August 22, 2011 - Fourth Argentine Email

In the name of Marvin Gaye, "Whats goin on!?" Lol Kyle Gunther lol

Everything is good  here!
The weather here has been a lil bit Tom Jonesy haha it rained 3 days this week, but my rain coat and stuff are great. So while my comp says he's freezing i smile lol. Todays weather is good sunny. It's also some holiday remembering some 1s death or something. I think its just a day they made up so they dont have to work haha.

Elder Roberts by the Statue of Liberty

Last week i ran out of time on telling you about Beso´s. They are those S. American kisses. They actually don't kiss, just touch cheeks and make a kiss sound. Just like at Gma Merlyns and Chalos. At Wal mart a couple weeks ago a guy that we have talked to, just at his door, was there and he came over to me to greet me and i thought he was going to put his arm around my back but then i was like, ¨Awe man i have to kiss this dude.¨ And plus its normal for guys to do it here, so then i pretty much gave him a kiss (just touched cheeks). I felt like a total Tom Jones to the max hahahaha it was awkward. With fam i can understand, but some dude hahaha I've had 3 besos total.

Their purple kitchen

Anyways..i would like some recipes. mom some easy one that would be sweet. The most cooking I've done is spreading pbj on bread so im getting pretty good at it. But every once in a while my comp will go George Foreman style and cook something haha.  

This week with Investigators went really well. Early in the week we taught a 17 year old named Mateus Paez and at first he didnt want to let us in. Then my comp kept asking Quetsions like not giving up. Then he asked him again if we could come in and he was like sure. He's a bright kid, wants a good job, not just be like everyone else here, he wants a good fam etc. We gave him a book of mormon and he said he'd probably read the whole thing by Tuesday (tmrw) cuz he loves to read. Then yesterday we went to Sabina (almost Sabrina) and Nelson's house, a mid 20s couple and they have a few kids and they seemed interested. She prayed! Milanie didn't come to church. Oh well. We'll keep trying. She'll come.

The bridge

 We had the 4 other elders on Monday and they are hilarious!  One could sing incredibly good. He was singing Jason Mraz, Britney Spears, and Michael Jackson. He was way good. He's Elder Cortes from Chile. Then there was Elder Campos, he's good at English and his sooo funny he loves Michael Jackson. Our neighbors have a cat and he was making the cat do the moon walk hahaha. He's from Chile. Then Rodrigues from Mexico and Esparza from Chile.

Typical homes in Olavarria

Reggie and the Homer picture (see previous email)

Hey hey hey school's bout to start. Wahoo tear it up! Take spanish, have fun, be good, etc haha. I was looking at our planners and i saw 22nd and i thought wow they might be starting today but i hear its tomorrow. Good luck and good luck Dad, you'll b awesome for sure. Everyone already loves Reggie's dad and mom. People tell me that and I say, "I know they're awesome huh.¨  So they'll like you no question about it.

Met a drunk today and 2 days ago. They're pretty funny. One was riding a motorcycle. Pretty crazy!

The everything in a bag is weird, like milk, but I'm used to it. Im going to try and send more pics today. My shoes work well. Sometimes i get little rocks. I don't know how they get there but whatever.

I'm still pretty lost around here. Everything kinda looks the same. When we're walking by houses it kinda reminds me of when we walk to UTES football games with those houses by the road with like 5 steps of yard and the sidewalk is all bumpy.

Typical street in Olavarria

I've been able to find eveything good in my bags etc. And there isn't anything i didn't wish i didn't bring.
i haven't had to get a haircut yet. I got one about a month ago and my hair grows slow so i'll be good for another month probably. Speaking of months, I haven't played ball in that long, but thats okay lol.

Thanks for your love and support. I'm going to try and send pic and email weston.
LOVE Elder Reginald Grant Roberts
I know this church is true! Choose The Right

Graffiti of Evita

Third Argentine Email

Hooola Everyone from ARG

So the elections are over here i think Manu Ginobili won as president! Thats allegedly, my facts might not be correct lol Chiste!

Great news here for Mothers Day and Christmas in our mission we can Skype home instead of just calling!! So I'll be able to see your faces!!

Things are terrific here yesterday one hour of church felt a little weird (cuz of elections) i felt kinda guilty for going only to one hour of church. hahaha

This week there was a day where i did pretty well in español, mainly on understanding. I could understand a kid all of his words in a probably 7 word sentences and we were talkin to an hermana in the ward and i could understand more words than usually. It was cool the lang has slowed down a little bit, but i still obviously have a lot of work to do, just trying to work hard and get better every day.

Today and a little bit til tomorrow we have 4 other elders, all native, staying with us. Because we have a zone conf on tues for basically til 4pm so most of the day and so it will be 90 percent spanish in our house. haha It'll be fun. I'm going to try and talk a lot and learn alot i dont care if im way off on the words. I say I'm just going to talk a lot (in Esp) so I can pick it up, plus it'll be entertaining to them to hear me speak Esp. hahaha

This week most of all our appointments fell through and so we spent even more time walking. I just try to find people. But hey you know days will be like that. We just have to keep going. Keep workin and we'll receive more investigators. We just need to do everything. We can and work as hard as we can thats all they ask of us. So i didnt think of this week as a fail or a bad week. Like at the end of some days where we have no luck with anything my comp will say how rough of a day the day was and etc. But i think every day is great here. Seriously we get to serve the lord 24/7 so it is not a fail to me or a bad day. i dont have bad days. There will be hard days but no bads ones. if i hear some negative about a day, words just bounce off me and i try to turn it positive. Geez I make it sound like my comp is a baby lol he's not haha hes a great guy teaches me alot.

We have a wal mart here about a mile or so a way. Not to far. We go shoppin every mon after 10 usually 11ish. It's great. It has all our necessities so i feel blessed with that here. And have i told you everything is in bag like milk ketchup etc you just cut a corner off of it. And some bags have twisty lids in like the corner.

Some peoples eyes here are crazy sweet. Some guy we talked to had brown eyes then carolina blue around his eye. No joke two colors in one. It's also cammon to see greenish, gray or lite brown eyes.

They have a caramel stuff here called Dulce de Lech its pretty good. My comp loves it. They're normally in between alfajores. It's funny here how i was saying that there is a lot of motorcyles here and those mo ped scoot things they also have those small bikes from dumb and dumber i always get a kick out of them each time i see one. hahah

How is Lucy doing? Still being the best dog in the world! Speaking of dogs there is quite a few, not a crazy ton, but they're around alot. They bark at you and it reminds me of opposing fans yelling at me in bball i love it hehehe gets my engines going.

Met a pretty funny guy the other day. At his door my comp xplains who we are, he's about mid 70s and he just starts saying ¨ïm alone alone alone alone´¨ my comp was then like ¨´Aand´¨? the man ¨´iM  also not good up here¨´ (pointing to his head)´¨ i"m going to a psychiatrist´¨ haha we were laughin about that. hahaa

We went to thw¡e Norte Parque a park on Saturday and we went around talking to people bout the gospel. It is a huge park of grass and some or one playground. A lot of people  run, jog, walk around it on a sidewalk thing. About that river, thats in our area and we cross a bridge that at first was pretty scary to walk across bcuz the boards on it are loose and it is one of those wobbily bridges and its pretty high. But now its not as scary anymore we have an investigator on the other side. She's been sickk all last week, so we couldn't teach her and she didnt go to church. What else is here, we have a zoo. I'll have to attend it sometime. i guess there are lions there. or one a pic on a building of Homer Simpsone eating a donut. So I'll have to get a pic by that and send it to you (did you get my pics good last wk) they have a mini statue of liberty saw it yesterday and its actually outside of our boundaries so we can only see it from across the street.

Walked most of everywhere in my area. There is 2 others comp in olavarria i belive so it is pretty big. It's just me and my comp who live together and we live next to members who own a bakery like across the street. The bathrooms are tiny, can barely fit the 2 of us in it. A shower, toilet, sink but they have no public bathrooms except in gas satations.

We have like 7 investigators. The girl thats been sick, Etsevan who we might drop cuz we havent talked to him in 2 wks and a fam of like 5. A couple, gma and a cousin the husband (ill just calll him that even tho they're probably not married) seems most interested. Has some questions bout the book of Mormon.
Thanks for sports update and Manu update and Argy players. Congrats sub on making team work hard and don't get frustrated. good luck V and Dad in school.
Weather isnt that bad here, just wear my jacket that connects to my big coat.

Love Elder Reginald Grant Roberts
ps emails are probably the best way to communicate with me regularly cuz i get mail whenever the zls give it to us and they send mail from BB. I've just received a dear elder from alyssa & scott and De la Melenas thats all the mail I've received.
love u!!!

Aug. 8, 2011 - Second Email from Argentina

Reggie and other missionaries at an airport

Hola hey hey hey

They're playing some good american music in this internet place. I may get up and dance jk but they should turn it off cuz i can't listen to music. haha

All is well here in Olavarria.

 Just had computer problems and they moved me to another one.

Didn't bare my testimonty yesterday. Sorry haha but next week for church we can only have an hour meeting. We'll have sacrament cuz there are elections on Sunday. So i guess there is a rule where you can't have meetings more than an hour on the election day. That makes me feel blessed to live in US where we can go to church any Sunday all Sunday.

Photo of the landscape in Olavarria

I'll try to describe it here more better. There are no mountains. Skies are normally blue or cloudy. Yesterday it was 61 degrees which is pretty warm after being cold the 1st week. Not a bad day in the middle of winter lol. But I'd say its 40 50 degrees here in the mornings, its cold. I use my sleeping bag on my bed and I'm so totally warm at night. No problems. I've been sleeping great here better than the mtc for some reason. I've seen 3 dead animals lol. There are palm trees. Everything is concrete here pretty much cuz i guess olavarria produces a lot of concrete. So every building is concrete. Concrete roads, some dirt roads, pretty poor place here. Houses are small. we eat a lot of noodles and pasta. Still haven't had a steak or anything. I've had a lil meat like with pastas. We do a ton of walking. A ton, so that will be good for my legs :) People here can rock the scarf look. I have had to clap to ¨knock" on some doors. A lot of motorcycles and a ton of people ride pedal bikes and there a lot of little european cars. VW Fiat peugeot etc ...Blake Griffin could jump over any car here hahaha. dang i love ball sorry. Anyways I guess the gym is a private club so I'll have to find a ball and shoot on our hoop outside our garage.

We have some investigators. One girl, 18, Milanie. Her gma is kinda inactive here. Mom is to and her dad isn't member, but she seems to like the gospel we think she could get baptized but she didn't show up to church so whoo knows. Yesterday we taught a guy, 21, Estevan. We knocked his door Saturday and he said to come back like most everyone, so we went back and when we asked to come in he thought about it then like 2 sec later he was like yeah sure come in and he was watching a soccer game and listening to us teach but as the lesson went on he started to pay attention to us more so that it good. We are meeting with him Wed. Tonight we are teaching a 19 to 22ish age kid who is actually like a semi pro soccer player (hey hey holdstocks) he's been to institute etc so we'll try to push him little more into the gospel. i guess like right when i got here they just  baptized a lot of people. So they're kinda starting from the bottom to the top again. They really want a stake here. They don't have one. And more stakes = a temple in Bahia Blanca which pres really wants here. I can't wait for that day to come:) Pres is awesome. He's hilarious lol and he is a dreamer like me. About a year ago baptisms were 40 month and now its like 100 so Pres is doin work. He's a greta guy, funny guy.

There is a drink called malta here and it tastes soooo awful. It looks like rootbeer. It's warm, smells like coffee and I'm sure taste like it. They say it's not bad and if a convert has problms with coffee they just drink malta blah don't ever drink it!

Alfajores are a fist sized deesseert thing here. They're pretty good. Had a great one today. But really the food isn't like tremendously good. Nothin bad, just much rather have a meal from mom for sure. :) For dinner we most likely have pb and j. We always get lunches from members but the rest is mostly up to us. So I'll have a lot of cereal and pbj and fruit and bread haha.

My comp, Elder Thomas is from Ogden. I think North ogden or south who knows maybe east or west lol jk i know he's from s. or n. He's a good guy he's district leader. We get along good. Sometimes when he laughs he reminds me of jim carrey off dumb and dumber. So that makes me laugh more than his jokes sometimes hahaha. But I feel lucky to have him. I'm glad I have an american comp to kinda show me the way to do stuff even tho i wanted a native. I feel blessed to have him as a comp. Cool dude.

Mission President and his wife, Elder Roberts, and Elder Thomas

People ask me to say stuff in English so I'm thinking of doing a dumb and dumber quote or some nacho libre ¨so you're telling me there a chance¨ hahaha its cool cuz they have no idea what I'm saying lol.

ill send a letter home tomrw...its pretty expensive to send letters home like 7 bucks for a letter and if u want a stamp its like 9 bucks.

Spanish is going alright. I can pick out words and sometimes I'll kinda get an idea of what people are saying just from the few words. i love it when people roll their Rs hahaha. I'm just like  hahahah do that again. I'm thankful for the advice from uncle nathan on  how it will take time and not to get frusrated bout it. Just to work hard and be patient. I'm so glad he told me that so when i came here I had the right mindset..but yeah for the most part I have no idea what people are saying its pretty funny. jhfuireuhcuilweuifhuirwuhfqaiuhef that's what it sounds like hahaha.
Did laundry in this round thing bout 3 ft tall 2 ft wide. Fill it up with water and soap, throw clothes in and wait hahah. Then you ring it out and hang them up outside.
People don't say there S´s at the end of their words here so it is kinda confusing. so they call me rowbeart.

Hey can you check and see where the parts nba players are from in Arg. They'll be like 6. I want to know if there is any in my areas.

Went shopping. Bought bread, cereal, milk, stuff like that and we got some crackers so I have somthing to snack on.  There's a zoo here.

When I teach I usually say bout 30 sec worth about prophets or something.

Siestas from 12 to 4. Nobody does anything haha. All the stores close etc. and I'm not sure kids go to school. You'll see a few walk home from it, but there will be a kid at a lunch appointment and I think shouldn't you be in school. I think they have to go only 4hrs and its also free.

We can drink water here. Just not a ton at once. But we have the huge gallon and a half jugs we use thru the week.

Dang need to go :(
See ya later. I'm going to send some pics now.
chau (what they say for goodbye)
love elder Reginald Grant Roberts
keep asking Questions
and I got those dear elders from  gma and alyssa. we get mail whenever the zone leaders give them to us. They go to BB then us.
bye love u

1st email from ARGENTINA!

Aug. 1, 2011
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

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

Calling Home! (And the Miracle of the Mormon.org card)

Elder Roberts landed this morning in Argentina after hours and hours and hours of flight.  At the airport in Texas and the airport in New York he was able to call home.  It was so good to hear his voice, full of enthusiasm about this next step in his mission.

From Texas to New York he had an amazing experience on the plane.  He he sat by a guy from the Virgin Islands. They talked about the church. The guy asked him about the Broadway play about the Book of Mormon. Reggie told him that it was not a true story about the real Book of Mormon. Reggie pulled out his book and showed it to the guy. Reggie asked him if he had seen one of those before and the guy said that he had not. (Reggie has a Spanish Book of Mormon to give away but not an English one.) The guy also asked Reggie about polygamy. Reggie didn't really know what to say. They also talked basketball. The guy had met Tim Duncan's cousins. So Reggie thought that was cool. Reggie said that their conversation was very positive. This guy pointed out different things in the landscape, as he has traveled that way before. They developed a good relationship. 

As they were getting ready to land, Reggie really wanted to give him something, but only had his Spanish Book of Mormon. As he was grabbing his backpack to go, underneath it was a little card. At first Reggie thought it was a card from another religion. It said, "What does God think of you?" But when Reggie turned it over he realized it was an LDS pass-a-long card. Reggie had never seen it before and knows he didn't pack it. He picked it up and asked the guy if he would like it. The guy said, "Yes." Reggie was really excited about this experience and couldn't wait to tell us.

We can't wait to hear how the 12 hour flight between New York and Argentina went, and all about his new home!

July 22, 2011 - Last MTC Email

Hello everyone nice to talk to u this fine afternoon!

things are good here just counting down the days until were on  a plane cant wait!

So the other day my comp and i taught/ showed an example to the new missionaries about how to start a lesson and get to know them and then we were supposed to tie a spiritual part into it. we taught in front of about 200 to 300 new missionaries and they gave us those sweet microphones that they clip onto NBA players during games and stuff, i so wanted to be like "Going for takeoff' how nba-ers do and stuff into the microphone! and i also thought it would be sweet to pretend like i was Marv Albert 'From down town'
our investigator /actor was wearing a NY Giants jersey Eli Manning so i brought up nfl and he said how the lockout was going away. then he talked bout how he used to have these missionaries come over and one of them could cook really well and then he asked me what my best dish was hahaha and i said "Peanut Butter and Jelly" people were laughing it was a good experience

thank u so much for the packages they are awesome the slippers, bouncy balls, i think that i will break out that small hoop on the plane like at 3 in the morning and get some pick up games going hahaha

its going to be weird to actually be in the real world cuz i've been in here for what 8 to 9 wks and it'll be a big change where everyone is lds and everyone is happy and stuff to the outside world, i'm soo excited to see some people and interact with them instead of just saying "oh where u going on ur mish" etc i cant wait!

thank u for that phone card thingy i'm going to try and figure it out haha ill try to call as much as i can, its not a distraction to me its where i can get advice and talk to people that i love, will alyssa and scott be there or should i call them separate to logan i have alyssa's number so i could call her. idk when in SLC ill call once i settle down and everything is ready i'll try and call so 4 am be ready haha

alyssa asked a question bout if fams when they drop off there kids from like bama or tx if they drive from there state...i've seen some texas cars ID Colo but if they are farther than tx they usually fly then rent a car

Spanish is going alright i still don't really get it i can understand some sentences but i can't talk haha i just can say words but it'll  come no worries i just need to work hard get better everyday

the girls are probly having a blast in girls camp

is there any fun games u can play on a 12 hr plane ride, i hope i get a window seat!

hmmm
dad i will be sending u a card today so that might some monday

i'm so ready for this new adventure coming up just think a week from now i may be eating cow nose or sumthing awesome, i cant wait to just meet the pple and embrace the culture and stuff

i hope i get a native companion that doesn't know english haha
someone was saying there's a wal-mart in bahia...its funny pple always say ''my bro girlfriends dad went there and they...'' stuff like that and they'll say how they say argentina is and half the stuff they say are mostly lies haha

i still pretty much know nuthn bout Bahia Blanca cuz i want it to be a surprise haha

some elders are saying how it won't be that cold and stuff hahah silly it'll be freezing

so jimmer got to play golf with charles barkley that is awesome haha and he finished last that is sweet haha

well i know this church is true and i know that the lord wants me in argentina and to speak espanol. it is kinda a scary feeling if u think about it too much...i don't know espanol idk a lot, but i know the lord needs reggie roberts in argentina and imma take that and run with it and do my best. i have no reason to be scared - the lord isn't setting me up to fail.

i love y'all
see u in ARGENTINA
Love Elder Roberts

July 15, 2011

TREMENDOUS NEWSS my peeps i got my travel plansssss!!!!

so heres the deal
july 25 at 3 am i have to be at travel off at mtc!!!
our plane leaves at 6 am from SLC,go to Dallas/Ft wrth Home of the champs Mavs!!!arrive in Dall at 9:35!! stay ther until 2;05 then guess where i get to goooo!!! NEW YORK Concrete jingle where dreams are made of in new yooork" alicia Keys
i arrive there at 6:55 pmand we leave NY at 10 pm (so dang thats like Midnight0 lolthen head to Buenos Aires ARGand arrive at 9:35am july 26 so i did the math and that is 19hrs and 50 minutes on a plane hahaha isnt that awesome!!!! New yooork of i really want to see Madsion Saquare Garden, i know that we probly cant leave the airport but if we fly over it oh man i think ill Cry "The worlds most hfamous arena" Mohamed ali MJ Kobe Melo Wilt Rocky anybody whos anyobdy has been theere Rocky Marsciano ugh New Yoork!!
I wrote it out like on my travel plans so itll be easir to understand maybe
and i will call for sure if they klet me so if u get a call at 4am thatll be me

just saw pics of matts baby way cute Matt ur the Man!!!

on this past wed we hosted new missionaries and haha my mish was from Alabama yup i briought up Sugar Bowl for sure i didnt want bring it up but i said u a bama fan then he askd me U or BYU and i ghave him a smile and said UTAH and he was like ugh u guys dominated us hahahathen he said well we won ntl champ nxt yr. then i thot if the utes had a chance they wouldve won it to. but were cooll he has class in my same building so we see each other
hosting is awkward parents are crying hope i dont have to do that again

saw kellan and at dinner his 1st day he sweiped his meal card and looked up and his comp just disapeard hahaha so i tried helping him find his compbut no luck he said hed look for him at a new mish conf  we were laughing about that funny story

hey im goin to NY

hmm wat else
time has flied since the 3 rd wk here yesterday was our 50th day weird

was talking to sum ute D end today hes from bingham and he also got to play in "Jerrys World' cowboys stadium he has gym with me and haha it looks like not really athletic, hes pretty big.

In class we had an activity where we drew a picture of our favorite food and we learned how to ask for the food in Espanol.  It ended up that we as a class took it a step further and we asked for anything we could see hahaha yeah we're cool!  Dobson: Spanish dictionaries.  Hermana Smith: looks like it she took everyone's rings.  Sterling: took everyone's tie except mine.  McDaniel: has everyone's watches hahaha.  Cooper: nametags.  Francis (top left with glasses): everyone's keys.  Hermana Toronto: my tie and all the food haha.  Me: I go for the bling!  I got Hna Toronto's "Randy Moss" type earrings they're sweet.  And I have some bracelets.  Lang: I have no idea what he's doing haha.

Maybe ill see carmelo at the airport and ill give him a b of m for sure haha i will keep my eye open for celebs like how dad got OJs autograph on jis mishh haha hey maybe ill see spike lee and i will toatlly bring up how my name is Reggie...but ill make sure i act like a mish not some crazy fan hahaha but if i see kobe i may go crazy haha chiste

thats sweet how jody is dating Young Sim man that guy can rap no question thats sweet how he was in the mish with pres rose "His mother named him Jimmer hes not much of a Jammer"

i can have 2 bags weighin 5o lbs then a carryon (my backpack) can be 40 i weighed my big bag with some stuff in it and i was only like 27lbs so i should be good with the weight limit

hey dad 10 days til ur bday can i send u a card from ARG or do u want oneon ur bday i guess i can do both cards are cheap
i met some girl from Miami in lunch line the other day oh i wanna go there some day, i asked here if shes a fan of the Heat then she said something to me in espanol cuz  i guess here mom is from cuba so shes way fluent, i think she said she thinks there goo idk her sapnish was like furhdf;uhgiufesghyrgfurgyfhdsjalugfug so i probly just smiled and said sweet hahaha
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Elder Reginald Grant Roberts