BRONCO NATION!!!

YEAH SON!!! PEYTON MANNING TO THE BRONCOS!!! ¡¡¡TENGA LO SUYO NFL!!! (translated: Take that NFL)  HAHAHAHA!!! That’s the best news I have heard since Froto destroyed the Ring in Mount Doom!!! 

Super Bowl 2012: Broncos vs 49ers!!!

And the best part is I won’t care who wins because they are both my favorite!  It’s like a grape and strawberry snow cone, they are both my favorite but sometimes I want strawberry more the grape, but it’s still a SNOWCONE! (BRIAN REGAN) HAHAHA! After suffering through the longs days of Jake Plummer and Kyle Orton redemption has come at last! HAHAHA!  

 

Ok, sorry about that explosion haha I was just a little bit excited about the big news... So how are you all doing?  I am doing very well, I am actually really really tired!  But happy as always, this week has maybe been the craziest most hectic week in my life apart from transfers.  We are having our multi-zone conferences, and they have gone really well, but it is a lot of work and on top of that President has had a lot of interviews and we have had a good amount of transfers of transfers this week, and those are just crazy cause we have to call all the elder buy their bus ticket organize it all, hay caramba!  But it’s all good! I am really enjoying the time here in the office.  It’s a great chance to learn and grow.  

So we had our baptism last week of Hermana Fiorela, she is in YSA and there are like 25 in our ward and they have done a good job of inviting her and getting to know her and her boy friend from Whales flew in to visit her and see her baptism!? Haha yeah he is from Whales!?  He doesn´t speak a lick of spanish, but he was really happy that his girlfriend got baptized, but oh well - not my beef!  But we are going to teach him this week, but like I said he doesn’t speak spanish, so we are going to have to teach him in English! HAHA Elder Dodge and Elder Udall are going to help me, but we are going to have to practice, because I have no idea how to speak about the church in English!  Or the First Vision! YIKES!  So that should be interesting!  And we have another baptism tomorrow morning.  Her name is Patty, she is from Chiclayo and working here for one of the members, she is her maid I guess, and about a month and a half ago we ate lunch in the members house and we contacted Hna Patty, at first she said ummm.... NO!  haha but then we had a family night a week later and she joined us and well the Lord did his part as always and she is getting baptized tomorrow. We have been extremely blessed here in the office.  In my area we are baptizing weekly and in total there are 4 baptisms from the office this week!  For the first time the office is baptizing!  Nobody believes us because we are here in La Molina and last year there were only 6 baptisms for the Ward!  But the Lord is really blessing us and my companion is really great!  So I am very grateful for the success we are having and we got to keep it up!  

So to inform you of this week, Tuesday we have Conference here in Lima and then I will be traveling to La Merced for a conference Thursday.  And returning Friday, but I will get to be with Elder Brown, because his zone is going to the conference in La Merced also! YAY!  So that will be awesome!  OH and I won’t be writing you till next Monday because of GENERAL CONFERENCE!  YEAH!!!

So that will be pretty great.  Well I gotta go, I love you and miss the letters from Liney! I hope she is hanging in there and my computer won’t read my camera card so I will send my pics of this week, La Merced and for the wedding next Monday! BYE!

Elder McGhie

I stole this picture from a  Return missionarys facebook page, I will try to find his name so, I DONT HAVE TO FEEL LIKE A BAD PERSON FOR STEALING IT!! BUT ISNT IT THE BEST PICTURE!

I LOVE IT!!

HUANUCO!

HEY FAM!

How are you all doing today?  I hope all is well in one of if not the best time of the year MARCH MADNESS!!!  I’m very glad to hear that BYU didn´t choke the play in game, that would have been brutal!  Bummer about the Marquette game, at least we gave em a run for their money... kinda haha!  But don’t worry next year, the Man the Myth and the LEGENDwill be back to destroy all your brackets next year (We always have a small little “Marty McGhie” family bracket each year and the only thing you get if you win is the adoration of the family because you beat Marty (if Marty wins he doesn’t get anything but irritation for always being the winner!!) (I always loose every year, last place but Caroline even won the whole thing the year that Spencer left, that would be 2010!!)!!!  And of course, I will have BYU at least in the Final 4, if not taking it all like every year!  It’s something I like to call Faith!  But anyways I hope you recorded the game dad and you are burning a disk of the sporting events I have missed, because you know I will be locked in my room catching up on all that good stuff for a solid 2 days! (Not unless I am sitting next to him =)  Don’t worry fam, I’m not trunky, just Curious (Curious?)!haha

So I got back from Huanuco this morning, man I miss Huanuco, it’s such a great place!  Oh and I was walking in the street (in the street ???) and guess who I found! The Hermana Genoveva!!!  My first Pensionista!  She invited me to lunch and I got to go!  It was really great to see them again.  A lot has changed since I was last there, 2 of her kids got married and the other is on a mission, but she is still the best!  

After the multi-zone conference, I got to stay a little while and do some splits with the Elders assigned to Huanuco and we had such a cool experience that I want to tell you about it!  So we went a little ways out of the town to the side of the mountain to do some contacting.  In Huancuo the poor people live up in the mountain, so we were hiking up the side of the mountain and we found a little old lady carrying a big stack of fire wood up the mountain, so we talked to her and asked her if she wanted some help, she said yes and we soon found out there was a lot more than 1 stack of firewood, there were about 4 giants stacks full of firewood!!  She had been slowly carrying them up the mountain, one at a time and leaving them at certain points on the mountain and then going back and carrying up the other one with her brother in law.  So we grabbed some of the firewood and up we went.  Haha, and of course her house was at the VERY top of the mountain... haha!  I was dying(I’m pretty sure the little old lady was in better shape than me, and could definitely take me in a street fight)!!  So we got to here little house with a tin roof and walls made out of mud bricks and inside we found her husband who has 2 broken legs and was in a wheel chair.  The moment we got there he started to cry and he told us that he had been praying so that the lord would send him his servants to help him.  We sat down and invited every single one of them to be baptized after a little bit of teaching!  They all said that they wanted to be baptized on receiving an answer from God.  It was really and incredible experience.  I was literally led to a man searching for the Gospel of Jesus Christ, just by offering a hand of service.  I realized the power and truthfulness of D& C 18 :10, that the worth of EVERY SOUL is great in the sight of God.  I am so grateful and humbled to be able to be an instrument in the Lord´s hands at this time in my life!  

I love you all, and I hope that Caroline stops giving me the silent treatment, cause Monday her package will be on the way to UTAH!  Tell her sorry and that I love her!  Love you to fam!

CHAU!

Elder Spencer Marty!  McGhie

Ps. Mom, I took a pic with Hermana Genoveva (just a short sermon on how grateful I am for Hermana Genoveva) She was his pentionista for the first 6 months (the hardest months) that he was out in the mission field, so that means he ate at her home, 3 times a day, every day for 6 months!!  She took care of him and made him feel like he was a part of her family!!  I will be Eternally grateful for that wonderful woman, who took care of Spencer, when I couldn’t be there to take care of him!! Tender Mercies =)!!!!) but I don’t have my camera with me, don’t worry I am not traveling this week (thank goodness he won’t be traveling ALONE!  I know, I need more faith!!! =) and we don’t travel together because one of us has to be working in our area (I asked him why they would ever travel without their companion!  I think I have asked him that question in every email, since he was made an assistant, I am sure he is getting tired of answering that question every week =)!  

I will send a bunch of pics next Saturday!(he better cause I need my pictures or I cant survive =)!!)                      BYE! LOVE YOU!

A great day at the TEMPLE!

HEY HEY HEY!  

What’s up everyone, how are you doing!?  I hope everything is going great and sorry about the late notice about the email. (Marty got an email from the office secretary at about 11pm on Wednesday night saying that Spencer was going to have pday the next day, Thursday and that we needed to write him that night!  Ainsley was asleep already but we all jumped up and wrote Spencer an email, we are such a dedicated family =)!!) Haha!  I’m sure it was a little surprising to get the email from Elder Udall last night about the change of P-days!  So we got to go to the temple today and it was SO GREAT!  There is nothing better than going to the temple!  I had always heard in primary and before the mission that to get to a temple for a lot of people is really pretty hard, but I didn’t really think much of it (since I have lived within about 5 minutes of the temple my whole life).  But when I got to the mission field and they shipped me on out to Huanuco a good 9 hours away from Lima I realized what a blessing it is to be able to attend the temple!  And once again I was reminded of that blessing today in the Temple.  Like they say: “you don’t know what you have until its gone!”  

SO, I was just sitting there thinking and thinking things through and I just can´t believe it that two thirds of my mission has come and gone.  It is really crazy and to think I have already been in the office for 2 months is nuts.  I have just got to do everything I can to work and work and work in these last 8 months!  And I guess Ainsley is getting married in less than 2 months........................ WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!    Haha, that’s some crazy stuff, so next week I will take the pictures to send and all that jazz, don’t worry about it(We still haven’t gotten the picture to make his cardboard cutout for the wedding and today is March 22^nd)!  And Liney, thanks for your patience, you can punch me when I get home for sending you Birthday Card and Package about 3 months late! CHISPAS!!!!!!!!!  

So this week we had our Zone Leader Conference, it was pretty awesome.  President got out some pretty good Doctrine on the Plan of Salvation and blew our minds away, haha so that was sweet!  My comp and I talked about Chapter 9 in Preach my Gospel but the best part is that afterword, President gave us Permission to play full court b-ball in the Gym!  There’s only one Chapel in Peru with a basketball court inside and it just so happens that it’s our ward building so we got to play b-ball and all the gringos were SO happy!  It felt so great to run the ball up the court be in a fast break!  Haha it was so fun!  And we played against the President and his team, he was on fast break and went to lay it up, haha I came from the blind side and swatted it into the 5th row haha!  I then ran away in hid while everyone laughed and said that I was headed to Cerro de Pasco as Junior Companion haha!!! We had a good laugh, President plays b-ball pretty well and Elder Madsen was on my team!  He is a Zone leader now in Santa Anita!  MY old area! Isn’t that great!!

 So mom, just so you know you gotta close my facebook, it’s a rule in the whole mission now! But, hey you can just put all the photos on your facebook (because putting 16 months of pictures on my facebook page won’t take but a second, he is such a nerd!!)(I did close his facebook page and it made me cry, it wasn’t a happy experience, but I lived through it !!!!! =) 

So I love you all!!  I am headed to Huanuco on Monday until Thursday and I will see Elder Norris from Panguitch, Utah!  He is a champ!  So that will be sweet!

Love ya BYE!

And no my comp won’t be with me (I just don’t get this traveling alone???  The number one rule in our family is: The Buddy System, you never go anywhere alone (Okay, I guess once they are 23 they can go some places alone but it is still a good rule to follow =)!!  So his mission president is grounded for breaking our number one family rule!!) =) ! I'M going SOLITO! WOOF!haha !

CHUA
Elder McGhie!

As for me and my House WE WILL SERVE THE LORD!



Isnt this the greatest picture!!  I love it so much
that I decided to put it first before the email =)!!



HOLA FAMILIA Y AMIGOS!!!

Holy Shnikes what a week it has been!  Last week was transfers and it was SO NUTS!  With all the new missionaries entering the old one going home and buying all the bus tickets, food, and giving training sessions, let’s just say it was a little tiring!  But I can’t complain I really liked it a lot!  It was crazy but awesome!  And this month is just going to be SO CRAZY!  Tuesday we have the Zone Leader Counsel this week and then we have the Multi Zone conferences for the whole month all throughout the mission!  We have 5 all together and so this month will be crazy but I know it will absolutely fly by!  I honestly cannot believe how fast February passed by and now its March 3^rd and I have been officially out on my mission for 16 months!  It’s that the weirdest thing ever!  I can´t believe it at all!  Time has gone by SO fast and it’s just going by faster and faster! 

With all the stuff that happened this week, we haven´t had much time to preach the Gospel but yesterday we got to go out and it just felt SO GREAT  to preach the gospel!  I am SO grateful for the time I have to be a missionary but I’m sorta freakin out at how fast time is going by.  This week my first companion in the mission field, finished his mission, his 2 years are over, Elder Rojo!!  I couldn’t believe it and he couldn´t either!  It’s like it was yesterday that I was there in Huanuco Paucarbamba not speaking a word of Spanish just as lost as can be, haha  but I am really grateful for those first few transfers I had, they weren´t all that easy, but I learned lessons in those first 6 months that I could have never learned anywhere else.  The 2 biggest lessons I have learned on my mission by far are number    #1-Trust in the Lord with all thy heart and lean not to thine own understanding   and #2- Come what may and LOVE IT!  I love the Lord and this Gospel so much, and thanks to all of you and the Lord, I am here right now serving the Lord.  I still remember that night when I was about 12 years old, I decided that I had to know for myself if this church was the same church that Christ organized when he lived on the earth and was it restored to the earth by God, through Joseph Smith.  So, I read the promise in Moroni: 10:4, then I knelt down and prayed my guts out, and at first I didn´t feel anything!  But I kept praying and searching until I received a warm feeling in my heart, the Holy Ghost telling me that it was all TRUE!  From that moment on I knew it was all true.

WARNING………….The email from this point on………is a bit over the top with Too Much Missionary Enthusiasm and without a firm grip on REALITY!!! =)

I don’t have any clue what the Lord has in store for me, if I get home from my mission and a week later I get a letter from the Prophet saying I need to serve 2 more years or 4 more years IM GOING BABY,(?) because the Lord knows what we need, we just need to follow him without fear! 

So heads up Mom(NOT THIS MOM), if I get home and they call me to go and open up the China mission, (HELLO???..........Earth to Spencer???...... China???........... REALLY?? He had a hard time learning to speak Spanish!!!..... China????  (I am rolling my eyes as I write this!!) I will be the first one on that airplane buddy!!!! Haha!!  Like Elder Holland said, we have to show that:  IN THIS Family WE SERVE MISSIONS!!! 

And like Joshua says in the New Testament, As for me and My House WE WILL SERVE THE LORD!  AMEN BROTHER!!!

Well until next week!  CHAU!

Elder McGhie!

Ps. (I love you Spencer but you are really  weird!!! J AMEN BROTHER!!!!! J)



 The same baptism from the above picture with his family
and I think his bishop plus Elder Avalos,
 Elder Moralez and Elder Dodge!!=)





 This is a picture of Elder Rojos (Spencers
first companion in the mission field) and The mission
President, his wife and daughters before he went home!!



The Hand Of The LORD!

¡HABALA FAMILIA Y AMIGOS!

Hey hey hey hey! How ya all doing!?  I hope you are all doing Great!  So I have some pretty good stuff to tell you about this week, the problem is I just have to remember all of it, because we are smack dab in the middle of Transfers and to say the least my Brain is FRIED!Haha!!  But I will see what I can muster up!  First of all, I should tell yall that I have a BAPTISM TODAY!!! HALLELUJAH!! It’s been way to long…. And we have 4 more people with baptismal dates! YES!  So I am pretty excited about that!  My comp and I have been working really hard and the Lord has opened up the Heavens and blessed us SO MUCH! 

Also we have a family we are working with, do you remember about Martin and Nardi?  So we went to go and visit them Saturday morning, and Martin, well he didn´t really believe in God, he said he believed because they told him he had to as a kid, but he never found out for himself.  So we taught them last Monday morning and then I went to Cerro de Pasco and we didn’t have another lesson with them until Saturday, which is not a good thing to do with investigators!  But Marin told us that he read the chapter we left for him, and when he finished, he just felt so happy, he said it was something he had never felt before, and he wanted to read more and more, so he called his mom, who is a member and asked her, What else can I read?  So, he kept on reading the Book of Mormon and he said the happiness and joy he felt, he had never experienced before and he loved it!  He told us that Friday for the first time in his life he said a prayer with real intention, and he told us that He felt SO HAPPY and he knew that God was listening to him and that He is real and that He does exist!  I mean I was so happy for him!!!  The first time I met him he was really nice but not a genuinely happy person, he had a lot of doubts and questions, we then taught him about the Book of Mormon and it is incredible to see the change in him.  We helped him recognize that the happiness he is feeling comes from the Spirit testifying of the truthfulness of this Gospel!  He is SO excited to learn and get married and baptized the 24 of March, because it’s his son´s 8th birthday! YEAH BOY!!!  So with them we will have 7 people with baptismal dates!

Yesterday my comp and I announced our upcoming baptisms that we are planning  to the Ward and they all just kinda starred at us, because all the members tell us it’s really hard to baptize here in La Molina, but we have the goal to baptize weekly and we are going to meet it!  The members are partially right, it is really hard to baptize in La Molina if you work alone, but my comp and I are really trying to do everything right, finish all the work in the office so we can get out and work!  So the Lord can help us and bless us!  Because it would be really hard to baptize here without the Lord, but we are seeing miracles and his hand has been and is in every single one of them!   I LOVE MY MISSION!

               

Okay, so I have to tell yall a little about Cerro de Pasco, I went from sea level here in Lima to the Highest City in the world in a 9 hour bus trip! HOW EPIC!  Haha! I didn’t know what to expect because a lot of missionaries hate Cerro and they say it’s horrible and it is way cold!  But I got there and I liked it!  Haha, it is pretty dang cold, but it’s like Utah in January, but the difference is that you can’t escape the cold!  There is no such thing as heating there!  So it’s just a constant cold! But it was pretty cool to be in the Highest Stake Center in the whole world!  I was there for 4 days and 3 nights but they called me from Lima and President said I had to go back and help with Transfers… bummer but that’s the way the cookie crumples, I guess!Haha!!  But it was sweet, I was with Elder Madsen, he is a great missionary and works really hard and the people love him!  So if I end up in Cerro finishing my mission I would be pretty happy!  SO I have to run, we gotta fill up the baptismal font (pictures from the baptism, next week, I hope)  Love ya and I will be writing again Saturday!  BYE!

Love,

Elder Spencer Marty McGhie!

Ps. in my trip back to Lima I had to stop in Tarma where Elder Brown is, and we got to eat lunch together!  LOVE THAT KID! 

Pss.. mom, we have a new rule that we have to close our facebook pages.... SORRY! I know you are going to be upset! I will explain more Saturday!(Not a single word about this in his email that we got today, March 3, 2012????  So I am not closing his facebook page until he tells me that I have to, I have put so much work into that page so it is staying until I get the official word to close it!!)

WALTER GOT UP FROM LAYING DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!  Mom I have your scripture for this week... D&C 64: 33-34!  LOVE YOU! (In case you don’t know our very healthy dog, Walter got a strange illness that our Vet and a neurologist for dogs have no idea what caused it or how he got it but it blocks the nerves from communicating (or whatever nerves do?) with the muscles in his body………so he was suddenly, completely paralyzed except he could lift his head up a little.  The dog neurologist said there wasn’t any chance that he would get better since his muscles had atrophied and since nerves don’t usually regenerate or something like that???  So, I looked at the dog neurologist and said quite loudly………………NO CHANCE AT ALL???  WHAT ABOUT FAITH???  He then looked at me like I was from the “non-planet” Pluto and said………okay, I will give him a 2 percent chance to get better!!  I told him I liked that much better than NONE!!  So that was about 2 months ago and it has been slow but Walter is healing and getting stronger!!  He can now get up by himself from a laying down position (he is still working on this but hey he does it sometimes), he can flip himself from side to side with his back legs and he can crawl with his legs to get places and that is where we are now……….working on strengthening his  legs, hips and shoulder muscles by having him pull himself around………..then when he is strong enough (it might take a little while but that’s okay!)……………….he will start sitting up and then he will stand up and someday he will walk and run again, we are totally learning to have faith and sometimes it has been hard and I start to doubt that he will get better but then I shove that thought away and repent and try to have more faith!!  Walter is only 5 yrs old and we refuse to give up on him and Heavenly Father has given us a total miracle because the doctor really said there was no chance of him getting better……………………..AND HE IS GETTING BETTER!!  Very Slowly he is getting better and that is fine with us even though it is a lot of work but we love him and are so grateful for the wonderful miracle that Walter is getting stronger and stronger every day……..We hope he will be walking before Spencer comes home........................and that is in 8 MONTHS!! =) So we have been humbled but truly blessed that our sweet Walter is getting better!!!  This is one of those tender mercies that Heavenly Father blesses us with sometimes!!! (Sorry if this was more info about our dog than you ever wanted to know!!)

HI MOM; so I have to take the wedding pics next week cause got my hair cut and the flippin lady left me bald again.. woof and I chickened out on giving the valentine to pres.... I’m such a LOSER! But next package send something and for sure i will give it to him!  I will send a voice recording Saturday for the wedding and you guys!

LOVE YOU!(Hi, this is me speaking to your from the FUTURE…………well, really I never got this sent out and we got another email from Spencer on Saturday and guess what………….No voice recording or picture for his cardboard cutout and there was not even one word about facebook and closing his page either???  I do find it interesting, but understandable that he has no recollection of all the things he told us he would tell us about in his next email ??=) …………Oh well, I know he is super busy and working hard but I hope he remembers someday to take the picture for the cut out and to make the recording for Ainsley’s wedding, he now has about 6 weeks to remember to do it and get it sent to us (NOT WORRIED AT ALL!!!)!!????  Oh, Spencer is such a funny guy!!!  It just makes me love him even more because he is not perfect but so cute and he is trying and working so hard and he still makes me laugh, well……most of the time !!!  =)  =)

Elder Madsen and Elder McGhie
I think they are freezing as there is
no heat and the are in the highest City
in (I think), the world and it is very cold!!!





Spencer thinks he is so strong!! =)
I am goingto find the pictures that
I have of the two of them at the Peru CCM
and they are in the same pose =)




Elder Madsen and Elder McGhie are both
totally commited fans of their favorite schools:
BYU and UTAH so they have a little friendly rivalry!!





They are so funny, I have almost the exact
same pictures of them  way back when
they were in the CCM (Peru MTC) together!!!!=)




WHAT CAN I SAY????? =)




Elder McGhie in Cerro De Pasco, it is summer there???




Elder Brown and Elder McGhie
They used to be companions and are the
best of friends, Spencer got to have lunch with
Elder Brown when he was traveling back to Lima!! =)




The Office Missionaries at the Temple
I dont know why but they like to make this
pose a lot, not sure what they are looking at
but Spencer does it quite often????







“And February? Where did it go?”

¡Querida Familia Mia y Amigos! 

WHATS UP!  I am first of all really sorry that you thought I was going to have p-day day on Tuesday (he got on the internet and had no emails from us but luckily Ainsley read his message on her phone so she woke us all up (it was Saturday morning early) and told us that Spencer was on the internet and to hurry and get writing to him……it was crazy and I have no idea what I wrote to him since I was half asleep but at least he got emails from us?? =), but what happened is my Companion went to Tarma and I stayed in the office because there was a whole bunch of things to do in the office this week and he doesnt know how to do much of the office work, so I stayed.  But dont worry, I will be headed to the wonderful land of CERRO DE PASCO on Monday and I will be there for a week!  Well Cerro de Pasco is only the Highest Stake in the WHOLE WORLD!  And I’m going from Lima (sea level) to Pasco, where it is snowing and freezing and here in Lima it’s SO HOT!  So it will be a dramatic change for a week.  The reason why I’m going is because Tarma and Cerro de Pasco are some of the harder zones we have and President Ardila called us into his office, my comp and I and said, well Elders, You have 1 week to go to Tarma and Cerro de Pasco and Baptize someone.  I don’t know how, because they don’t have people with baptismal dates, but go and baptize!  AHHHHHHHHH!!! How about that for faith!?Haha!!  My comp and I looked at each other like... AY CARAMBA, haha!!  But the good news is my comp has found people and there are baptisms in TARMA!  So now it’s my turn! PLEASE PRAY FOR ME! (I am worried that he wont be able to breath way up there in Cerro de Pasco, I have heard that when missionaries first get there they have to use oxygen since the air is so thin?? I sure hope they find someone to baptize??  I am excited because I know that some of Spencers missionary friends are in Cerro de Pasco, so he better take lots of pictures !! I sure hope he will be able to breath???)

And in my area we have been searching SO hard for investigators and the Lord ALWAYS blesses us when we do our part.  We have found great investigators this week.  We have Ronald, Patty, then Martin and Nardi.  Ronald was going to get Baptized the 25th of February, he lives with his sister who is member but his dad gets to Lima on the 6th of March and he wants him to be there, so we changed his Baptismal date to the 10th of  March.  Then we have Patty, she is from Chiclayo and working here in Lima for some members, we went and had lunch at their house a few weeks ago and we contacted her, last week we had family night with the family and Patty joined us, we invited her to baptism right then and there and she accepted, but she can’t get baptized this month cause she is going on vacation for 2 weeks... CHISPAS!  But she agreed to the 17th of March.  Then we found the family of Martin and Nardi, they just got here from Huanuco and have been to church before.  But they aren´t married... So we have been teaching them the Plan of Salvation and it was so amazing because Martin has so many questions, but during the plan of salvation lesson, he was dead quiet and after the lesson he said he loved it and the message has changed his whole perspective on life.  With the knowledge he now has that this life is a time for preparation and that there is life after death and that his family can be together forever, he so much more happy!  It was amazing to see the change in his whole appearance in just a few lessons! 

What joy it is to have the plan of salvation in our lives!  I don´t know what I would do without it!  I mean think of how sad it would be to believe that once we die, it all ends there or we forget everything!  But it’s not like that at ALL!!! FAMILIES ARE FOREVER!  How amazing is that!  We must shout that to all the world!  At the top of our lungs and tell the world!  I love you all so much and like Elder Nelson said, We live to die, and die to live... AGAIN!  I love the Gospel and my mission, its going by way too fast (only 8 and a half months left and counting =)! 

LOVE YA!
Elder Spencer Martin McGhie

¡Perú Lima Este, LA MEJOR MISIÓN DEL MUNDO!

FAMILIA Y AMIGO’S!

HOW IS EVERYONE? I would first of all like to tell you that my package got here yesterday and it was THE BOMB!!!  You guys are the best!  I mean really thank you sososososo much for the valentines, snacks, my watch, the jump rope (I sent him a pink, sparkly little girls jump rope along with his black exercise jump rope so, I am sure he is thanking us for the pink one!!! ) and the pics!  Of course thanks Ains for the wedding tie I will be sure to wear it on MAY 4!  WEDDING DAY!YIKES(“Yikes” is a good way to describe the upcoming wedding, it is a bit hard for me to let  my baby go, I totally remember when she was little and she was all mine =)!!  But I am trying to get happy about it and Russ is a great guy, who makes her very happy, so I will just have to learn to deal with life (nobody ever told me that having your kids grow up was so hard on a moms heart!)?? =) !! Haha, it’s a good lookin tie for sure!  Also thanks for the updates,  about the Super Bowl or in Spanish… EL SUPER TAZON!  I couldn´t believe it was the super bowl, I really had no clue, how weird is that!?   I used to have a 2 week preparation for the super bowl with Sports Center every day and watching Super Bowl Classics on NFL Network (Oh yes, we totally remember how you watched all the Super Bowls from 1975 through 2010 !! Oh the good old days !!!   And, just in case everyone reading this hasn’t figured it out…..he really is kind of a strange person… but we love him strangeness and all =)!!!)  and now I had no clue, Haha!!  Well I guess that’s what the mission will do to ya, but don’t fret, next Super Bowl I will be in FULL force, but for now, Its 100 percent time for the Lord! 

So I have my new companion like I told ya Tuesday and he is THE MAN!  I mean he is such a Champion; he is from Concepción Chile, that’s where Elder Contreras, my trainee in Huancayo is from as well.  I had a great time with Elder Contreras in Huancayo, one of my best comps and now it looks like the same deal with Elder Avalos, he really is an excellent missionary.  So, to update you on my plans this week, tomorrow we have a training session for all the Ward Mission Leaders in Lima that our mission covers.  That’s 5 stakes of Ward Mission Leaders and All the Bishops… President Ardila is going to do the Training Session and Elder Soliz will be Presiding.  That’s tomorrow so we are all a little stressed out and trying to find a snack for the break tomorrow so that should be interesting to find someone that will cook hamburgers for about 115 people… Where is Bishop Peterson when I need him!? (…  =)! ) Haha!  But we will see what we can find! 

So you guys asked me to update you on my travel plans, and I think it will help Mom be more at peace. (Thanks Spencer, I could use some more peace in my life, that’s for sure! =)   This week I will be traveling to Tarma, and I will be there from Thursday till Monday and I will be staying with none other than the one and only ELDER BROWN! YAY!  Haha so that will be pretty sweet, he is there with another Gringo from Utah, Elder Riggs, who is also a Champion!  They are great Missionaries, in the hardest zone in the mission right now and they are really doing a great job.  We need more missionaries like them!  So life is pretty great, we are working really hard in our area.  It’s a little difficult but there are people and my comp and I have the goal to Baptize 8 people , we are bound and determined!  We are Challenging The WHOLE WORLD to Baptism! Haha!  So I really enjoyed your letters last week!!

I love yall sososososo Much and I thank you for your patience and love you really show for me! Thanks SO MUCH!

Love,

Elder McGhie! 

 The Office Elders!! =)
Elder Udall, Elder Avalos,
Elder McGhie,Elder Moralez,
Elder Daga and Elder Dodge!!
Not sure if I have them in the right order???



  Spencer and Elder Daga (I think?)




Spencer and his new companion,
 Elder Avalos!



What a week it was!

Estimada Familia y Amigos!

   

Well hey how are ya, it’s your Prodigal Son here writing you back (He is making fun of us because we didn’t hear from him yesterday and I wasn’t happy about it...................so, I got an F- on this one but I can do better next time, I hope =) ??)! Haha   Oh, family you make me laugh so, so hard.  I thank you for the love, and concern that you have for me.  Sorry I couldn´t write you guys yesterday!!  I was on a bus returning from La Merced (that’s in the Jungle =O) and I got to come back with Elder Brown on the same bus!  So that was Pretty Awesome!!  So, you guys gotta understand that this is part of my assignment.  I´m sorry, but these thing will happen in these next few months and you’ve  gotta have Patience and Faith (Oh……that’s no problem! Haha)!!  So, I am asking you to just wait for my emails, with a little bit of Faith!(I can do this…I can do this…I really can do this =)!!!!

So I am having a few troubles loading pics but as you can see from the one I sent that I got to go to the JUNGLE this week! YEAH!! YEAH!  It was so cool and so GREEN!  I was there for 4 days and it was so great, I would absolutely LOVE to end my Mission in La MERCED.  It was pretty cool, it was stake conference there and Elder Pino was there to speak. I got to talk to him and He told me he had talked to you guys and he was pretty happy.  SO life is good, we had the Zone Leader Conference today so I’m pretty tired.  But I got my new comp today! His name is Elder Avalos!   Yes that’s right another CHILENO! YES!  haha This is my 4th comp from Chile and now I have had more companions from Chile than any other country and I have had more comps from Chile than anyone in the Mission!  Yeah!  (SHOUT OUT TO JORDY BROWN AND ALEX IN CHILE!)  I guess Chile is pretty cool, but it doesn’t even compare to PERU! Haha!! Oh and dad, my comp actually had problems with his visa in Chile, so he served in President Laycock´s mission for about a month and he was there in the office with him.  He says he is a Champion.  And I talked to another Elder from Chile this week who also knows President Laycock and he said he is so Amazing and SUPER PODEROSO when he gives talks and conferences.  So I have heard quite a bit about President Laycock and that he is a great mission president.  My comp wants his email address to write him and tell him he that he is an assistant now and thank him, I don’t know if he will need president Laycocks permission for that but he just wanted to know. 

So mom, here are some details for you about my different trips (Okay, so I asked a few times in my last email to please tell me more details about his trips, like where he went and which missionaries he got to see and be with!  It is so fun for me to hear about him getting to see these missionaries because I know quite a few of their moms through the Peru missionary moms email group and the Peru Lima East Facebook group!!  Oh and I read the blogs of the missionaries whose moms keep blogs for them, so I sort of feel like I know the missionaries too and their moms are all so wonderful, they have helped me so much during this experience as a mom of a missionary!!  I really love knowing the moms of the missionaries in Spencer’s mission, it helps me feel like I am a part of what Spencer is doing………… it makes me happy……so… I am a bit weird, I can’t help it so “don’t judge me” (that is one of Spencer’s favorite things to say) =)!!)  Cerro de Pasco was great I was with Elder Pritchett, Elder Madsen and Elder Poindexter!  Elder Madsen, Elder Pritchett and I traveled from Cerro to Huánuco together with President Ardila, in his car.  In Huánuco I was with Elder Sheridan, Elder Krebs and Elder Norris!  But this week In La Merced I was with Elder Bean, who is somehow related to the Hansen’s (I have told him a million times that Elder Bean is Ashley’s husbands brother, he never listens to me =)!! and he is a really great Missionary!!

So I Love ya’ll!  My time is out so I got to go, sorry my pics are failing but I will send more home when I write you this Saturday! LOVE YA!

Elder Spencer Marty McGhie

 



These pictures are all from
La Merced, which is in the Jungle =)!!