Hola buen dia todo bien como andan
This week (end of last week) was the ending of transfers and my boy Elder Cano has been transferred to where? Olavarria hahaha! But he's in the other area where Elder Muñoz was. He's like 5 to 10 min in taxi from where I started. It was kinda weird cuz he only had 4 months here in Mar del Plata, and everyone will be missing him here. The members love him cuz he's like a big kid haha and also he will be Zone leader in my old area. So he was pretty pumped up about that.
My new comp is from UT. Elder Himebaugh, Hime bah. Or I might start calling him Hansbrough. He has almost 7 months in the mish, but b4 the mish he studied espñ in HS and college and was in the advanced espñ group in MTC and had a latin comp and everything there so he's pretty much fluent which is pretty cool. So that's the big news. He's from Sandy, went to Brighton. When he got off the bus this morning I saw his pillow case and it was a Utah Jazz one. I dig that. It was a good 1st impression haha. He's a big sports fan, but we won't talk about that much, pinky promise. He went to BYU and loves Jimmer Fredette and of course teach me how to jimmer ...watsup Sim..haha. Oh speakin of Sim I got their invitation for the wedding. It is awesome! I haven't got your package mom. But I will tomorrow almost guaranteed. Elder Stewart, my boy, was transferred to MDP, but another zone. So I'll get to see him a lil probably. I was at the terminal bus place when my boy, Elder Thomas was leaving to go to Bahia and then to go home to S. Ogden.
It is raining, Dad, but not like a ton. We were supposed to have the baptism of Catriel yesterday, but they had to go visit the brother of the Dad in jail, so not everyone would be able to come. I think it is lil bitter sweet, cuz if we did bapt him yesterday haha he'd be the only one from his fam to attend. So we're thinking either Sat or Sun and so the fam can attend. There's like 5 investigators in that fam that all smoke. So we'll have to work with them on that. But they're good people. Catriel is a capo haha. At times we have to remind him not to say bad words haha.
Dang Sub, how does it feel to have the surgery? It sounds painful! You'll have the cast on for this whole transfer, 6 weeks. Can you walk at all or all crutches? The bro of Catriel broke his leg the other day and it kinda looks like they got some plastic stuff and put it over his leg haha. Hopefully your cast is better than that.
How's the weather there? Hope it doesn't snow.
Our investigators are doin pretty good. Yesterday an investigator attended church (Marta). Kinda funny, earlier in the week we saw her at the bus stop and we were like, "Hey when can we pass by?" And she did the, "You know I'm busy. I think I have no time for you" excuse haha. But then one of the hnas (sis) in the ward called her and invited her to church and she showed up and we were like sweet. Comp bore his testimony. When he went up there he had a hymn book and was like ¨I'm going to sing..nah just kidding¨hahaha. He just read from the book. I'm defiantly going to take some of his style from him. Everyone loves him cuz he's hilarious. Like the other day hahaha we were at the house of a member and one of the daughters returned from EFY in Buenos Aires and she was talkin bout it haha but no one else was listenin ha but I was like, "Hey, I am." And then comp was like, "Yeah, but he doesn't even understand." hahah Then was sayin how (how do i say it?) like say okay can we end with a prayer or a scripture or somethin way off topic hahaha. It was more of a you had to be there moment. haha I don't even think I explained it well, but whatever haha.
Another funny moment with Elder Cano. I may have told you, but we were in a lesson and we were teachin a big ole guy that didn't have a shirt on and this guy is funny also and the guy asked, "Do I need to where a shirt and tie etc for your church?" And comp was like, "No, it's not necessary, it's for respect etc. But at least you need to put on a shirt." hahahaha We all got a good laugh out of that.
With this new transfer it's a new beginning again. This transfer I'm going to be workin on being more charitable and Christ like and totally lose myself. We all have weaknesses and those are some I need to work on. haha It's not like I don't do them haha, but I just need to improve them.
Espñ is going pretty good. I just need my comp to always speak in espñ haha but i always do. It's fun! I hope this week is awesome for everyone or in other words is ¨Linsane¨ haha.
Bueno Flacos gracias por su tiempo hasta un semana y ahora yo necesito encontrar una logar donde podemos esperar por el colectivo (Bus).
love u all smile siempre
Love
Elder Reginald Grant Roberts
I'm going to make like a tree and get the heck outta here hahahaa.
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
Monday, February 13, 2012
Look for me in the February Ensign (or Liahona)
Buenaaas!
It's good here. Weather is nice and warm haha.
1st off I want to mention I'm in the February addition of the Ensign (Liahona en espñ) there is a lil part that says something like missionary work in Olavarria and there is a big picture of like 25 of us. It was my very 1st Saturday in the mission when that happened. I'm in front row with Elder Thomas. I have a yellow tie and I'm right next to a man who looks like a bum hahaha. That was pretty cool to see.
We had a good week in finding new people to teach. But only one came to church. An old man, 83 yrs, named Ruben. He is the grandpa of an investigator that we found this week. The investigator is Damian and Elder Knutson and I found him. He said to come by another day. Then we walked by his house the next day (((((with Elder Knutson) and he said, ¨I want to learn about the bible in English.¨ He said it in English, so we were like, "Ok we can teach to in English." So we both taught lesson 1 in English and it was weiiiiird! haha my English has gotten worse, which is good. At times I'd start talking in espñ without known lol. It was pretty cool. My 1st lesson in English lol. We're planning on a baptism this week for Catriel, the 9 yr old. I think havin at least one of the fam members with the holy ghost will be good for them. We're planning on Saturday! Catriel's cool kid. His eyes are as blue as the sky haha.
Comp returned from the conf for the leaders and he was sayin how there will be in the next 3 transfers 68 new missionaries and only 28 going home hahaha with 5 new areas. So watch out. I may be training soon. Who knows!
We were walkin the other day and we both heard music and it stood out cuz it was American music. And we were like hey it's 50 cent haha. So comp let me do the door contact to a 19 yr old teen man and i was like, ¨Hey u like 50 cent? Me too!¨ and b4 I got done explainin who we are he's like, "Wanna come in?" haha it was cool. I think when I mentioned 50 cent it kinda lightened up the mood and he became more acceptive haha. He's Jhonatan (ya, that's how they spell it) Cool guy.
This week my mission call celebrated a year! Wow time flies! And Elder Thomas has one week left until he heads back to Ogden. Speakin of Ogden, when we went into this shopping place for groceries today, the security guy was like, "Where u from?" I said USA then Utah and he was like really? I lived in Ogden for 5 years. What for real? He went to school at Weber State and has a brother livin in Layton. He recognized Tooele when I said that Stansbury Park is by Tooele. So that was sweet. He said he really wants to go back and he had some friends in school that served missions but he was like I have my religion etc…We'll work on him haha. I've met like 3 people that have lived in UT and the rest in Miami.
Thx for the letters and prayers. I could feel them good this week thx for all.
Love
Elder Reginald Grant Roberts
It's good here. Weather is nice and warm haha.
1st off I want to mention I'm in the February addition of the Ensign (Liahona en espñ) there is a lil part that says something like missionary work in Olavarria and there is a big picture of like 25 of us. It was my very 1st Saturday in the mission when that happened. I'm in front row with Elder Thomas. I have a yellow tie and I'm right next to a man who looks like a bum hahaha. That was pretty cool to see.
We had a good week in finding new people to teach. But only one came to church. An old man, 83 yrs, named Ruben. He is the grandpa of an investigator that we found this week. The investigator is Damian and Elder Knutson and I found him. He said to come by another day. Then we walked by his house the next day (((((with Elder Knutson) and he said, ¨I want to learn about the bible in English.¨ He said it in English, so we were like, "Ok we can teach to in English." So we both taught lesson 1 in English and it was weiiiiird! haha my English has gotten worse, which is good. At times I'd start talking in espñ without known lol. It was pretty cool. My 1st lesson in English lol. We're planning on a baptism this week for Catriel, the 9 yr old. I think havin at least one of the fam members with the holy ghost will be good for them. We're planning on Saturday! Catriel's cool kid. His eyes are as blue as the sky haha.
Comp returned from the conf for the leaders and he was sayin how there will be in the next 3 transfers 68 new missionaries and only 28 going home hahaha with 5 new areas. So watch out. I may be training soon. Who knows!
We were walkin the other day and we both heard music and it stood out cuz it was American music. And we were like hey it's 50 cent haha. So comp let me do the door contact to a 19 yr old teen man and i was like, ¨Hey u like 50 cent? Me too!¨ and b4 I got done explainin who we are he's like, "Wanna come in?" haha it was cool. I think when I mentioned 50 cent it kinda lightened up the mood and he became more acceptive haha. He's Jhonatan (ya, that's how they spell it) Cool guy.
This week my mission call celebrated a year! Wow time flies! And Elder Thomas has one week left until he heads back to Ogden. Speakin of Ogden, when we went into this shopping place for groceries today, the security guy was like, "Where u from?" I said USA then Utah and he was like really? I lived in Ogden for 5 years. What for real? He went to school at Weber State and has a brother livin in Layton. He recognized Tooele when I said that Stansbury Park is by Tooele. So that was sweet. He said he really wants to go back and he had some friends in school that served missions but he was like I have my religion etc…We'll work on him haha. I've met like 3 people that have lived in UT and the rest in Miami.
Thx for the letters and prayers. I could feel them good this week thx for all.
Love
Elder Reginald Grant Roberts
Monday, February 6, 2012
Investigators come to church! Witnessed boxing!
Watsup
hahaha we are writing way early today. It's like 7 in Utah and hope you write b4 I get off lol.
We're writing early cuz comp is going to a leader meeting thing in Bahia and he leaves at 3 Argytime and it's 11 right now, so we have to email now.
We finally had investys in church. They're Ariel 32 y Gonzalo 24 y 3 sons of Ariel. One is 9 and he's assisted church like 2 wks ago. He's the kid that we talked to and got all his directions, etc cuz his friend brought him. Ariel y Gonzalo are friends and their life has been pretty hard and is hard for them and they really want to change their life around. On Saturday night we passed by their house and we went with Hno Kostiouk and he's kinda like an Argy Coach Harris. He can get you pumped up about stuff and he, I think, really made them want to assist church. The church is exactly what they need. They don't have jobs. They're goin to have to move soon, cuz there livin in the house of the parents of Gonzalo and the mom said they can stay there til the other people move in, in like 2 days, and so church for them is kinda like the only thing they have goin for them.
We started out the church day with no inv and comp was kinda down and the Bishop and I, who's awesome, was like, "Don't lose faith," and the inv showed up during the 2nd class. Sac is 1st here and they went and sat down in the sac meeting of the other ward cuz they're sac meeting is last. So we sat with them in that meeting.
haha we had another inv show up yesterday and we didn't even know til today that he showed up. We passed by his house yesterday and we said something like, "Hey you know, we missed you at church" and he was like, "I went to your church, what are you talkin bout." haha comp and I are like, "Are you sure?" "Yeah yeah I'm not lying." And also this guy is kinda weird/drunk haha and so comp and I didn't really think much of it cuz he's pretty wack lol. So today we're with Elder Muñoz, my calarco, and they're in the other ward in the same building and they were like, "You guys had an inv show up for a lil bit yesterday, but he left." So it turns out that he did show up lol.
I'm going to be with Elder Knutson til Wed morning and his trainer is Elder Thomas, my trainer. And also Elder Thomas is almost done with his mish. He ends next week. wowo time flies! I remember when he was like, "Wow I can't believe I have been out 1yr 5 months" and now he's almost done.
I got the package from Paul and Karen. Thanks for that! It's awesome!!
haha funny story. Right after we got done emailing last week we were walking and these 2 motorcycles go by and they kinda honked at each other. (The drivers were both like 20 yr old men with their girlfriend's with them.) And so we keep walking. I just thought they were friends saying watsup and like 20 more sec of walking we're kinda at a corner and both the bikes are parked and hahaha I see one of the guys doing like a Mohammed Ali boxing dance kinda showin off and the other guy is kinda following him and the dude is just like dancing and I'm like SWEET they're goin to do a lil boxing match. (Here teens box for fun, so I didn't really think of it seriously like they were goin to fight.) So we're still watchin and walkin haha and the dude that was doin the Ali dance laid out the other guy who is actually taller haha. The girlfriend of the guy, that was getting his butt kicked, was like,"Stop stop!" and kinda kicked the other guy hahaha. It was pretty cool cuz you know I'm a fan of boxing and turns out it was a real fight haha hahaha. I'll never forget the guy dancing lol. That was classic! I wanted to keep watchin and you know maybe be the ref like, "1..2..3 winner!!!" lol but we kept walkin like we should. And also they did it in some random persons front yard haha haha. Random things you see in Argyworld.
What else hmm I just love seein Ariel and Gonzalo tryin to change their lives and become better people. You can see it in them, that they wanna stop being who they are. And no doubt the church will help them.
My espn is doin good. I just got an email so I'm goin to read it real quick.
Love,
Elder Reginald Grant Roberts
hahaha we are writing way early today. It's like 7 in Utah and hope you write b4 I get off lol.
We're writing early cuz comp is going to a leader meeting thing in Bahia and he leaves at 3 Argytime and it's 11 right now, so we have to email now.
We finally had investys in church. They're Ariel 32 y Gonzalo 24 y 3 sons of Ariel. One is 9 and he's assisted church like 2 wks ago. He's the kid that we talked to and got all his directions, etc cuz his friend brought him. Ariel y Gonzalo are friends and their life has been pretty hard and is hard for them and they really want to change their life around. On Saturday night we passed by their house and we went with Hno Kostiouk and he's kinda like an Argy Coach Harris. He can get you pumped up about stuff and he, I think, really made them want to assist church. The church is exactly what they need. They don't have jobs. They're goin to have to move soon, cuz there livin in the house of the parents of Gonzalo and the mom said they can stay there til the other people move in, in like 2 days, and so church for them is kinda like the only thing they have goin for them.
We started out the church day with no inv and comp was kinda down and the Bishop and I, who's awesome, was like, "Don't lose faith," and the inv showed up during the 2nd class. Sac is 1st here and they went and sat down in the sac meeting of the other ward cuz they're sac meeting is last. So we sat with them in that meeting.
haha we had another inv show up yesterday and we didn't even know til today that he showed up. We passed by his house yesterday and we said something like, "Hey you know, we missed you at church" and he was like, "I went to your church, what are you talkin bout." haha comp and I are like, "Are you sure?" "Yeah yeah I'm not lying." And also this guy is kinda weird/drunk haha and so comp and I didn't really think much of it cuz he's pretty wack lol. So today we're with Elder Muñoz, my calarco, and they're in the other ward in the same building and they were like, "You guys had an inv show up for a lil bit yesterday, but he left." So it turns out that he did show up lol.
I'm going to be with Elder Knutson til Wed morning and his trainer is Elder Thomas, my trainer. And also Elder Thomas is almost done with his mish. He ends next week. wowo time flies! I remember when he was like, "Wow I can't believe I have been out 1yr 5 months" and now he's almost done.
I got the package from Paul and Karen. Thanks for that! It's awesome!!
haha funny story. Right after we got done emailing last week we were walking and these 2 motorcycles go by and they kinda honked at each other. (The drivers were both like 20 yr old men with their girlfriend's with them.) And so we keep walking. I just thought they were friends saying watsup and like 20 more sec of walking we're kinda at a corner and both the bikes are parked and hahaha I see one of the guys doing like a Mohammed Ali boxing dance kinda showin off and the other guy is kinda following him and the dude is just like dancing and I'm like SWEET they're goin to do a lil boxing match. (Here teens box for fun, so I didn't really think of it seriously like they were goin to fight.) So we're still watchin and walkin haha and the dude that was doin the Ali dance laid out the other guy who is actually taller haha. The girlfriend of the guy, that was getting his butt kicked, was like,"Stop stop!" and kinda kicked the other guy hahaha. It was pretty cool cuz you know I'm a fan of boxing and turns out it was a real fight haha hahaha. I'll never forget the guy dancing lol. That was classic! I wanted to keep watchin and you know maybe be the ref like, "1..2..3 winner!!!" lol but we kept walkin like we should. And also they did it in some random persons front yard haha haha. Random things you see in Argyworld.
What else hmm I just love seein Ariel and Gonzalo tryin to change their lives and become better people. You can see it in them, that they wanna stop being who they are. And no doubt the church will help them.
My espn is doin good. I just got an email so I'm goin to read it real quick.
Love,
Elder Reginald Grant Roberts
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Serving in Mar del Plata
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| Elder Roberts & Elder Cano |
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| Flia Galli our neighbors in Olavarria |
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| Paraguay Food in Argentina |
1st off I think Jimmer was fouled. Bad call by the refs haha jk.
It's all good here. Weather is a lil more like Olavarria and not San Diego coldish stuff haha.
On Tuesday of last week I went on divisions with Elder Snow from Layton (and just b4 I don't forget, I don't know Juan Joglar, friend of Shari but I will ask around. There are 3 stakes here so I'll try to find him.) Anyways, he only has almost 2 months in Argyworld but his Spanish is good for only lil time. He can understand and talk good. I was impressed haha. My 1st month I was trying to pick out words haha. But he came to my area and it was kinda funny cuz we were lookin at the map for most of the time cuz I'm new here too lol. But it helped me to get the area down better haha cuz I think I still don't even know Olavarria. It was cool being the Sr comp. Lil different, but it went pretty good. We had one lesson where this guy David was asking these good questions that we could answer gr8 if we were speakin English haha. That was a hard part cuz he had gr8 questions but we couldn't get our point across as good. Elder Cano and I are passing by him Wed.
We had an investigator come to church. His name is Dionisio and he's 80 yrs old and Saturday we passed by his house with a member (Kostiuck - the guy in the photo from last week who gives me besos) and that really helped him feel more comfortable about goin to church. Hermano Kostiuck is hilarious. He is an energetic guy and it's not rare for him to stand up and explain somethin with like his whole body haha.
Also, this week we passed by some Jehovahs witnesses and they let us in their house for us to teach and they also kinda wanted to take that time to teach us some stuff too. If I were a person without a religion and heard them talk it would be hard to follow them cuz there is nothin spiritual about it. They are kinda stubborn and you couldn't feel the spirit from their teachings which makes the spirit so important in our religion cuz we aren't just teachin words kinda like they were. And it was funny cuz they kept talkin and we were trying to leave cuz there was not much point in stayin and comp set the alarm on the phone as if some 1 was callin ¨oops gotta go¨ haha I remember dad asked about the religions here like a week ago and it kinda reminded me as if your religion is kinda your sports team. Just something I've kinda noticed.
Que mas my espñ is getting better. I don't really like speaking English. Thats kinda why I haven't taught comp much of it hahaha. It's fun to talk in espñ and to have your brain think of other ways to explain things. Mi encanta hablar todos los dias en espñ es divertido a mi estoy tratando tener mi espñ mas rapido cuando estoy hablando a personas.
Comp is funny haha. He's hilarious. I cant really think of funny things he says, but he's hilarious and at the same time hes a gr8 missionary. People love him haha.
We found some more inv and Pres set the challenge for until he gets released in June to get 1000 baptisms for the 6 more months. We got like 828 bapt all last year. He's really done a lot for this mission in raising the bar. I heard that probably in 2015ish they might have a MDP mission and a Bahia Blanca mission but it could be just a rumor.
We played some more ball today with the zone leaders, Elder Miñoz and Elder Corrientes (the american argy) he's white as snow, but is from Argy haha.
Now I'm going to send photos.
Love
Elder Reginald Grant Roberts
y ps thanks for the photos scott. I am a fan of graffiti. They have some sweet ones here. Who knows, I may have graffiti on the side of my house one day. Maybe of Jimmer hahaha and I love your Joseph Smith pic.
Monday, January 23, 2012
Playing some basketball on P-day!
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| We helped this family paint their house. |
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| Hermano Kostiuck and me. He likes to give me besos, no big deal hahaha. |
It's all good here!
Mom my stomach feels better. It was just me getting used to the water here. We went and played bball today and it was dandy haha gr8 like always.
Hey alyssa y scott y grandparents smart - I received your packages for Christmas and I heard I have another one that I'll get tomorrow. It might be the other one from gma smart! thax I loved them!!
My comp is a funny guy haha. He's kinda a clown haha and also a gr8 missionary. The members in the ward love him cuz he's hilarious hahaha. He likes bball but also soccer. I'm going to try and change his mind on that haha. He also thinks Paraguay is paradise hahaha. And pretty much knows all the Pargys here. I'm teaching him a lil eng. It was funny yesterday on the bus on the way to church we were sitting by some members who actually lived in Florida for 8 yrs and we were talkin about eng and comp was like tell me if this is bad to say, "I will punch you in the face" hahaha. No doubt I'll be teaching him some nacho libre stuff. Comp has been here for three transfers I think. He was baptized when he was 12. He use to be Catholic. And it's funny when people say,"Sorry, I'm Catholic" and he says "Oh, that's ok, so was I." haha Catholics are big here, also Jehovah's Witnesses. The JW's also have missionaries that go around lookin like us. Some people get confuse with us. And then also there's a "cosecha mundial" it's like worldly harvest idk something weird lol.
We had a great week in finding people. One day we found 2 fams. One with 4 Flia Cejas (translated to eyebrows in eng haha). Then flia Bitres we found flia eyebrows from the grand kid. He went to church with his friend and we immediately asked him where he lives etc hahaha. Also, the sis of the less active guy that came to church last week. We taught her and she listened to the mish b4 and is excited to get bapt. No one came to church, dang it. We're going to be workin more with the members so inv will have friends b4 they attend church.
The biggest difficulty having a latin comp? hmm idk they have a bigger vocab in espñ. He's gr8. We have pretty good communication. Like the language thing haha sometimes I have to try to explain somethin and he's like "what?" haha. It's not like when you can ask your american comp what is this word and they tell you.
I went on divisions with Elder Muñoz Tues I think and it was funny cuz we both know lil bout this area so we'd be lookin at the map a lot.
Giants and Pats aye. I'm glad to see that the Alex Smith had a good year this year. tom brady u tha man.
Alright I have 10 min so I'm going to try and send fotos. Hopefully this favring comp works or I may throw somethin haha jk.
Church is awesome! Keep goin to it haha!
Love
Elder Reginald Grant Roberts
Monday, January 16, 2012
Suup from MDP!!
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) :(
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 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
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