I had no idea Christina was sworn in yesterday. There wasn't any big parties or anything for that. But there was day of the Virgin Mary the other day. There wasn't much partying for that either haha. Don't know if people in Laprida attended church yesterday. My comp hasn't called yet. My comp celebrated 1 yr in mish on the 8th.

This Dec 20th there is going to be a ¨Super P Day.¨ That is what they call it where the missionaries either go to Bahia Blanca or Mar del Plata and gather to play games and stuff. Word is ball gets played!! Our half of the mission goes to Mar del Plata. I've heard its pretty there. It's right on the coast.

The people do have a sense of humor here and they love to talk haha. After a meeting in church, like sacrament meeting, people usually like to talk for bout 10-15 min. Then after class maybe 5-10 more min haha. I love it when people try to speak eng here haha. It's hilarious! We have some lunches with a family, the Coria, and they have a son like 24, a returned missionary. And most all spanish speakers learn a lil eng on their mish. Maybe few sentences and sometimes he'll say, "You are my salvation or you are my butterfly, chicken little or happy feet haha. Funny people. And sometime when I ask for them to repeat a question some people try to say it in eng hahaha and they can't speak eng.

Congrats to Baylors QB. I have no idea who you are I think haha Baylor? haha
Jamaal Tinsley's my boy reppin the Pacers! Mr mccleoud you the man!

Work outs are going good. Still thin though haha. People call me Flaco (skinny) but that's all good. Will be sending my package soon :/ haha

Some things that we say when we contact people is, "Hola podemos presentarnos somos misioneros church of jc..can we share a message with you one day?" And i have been lately thinking of changing it up with some really good questions cuz i noticed that they may not seem so interesting. So I'll be workin on that. That's cool mom that you're readin Preach My Gospel. I read it in spanish. It's cool, I can understand it reading. The Book of Mormon in espñ is harder cuz it uses different grammar like the ¨thou, thy" and weird ways  so I have my eng one when I read it. You all should learn spanish. Elder Fee was telling me how he heard a study that the younger you are the easier to learn a language. Like I have a better ability compared to a 30 yr old and a 10 yr old has a better ability then me. And also (when you know 2 languages ) have an average 8 yrs more in life without Alzheimer's. Some pretty cool stats haha. So V you have no excuse to learn Espñ by the end of this month haha.

church is true gospel is incredible prophet is true keep workin hard
Love u all
Elder Reginald Grant Roberts


hmm what else? not much
keep bein awesome luv u all

Monday, December 5, 2011

Crazy Utahish weather in Argy!

Hola everyones!!

todo good here

I just got done reading bout Grandma Smart's letter bout the weather and the wind. Dang that's good that everything is okay. We actually had a similar thing like that to. We got out of lunch at bout afternoonish and then we headed to a less actives house which was pretty far from our house. The day started off hot and normal, then some clouds after lunch, nothing threatening I thought. Then it was lil bit raining, just sprinkles and my comp wanted to try to beat the storm home and go to our house to get jackets haha. But I thought he was nuts so we called a remis (taxi). Then about 2 min later the wind came like crazy. We went inside the members house, the power was out. It was pouring and windy. Then it started raining rocks (actually hail haha they call it rocks) and they were pretty big! I was thinking, "Dang, I thought I was in Argy not Utah lol." So the wind, strong wind, went for like 5 min and we waited for the remis and i thought I heard one of the windows brake. But I think its fine. The remis came, but it was like 3 houses down and so one of the member ladies goes in the rain and everything barefoot and gets the remis to come to our house haha. We ran to the remis and got home good! haha It was pretty nuts. The power was out for a lil bit but luckily we got ours by night. Some tree branches were in the street. Some cable telephone wires and fences were blown over. Some people were saying it was a tornado or hurricane haha. Sweet. So thats my cool story with the weather haha.

We had some investigators assist church. Cicilia, she was a investigator for forever before, but I think the missionaries just gave up on her. She has 2 sons Julian, 14. He has some mind problems. He has a mind like a 5 yr old. He can't talk or anything. He's a capo. He sat on my lap for a lil bit, haha during a lesson. The other son is Nico, 11 yrs. It was cool, during church yesterday she said, "When I get baptized do I have to buy my own clothes?" We told her no. So that's cool she wants to get bapt. We had Alicia go with us to a lesson with her. Alicia's awesome. She loves Pres. Kimball. We'll teach her something then she'll say, "Oh Pres. Kimball said something bout that!! Also, we went to church in Laprida yesterday. The area we go to with the Fees once a week. The record b4 with people were 8 or 9 for people in church. We had 17 people plus 3 babies that we blessed yesterday!! 3 of them are investigators!! Ayelen (ashelin) Camila y adrian! They're cool! We hope to have success for them this week!!

This week my comp wants me to talk on the phone to other missionaries in our district when we takes stats for the day at night haha! I've done some phone calls for lunches to.

Finished Christmas shopping. Got some cool stuff for cheap!

My espñ is doing good. My understanding was good this week. One of the less active ladies talks so fast and I remember when we 1st met her I had no idea what she was saying haha. But now I can lil bit and its sweet! I think it's cool being in my 1st area for a good amount of time cuz I may be here long enough where I can understand people. I can pretty much understand Americans speak, just cuz the accent. And I'm trying to get the Argys down. It's funny, some people its pretty hard to understand. Like our zone leader in our district, he sounds like an Arabian speaking Spanish haha. But he's from Argy. He sounds like that guy off the Simpson's haha.

Food is pretty good. For lunches, we either get noodles, milanesas (breaded meat) or pizza. It's pretty good sometimes lol. Haven't had a big asado (argy barbecue) but I can't wait to have one. I've heard they're gr8. Sometimes for lunches, my comp and I try to guess what we'll be eating. One time I guessed the whole meal perfect, including drinks. I was trying not to do a touchdown dance or something when they brought out the food and I was correct on all lol. I think the most unusual food is still horse. I've heard of people eating, dang it, I just forgot what its called, starts with an A lol.

Shoes are doing pretty good! My big sole ones should last the mish i think. Only wear suits on Sunday. They're still clean.

The other day, we knocked a door of a lady and she was saying how she listened to us (missionaries ) b4 and she said we can't mention Joseph Smith in her house. She also said how she has a the bible and needs no other bible. And it got me thinking of how the church, even if you didn't have a testimony of it, makes totally sense cuz do you think God will stop talking to his children after Jesus died? Nah! It reminded me of that scripture in 2 Nephi about God saying how he gives us the Book of Mormon and how come people don't want to hear more words of God and how we shouldn't just have the bible. I know for sure that if anyone reads Book of Mormon with true intent they'll know the church is true! They'll feel peace and the holy ghost.  The Book of Mormon is so good! If you want to feel the HG read!! I know when I started reading with a purpose it changed me!

Go Utes! Playing in ¨the step¨ Texas (translation) vs GT!  Packers - nuff said and my boy Cam Newton, sup! When in doubt throw to steve smith!

That's cool dad you saw Elder Oaks. His daughter can play the violin way good. She played in the MTC for us. The workouts are fun! Love them!

yo quiroe hablar sobre nada en español ahora jaja

u guys are aweome keep goin hard doing the right etc
loves yall
Elder Reginaldo Grant Roberto

Monday, November 28, 2011

Talking to EVERYONE on the street!

Hello people
Life is good!

Comp and I are still here in Olavarrrrrrrrria! I'm glad bout it. It's a chill place. Here people are cool etc.

Glad to hear that you had a good thanksgiving.  Haha Comp and I totally forgot until it hit me at like 10:20 on Thursday night. So then I told comp happy thanksgiving haha. The warm weather keeps you focused for me haha.

I guess there is a volcano in Chile or somethin and so this week we has a lil bit of some smoggy ash stuff in the air. It just looked kinda brown. It was pretty sweet, but other than that weather is awesome hahaha. Comp hates the heat (don't ask me why he lives in Cali). He's funny bout it too, ¨Eat me dog I cant take it! I want to shave all my hair off it's so hot.¨ haha he's funny.

We had no investigators at church, but Carmen, one of our investigators who doesn't go to church cuz she visits her hubby in the jail on Sunday morning, said that she knows the book of mormon is the word of God. We just need to help her with her hubby situation. We went to Laprida, about a 10 min drive from our area. It's still in our area but we took a bus out there. It's cool, the bus drivers have some skill. As soon as you walk on the bus he's driving. Then he takes your money, gives you change and a ticket while he's driving. I have a hard time talking and driving lol jk. But they have skill. Laprida went well. Dropped off a book from a reference we got and taught a 19ish yr old girl. She liked the message, but didn't go to church. Also taught two other girls in their teens sitting in a park. Haha at the end we asked for their address and they didn't know and so we asked for their phone number and her fone is broken. So we have no contact with them haha. We hope that one day maybe we'll just see them in the street and chase them down or something lol.

Comp and I have tried hard to talk to everybody, like people we pass in the street and etc. We take turns presenting ourselves. It's pretty fun cuz we know God places everyone in our way and we know we can get more baptisms for ourselves from talking to everyone. We haven't had a bapt yet. I actually have a rally mustache right now lol jk. But for real I miss that feeling. There is a Elder from Olavarria (other area like 7 min drive away) and he's in the Utah South mission, El Fuentes. He was telling his mom how he had a bad week cuz they didn't baptized anyone that week lol. Then that got me thinking why can't we have a baptism every week also. We can have them I believe. I know it will take a ton more work. We are always trying to be the best, my comp and I, can be. With this new transfer beginning I have high expectations. I want to work absolutely as hard as I can with zero regrets. Maybe we'll have one bapt this transfer. But I know if we do everything we can we'll be blessed.

It's cool having 6 months in the mission! As dad said, I finished my freshmen year. I like those comparisons. Sophomore year is beginning. I have a lot of expectations. Time to step up! I'm pumped lol.

Had a primary program thing at church. There was like double the people. We missionaries and former sang Called to Serve. It was pretty powerful! It was cool, bout 10 to 14 of us sang. During a kid's talk his sister was by his side and she said, "You're talking with your nose.¨ lol it was funny everyone laughed.

I haven't received gma smarts package.

I also have a jump rope to use. Thank you so much for the exercise thing and tips. I can't wait to start tomorrow morning.

I don't know what time we will skype on christmas. I'll be in Olavarria during it.I think Pablo and Julia said we could use their computer. idk the details on it, but when i know I'll tell you. We may skype from the Fees house idk. It's cool here, for Christmas on the 24th they party hard. Fireworks all night  and stuff. Open some gifts. I think they kinda take it easy after partying all day the 24th lol. Then on 6th of Jan the kids get lil gifts in their shoes like stockings haha. It's a good time to have shaq size feet lol.

My space, mom, is clean. At 1st I was a lil messy, but these last few months I'm gr8 at being clean! My clothes are doing pretty good.

It's good to hear bout the NBA starting on Christmas. Fffeeew, now I can sleep at nights hahaa jk. I don't think bout it that much, but that's good news! I'm crying right now after hearing the utes update. Dang it that stings. Hopefully they get a good bowl and next yr is takeover season for them :) Urban Meyer capo.

Well, take it easy. Have some cake or do something cool in the cold weather haha. It's warm here. Be safe. Choose the right, read the book of mormon and pray and smile. Church is true, no doubt. It's funny hearing others takes on religion and their beliefs, like jehovah witnesses only believe that 144,000 people will be saved. Hmmm does that sound a lil weird? And some lady gave us a lil book from her religion thing and it had a pic of some guy that looks like he has shaving cream all over his face (beard) its pretty funny. I'll get you a pic. But yeH CHURCH IS TRUE AND IM SO GLAD THAT I GREW UP IN THE TRUTH AND GET THE CHANCE TO HELP SAVE PEOPLE sorry that was all in caps lock haha i had my head down typing.

love u all
love
Elder Reginald Grant Roberts
time to wrk :)
and thanks once again for the wrkout thingy dad

Monday, November 21, 2011

Eating Thanksgiving Dinner in Argentina!

Isle at Walmart. They love their alcohol here.
Hola personas todo bien!

Happy Anniversary Alyssa Y Scott! It's been a year with plenty more Felices!!

I got Christmas stuff as well as Thanksgiving stuff from gma Merlyn. Thanks. I also got a package from the Facers. Is that for Christmas or now to open? haha. I got all the packages Mom and some dear elders from Alyssa and the Bryan's and some letters to. Thanks everyone!

Its wonderful outside :) I had  my 1st experience with humidity and its awesome cuz its always hot haha! Even at night! Sweeet!

It did rain the other day, but I was happy becuz it wasn't snow lol! I was with Elder Warren when it rained and we were walking on the sidewalk thing and there was puddles in the street and stuff and some car drives by us and splashes us hahaha! It was gr8 haha. It was cool cuz it didn't get us more wet then we already were cuz we were soaked, like throwing water on a wet rag haha. I think it was even funnier cuz Elder Warren hates rain pretty much more than anything haha. But he has a funny good attitude bout it haha.

La conferencia de zona was good. I could understand it especially at the beginning. Then it kind of just faded lol. The conferences are long. We got there at 10 and ended at 7ish. A lot of sitting lol. President talked about how if every companionship gets 3 bapt for the rest of the year we will have 1000 as a mission! So we're working for that as a mish. We had no inv at church, but yesterday is gone. Oh well. Pres also talked bout always setting goals which I like to do! Pres is such a capo. I don't think he's been anywhere in the world without a friend (everyone loves him) and he's funny haha.

Melanie is doing gr8! All her fam goes to church now on a regular basis. We used to kinda push her to church but now she can't get enuff!! Her mom goes to church, she was less active, and her gma goes and her bro who's 6, (and who thinks I'm so cool haha we have a handshake thing) is mad that he can't get baptized yet cuz he's only 6. We have family night with them today. Alicia is trying to quit smoking. We set a calendar up with her to help her quit by Dec 1.

Last Monday after emailing, we knocked a door and some 16 yr old answered. We talked to him and he's a capo. He said he's always seen us in the street but never knew what we teach. He wants to play for BOCA (soccer team) and I think thats awesome. And also he said, "I have a question, what is your thoughts on the end of the world stuff?" And what else is crazy is that the 1st 3 out of 5 days in the week someone brought up the end of the world stuff. I think it's pretty interesting that people nowadays are really interested in what is going to happen to the world cuz it seems like every week some pastor is saying like, ¨Hmm 25 of January, yep the world will end.¨ And especially after 11/11/11 I think you might be able to put that question in with the category of, ¨Why am I here, where am I going¨ stuff. It's pretty interesting. We then obviously explain our beliefs on it and also how we don't think the world will just explode. That's what a lot of people think. I think I'll become good at teaching that subject haha.

Today we had Thanksgiving!! haha We went to the elderly Fees house. We do that on the last Monday in each transfer (eat with the Fees as a zone).We had turkey, mashed potatoes. We also got to watch Cowboys play haha! Just messing! I sat by a new Elder Wagner from Texas, so I felt pretty americonized (cool word). Also the last 2 times we had lunch with them we play that telephone game where you whisper in someone's ear and you try to keep the same sentence by the end of the circle. It is gr8 with people that can't speak espñ and english hahaha. This is the last week of transfers and its good expecting not to go anywhere.

Espñ is espñ! haha Still kinda a week without much progress, but whatever. It'll come!

I like having the winter warm here during the holidays cuz it also helps me stay focused cuz i kinda forgot about Thanksgiving til today and Christmas just cuz it doesn't seem like it haha. So that helps me stay focused.

Haha, the other day we walked by a guy and he had a beer in his hand and he said, ¨Hey guys I know you!¨Then looked at our tags and said, "Oh English, I know English!" Then he said, "cbehbfjafiueafiuahfiueufh" pretending to talk in English. Then he paused and looked up and blinked hard to the heavens for like 20 sec hahaha. My comp and I just looked at each other like who is this guy haha. Then he said, "I have to go." Then left. They like their beer here. We have some drunk buddies that we always pass by going to Maxi and Yamilas. They're pretty cool. One day we'll see them in white :)

More and more kids are playing soccer in the streets. They're coming out of hibernation from the winter. When I get a ball I pick it up and spin it on my finger and they think its soo cool! lol

Go Utes!
Dang the nba isnt sounding good :(

Well ches have a splendish week cuz I will eat some turkey and snow hahaha snow!

yo espero tienen bien dias esta semana con dia de gracias y cosas

chau
love
Elder Reginald Grant Roberts

Monday, November 14, 2011

Just living the dream! No big deal!

Hola
Just living the dream! No big deal! lol

1st off I wanna say my espñ es (notice i put es instead of is, it just happened) getting better and better each day! We went from only speaking espñ in the street, to all the time now! I can understand my comp bout 80 to 95 % of the time. Crazy huh! And for the other percent I can figure out what that word means just from understanding what else he is saying. Or I have no idea haha. It's still harder to understand Argys cuz they talk faster and the words slur together, but it's still getting better. Just trying to get better everyday, like LeBron always says.

It's cool, just from the last few days when we started doing only espñ (Thursday) my knowledge has grown a ton in espñ. It feels good to have it getting better. With those days where it's like, "Come on espñ, I know I can do it!" But i still struggle with it. It does stink to not be able to understand a lot of people the last 3 months or 4 in argy. idk haha. But now its feeling better. Patience and patience, but I've got a lot of that so I'll be okay.

We had an investigator at church wooooo! It was Ailen the 16yr old who lives withe her bro and has a boyfriend. She was the only one that came. She said her boyfriend, John, was ready but then he kinda just disappeared b4 we picked her up in a taxi lol. But I think she had a good experience en church (there's that en again). The talks were good. Carmen didn't go to church, dang it. Her hubby man, whatever, got transfered to another prison and its farther than the one b4 and so its harder for her to go see him. She was pretty sad bout that. She needs to attend church! Melanie's doing awesome! Alicia is kinda struggling, but we're working with her.

Pres Detlefsen wrote in his email today to us missionaries that its now a rule, kinda thing, that us missionaries should expect to have 6 to 9 months in each area, The missionaries, in all of the mission, when they end, will have bout 2 or 3 transfers. No more for their whole mission. So it looks like I'll be here for a lil bit longer, which I'm cool with. And then I'll probably see 2 maybe 3 other places haha. But I'm cool with that cuz I don't like packing lol. And also this ward that I'm in is considered the strongest in our area, out of like 2 or 3 churches there like 5 returned missionaries. The oldest is like 25, so its strong and young (they have more than 5 RMs they just have a strong age groupish thing).

Pres is also coming to town! It's zone conf this week on Wed and I can't wait to hear Pres cuz I think I'll be able to understand more!! I remember when he was bout to give his lil speech thing last conf I was so excited to listen to him, then right b4 I was like, ¨Oh yeah, I can't understand him.¨haha. I totally forgot for some reason lol. Every missionary that can understand him was like, "He's such a gr8 and uplifting speaker!" And it's like thanks for rubbing it in, cuz i got nothing out of it literally hahaha. I'll see Elder Thomas, 1st comp, again cuz he's still in the same zone. He may sleep at our place to. I hope we get the same elders that stayed with us last time, Elder Campos funny!!!! Elder Rodriguez and Elder Cortes. Won't be surprised if you hear him on a radio after the mish lol. He can sing soo good and my old comp!

Hhmmm what else. Dang it I haven't written that much and I don't know what else to say....... Last Monday we went to some lessons and we went with the old man that started to sing in his talk a few weeks ago. We took him to 2 lessons and boy he can talk hahha. It was gr8. He just kept going and going.

I never talked with the Tooele shirt guy. I haven't checked up on the guy in the accident, but I think hes ok.

The weather is warmer and warmer which is awesomer and awesomer. Alexis, we haven't talked to him for a while. He's never home. We have investigators, Gabriela and Edith, daughter and mom. I think they can progress well, we just can never get them and have a lesson cuz there not home.

Went a lil bit of christmas shopping it was cool.

I know this church is true and its so awesome to be out here working. I can't wait to get the conference Liahona. I'm guessing tomorrow we'll get one so i can just read the heck out of it! I also like to read the conference from last April. Isn't conference so coool? Went to Laprida and Caesar, the future missionary who's 23, went with us. He's so funny! We were leaving a house of a lady who had like a month or 2 month old baby, where we shared a short message. While we shook their hands Caesar kissed the baby for like 3 seconds on it's head haha. You can get away with doing that stuff here. It just seemed a lil weird to me.

We´re going to go on splits this week on Tuesday or Thursday, for like a day and I'll be with Elder Warren capo.

John White sounds awesome and the utes D! And he passed up my main man Quinton ¨i have the coolest walk in the world," Ganther. And i think i could grow a sweet mustache. Dad it's cool, I may have a line down from my nose in the middle of my mouth lol.

NBA sounds not so good! Ugh oh.

I'm here scratching my head not knowing what to say.
Umm keep being awesome! Deben hablar con Chalo y tener El translate este oracion.

The church is true and I know that God knows each and every one of us individually and he knows what we are goin thru.

Anyways, I'm going to wrap this up. Sorry it's short haha. I do have the temptation to just talk ball haha, but im not going to lol.

Love
Elder Reginald Grant Roberts

Monday, November 7, 2011

Witnessed Motorcycle Crash & Tooele Fan in Argentina!

Hey folks hows life!

Its great here!

Happy Bday Grandpa Smart and Sam hope you guys have a gr8 day iFeliz Cumpleños!

So bout my email last week and how it took forever to send. It wouldn't send and so we had to leave, but I saved it and sent it when I was with the other elders who didn't email yet. I'm on today early cuz we have to be at a members house at 6, right when we'd be done emailing so we came early.

I thought I would be a Sr comp this week, but it turns out I wasn't. I was with Elder Warren from Logan UT Smithsville or something. Maybe Alyssa and Scott know them. idk and I was also comps with Elder Moore from Colorado (his dad Tom Moore played running back for the U in like the 70´s). Funny thing bout those 2 is that they were in the same district as me in the MTC for almost a month then they left . They were also both comps in the MTC so i know them pretty good. They're pretty funny. El Warren's comp was with El Stott who's the new one and we all stayed at their house. We did some lessons. Taught Enrique who is a 14 yr old teen boy who kinda likes to hang out in the streets. He loves us missionaries and so we actually taught him a lesson while he was doing yard work. We're going to his house Tues. He doesn't really have a direction in life. I think I've seen him smoke b4 so hopefully we can help him. Comp returned Thurs morning like at 2 am from Bahia.

We have some investigators but they do not like to go to church haha. There's Alexis still, we taught him this week. Also Jesus, we have him tomorrow. He has a crazy mullet. He's bout 17 haha. We didn't get to Ailen and her bro and her boyfriend this week. Also, we're teaching Carmen. She couldn't go to church cuz I think she was visiting her boyfriend in prison. Her bf has told her to go to church and follow God! So we think she'll come this week. We went to Laprida, the town bout 1h 15 min away, with the Fee´s and we set 5 new baptismal dates, but none of them showed up to their little lds church that a young married couple have at their house. We taught a lady and her daughter we contacted last time there and she was happy for our message. We taught her for like 2 hrs. She seemed to love our message and everything made sense to her. Also, we taught a family. The mom is a less active, smokes like a chimney. We set bapt dates for her hubby and 2 daughters. We had good success there at Laprida Saturday. We're going Wed this week.

There were 2 weird things we saw this week haha. Saw a guy on his motorcycle crash. We were walking on the side of the road and we were in a part where there's just a lot of road and no stores and stuff. I had my head down and I heard some honking and a crash sound. We think that a guy, in his low or mid 20s, was nipped in the back by a pick up truck. The guy went rolling and sliding on the street, his bike went sliding and the guy that nicked him in his truck went around us on the grass part on the side of the road and just kept driving lol. We were walking against traffic and I saw the truck driver's face and he just took off. The guy on the bike got up and walked his bike over to the side to where we were (we were pretty close, but not in danger close wise, close enough that I could throw a bball to where is bike landed). He walked to us and he was moaning and ughing. He seemed hurt. He was tough bout it. He had some cuts on his hands and I think a good scrape on his left side. Also we're pretty sure he dislocated his shoulder and maybe broke his left collar bone. He was leaning down to the left. Another man that saw it stopped in his car and asked if he should call an ambulance. The bike guy was like, "No no!" I think he wasn't insured yet haha, but he called anyways. We stayed for a lil bit longer then left. It looked like (when he was rolling) just like one of the racing bike crashes on tv, but everything went well haha. He's fine. He's lucky that he was wearing long sleeves. haha  Anyways, also, yesterday I saw a teen bout 18 outside by his house in a purple shirt and I looked closer and I'm like, "What the heck! That is a Tooele Buffaloes high school shirt." I couldn't believe it hahaha! I guess T-town has a global fan base.. I saw it with my eyes it was nuts. It had a white buffalo with a T in it or something. hmmmm random I didn't talk to him haha but if i see him again i will.

Espñ is doing alright. It didn't do much better this week dang it. Some days I can understand people and others for some reason can't. In church yesterday I explained a lil bit bout these lil church cards that we give to members and they help us to find investigators, but they don't really like doing that haha.

Went to Centro today and looked at some stuff, but didn't buy anything. We were in the soccer store and on the radio was some guy talking to music in English saying how michael jackson is alive and how he planned the fake death and has a different identity haha. Then they played a recording of someone trying to sound like MJ but it obviously wasn't him haha.

It's pretty warm here. I'm liking it. My comp thinks its very hot lol. But it's really not that bad. It has been a lil bit of utah weather this week where it will rain the morning and then at 2ish or something it'll get hot haha. It doesn't seem humid. Feels kinda like utah weather, but i think my hair does get a lil curly. I can't tell a whole lot cuz its not long, but it kinda feels different.
Halloween isn't as big here as the states. Saw 3 lil girl dressed up as devils and the rest of the kids just went around with a weird hat or something. Not much kids. At wal mart they have all Christmas stuff up awwww yeah I'm defiantly in favor of celebrating it whenever.

Well gracias por todo you are all awesome. The church is true and I'm glad that Ii can serve a mish. It's hard at times, but thats okay. If it were easy then you'd never grow.

Thanks for everything
Love Elder Reginald Grant Roberts or Roberto haha yeah they dont like to say their S´s here haha
ps keep being happy !!