¡HOOOOOLA FAMILA Y MIS AMIGOS MUY MARAVILLOSAS
¿Como le va mi estimada familia y mis amigos? ¡Espero que todo este bien para ustedes!(google translator: As you will be my dear friends and family? I hope that all this good for you!???) (Martys translation: How are you my esteemed family and friends, I hope all is well for all of you!!)!!
Well that was fun while it lasted haha. But really, how ya all doin? I pray for yall every day and night that all is going well! So reporting here live from Huanuco, Paucarbamba, got some good news, i got my package today! Holy smokes that got here fast!!! Haven’t opened it yet, but I’m stoked! (my comp as well haha) So as for now everyone can breathe a little, there won’t be any changes in the mission as of now. They said it all depends on how Ollanta is when he is the actually president. SO we will all just wait and see, but as for now I’m just here preaching my guts out in Perù! And I have to say I flippin Love Perù!!! Its just too great!
So this week has been one of the tuffest weeks of the mission. We had a bunch of Investigators and a really high Goal for this month... and they were droppin like flies!!! UGh it was the worst!!! I probably called all of them at least 30 times this week and they didnt answer their phone or their door!!! ¡¡¡NO HAY AMOR!!! I was just really, really frustrated and i have this blasted head cold, i cant think straight! It’s like walking around with a cloud in my head trying to speak Spanish!!! NOT EASY! Haha but the other day I was just doing my personal study and I’m reading the Book of Mormon in Spanish, right now I’m in 3 Nephi and it is just too awesome!!! I was reading in 3 Nephi Chapter 9 and reading in Spanish isn’t the easiest thing, cause there are always new verbs and sometimes I gotta whip out my BOM in English to understand and sometimes it just frustrates me! And this particular morning (yesterday) I was in no mood to go through the translating onslaught, I just was reading “Our Search for Happiness” in English and enjoying it very much. But the Spirit told me I needed to read my Book of Mormon in Spanish, dang I was in a personal Battle, my Natural Man did NOT want to but the spirit told me to! So I just went with what i felt, I mean what else can we do these days, and 3 Nephi 9 just spoke to me! It was just awesome. Its right after Christ was Crucified and what happened in the Americas and the voice of the Lord just comes over all of the people and it’s just straight up AWESOMENESS!! From verse 13 till 22, he tells us what we must do to be saved. The Lord tells us that His arm of Mercy is always extended and we just have to accept it! But how? This also refers to 2 Nephi 28, 31 and 32, some of my favorite scriptures in all the world. But we just need to take his hand, but how... by offering a Broken Heart and a Contrite Spirit. NADA MÁS! But the question now is how to we offer a broken heart and a contrite spirit? By repenting and returning to the Lord as a small child, humble and meek. That is what I was lacking this week, I was just losing my mind and flippin out about our investigators, then I realized, that I dont have to do it alone, I just gotta take a deep breath, Humble myself, take the Hand of the Lord as a small child and we will walk together. We will just take it all on, and we will not lose or fail. Because with the Lord, Nothing is Impossible. So I did just that, knelt down and just said, I’m sorry for all the wrong I’m doing and that I had forgotten the Lord. So, me and my comp decided to start a fast, and I have to tell you, I never really had a testimony of the Power of Fasting before my mission. Before the mission, I fasted until after church and thought, yeah that should do it, and I would just sit my butt on the couch and watch football... I WAS SUCH A CHUMP!!! Fasting is sososososososo amazing. If anyone out there is feeling confused, or just lost, then you should FAST!!! But do it right, the full 24 hours, with prayer in your heart always, and dont forget to start it with a prayer and end it with a prayer and you will see miracles.
So the bishop asked me to give a ten minute talk, 2 minutes before sacrament meeting started, and now I’m just like sure… Why not! I was TOTALLY UNFASED haha, but I got up there and I spoke on, “How we can’t wait till tomorrow to make changes, cause if we wait till tomorrow to act, Tomorrow might never come! We have to act TODAY!” And I thought it was good, but you know me, when I get up and start talking who knows what’s going to come out of my mouth, and I just thanked them simply for their love, patience, and examples to me. That they just accepted some Strange Gringo that doesn’t speak Spanish and they just loved me and really helped ME!!! I of course once again, you know me, THE TEARS STARTED COMING OUT LIKE A WATERFALL! But it was sincere and real. I love these people so much. I can’t put it in words. And maybe I only have 10 days more here (transfers are in 10 days) and after that who knows when I will see any of them again. I had to tell them how it was. I looked and the whole ward was all balling. I closed by choking out Amen, and quickly returned to my seat, when I was ambushed by like half the ward. It was quite embarrassing, it was a Peruano Blur like 10 people were just hugging me and I dont even know what happened. Haha it was really, really sweet.
I love these people so much. They are so amazing. They just have something that isnt found very often in the USA and I think it is a pure and unconditional love for their fellow men. If anyone ever thinks or says that they are better than someone because they are from the United States they are DEAD Wrong. God loves us equally and Peru, here in Huanuco, they have something that we should all strive to have, especially me, a pure, unconditional love for everyone. I love my mission i wouldn’t trade it for the world. The Church is true. So live it!
Hey, I got a little trunky thinking how lucky Liney is to have visited and be visiting in Europe!!! You sly dog Liney!!! I can’t believe your growing up sosososo fast!!! I’m jealous of ya little Liney! You will always be my best pal!!!
LOVE YOU ALL!!! I pray for you constantly as we are apart!!!
KEEP IT REAL!!!
Elder Spencer Marty McGhie!!!
I have a couple extra seconds so i will send you a recap, I sent 2 emails home full of pics and then my normal email... hope it all worked out, also I sent a letter to Seth Tippets, Shawnie Holt, Bubba and Dad (for father’s day). I’m sending Seth’s today and the others were sent last week... so tell em to be on the look out for my letters!!! LOVE YOU Mi MAMITA!!! CHUA! Oh and my first photo is me and my zone on p day, second one, a returned missionary here in my ward made us tacos!!! SO GREAT!!! First time i have had a taco in like 7 months haha, that is me and my taco having a discussion before devouring it! The next picture is me and a Little Guiney Pig friend, and the next one is me eating it... HAHA DON’T HATE ME MOM!!!! (Hi, this is Carrie/MOM and it wasn’t a funny picture at all, the poor little Guiney pig looked so scared! I totally raised Spencer to always respect animals…….Oh, he is so grounded when he gets home (in 16 months J)!! ………The picture haunts me in my dreams, just kidding but it isnt a nice picture and it wasn’t funny Spencer Martin McGhie!!)! MOM, I haven’t eaten Guiney Pig yet, so dont judge me….MOM!!! (Oh I am totally judging him J)!!!
PS, (sorry its me again!) I will send you guys the pictures in a 2nd email!!! But he is totally grounded when he gets home J!!! Oh and just so you know, the one picture with the Guiney Pig is not funny……….so not funny!!
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