Back in the FIELD and LOVIN IT!

 HOLA MI FAMILIA Y AMIGOS,

This is ELDER McGhie reporting live from Huancayo.  And I just want to tell you I am very happy to be here, but there is ALOT of work to be done!  It looks like with our logro (goals) in May, we will have a lot of catch up work to be doing in June.  We have to keep up with the stake goals, and we are, dare I say, A bit far behind... Its time to Put the Shoulder to the Wheel!  I really love my area here, its called LA LIBERTAD and its really great.  My companion is Elder Nicholas Dean Mitchell from Riverside California, he is a Grade A champion!  He was in my zone in Amarilis, there are a few pictures of him when we roofed the Stake President`s house and we are all standing on the roof taking pics!  So, there you go, my comps mane is Elder Mitchell and he is a fantastic missionary.  We get along great, he attended BYU Idaho before the mission, and we are super excited to be working together in LA LIBERTAD!  I totally spaced my adapter this morning so sadly enough there won’t be any pics coming your way today... SORRY!  We had a meeting with the Stake President in the morning and all the district leaders, because we have to DOUBLE the baptisms here in Huancayo!  So the good news is we have an awesome stake president who is really excited to work and good missionaries here in the zone. It will be a fantastic month in June!  I hope you guys will pray for me and Elder Mitchell and our zone so we can really double the baptisms here.  I know we can do it, we have a lot of work to do and some things to change around but all is possible with the Lord!!!  But I need your prayers,that I might be able to help this zone meet our goals and be the missionary that the Lord wants me to be until the end of my mission!  Please don’t forget la ZONA HUANCAYO in your prayers!  So mom, my Pensionista is really great.  She is Hermana Patty!  She is married with one little tyke that is 1 year old.  She has facebook and would love to talk to ya!  I will get here full name this week!  Being here brings back a whole lot of memories from the last time I was here.  Elder Poindexter was my zone leader, and he finished his mission last week!  Man, I miss Elder Poindexter!  His name is Bradley Poindexter from some little town in Arizona.  I can’t remember what its called, but mom, if you find him on face book, tell him I love him!  And miss him!  haha I will send him a letter shortly!  So life is great, I hope all is well there in Sandy Utah.  I can´t believe time is passing by SO fast!  I’m sorry this email is short without pics.  I have to go help an Elder who’s computer stopped working... Haha back to the life of a zone leader eh? haha LOVE YA!

Elder Spencer Marty McGhie!

Hey the computer problem with the missionary is fixed, so I have a little more time!! Your package is in Lima, I missed getting it when I left but I think I will get the package when I go to lima next Monday for Zone Leader Conference (after internet, don’t worry Mom,  I will write you Monday as usual)!!  Oh and the converse that the missionary wants are size 10.5 in black!!

Oh, I almost forgot to tell you all, I LOVE YA’LL! I sent a big package home with all my stuff have you gotten it?  I will send your mother’s day card and cards for the whole fam when I get to consejo in lima next week!  Love you guys!

KEEP IT REAL!
Elder McGhie!



This is the picture that Spencer said his new
companion, Elder Mitchell is in??  My guess is
the Elder Mitchell is the one in the white shirt
sort of in the middle, I think, but I could be wrong, 
I HAVE BEEN WRONG BEFORE, maybe once, haha!??? =)

Of course we all know who the guy making weird
faces in the neon green shirt is!!  He is such a nerd
but I love him so very much, nerdy and all!! 
Oh and did I mention that we only have:
5 MORE MONTHS LEFT!!!! =)



Here I am again, APOLOGIZING FOR BEING SO BEHIND ON SPENCER'S BLOG!!  THE WEDDING IS OVER AND I THINK MY BRAIN IS STARTING TO WORK AGAIN (SLOWLY!) I promise that I will get this blog caught up before next Sunday.............that is a promise!!  So I have lots of work to do!!  But it is fun work, doing a blog about your sons mission!!  Oh by the way, Spencer is doing great and is really happy!!  Emails will be posted soon!!

Here are a few pictures he sent!! =)

Sorry Again,
Carrie =)

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MARCHING ONWARD TO... HUANCAYO AGAIN!

Marty edited this email so I only made one comment, in Purple (Martys is in Red!) =)!!

Pictures for all the emails will be sorted out and posted soon, how soon?  I have no idea but I will work on it........I have to get my mind sorted out first?? =)

May 19, 2012

HHHOOOOLLLLAA FAM Y AMIGOS!

   

So yesterday I received my Transfer, we went to President Ardila´s house to plan the transfers and this guy is off to Huancayo for the 2nd time!  Haha I couldn´t believe it!  I was pretty surprised, because the Zone Leader`s area is about 5 minutes from La Florida where I was about a year ago! Haha, but President told me they have a very Big Goal in Huancayo and I have to go and meet it!  At the beginning of the year President Ardila, took the Stakes goals from the whole mission and applied them to our goals, so now they are the same.  And Huancayo hasn´t met its goal yet the whole year, so the baptisms have been piling up after every month, because it is all based off a year end goal for the stake divided in trimesters.  So what I have to do is meet the goal of 43 baptisms as a zone in June!!! RAYOS DEL SOL!!! Haha that’s a whole bunch of baptisms, but I just told President, IRÈ Y HARÈ! (that means I will go, I will do) haha, I’m not so sure how we are going to do it, but hey, A MANS GOTTA DO WHAT A MANS GOTTA DO!  So with a lot of prayer and a LOT of help from the Lord, we are going to give it all in HUANCAYO!!! I’m pretty excited, and my new companion is a GRINGO!  His name is Elder Mitchell, from Orange County CALIFORNIA!!! YEAH!  I know him pretty well, he is a great missionary I am very excited to work with him! 

So as you have seen from my pics, I was in Oxapampa and it was AMAZING!  SO beautiful, it’s like a paradise I mean seriously!  SO GREEN!  And I saw German decedents or GRINGOS!! Haha it was weird.  But I have to tell you what happened in Oxapamapa.  So the elders have an investigator there that attends every Sunday, his wife and 2 kids are converts about 3 years ago, and his son served a mission in Peru and got home last year.  His name is Roberto and he bore his testimony at the beginning of this month saying that he knew the church is true and all that, but he wouldn’t get baptized!!! haha President and Sister Ardila went with us to the appointment Thursday morning and we got to the house sat down and President told Roberto, well Roberto I’m President Ardila, I have been called by a prophet of God, like the missionaries, to Preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ.  And I have come today from Lima (a solid 15 hours away) to baptize you!haha!  Roberto about fell off his chair.  He was surprised and asked if we could say a prayer to thank God for bringing President and Sister Ardila to his home, and asked President to say the prayer.  We all knelt down and I felt the Spirit SO STRONG during President`s prayer it was incredible!  After the prayer we all sat up and Roberto said, thank you for your prayer and well I am getting baptized TODAY!!! HAHA!  I just about peed (sorry if this expression is offensive,  what can you do???  Some peoples kids, makes you wonder about their parents??? =) my pants and the missionaries jaws just dropped!  After 3 years and SO many Baptismal invitations from all sorts of missionaries just like that he decides to get baptized!  So I had the great opportunity to do his baptismal interview and I asked him why he wanted to get baptized.  He told me he knows the church is true, and he just needed that little push to get baptized.  He said that during President`s prayer he felt very strongly the need to be baptized, he said he felt the presence of someone calling him to the baptismal font with their hands stretched out.  What an amazing and powerful experience that really was!  I owe so much to the Ardila Family! They are SO great, and after all the stuff in Oxapampa, I rode back to Lima with President his wife and daughters!  It was really fun, I felt like I was on some family vacation, but of course it was nothing like a McGhie family drive, we missed screaming, spilling drinks in the car, emergency stops and well all that other McGhie stuff we do!  But I wouldn’t have it any other way!! Thanks fam and everyone!!!

I love you and we will be talking next Monday from HUANCAYO!  YEAH!! I will send the letter for Ryan and the size info for the converse then!
Bye!Elder Spencer Marty McGHIE!

Best P-Day Ever!

May 14, 2012

WHATS UP !!!

               
 So life is just AMAZING here, I just finished about the greatest P day of my life, we had our spiritual share of things also our great fun!  But first off I just wanted to tell you guys it was SO GREAT to see you guys and talk on Skype!  That was just so great! And I can’t believe that was my LAST call home!  Is that just the weirdest thing ever!  It’s like yesterday I had my first one in Paucarbamba and Cried like a little school girl!  Time has just FLOWN by and it just keeps going faster and faster!  So since we have talked actually a lot of things have happened so enough with the chit chat I need to start typing!

               
Saturday morning…  BAPTISM! YEAH!  So Martin and Nardy are having a pretty tough time with their wedding so they asked us to baptize their son, so that was Excellent, then at 1 I had to catch my bus to get to La Merced and as usual, travel was a beast, like always in Peru.  Ha-ha so I don’t have much time but I need to tell you about today.  SO This morning we started off the Pday watching 17 Miracles.  HOLY SHNIKES IT WAS AMAZING!  I mean that movie was really great.  I won’t lie I shed some serious tears.  And after the movie, President asked for 2 testimonies, of Missionaries to tell us what they got out of the video and what they will take with them, one elder stood up and shared, and then no one else wanted to, I was leading the meeting so I was just waiting for someone to share their testimony.  BUT NO ONE would do it, so President, kinda disappointed said ok so we will just end with a pray, so I went up to pick someone for the prayer, but let’s face it, I’m from the McGhie-Spencer Generation, it is not in my blood line to pass up a chance to talk! Haha so I said, well if no one else wants to share I guess I will.  As you can remember about 99 percent of the time I bore my testimony before the mish I cried, and in the beginning of the mission I always was crying.  But it has been a very long time since I have cried in a testimony, and well that came to an end!  I balled like a little school girl once again!   I mean I just remembered so many things, how blessed we are to have a plate of food in front of us.  That thanks to those Pioneers that went through SO MUCH I am here right now.  They sacrificed their lives for this church, and we think 2 years is hard!  IT NOTHING!  I’m SO darn blessed and the least I can do is give ALL to the Lord in my Mission.  Wow, I was so humbled watching that movie, and then the thought hit me, that they are my family!  I come from a Pioneer family, I have Pioneer blood in my veins, and I just got to thinking what would have happened if they had just given up!  Where would I be?  Where would we be as a family?  And what could have happened if I just bag my mission, how many generations would I effect!?  Flip it’s time to step everything up!  I have LESS than 6 months to work in the Lord´s Vineyard!  I have to get back to the field ASAP!  I love the office it has been an experience like none other, but its game time, I just want to Baptize the whole Flippin Country of Peru Right now!  I mean that movie was SO Wonderful, Marvelous, please watch it and the Pioneers and get to WORK!  Dad and mom, I would like some Pioneer stories that come from our family! And tell the Lundberg’s I’m SO game for trek next SUMMER!  LOVE YOU ALL AND LETS GET TO WORK!

Elder Spencer Marty McGhie!

Las Familias Pueden Ser ETERNAS!

May 5, 2012

HOLA FAMILIA!

               What a week I’ll bets it’s been!  Sorry, I wasted about half my internet time looking at the wedding Pics (I, his mom sent him the wedding pictures! Aren’t MOMS the best!! =) so my letter won’t be that long! 

But……

CONGRATS AISLEY AND RUSS!!!

The Pics look great; I bet it was a BLAST!  So how’d the wedding go? (It went well, totally a surreal experience for me as a MOM but it was a really nice day and everything turned out just how Ainsley wanted it to and that is what is important!!  I think it was a great day for “The New Banks Family” (not sure I can get used to Ainsley going by Ainsley Banks (one day at a time Carrie!!!!??), one they will look back on and say to each other: “That was one of the BEST Days of my life”!!)  I made sure to say a few special prayers for you guys, I’ll bet it was crazy and all that but hey I’m sure you all loved it!  I realized you changed my head on the cardboard cutout eh? (The picture he sent us was fine but the resolution of the picture wasn’t too good so that when they sharpened the image, it made Spencer’s teeth looked like they were all broken off in different lengths with jagged edges!! It was quite funny to look at but I didn’t want everyone to think that Spencer hadn’t taken care of his teeth while in Peru for 18 months!! =) Oh and his hair was super short or should I say……shaved…. Here is a picture =)  --------------------------- >

Haha I guess now I’m a fat old missionary with a shaved head... Bummer deal haha! !  Just kidding it looked a lot better than I look right now cause I don’t have hair at this instant, but its growing back!  Haha so I hope my voice recording turned out good, (It was hilarious and he even sang a little!) I don’t know if you ended up using it or not, if not - NO PROBLEM!  It might have been a little cheesy... woof! 

But hey so a little bit of news here in the mission field, President told me I will be heading back out to the field at the end of this transfer!  I have really enjoyed my time in the office, sure I will really miss the guys in the office but it will be nice to get back to the field and be able to WORK MY PANTS OFF and give it all I got for these remaining 6 months!  Pretty weird to say I’ve been a missionary for 18 months now... yikes!  I feel like yesterday I barely had 6 months in the mish!  AY CARAMBA time is flying and it just keeps going faster and faster! 

So this week after the Conference with the zone leaders, we all went to this park of crazy water fountains with President his family, the office and all the zone leaders!  We took a butt load of pics but my dang adapter isn`t working (it cost me 7 soles)  Like dad told me when I came home with a shaved head after a free Barber Brown haircut... Son, you get what ya pay for!  (Haha don’t worry Jordy, I still live for the Barber Brown Cut!)   Haha but anyways, I’m so happy Ainsley got married!  It is really so Awesome!  They will be a great couple together!  And I had forgotten that Russ is a pretty big dude and could pretty much beat the tar out of me... but hey we will see in November in the first wrestling match, and if that goes bad we are taking it to the Hardwood SON!  Haha!  So life is good, tell Ainsley and Russ CONGRATS!  I’m so happy for them!  I will be calling Monday for 3 minutes to set up the phone call on Mother’s Day, yes I want to use skype!  Dad I was wondering if it can be a 3 way skype call with Ainsley if that’s possible!  Seeing that she is in SPAIN! Flip I haven’t even been to Canada and Ainsley has already covered three fourths of Europe!  So I am thinking of using skype on Friday or Saturday cause Saturday in the afternoon I will be going to Tarma and then La Merced for some interviews and conferences with President, but just to let you know, that’s what I’m kinda thinking! 

Love ya fam!  CUIDESE MUCHO!

Elder McGhie

ps mom there is an email from president on here with like 20 pics from the water park, feel free to download em (I already had them downloaded before I read this, we never know when we are going to get an email from him anymore so I get on his and check all the time and sometimes I find fun things like pictures from his mission President or calendars for the year, fun things like that!! =)!!and I AM WAITING FOR MY PACKAGE VERY PATIENTLY BUT HEY COME ON NOW I SENT MINE NOW ITS YOU TURN! HAHA BYE! (We sent it Already!! =)



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I am so sorry that I havent kept this blog up to date!!

Our daughter is getting married tomorrow!!  It is the first wedding in our family and yes, our daughter Ainsley is getting married while Spencer is still on his mission!!  They seem fine about it, I am the only one who wants him here right now but I know he is where he is supposed to be and that is good!!


So tomorrow is the wedding and then my mom has knee surgery and then hopefully our life will get really boring and I will be able to catch the blog up!!  I really am sorry that I have been so terrible about updating the blog but having a wedding is really a surreal experience and very stressful!  It is good but bitter sweet as my oldest child's, childhood is officially over tomorrow!!  I will miss having her living here!!  Makes me cry but I know she is happy and she is marrying a wonderful person and they are going to be very happy!!  But I am going to miss her very much!!  Sometimes being a mom is hard on the heart!!! =)