Hola from ARGENTINA!!!!
Where to begin?
I'll start with the plane rid from NY to Buenos Airs (which ill call BA)
Once i got on the plane for the 10hr 1min flight immediately as u walked in u could see that everyone looked argentine to my left i sat by a man who didn’t know english so we talked a lil bit i had no idea what he was saying lol to my right there was a man mid 20s from ARG and he had that Euro look to him and next to him was a guy who i swear is Jay Leno’s Argentine step bro hahahaha he had the big chin dark skin and a mullet and he even did the ¨Eh eh eh eh¨ thing that leno does hahahaha he talked bout politics for like 10 to 20 min and i pretended i cared by smiling and nodding my head he can talk a lot hahaha. i didn’t sleep much on the plane or on any of the travels i did the math and i think from mon 3am to 1am thurs i got bout 7 to 9 hrs of sleep total i think i got 2 hrs on the plane from ny hahaha
Arrived in BA airport around 10:21am Argentine time which is 3 hrs ahead of utah and in the summer here when u do that day light savings thing we will be 4 hrs apart. so we get off and we get in line for passport stuff and they were playing black eyed peas on some tv. then we walked into the airport area and i passed a whole wall of like wine and liquor...yep they like it here lol and also passed these huge cigarettes packages. saw a Manu Ginobili little sign in the airport.
we then got all our luggage and we 4 others from our District and bout 10 others took a bus from airport to this bus station. the traffic here is hilarious hahaha its pretty much a ton of cars trying to squeeze past everyone some dude was turning on the sidewalk they are pretty bad drivers . there are a lot of motorcycles here and palm trees!
at the bus station to go to Bahia Blanca (BB) we missed our original time so we waited for 5 hrs in the station haha went into the bathroom and some dude all in white was just sitting there with towels and i looked at this metal looking cup with a straw with like grass-hay stuff in it it looked gross and to find out its mate the famous Arg drink lol
in the station some lady was talkin to one of the elders and u could tell she looked mad she just had that fire in her eyes and we had no idea what she was talkin about we just let her ramble on in espanol, then she mentioned osama bin laden and im thinkin what in the world is this crazy women talkin bout lol then some arg lds bishop came and talked to her she was saying something about opening secret jails that we have..idk lol
left the station about 7:21 pm arg time and took a 9 hr bus ride to BB we would’ve had a plane ride but the ashes in the air from chile made it so we couldn’t i guess had my 1st dinner on it some meat thing roll some potato salad bread thing nuthn exciting. i think i got my most sleep on that couple hrs. passed some big stadium which had red on it River possibly idk?
arrived in BB about 4 am and we waited and around 5:30 i think we saw some other elders and they said pres thought we were going to show up around 7 so the missionaries called pres and him and his wife picked us up a lil later. stayed at some stake center church with pres and all the missionaries had a meeting with pres, he doesn’t know any english hahaha so that was cool i had a translator. then we met in the chapel after lunch after doing some other passport stuff and they showed the area you’ll be in and your trainer. they did it as showing a pic of sum area then the trainer then they showed the rookie assigned to the trainer i felt like a top draft pick waiting to see which team i’ll go to!! i am located in Olavarria with an accent over the I it is kinda more North
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| Presidente y Hermana Detlefsen, Elder Roberts, and his trainer Elder Thomas |
in BB there is pretty much a whole lot of nuthing hahaha there is just cement building-houses which are all connected and trash some trees poor place, it smells in BB and Olavarria like cigarettes car exhaust camp fire or dog poo so it is kinda hard to get a good breath haha i wanted to go to BB obviously but oh well
took a bus from bout 7 pm to 1 am to Olavarria there is nuthin on the side of the road just that yellow grass stuff some street lights and a 2 way road. it is cold here but not that bad it feels kinda like november especially in the mornings is cold and that is when we work out so that kinda warms u up and the shower is warm tho i had a freezing one yesterday brrr, but yeah there is palm trees people ride bikes and motorcycles there a lot of euro cars small 80 looking cars they don’t have stop signs here hahah and they don’t really have side walks so we kinda just jay walk and walk in the streets its not dangerous cars go up to 45 50 at most do its not bad, bunch of cement buildings all connected about 10 to 15 ft high live by some members.
i haven’t had any meat like steak or anything fancy i had fish my 1st 2 days for lunch i guess u normally have pasta. and the meat price is going up so i may not get much of it :(
its a poor place here it makes home and the mtc seem luxurious houses-stores are about 13 steps wide. houses are packed with stuff cuz there is just not enuff room , there is normally like a heater thing about 3 ft tall and 2 ft wide that is supposed to heat your house it doesn’t work that well unless your by it haha. our kitchen is about 2 spread arms of my size tall and 3 wide we have a lil bathroom and a pretty nice bedroom with two bunks there is no carpet here so i’ll miss that for sure, i just double sock it i wear my big coat gloves beanie long johns and a scarf, when u walk a lot u can get pretty hot like our 1st day for a few hrs i was just in my white shirt, but that was the only time today i notice outside our door to the street we have a basketball hoop above our door!!!! it is painted white just like the wall so it was camouflaged into it and its bout 10ft to!! there is a gym here that we didn’t visit today;( oh well next week, u cant play games with people just like shoot around and stuff :(
i have no idea what people are saying haha which is pretty cool, it makes u have to learn to read body language and i look at my comp and if he smiles i do lol nathan explained it perfectly the talk like they have a cotton ball in their mouth. i’m glad nathan and andrew gave me advice about the lang and being patient and not stressing out with it that has helped m a lot cuz some people in th mtc expected to be fluent leaving the mtc hahahahaha im glad nathan and andrew told me b4 the mish it’d take bout 6 months to get the lang down. so im not to worried bout it thanks to them muuuuch thanks to them!!
they started a new program with new missionaries a 12 wk program where each day 1 hour personal study then 2 hrs comp then 1 hr language, this starts at 8 am after waking up at 630 and workin out shower etc, then we go to lunch at a members house which we have every day then we go to wrk. im soooo exhausted in the morning its hard to wrk out and in personal study it hard to stay awake
dang i need to write pres and at 5 to 6ish arg time each monday which is our p day i write home
tell nathan thank u thank u thank u for the email!! and im sorry i didn’t have nuff time to write him i feel bad
well see ya later email me any qs i may have forgotten to answer
chau
love
Elder REGINALD G ROBERTS
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