Suup from MDP!!
Like Dad said the weather is much cooler here then Olavarria. I was freezing the 1st 2 days. Went to bed all wintered out haha.
So where to begin, alright my area where I'm at the apartments are called S.O.I.P or SOIP idk. And maybe if you look that up you'll be able to find me better. I'm bout 20 to 30 minutes from the beach. (We can only go in winters lol.) In the parking lot area of SOIP I can see the city cuz we're kinda on a hill. I can see the soccer stadium. The church is in Carasa by a store called Toledo. It's just out of our area and the ward is sweet. The bishop's awesome. I had to bear my testimony and it could've been 2 minutes hahaha. But that's alright, there was 3 other talkers.
My comp is cool. His spanish sounds kinda funny like Paraguayans. We were going to go ball at the church, but like this whole week my stomach has been feelin like I've had a punch to the stomach and so we just rested the whole day. Feeling better. Still kinda feels funny. There's a lot of dirt roads where I'm at or you could say rock roads haha. They're the worst ones I've seen lol. It's kinda hilly here too.
I can understand my comp pretty good except he has the normal espñ accent with the double ll and y is a Y (young) sound and argy is a sh or kinda like Jaque vaughn the j in his name so he'll say somethin and I have to think of it in argy way haha. Members are cool. There is a fam that lives kinda by us and they have 7 boys and 2 girls. Big fam and I need to have the boys one p day teach me how to do one of the dances. It's kinda like the Dougie not really.
There is no wal mart which stinks, but I got lucky to have one in my first area. There is a kiosco (supersoip) a little store with a bunch of stuff. It's kinda pricey though. There is also a store the Toledo thing by the church, but it takes a while to get there. We were goin to go 2day but my stomach was little weird. I'll miss u wal mart :( We do get lunches from members which is good.
We found some new people this week. A fam of 3. One named Veronica. They were all good with the church til Sat night when they told us they want to keep goin in their religion, but they said we can keep goin by so they're not defiantly outa hope.
Went to a less active house and one of the sons hasn't been bapt and the dad and the little girl attended church, but not the boy cuz he was sick.
Go bulls! What the favre the Pack are out ugh! Go Utes I'm comin lol.
I'm going to send the picks. Hope it works.
love you guys church is true
love Elder Reginald Grant Roberts
Good Night Now haha
(P.S. The photos didn't come. From, Lisa) :(
Monday, January 16, 2012
Monday, January 9, 2012
Transfered to Mar Del Plata!
Heyyy thereee!
So the mission trade deadline went down and guess what? I've been traded from Olavarria to Antartida Mar Del Plata!!! It's crazy, we got transfers Friday at 4ish and I'm here writing from Mar Del Plata. My days are now over in Olavarria! My new companion is from Paraguay. His name is Elder Cano and he knows about as much English as I know espñ after a few days in the mtc hahaha. It's gr8! No more English, but he says that I need to help him learn English. He already knows 3 languages. espn, a paraguayan language - guateni, (spencer will probably have to learn that) and brazilian, cuz he lives by brazil haha. My area is the 3rd area from the beach by where we were for ¨super p day¨ and its cool we can see the view of the city of Mar Del from our house with the buildings and stuff. It's about a 15-20 min taxi ride from here. I left Olavarria at 8:20 pm argy time and arrived at Mar del plata (mdp) at 1:20 am. I came here with Elder Muñoz, my old leader of the zone in olavarria. He's still my zl and his area is right by me. It's pretty sweet. He's a gr8 guy. It's more of a city here. I'm still kinda far from the actual city, where centro is and all that, but there's more cars. I think we saw some ballers arriving in Mar Del last night cuz there's not many black people here and they were carrying their gym bags and I wanted to yell, "Watssup!" haha Maybe I'll get to go to a game haha. But it's cool here. I like it, my house is huge! We live in these apartment buildings. There's like 50 plus in this little area thing. I'll never forget what no. we are - 32, jimmers byu haha. But yeah the apartment is huge! You walk in and there is a big living room thing that'll be my work out place. I might even be able to to sprints in it haha. Then there's a kitchen, a bathroom, another room that doesn't get used, our study room and then our bedroom. It's sweet! My last house, I didn't realize how small it was. Kinda thought that most mish houses were like that and maybe they are but it was tiny.
If you don't know where mdp is, it's like on the right of the mission, bottom right and I'm by San Martin. I don't think Antartida is an actual place just the name of a road in our area.
So I've got that adjustment now. It'll be good. I actually have more time on the mish then my comp, ok by 24 hrs, but yeah. I still have more haha. But he's been speakin espñ for 21 more yrs then me hahaha. He's gr8! He likes bball. He said he was kinda sad that his last comp didn't want to play bball, just soccer haha.
I have pretty much no idea how the investigators are here. I think they've had a lot lately. Which reminds me, Leonel y Florencia in Olavarria. Leonel said he did all the reading we gave him and he says he wants to share the gospel with his friends at work. He works nights and he said whenever he has 10 to 20 min he will read!! But then I got transferred haha. Cecilia showed up for church with Nico her other son we want to bapt!
It's funny, right now my screen has like 90 percent of the words with the red underline thing cuz its in eng not espn lol. I'm defiantly a bad speller.
I have church from 10 to 1 here and the church isn't even in our area. Sacrament meeting and a principles class with the less actives and new members, then a priesthood. The ph thing is about George Albert Smith but we don't have books yet haha. And this yr is also bout the b o m.
I used my sleeping bag in Olavarria, but here I don't think I will right now cuz its hot. But I might get it for like a blanket thing. There are some bugs that I've seen that I've never seen b4 like a small lime green one.
Today I was reading the tribute to Pres. Hinkley in the Ensign magazine that they have here and I read Uncle Earl's talk bout the sand footprints. I loved his story where he was taking an elevator and Pres. Hinkley just started to use his cane and saw Earl go in and Pres. said something like, "I'm going to be taking the stairs." haha. And also the ¨You all look like a bunch of penguins.¨ haha to everyone in their suits.
Well, I don't have much time. Thx for all and keep prayin for me. I need them :)
love the church it is tru and love u all
Love
Elder Reginald Grant Roberts
So the mission trade deadline went down and guess what? I've been traded from Olavarria to Antartida Mar Del Plata!!! It's crazy, we got transfers Friday at 4ish and I'm here writing from Mar Del Plata. My days are now over in Olavarria! My new companion is from Paraguay. His name is Elder Cano and he knows about as much English as I know espñ after a few days in the mtc hahaha. It's gr8! No more English, but he says that I need to help him learn English. He already knows 3 languages. espn, a paraguayan language - guateni, (spencer will probably have to learn that) and brazilian, cuz he lives by brazil haha. My area is the 3rd area from the beach by where we were for ¨super p day¨ and its cool we can see the view of the city of Mar Del from our house with the buildings and stuff. It's about a 15-20 min taxi ride from here. I left Olavarria at 8:20 pm argy time and arrived at Mar del plata (mdp) at 1:20 am. I came here with Elder Muñoz, my old leader of the zone in olavarria. He's still my zl and his area is right by me. It's pretty sweet. He's a gr8 guy. It's more of a city here. I'm still kinda far from the actual city, where centro is and all that, but there's more cars. I think we saw some ballers arriving in Mar Del last night cuz there's not many black people here and they were carrying their gym bags and I wanted to yell, "Watssup!" haha Maybe I'll get to go to a game haha. But it's cool here. I like it, my house is huge! We live in these apartment buildings. There's like 50 plus in this little area thing. I'll never forget what no. we are - 32, jimmers byu haha. But yeah the apartment is huge! You walk in and there is a big living room thing that'll be my work out place. I might even be able to to sprints in it haha. Then there's a kitchen, a bathroom, another room that doesn't get used, our study room and then our bedroom. It's sweet! My last house, I didn't realize how small it was. Kinda thought that most mish houses were like that and maybe they are but it was tiny.
If you don't know where mdp is, it's like on the right of the mission, bottom right and I'm by San Martin. I don't think Antartida is an actual place just the name of a road in our area.
So I've got that adjustment now. It'll be good. I actually have more time on the mish then my comp, ok by 24 hrs, but yeah. I still have more haha. But he's been speakin espñ for 21 more yrs then me hahaha. He's gr8! He likes bball. He said he was kinda sad that his last comp didn't want to play bball, just soccer haha.
I have pretty much no idea how the investigators are here. I think they've had a lot lately. Which reminds me, Leonel y Florencia in Olavarria. Leonel said he did all the reading we gave him and he says he wants to share the gospel with his friends at work. He works nights and he said whenever he has 10 to 20 min he will read!! But then I got transferred haha. Cecilia showed up for church with Nico her other son we want to bapt!
It's funny, right now my screen has like 90 percent of the words with the red underline thing cuz its in eng not espn lol. I'm defiantly a bad speller.
I have church from 10 to 1 here and the church isn't even in our area. Sacrament meeting and a principles class with the less actives and new members, then a priesthood. The ph thing is about George Albert Smith but we don't have books yet haha. And this yr is also bout the b o m.
I used my sleeping bag in Olavarria, but here I don't think I will right now cuz its hot. But I might get it for like a blanket thing. There are some bugs that I've seen that I've never seen b4 like a small lime green one.
Today I was reading the tribute to Pres. Hinkley in the Ensign magazine that they have here and I read Uncle Earl's talk bout the sand footprints. I loved his story where he was taking an elevator and Pres. Hinkley just started to use his cane and saw Earl go in and Pres. said something like, "I'm going to be taking the stairs." haha. And also the ¨You all look like a bunch of penguins.¨ haha to everyone in their suits.
Well, I don't have much time. Thx for all and keep prayin for me. I need them :)
love the church it is tru and love u all
Love
Elder Reginald Grant Roberts
Sunday, January 8, 2012
iFELIZ AÑO NUEVO!
iFELIZ AÑO NUEVO!
Hollllaaaa!
Everything is gr8 here. 1st off I love the pictures that Dad sent me hahahaha. The beard stuff and everything. You guys are hilarious! I'm laughin right now hahahaha. The stache is Farvulous hahahha!
Sounded like your new year went good. Mine was good too. We were with the other elders in our district (more passed centro on the map) and stayed with them for the night. We were on divisions on the 31st and when we went to change back to regular comps at their place comp was like we are going to stay here and we are going to have an asado (bar-b-q thing) and the taxis ended at 8 and we got there like 8. So we stayed there and all I had was my clothes and BOM ha. No camera for pics, so I have no evidence of being in argy on new years ha. Kinda a bummer, but what ever. There were a lot of fireworks, which I'm a fan of. They go til bout 1:30 am-ish. They're pretty cool. We saw some clowns riding these big bikes in the street haha pretty cool. It's kinda weird, people tell you happy new year more than merry christmas. It's kinda sad that they forget the meaning of christmas and love new years for the parties haha.
We had church the next day at 10:30 again for an hour cuz of new years. I couldn't remember if they do that in the states, but if i remember right we don't haha. Had no investigators. :(
But this week we found some families. Youthful or young married couples with kids. There is Maxi y Marisol. Maxi was bapt, but he's less active. He's a cool dude. Chill guy, cool family. And Marisol has a bunch of family that lives by her (in star area) so that'd be sweet to do a bapt family tree thing. Then there's Leonel y Florencia. We went to them b4, but this week was a first time in a while and talked bout gospel more. He's funny. Leonel, he sometimes speaks in english (he just knows words like most people) and his phone rang and was like, ¨Excuse me,¨ then answered. Then at one time he was counting the months haha. Found also Ricardo y Pamela. Also knew lil b4 this week of them but had a good sit down with them. Then Magali y Luis. Luis almost got baptized but he had to leave town or something during his bapt and never got bapt. It was like 8 yrs ago. Also talked with a teen the other day and there is 3 people of 10 in his fam that have been bapt, so hopefully we can work with their family good. The teen is Brian. So we have a bright future with investigators. Cecilia is having a hard time with smoking still and she seems not to have much faith in herself.
Hey I got the package from home and the christmas card from gma merlyn and card from nathan and alison!! thanks I love it all! The liahona, book marks, photos are awesome!! And of course, ¨Teach me how to Jimmer¨ watsup young sim haha!!! na dht ebig (Just looked at that after writing it meant to say ¨and that big¨ hahah ) ol card from the Roberts!! and nathan and alison's fam looks gr8. Ruby has grown a lot and it was funny to read how she's talking up a storm!! thx they're gr8! I love scott's drawings haha and ¨merry christmas¨- Manu lol
That's awesome you got my gifts stuff YES! and you have my map. Cool so you know where I'm at. Hopefully I don't get transfered this week. Can you believe it's transfers again? Rep the jerseys, shades and all.
So Sub your friends with paul milsap basically. That's awesome hahaha. Tell him wassup 4 me lol.
I'm holding a U sign as I'm singing utah fight song!! thats awesome!
That's cool my lil accent in espñ the vowels are always pronounced the same and so I'm use to saying the vowels all weird haha and I have a hard time reading in english. It took me 4ever to remember wat ¨qui¨sounds like in eng lol.
It looks like it might rain today. Dang I might have to put on a jacket. Darn haha.
Thanks for all everyone! Love u(tes) tons! Keep being capos and ches. Church is true and there are miracles on this earth everyday and God lives and Jesus is our redeemer, gracias por todo.
Love
Elder Reginald Grant Roberts
Hollllaaaa!
Everything is gr8 here. 1st off I love the pictures that Dad sent me hahahaha. The beard stuff and everything. You guys are hilarious! I'm laughin right now hahahaha. The stache is Farvulous hahahha!
Sounded like your new year went good. Mine was good too. We were with the other elders in our district (more passed centro on the map) and stayed with them for the night. We were on divisions on the 31st and when we went to change back to regular comps at their place comp was like we are going to stay here and we are going to have an asado (bar-b-q thing) and the taxis ended at 8 and we got there like 8. So we stayed there and all I had was my clothes and BOM ha. No camera for pics, so I have no evidence of being in argy on new years ha. Kinda a bummer, but what ever. There were a lot of fireworks, which I'm a fan of. They go til bout 1:30 am-ish. They're pretty cool. We saw some clowns riding these big bikes in the street haha pretty cool. It's kinda weird, people tell you happy new year more than merry christmas. It's kinda sad that they forget the meaning of christmas and love new years for the parties haha.
We had church the next day at 10:30 again for an hour cuz of new years. I couldn't remember if they do that in the states, but if i remember right we don't haha. Had no investigators. :(
But this week we found some families. Youthful or young married couples with kids. There is Maxi y Marisol. Maxi was bapt, but he's less active. He's a cool dude. Chill guy, cool family. And Marisol has a bunch of family that lives by her (in star area) so that'd be sweet to do a bapt family tree thing. Then there's Leonel y Florencia. We went to them b4, but this week was a first time in a while and talked bout gospel more. He's funny. Leonel, he sometimes speaks in english (he just knows words like most people) and his phone rang and was like, ¨Excuse me,¨ then answered. Then at one time he was counting the months haha. Found also Ricardo y Pamela. Also knew lil b4 this week of them but had a good sit down with them. Then Magali y Luis. Luis almost got baptized but he had to leave town or something during his bapt and never got bapt. It was like 8 yrs ago. Also talked with a teen the other day and there is 3 people of 10 in his fam that have been bapt, so hopefully we can work with their family good. The teen is Brian. So we have a bright future with investigators. Cecilia is having a hard time with smoking still and she seems not to have much faith in herself.
Hey I got the package from home and the christmas card from gma merlyn and card from nathan and alison!! thanks I love it all! The liahona, book marks, photos are awesome!! And of course, ¨Teach me how to Jimmer¨ watsup young sim haha!!! na dht ebig (Just looked at that after writing it meant to say ¨and that big¨ hahah ) ol card from the Roberts!! and nathan and alison's fam looks gr8. Ruby has grown a lot and it was funny to read how she's talking up a storm!! thx they're gr8! I love scott's drawings haha and ¨merry christmas¨- Manu lol
That's awesome you got my gifts stuff YES! and you have my map. Cool so you know where I'm at. Hopefully I don't get transfered this week. Can you believe it's transfers again? Rep the jerseys, shades and all.
So Sub your friends with paul milsap basically. That's awesome hahaha. Tell him wassup 4 me lol.
I'm holding a U sign as I'm singing utah fight song!! thats awesome!
That's cool my lil accent in espñ the vowels are always pronounced the same and so I'm use to saying the vowels all weird haha and I have a hard time reading in english. It took me 4ever to remember wat ¨qui¨sounds like in eng lol.
It looks like it might rain today. Dang I might have to put on a jacket. Darn haha.
Thanks for all everyone! Love u(tes) tons! Keep being capos and ches. Church is true and there are miracles on this earth everyday and God lives and Jesus is our redeemer, gracias por todo.
Love
Elder Reginald Grant Roberts
Tuesday, December 27, 2011
Super P-Day in Mar Del Plata
So that was sweet talking to you all yesterday and seeing everyone. It was pretty awesome. You guys all look great!!
I got the Duncans package today that they sent me. Thanks!! Also, the ward Christmas tree letter, thanks!
I forgot to ask you guys what you got yesterday from papa noel. It's pretty funny yesterday when we were talking with Melanie's family and her uncle or something was sayin how he heard on the radio how someone said on the radio that they thought Christmas day means it Santa's b-day haha. And they also didn't like how the Christmas feeling is dying here. I saw some guy working on his trees and I thought, "What are you doing? Don't work, eat some pie or something, its Christmas!" hahaha
Mom mentioned about how she wanted to know what else I ate at the party thing in Mar Del Plata (sea of the silver or (cash)). We ate some meat like beef and the sausage things and some salad and of course bread like they have in every meal. It was funny, they kept missing our table when they were giving out the meat. People would be going on their 3rds and we've had one serving lol. It wasn't a ton of food, but enough to feed everyone. I sat by El Dobson and he's still hilarious haha. Then we played ball and it was gr8!! Some fresh air! There was some Argy scouts in the building, but I was like, "Sorry, I can't play for you now." haha jkjk
So it sounds like I have an accent you say? Thats cool. Is it like a mexy accent like, ¨yeah man howsa goin man¨ or is it a Cali accent cuz I'm with comp from CA haha.
Mar Del Plata is really one of the most gorgeous places I've been. It's funny. When we were driving on the streets to Mar Del Plata they have the normal white lines like in the USA, but in Olavarria they just drive wherever they want haha cuz there's no lines. And it felt weird with the lines and it was a lot slower like in the USA (more formal) to. And I wanted to say to the driver, "faster" haha so if I come back and I drive like a maniac it's alright haha anyways....There are beautiful buildings and beaches and eveything. The main part of Mar del is like a ¨U¨ the shape of the "u¨ is the road and on the tips, top parts are big buildings and it's really incredible. The part in between the ¨U¨ is ocean so you kinda go around it but the ocean is kinda below ¨downstairs¨ haha or however you can explain it ha. I also knew that they played the FIBA bball tourney to go the Olympics there and so I had an eye out to find it and we passed the arena it was awesome!
Cecilia said she's 70% for sure that she doesn't want to get bapt on the 31st. Her son Nico (11) doesn't want to get bapt too. Ugh! So I'm lookin forward to a week of miracles to find 3 people to bapt b4 1/1/12 (the last yr ever) Luke 1:37.
It snowed this morning haha jk. Still sunny. I wanted to ball way bad with the new ball and stuff but comp was like the other elders want us to go hangout with them. I shed a tear jk next week.
Jimmer looks gorgeous in purple. I hope that doesn't sound at all weird or anything haha. Thx for those. Ok sorry I'm talkn lil bit bout ball but how many games are they going to have this yr, like 60? And an all star game or what? it will be a challenge now that the season has started but I promise I'll focus as hard as I can on gospel.. ugh I can do it haha.
It's cool, I heard they have even more fireworks on New Year's Eve at 12 then they had on the 24th at night. So that will be cool to hear! As we were walking to church, it was hilarious, we saw a guy, probably low 20s, sleeping against a wall with one of his shoes off by his leg haha. He probably got drunk and fell asleep haha. I wanted to poke him haha. But after we passed him we think one of the teens set off a firework by him to wake him up cuz we saw him laughin at him when we walked by and we heard a big boom where we just were haha.
Espñ is doing gr8! Still gotta keep goin hard. I could understand everything like I said at church. There are some words that I didn't know why they were placed in the sentence, but so far it's doing good.
Merry Christmas!!! everyone and a happy new year with a new beginning and everything! Party hard, don't stop til you get it. CTR and read the BOM and be gr8. Church is true without a doubt and study your spanish haha. I'll give you a word ¨hoya¨ (ho_ sha) it means awesome. Pretty much the literal translation is Jewel ¨que hoya¨means, thats awesome.
Love Elder Reginald Grant Roberts
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.
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!
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!
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
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