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!

Mom will be happy - I bought shoes!

Howdy

FELIZ CUMPLEAÑOS GRANDMA SMART! Wahooo U are Awesome!!!!!

To start off, I'll make mom happy. I bought shoes!! Today we went to Centro and bought them. They were 85$ in dollars. I'll send a foto if I have time.

This week we found a guy named Tomas Garcia and he's like 25 and he's
pretty interested in the church. We, for like the last month, have given
out like pamphlet things about the open house of the temple in BA and
he said he looked at the website cuz it was bout families (mormon.org).
And haha when we 1st got in he's like, "You guys want coffee or tea? Oh, you can't
drink it right? I read bout it  and the part bout the BoM was really
good." He said he's going to buy a case to protect them. He's going on to
vacations until 3 of September and he said he'll take the book and I hope he
comes back with all of it read!! That'd be awesome!

We found someone named Jesus and his niece Brisa (10) and they're cool. I actually don't
know Brisa that well cuz we had divisions and they found her when I
was gone. We'll be going to Tony and Maria's today. They said they'd go to
church but didn't show up. We'll have a lesson this week with some lady
that works in the divorcement thing so she can help them. We'll be
motivating their kids to get bapt. That'll be great. They still need to
come to church.

When we had divisions I was with Elder Morales from Peru in their area
and we found a guy that didn't seem to have much interest and Elder
Morales was like, "Can we go in your house and say a lil prayer?" He let us in and Elder Morales asked if he could show him his bible. So we go in and teach a lil. Then like the next
day they taught bout Joseph Smith and he was pretty much like, "How can I
not believe this? I want to baptize myself in this church." He'll get
baptized Saturday! Pretty sweet miracle! At 1st he didn't seem interested
but we kept trying and now he can't deny it :)

Dang you said the Utes start this week. Wow already haha. On my to do list when I get home
is to go to a Sim concert! awesome!

It rained hard Thursday to the point where you don't care that you're all wet.
haha Comp is funny, he was just walking in the puddles haha "I don't
care," he said haha.

The weather today is gorgeous! It was 32 degrees F Saturday!

Thanks for all your emails. It's one of the moments of truth where I just
need to put my trust in the Lord and work as hard as I can. Study good,
pray good, work hard. I remember like Bro. Broadhead said to me one yr
about bball, "Just put your head down and go to work." I'll never forget that
quote.

I'm reading Jesus the Christ a lil bit. I need to get into it more cuz
everyone says its incredible.

This kid on my side has a Kevin Garnet mouth haha jk. But a lil bit.
I'm going to send my photos now so you can distribute them haha spanglish.

Church is true and oh b4 I forget 9 of Sept is the temple dedication.
It'll be gr8! They say they have cameras in the baptism font room so
that at any time the prophet and apostles can see. Pretty sweet!!
keep up the prayers i need them
Love Yalls
Elder Reginald Grant Roberts

P.S. Reggie's camera got stolen so no photos. :(

Love Tandil, even though it's been my hardest area

Buenas!!

This week it was pretty cool. We got to go to Mar del Plata for an area conference with Elder Viñas. He's in the presidency of the newly formed Area Presidency. We are the South American South Mission Area. We got to go to Antartida and we slept there Friday. It was fun to be in that house again. I slept on the kitchen floor haha, cuz they didn't have enough rooms. I slept with bed covers and I remember wishing it was morning just cuz it was so uncomfortable lol. I saw Elder Stewart, Cano and Dobson. I met the other Elder Roberts haha.

Pres. Aldo talked and gave a good talk about having will and determination. It was gr8. He talked bout Abraham Lincoln and how he had gr8 determination and will and ended up being one of the greatest presidents ever.

I'm trying to exercise my determination and will cuz I know if I do my part, the Lord will help me. I remember Pres. Detlefsen said Tandil is a place where missionaries can change and become better persons and missionaries cuz it's always been hard here with mish work and you can fix your life here and make it better.

The ward went to Buenos Aries for the open house of the temple. We thought that Tony and Maria went, but they didn't. We're going to talk to them today.

Wow school starts haha. The weather here today was gr8! We played ball in shorts and t-shirt.

Lonny told me about going on splits and how the ward is doing it. That's awesome cuz it'll help a ton to get the mish feel b4 the mish.

I can't think bout anything else so I'll talk bout Tandil. I love it and its also been the hardest area for me by faaaar. It really made me need to grow up fast for example un like Bahia or Mar del where missionaries can find pple easy and here we really have to try and give it our all to find at least one person. And it has helped me become better, always thinking what can I do better. It's definitely a mental workout here and thats why i loved President's talk so much. And also Elder Viñas said, "If you give it your all as a missionary that's a successful missionary."

Well i don't have much time and my computer is being a tom jones
love u keep praying for me
Elder Reginald Grant Roberts

Saw USA vs Spain Basketball game for just a second

Sups

USAAAAAAAAAA! Yeah thats rightttt! We entered a house for lunch after church and right when we walked in they had the tv on to the USA v Spain basketball game. USA was only up by 2 in the 3rd and the hermano was like, "Ssoorryyyy" click and I was worried that I might have to pull the silent treatment on my Spaniard  Pres, but it's all good news! Don't scare me like that!

It rained some this week, but as long as there's no snow I'm good. Whoever made umbrellasss was a genius.

It's good to have workers in the house. They also like to cook too, which is sweet haha. They're capos and pretty funny.

We went to Tony y Maria's Saturday and Tony was sleeping. The sons of Maria were there, Kevin15 and Agustin 13 and they probably have the record for most questions bout USA per minute. "Do you have this? Do you have that?" It was good to talk to her sons cuz we haven't much seen them, so I just kinda let the questions come haha. Also, to have a dollar means you're freakin awesome. So the next time you have only one dollar in your wallet you're still freakin awesome to Argys. I haven't touched one for more than a year haha.

We talked to one of the less active ladies and she was so exited that we returned in such a short time from the other visit. "If you guys keep coming you might win me." haha

We worked good this week, but still for some reason it's hard to find new investigators, but we keep going forward. If we find no one or one million we just have to trust in the Lord.

I looked for shoes, but we didn't have much time cuz we had to shop for closet things. So that took some time and about 12:00 to 1:00 everything closes  and we can't leave until after studies at 10:00. So not much time to shop.

I understood Chalo's letter wahoo! I was also talking with the Peruvian elder about that purple drink thats from Peru that's awesome. I can't remember the name, I think it starts with a ch or something.

School sounds fun ha ha! The days seem longer here. I also say this is the best winter I've ever had. For real, it was like 55 60 today. I thought Tandil was supposed to be cold. We were in a store, kinda like walmart, the other day and everyone was lookin at the tvs and I was like what are they doing? So I look and they were showing the Argy taekwondo guy that won gold and the national anthem thing.

Thanks for everything prayers I need them.
Love
Elder Reginald Grant Roberts

Still in Tandil with Elder Templeton

I am pointing to the sky like my man Mr Bolt. What a feakin capo!

Transfers are in and I'm still Mr. T with Elder Templeton. No changes for
us, but last night was pretty crazy. Sunday nights are when we do
the traveling and we had to go to the bus station to be with the
elders who had to wait for their new comps, or their bus time. Elder
Shreeve and Elder Jones are transferred. Elder Jones to favring Antartida. He's
already been there, lucky duck haha. So we have Elder Wise and Elder Yost. Elder
Yost took my place when I went to Tandil, so he's told me how everyone's
doing. The lady who hasn't gotten baptized for like 4 yrs, remember her? She
got baptized. One of the daughter's of Patricia Bassaga got baptized and I think
she's not baptized cuz she doesn't want to with out her other daughter.

In the bus station they had the olympics going so I actually saw Usain
Bolt and del Potro, the tennis player, highlights. It's cool to be where
someone is from that got a medal! Usain Bolt is the man! I love his
dances, his lil dj record thing, then like a bunny hop and bolt strike
yah. We were in the bus station for like 5 hrs in total. del Potros (the bronze medal tennis player's)
house is in our ward boundaries, but with the other missionaries in our
ward. Pretty cool, huh. US better win in bball or else I will never hear the end
of it with the members and people.

It's weird, I'm the ¨old man¨ in the house. The only one with 1yr or less,
pretty weird. Both of our ZLs left. One ends his mish, Elder Hare and Elder
Perez is going to be comps in Bahia with Elder Sterling. Fun fact - all of
my comps are ZLs haha. I've been blessed with gr8 comps. Then comes in
one Elder from Argy and other from PERU and I looooooove their accent! It's
soo soft like chocolate to my ears haha. I've always wondered how their
accent is and Chalo, I looove it!

I like that thing you did with the iron rod at girls camp. Sounds fun. At times it might
sound good to do the other things, but its not. CTR is awesome!

This next week we will go to Centro and do some shoe shoppin and I'll
pick some shoes and send pics.

Tony y Maria went to church wahooo and I think he was crying during
the testimony meeting, it was gr8! They also went to another hour too, with the
class! With the divorcement thing here, who knows
when they'll get baptized cuz we've talked with a lady in our ward that works
on that stuff and she said it might take like a yr. But I don't want to
think of that. I'm thinkin we can work some miracles and get it this
transfer. Why not? Luke 1:37. I'm excited for this transfer. It will be a
challenge, but if we do everything, it'll be good. It's up to us.

Gracias for taping the US vs Argy game!! Someone will probably tell me the
result, not cuz I'm lookin for it, but cuz we're US and Argy ball is one
of the things they might have going. If Argy and US are in the same
sentence the people tell us haha.

It's cool, we're workin with a guy named Joel. He's a member of 2 yrs. He's
24 and lives solo and he's cool. I think it'd be cool if he could receive the
priesthood and maybe serve a mish.

We are teaching a lady name, Silvia Arrizabalag (say that fast lol). She's
gr8. She knows the church good cuz she used to attend it, but never got
bapt and its been like 10 yrs since. Now she's sick and likes our
messages. She's 37. She was telling us about her fam and she has a bro that
played pro bball in Bahia and her nephew plays in Bahia haha. They're
also like chess champs in Argy. Haha, I've learned how to play chess on
pday and I'm horrrrible haha! I'm 0 for 2.

thx for everything ur lives and prayers and keep praying hard for us
that we can find some more people :)
we're trying to keep our spirits up
love u all and keep praying for me
Elder Reginald Grant Roberts