Elder Roberts 2019-2021

hey what's up peeps. This week a jeepwent speeding past me so I said choke choque choque choque which is crash crash crash and the jeep got hit by a bus crossing the street on the back which turned it and it drifted into a second bus. So oops idk if I jinxed it or what but luckily nobody got hurt. I also went to study with a convert who used to be a jew, she has a lot of insight in the old testament and it was really cool to learn from here. One thing she said was that we're still supposed to follow the law of moses haha, that doesn't really seem right. I do like this phrase she has about prayer that is,"sin rodilla no hay tortilla, sin fe no hay te." Its very true because everything we have in this world is a blessing from God and we receive it according to our faith. I also started noticing this week that a lot of the cars here only have about half of the lug nuts that they should have, which reminded me of a couple weeks ago when this car turned in front of us ...

Pretty good week, kinda sucked cause my headed felt like it wanted to explode and my throated decided it was the sahara desert and my nose ran a marathon and my whole body just wanted to sleep lol. It was just the cold tho, sadly not the corona virus. We had zone conference and got roasted again for disobedience by pres. Then I went on splits with the zone leaders because my ZL wanted to try his luck at getting some of my good investigators to so yes to a baptismal date and I guess he's got some magic because he got five dates for us. I went to the rich boy area which was terrible because nobody wants to hear us and everyone just tells us we're liars and that the virgin Guadalupe is going to save them. Finally got all the letters from Christmas so thank you to those who sent them! Not much more than that this week! Peace, smelder roberts

Aight so it was a pretty cool week. First things first my district leader and five other missionaries got sent home so I am currently a self appointed district leader over my comp haha. So now were all alone again in the house and our area got even bigger and not just because we adopted Alta Vista 1. When we take the bus to Rancha Anapra its about thirty minutes to the ranch and then another thirty to the end of the line, which is the border of NM. Then we can hike up a sandy mountain to another lil town where everyone steals electricity. Also in Rancho Anapra the hottest place to go on the weekends is the "nigth" club. Looks pretty cool hahaha. Sometimes here in mexico the stoplights do red and green at the same time but i´m never fast enough to get a picture of it. We were eating with the bishop´s family a few days ago and they put a basket of fruit on the table and I went to grab a mango but right next to the mango there was a pear that was bruised so it looked like a mang...

Hey yall not too much time but my new area is huge and we have this little town 30 minutes outside the city that I can see New Mexico from haha. My new companion is a really hard worker and we get along really well. I live in a house separated in two parts so there's really four missionaries there so that's really fun. There's a bunch of work here, we have like six baptismal dates. I went back to Del Real on saturday to dunk one of my oldest investigators. Gtg, go do some service or be nice to someone this week! peace, Smelly out

Aight yall pretty cool week. First off the ward turned back around to be way chill with us again. I was joking with some dudes in the chapel on Tuesday just giving crap back and forth and then they asked my if I would want to return to Juarez and I said I'd rather go hit up the DR so they were mad at me for a sec lol. Then on friday night I beat the ward record of eating 28 flautas by eating 30 in one sitting. I met a missionary from layton this week because they got locked out of their house one night so they had a sleepover at my mansion. Then the next night we had splits so I was up till at least 3 two nights in a row lol. We dug a big canal as a ward for a member who was having problems with her house flooding and of course they gave the gringo the broken shovel with splinters so I got 6 nice blisters. I'm getting transferred tomorrow and I forgot my new comp's name but I'm going to be finishing training him. I've heard he's tall, brazillian, and has a tatto...

Hey whaddup Utah welcome back to another episode of Ciudad Juarez. Last night my companion and I hit big goals because we had a conversation in our sleep lolol. My compa woke up but kept talking to me so basically we bein bffs and stuff. One night we were walkin on a dirt road when we heard something like car crashes and people screaming, so we kept walkin because whats new its juarez. It got louder until we came to a building one of my investigators owns. Turns out him and his band were practicing some Slipknot so obviously we chilled with them a while and they want us to go to there concert at midnight on thursday so who knows whats gonna happen!! Speaking of disobedience, at zone conference Pres pulled out the flame thrower and roasted us for not being good missionaries, lol. Honestly I havent done anything bad enough to be worried but today a lot of missionaries had special interviews with Pres. Basically the past two weeks weve contacted all day every day a...

So started off with going to the temple late so basically a big waste of my pday. Then we had zone conference which was cool. This rich family made food for the whole zone and so obviously i had to go network a little and now Im headed to go to a steakhouse with this rich dude in just a minute so boom, networking. My back hurts a little from carrying this ward so much, this week I played all the hymns, a special number, and gave another talk so idk what theyre gonna do without me. Doesnt feel like christmas without snow but I do have presents and my christmas tree so we chillin. I wanna stay here another transfer because my fav fam wants to throw me a birthday party with a piñata and presents and cake and everything so cant miss that.  This week seeing lots of people without family made me realize how blessed I am to have great family and friends every year even if I wont see them for two years. Life is a whole lot better when you finally realize everything that you nee...

aight lol this was a v interesting week. First i got my new companion who is sooooo funny. Hes this chubby lil dude that deep fries everything he eats and then never does the dishes hahaha. Some members gave me a big picture of some indian dude in mexico city carrying a woman so im big culture now!! I love mexico bc they shut off our gas even tho we payed our bill so the members recommended just cutting off the padlock on the meter and so we did and now we have gas lol, cant do that in america. I also took a quick vacation to mexico city for my green card, it was super fun to go with my compa from the mtc and we met up with my friends in cancun. I threw away the super important paper that nobody told me to keep so that was almost a problem but a dude from the mtc came and gave me a new one. I got roped into playing piano in sacrament meeting so thats super fun! Yesterday it rained like none other and by the night the streets were literally filled with water up to my knees and ...

Aight yall one transfer in the field over with! Kinda sad because me and my companion finally clicked this week and had a ton of fun but now he's going home to ecuador. I had to give a talk in sacrament meeting lol so that was funny. We can't go out too much because my compa isn't allowed to be in the sun after his surgery so we chill in the house and listen to our neighbors blast banda all day. I went to the temple with my ward which includes my first convert and two other recent converts. My compa went to a session with the mish pres so i was just like a dad explaining everything to my three sons haha. Kinda sad because one of my investigators that was really into the church, going on sundays, reading the BOM all that good stuff got a new job a couple weeks ago that didn't let him go to church anymore, He stopped reading the BOM and then lost his job, he now thinks its because he didn't put the Lord first but i feel bad bc he's having a real rough time rn. I f...

Aight so I know a lot of you guys on this list are cool and tough and all that, but are yall cool enough or tough enough to join the BANDA MACHOS?? I think NOT!!! PS we only sing macho man by the Village People soooo. So I've been eatin big lately because I splurged and bought peanut butter and jelly and I've eaten probably about five sandwiches a day bc anything that tastes like america right now is my fam as in pb&j, rootbeer, and pizza. My ward here is actually the best. My bishop brought me and my compa blankets and a heater because we were eating with our favorite ward hermanas and they asked how we were doing with the cold and we admitted we only had sheets and no hot water. So they called the bishop who called the mish pres who told the secretaries to get us some stuff but they wouldn't till monday so opispo brought us the goods. Also we fixed our water heater in the true mexican way and we got gas so I had my first hot shower in three weeks on saturd...

Aight yall where do i even start. So the last night in the ccm was rough because my distict was so tight. I stayed up till 2 playing rook, i got a perfect game, 200 pts, btw, and then said goodbye to the cancun peeps. Then it was my turn. We got to juarez and everyone was like depressed, but we went to the president's house, which is like parade of homes nice, and had some good fake mexican food, and then went to a hotel to sleep. I met my new compa in the morning, hes from ecuador and is actually an amazing missionary. I'm his first son, or trainee tho so its a little rough. Our area has been closed for a while, idk why, so we didn't have any leads or knowledge of the area at all so its been kind of cool to start from scratch. One night we were in a dark alley and a huge dog started shaking a whole garage door and it freaked me out, and the drunk people are like a zoo here, but other than that the people are great. We concact a ton of people every day, but then when the ...

Hey haha I stayed up pretty much all night with my house because half of them were going to cancun at two in the morning and then I left at four in the morning so Im pretty tired. Mexican airlines are sketchy it was weird we took a bus on the runway and walked to the plane lol. I got to sit by peters on the plane so that was nice and we stay at a hotel tonight so one last party before i meet my new companion. the mission president seems cool and so do the people i just didnt expect to miss the ccm this much but idek what this has to offer so i just want to get into it. Ill let you know more when i actually know more. Love you Elder Roberts