Just a short one today!

Hola,

 SO this is going to be pretty darn quick, but I just wanted to stop by and tell you what’s going on.  So this week has been pretty good.  I’m sorry I couldn’t write earlier this week, but I was traveling through the cities of Peru!!!  Haha, so in 3 days I traveled one whole day, yes 24 hours haha!  I went from Lima to Huancayo (7 hours) then from Huancayo to La Merced 4 hours, from La Merced to a little town in the jungle called Villa Rica which was 3 hours to go due to construction, and 2 hours going back to La Merced on the same day and then that night traveling from La Merced to Lima 8 hours.  Yep from Wednesday in the Morning and Leaving Friday night to get to Lima Saturday morning a complete time of 24 hours!  Flip, I was pretty much dead when I got to Lima Saturday morning!  Haha but it was a great experience I was in divisions with Elder Biliter, who is a Champ!  And also in La Merced I was with Elder Rider from Salt Lake, it was pretty cool.  So that was pretty much my whole week traveling in splits.  So I will be sending a few pics and a tape recording and all that jazz in a few minutes.  I will give you a better recap on the voice recording!  I will send pics later tonight and a weekly recap tomorrow on tape... sorry!  LOVE YA!
ELDER McGhie

Elder Biliter, Elder McGhie and Elder Biliters companion

LIVING IN LLAMALAND!

LIVING IN LLAMALAND!

THATS A REAL LIVE BABY SLOTH ON MY NECK!!!! YEAH!!!

Oh and the last pic is me traveling back to lima, (we never got the picture of him traveling back to Lima…..so I guess we will just have to imagine it in our minds =)!! some old dude didn´t want to close his window on the bus for the whole 8 hours, the bad part is the window was above his head so all the wind came back at me, it was absolutely freezing and slightly miserable as we passed through the snow covered mountains of Peru, but I just call em more Gringo Adventures or Moments! YEEEEHAW!  Oh and the pic of me on the rock...yeah that’s a real machete(I can NOT see a Machete???? But I do see him on the rock, very puzzling???)! HAHAHAHAHA! QUE CHEVERE!  How’s the blog going mom?  I wonder if you have had time to load anything(Nope, I have never even made the blog…………..OF COURSE I HAVE MADE THE BLOG AND LOADED EVERYTHING!! Okay that isn’t true since I am 4 emails behind in sending them out and in putting them on the blog, very slothful MOM!!)?  Oh and President said he was reading your facebook and read that you closed my facebook and he said thanks for being a very obedient mom! HAHA! Chevere no!?

FAMILY!!!

Looks like today will be more pictures than words, but I will do my best!  So how are the wedding plans going?  I hope all is well, I imagine you are all very stressed and running around like chickens without heads, but hey that’s the way a wedding should be no?  My advice is that one night you can all sit down in the family room and watch “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” or “Father of the Bride”, I’m sure that will give you a few laughs and help out a little with the stress.  Because like my favorite scene from Father of the Bride goes…  “I want 6 hotdogs and 6 Buns, not 6 hot dogs and 8 buns!  Wanna know what happened, some BIG SHOT from the weenie company got together with some BIG SHOT from the bun company AND DECIDED TO RIP OFF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC!!!”  Haha and it goes on with the I’m George Banks and I´ve had enough or something like that!  Haha but don’t worry too much and don’t get overly stressed, try to enjoy it just a little bit!  And don’t get tossed in the slammer Dad, like George Banks!  So I will be waiting patiently for my wedding invitation for me here in Peru.  So we talked with Pedro Contreras and he is coming Monday morning to get our package and send it to you guys!  Elder Madsen and I have combined everything into one package, there is stuff for all of you guys so enjoy!!!  Finally, thanks to Elder Madsen I managed to get the package ready haha!  Oh and I also burned all my pics and videos onto Elder Madsen´s USB, so when the package gets there you need to open his USB and there is my folder with all the pics and videos!

                So this week has been very interesting, after I wrote you on Monday Elder Pritchett his comp, Elder Farfan and I got permission from President Ardila to go see the Waterfalls, so that was SOOOOOOOOOO AWESOME!  Enjoy the pics, in one of the pics its like “Where´s Waldo”. 



This picture is turned sideways and I tried to make it not be
sideways but it just wants to be this way..........so I am letting it be =)!!!



 I´m just a little speck in the pic and then the giant waterfall!  Oh how I would love to actually serve in la Merced, lots of prayers and faith!  Haha so life is good, we just keep on movin on, Martin and Nardy aren´t going to get married this month, they had a few problems with their papers and they are just missing one little signature! ONE! But the date to turn your papers in for the month already passed… bummer but hey they are still very excited to get married and baptized in May.  We also have a 19 year old teen named Luis who is reading and praying for his answer and our convert presented us her friend, her name is Norma and very excited to get baptized the 28^th!  So keep on going and praying and it will all work out just fine!

Love ya’ll!

Elder McGhie

Baptizin in the Highest stake in the World!

Hi, I am posting Spencers latest email today, I know I am missing 2 weeks worth of emails on here... I HAVE THEM but I have to edit them and figure out what pictures go with which post!!!  I am really sorry, all I really can say for my negligence is: DAUGHTER…..MARRIED…… 3 WEEKS…….MUCH STRESS……..MIND LOST !!!! =)

I will get this blog caugt up but it might take a few weeks!!  I hope you are all doing great!!!

Carrie

 

HOLA MI ESTIMADA Y QUERIDA FAMILIA!

           

Well I have had some of the greatest experiences of my mission these last few days.  So, Saturday morning President Ardila and I loaded up his car and off we went to Cerro de Pasco (THE HIGHEST STAKE IN THE WORLD)  Yep, going from sea level to who knows how many feet in just about 7 hours!  So it was SO awesome to go with President Ardila (he is his mission president, just in case someone didn’t know who he was ?=), I just about bombarded him with 150 questions haha, I was a little excited and nervous and well you guys know me, I’m not the quietest person on this planet (takes after Marty, since I am one of the quietest people ever born!! =)… haha, so that was so awesome and President Ardila is a Champ and answered all my questions and then he made me study verses and tell him what I understood and all that stuff !!haha!!  It was some good stuff.  I even had the nerve to ask him some questions about the Apocalypse (I don’t remember what the book is called in English, but it’s the last one in the bible about the end of the world)(I know he is talking about the Book of Revelations but I must admit I have never really read it, except for very small parts of it at different times and I know that I am admitting to not having enough faith to just understand it , but I really just have no clue, unless I have use this amazing reference book I bought that explains all the symbols and difficult to understand wording, but it takes me a very long time to read one verse and then read the reference book, so to read a chapter takes me a few months or years …… actually I must admit that I have never even tried to read a whole chapter........I know it lame… but as Spencer always says… haha, don’t judge me =) !!!!)  It’s his favorite book in the bible and I don’t know didily squat about apocalypse so he enlightened me to say the least!  So we got to Cerrro and it was Stake Conference, so President Ardila was giving his talks and all that, and the Zone Leaders ( Elder Johns from Southern Illinois and Elder Merril from Utah)  OH and mom, I talked to Elder Johns all about Southern Illinois and I told him you went to Southern Illinois University and that you were a Saluki, he just about fell on the floor!Haha!! He lives like 15miles from there in like bell view (He means Belleville, Illinois…. isn’t Belleview an  infamous insane asylum ?? !!! =) Anyway, I lived close to BELLEVILLE on Scott Air Force Base for 5 years and graduated from Southern Illinois University!!  Only Spencer would call me a Saluki!!) or something but tell me where you guys lived so we can talked more about SIU!Haha!  Elder Johns is a champ and so is Elder Merrill!  They had 2 baptism planned for that day, a mother and her niece, her 2 daughters had listened to the missionaries and said they wanted to be baptized but kept on delaying their baptismal date.  The said, no we want to get baptized next week (like they all say)!  So when the daughter got out of her baptismal interview, she said nope, I’m not ready, but I felt the sudden need to talk with her, luckily I followed the promptings of the Spirit and asked the Zone leaders if I could talk to her, they said, yeah that would be great.  I went into that interview with such a strong feeling that she was going to get baptized, I sat down, asked what her name was, and told her I was Elder McGhie and that I had come from Lima to Cerro that day to baptize her!  Haha you should have seen the look on her face!  We talked and read the scriptures and as we were about to read in 2 Nephi 32 about the Holy Ghost, she stopped and said, OK, I’M GETTING BAPTIZED! Haha  So then I just had to talk to her little sister who is 9, and I thought it would be a cake walk for her to want to get baptized too! WRONG!  That little girl was so stubborn but finally accepted to get baptized with her sister, cousin and mom!  And then the older daughter wanted me to baptize here !   Haha, go figure eh!?  President Ardila got out of his meeting and saw me in this, too short white tunica (you have to see it to get how lovely Spencer looked, so I am going to insert a picture of him wearing the “tunica” right now!!) and was a bit surprised!!  I told him what happened and he was pretty darn happy!  It was a great experience and I’m so grateful for the chance to be and instrument in the Lord`s hands, if we are obedient and listen to the spirit we will see and work miracle in our lives and the lives of many others!!!

I love this GOSPEL!

CHAU!

Elder Spencer Marty McGhie!



This is Elder Bean from Arizona in the picture with Spencer; he is the brother in law to one of our favorite people, Ashley Hansen!!  Ainsley, Caroline, Teresa Fugate, Janece and I, all met him at Ashley’s wedding a few yrs. ago!!  So in case you didn’t understand my explanation; Ashley lived next door to us for 11 years with her wonderful family (The Hansens), and then they moved to Arizona (it was so sad that they moved)) is married to Elder Beans older brother, David Bean! 




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Mud Slide!!

 

ESTIMADA Y QUERIDA FAMILIA Y AMIGOS!!!!!!    

Como estamos, como estamos?  Ojalá que estén muy bien con la preparación para el matrimonio de Ainsley y Russ y que el Señor esté bendeciendoles muchísimo.  Ok, enough with the Spanish stuff!  How yall doing!  I finally have been able to send a few pics I hope you enjoy them.  I was thrilled to get a letter from Collin and Jordy, tell Collin I will be writing him quickly and to STOP WITH THE FANCY LADIES!  Three girls in a week... YIKES BROTHER, I think he has kissed more girls than I have hugged in my life!  HAHA I love that kid so much!  But tell him Congrats on the mission call to FRANCE!!!  Heck yeah man!  Congrats!  He will be an absolute STUD of a Missionary, and I am very stoked to hear how he is doing and how the mission work is there!  Tell Jordy que NO PASA NADA CON CHILE! JAJA ESTOY CON MI CUARTO Compañero Chileno, YO sè que eres un SUPER FLAITE PO!  What a chaunci zhomes!  So anyway, I got some news for you all; Elder Madsen is the new Personal Secretary to the Mission President!!!  It’s going to be Awesome!  For sure I will miss Elder Dodge; he is a great kid and missionary!  It’s exciting as well to have big Madsen in the office!  We sent a tape recording with his tape recorders, so I think his mom will be sending it to you soon!  

    

So this week is going to be absolutely nuts!  We have transfers this week; it’s always a very hectic, but entertaining week!  But I want to tell you what happened yesterday!  We were in Chosica almost the whole day doing service because Thursday there was a huge mud slide and it was pretty nuts.  We got there and it really sad, we went to help in one of the bishops houses and they all live a crevice of a valley and the valley is just hills and hills of dirt and sand.  So it all came crashing down the side of the mountain and the bishop there in the ward lives on the hill side, and the mud just busted right through his roof, of course their roof was just like metal sheet mail and it went right through and ruined it all.  We had to dig the mud out of the room and then take out the bed, dressers, mattresses, it was really sad.  But we were able to go and help and dig out the houses.  I was walking with Elder Morales and a guy called us for help so we went to help him, we thought he was a member because he recognized us as elders and he just looked like a member.  His house was in danger of collapsing and he wanted us to read the bible with him and pray.  We realized he wasn’t member and started to reach some chapters in John and talk about how we are all in the hands of the Lord.  That he is so merciful with us, that he sent his son Jesus Christ to die for us, that we might live again!  And we told him that it was his turn to do something for the Lord, and to search for him, and we taught him about Baptism and invited him to baptism for this 29th of April, he accepted and said in this tragedy he has realized the need he has to search for the Lord and change his life.  It was a really amazing experience and I just realized that the Lord hand is in all things!!  I love what President Monson has said, that there are no such things as coincidences, we must search the hand of the Lord in all things and we will find it!!  That is 100 percent true!  I love ya and I hope you really enjoy Easter, that you can take a minute to think about the important things in life and prioritize it all in order! 

LOVE YA!
ELDER McGhie



Elder Smith, Elder Udall, Elder McGhie, Elder



Pics of the mudslide that I got from Elder Smiths Dad!!



I cant beleive this picture!!!!  It is so awful!! =(




Cleaning up the mudslide, it is terrible!!



HAY CARAMBA!!!

April 3, 2012

Hola, 

SO, I imagine I need to explain a little about the pictures of me sleeping in the chapel…  Haha so last week I got sicker than I have been in my whole mission.  Last Monday my stomach  started to hurt and I thought I was just hungry because we had fasted the day before and I didn´t eat a lot of lunch…  turns out I had a stomach virus and slept about 2 hours that night and well 1 hour in the bathroom throwing up with the RUNS! YAY!  So I was bummed, first time I upchucked in my whole mission, it was a personal goal to not throw up, but hey I guess that’s about impossible for a Gringo in Peru for 2 years! But hey I almost made it 17 months!  So Tuesday morning after a very long night I had to get up at 6 to prepare the multi-zone conference, and so we went and were getting everything ready and I thought I was better, but I ended up in the bathroom throwing up AGAIN!!! YAY!Haha!  So, Sister Ardila saw me for 2 seconds and called me over and asked, ummm..... Elder McGhie are you alright?   I told her, well no, I am pretty bad actually!  So she sent me to one of the class rooms to rest and then later they gave me some pills that knocked me right out and I fell asleep in the chapel, so my comp and Elder Morales thought it was pretty funny and took some pics!  I found them amusing!Haha!!  The bummer is that I was supposed to travel to La Merced, that night, but that wasn’t going to happen so I didn’t get to go and be with Elder Brown… BUMMER!  I feel like I have said, “so” about 500 times!  Sorry, I cant write nor speak English!  But don’t worry mom I am all better and the good news is I lost 5  pound in less than 2 days!!! YAY!  And that inspired me and Elder Udall, cause he got really sick and went to the hospital and lost like 10 pounds, so now we are running in the mornings! HAHA!!

                Also I took all the pics  for the card board cutout that I have been waiting for my whole life but an elder lent me his adapter and the computer cant read it and I didn’t have time to copy the pics to my USB, I can send from my USB directly but from my card no! HOW ANNOYING!  So I will send em Saturday!   And I really feel bad for not sending Liney her package!  I have it all bought and ready  it’s a matter of putting it in a box and sending it to yall! Being sick with conferences has made me so busy that I don’t even have time to read the book of Mormon!  I miss studying SO MUCH!  But it’s all good, I just will keep on chugging here and I'm really sorry I haven’t sent yall cards or anything…   I'm going 100 mph but I just need to organize myself more…  So I'm sorry there isn’t much time, I am going to Huancayo with Elder Biliter, Elder Paolacci, Elder Vanwagoner, and Elder Echeverria, and we will be traveling together tomorrow, tell their moms hi from them, they are really great missionaries!    So My time is up I love you so much and I will send the pic Saturday!
Elder McGhie

Tell Collin thanks for the letter and I’ll talk about General Conference on Saturday, it was amazing!!!

THANKS FOR THE LETTER LINEY  I MISSED THEM A LOT!!!!!!! 17 MONTHS ON MY MISSION, CANT BELIEVE IT AND AINSLEY YOUR GETTING MARRIED! WHAT!? HAHA!



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