Que pasa familia y amigasos??

Que pasa familia y amigasos??

Les extraño mucho, pero se que están bien (:

Día de San Valentine se paso, pero fue buena (:

This week was crazy. They call the first week of every change "Semana Loca" (Crazy Week) here in the office, because we send people home, and we get new people in the mission. And then somehow there is always something else crazy that happens!

So basically, this week started off on sunday.

We got ready for Church that morning and then President called us and said an Elder got a concussion and needed to go up to the hospital in Santiago. So immediantely we went down to Curico which is about 2 hours and south, picked up the Elder, and then drove 2 hours back North to Rancagua, and then preeceded to go to santiago another hour north. So we missed Church my first week here in the office, which is a big deal, because Chuch is seriously the best part of the week! But its fun to help people out and this elder needed some help. So I ask myself " What would Jesus Do?" and I think he wouldve healed people (: So we took him back home and then drove back to rancagua. So a good 10 hour drive this on sunday. Then we got prepared to send home all the old guys who were "dying" in the mission. It was really fun, we had amazing fajitas and I had to say goodbye to one of my really good buddies who I met at the begginning of my mish, and he really helped me out.

So then we get a call about the same Elder who needede to go to the hospital, so we did the same trip of 8 hours or whatever to santiago, and we left him over night this time. So we finally got back home at like 330 in the morning on tuesday, and we had to be back up for the New misisonaries welcome at presidents house. So we had some really good hamburgers on this day.  It was fun to meet all the news, and see how excited they were to come out into the mission.

So then on tuesday, we had to go pickup the Elder again. So it was our third trip to santiago in 3 days. And while all of this was going on, we were coordinating the changes. Which is when like half the mission (250 people) changes house or places! So it was just wild.

I understood why they call this week La Semana Loca. So then the next couple of days we just did a bunch of office work for all the people that went home and the people that came out. We enter alot of Data into the computers for everyone, and we change around all the info for where the people live in the mish, and just do alot of stuff with their visas and other good stuff. Its fun, but I got a little wrestlous from being cooped up in the office for a few days. But its a fun atmosphere. Just knowing all the little things that are going on in the mission, and helping evrryone out! I think I am going to start making videos soon! Which would be tight, its just I dont have much equipment to work with (:

Today we went to a ferria in the morning, which is just a super cool thing that Chileans do. They shut down the streets and just sell a TON of fruit and clothes. Its like a huge garage sale, but eveyrone brings their own tents and sells stuff super cheap. So today we bought like blueberries, and nectorrines, and bananas and a ton of fruit for like 10 bucks. but we bought enough to last 4 hungry dudes for a week. Its super barato (Cheap) then we went shopping around a couple places, and got ready for the week. I think next week were gonna go north to a really cool place for PDay (:

So thats basically my week!

I love the Elders we live with!

We have a blast. Today we bought matchich ment teal ties.

Last night we drank matte on our 9th floor balcony looking out onto downtown Rancagua talking about life.

I couldnt ask for a better life right now. Im so happy (:

Love you all!

Hope you had a great valentines day with your loves. We bought roses for the asistents to the president (:

Photos:

Good ole view of our balcony

The amount of matte we drink. Each packet makes a liter

Have an awesome week!

Elder McGee checking out.

Que pasaaaa amigos y familiares!!

Que pasaaaa amigos y familiares!!!!

La semana pasada ha sido tan buena!

My new house is amazing, we are overlooking the downtown of rancagua! Its way cool. We are on the ninth floor of some really nice apartments with a balcony and a bunch of windows. It may seem normal for all you all at home, but here in Chile this is like luxury! Its tight. We have cars to drive around, and I have my own phone. Its cool, cause not many others get to have opurtunities like this, so for that I am very thankful.

My new companion is named elder Archibald, and hes awesome. He is from Alberty Canada. (Forsyth family will be proud) We have already had a great time this week. We drove down the the most southern part of the mission named Talca. Its fun to be doing road trips, and enjoy the beautiful mountains of Chile!! We also ate a famous place called Donde Alex. They are famous for their "Completos" Which is a chilean Hotdog with extremely good bread, an inch of Palta (avocadoes) and and inch of mayonase. I dont know why but they are so greattt. (:

Lets see, Also my buddy from the MTC, Elder Loveridge was in Talca as well. It was good to see him for a little bit as we dropped off 5 boxes of book of Mormons to their zone.

Today was way fun. Everyone in the office hopped in the car and drove about 2 hours south to find a place in Chile that would be a buffet. Becuase those dont exist here. But we got there and it was closed, so we ended up driving a little farther and just ate at some hole in the wall place that served empanadas. It was cool though. It was basically like the front porch of someones house, and everyone here has grapes. Because grapes are Chiles number one export. So the little walk up to their house was like a roof of grapes hanging down. It was pretty cool!

Apart of having all these fun experiances, Im gonna learn how to drive stick so that Dallas will be proud of me because the office has a mission car with Stick. Also I started learning how to play Ukelele, and also harmonica! So thats pretty cool!

It was also fun this week helping with the Changes, because we got to help decide where people go, and who they will be with. No one in the mission even knows yet, and they wont know for a couple more hours!

Also we got a new asistent to the president this past week as well. He is actually one of my buddies that I met in the first few weeks of the mish!

So as far as the spiritual side goes, its cool to just read the scriptures on the balcony overlooking Rancagua. Its also even cooler to have 8 guys living in one house and singing awesome hymns at random times of the day. We have alot of fun, but its great becasue everyone knows it cool to be spiritual. Thats something you cant just have, Its somthing you gotta work hard for. My comp and I have a goal to baptize someone while being in the office. The last guy that did it was about a year ago. Its just diffulcult becuase we really dont have any time to go out into the Campo (field) But I had some wonderful experiances reading the bible this week, as I am reading in The Acts. What a wonderful book to explore and learn about the life of the only perfect man who ever lived on this earth! If we can all just be a little happier and work to be a better person all day. than we would enjoy life a little bit more. I kinda have gained the legacy of always being happy, and the other Elders were asking me how I do it. I told them there is never a reason to be sad. There are alot of aweful things that can happen to someone in this life, but like it says in D&C 122:7 All challenges are for our benefit. God would never give us something that we cant handle, and the only way we can overcome it is to just put that smile back on and continue on with life. Because Satans goals is to make us miserable! SO BE HAPPY! WOOOO.

I love you all and thank you for being my awesome support of family and friends. 

I sincerely thank you all for all the little things that have made a difference in my mission and life!

Love,

Elder McGee

Hey family and friends!

Hey family and friends!

I dont have much time this week, but I wil type as fast as I possibly can!

This week was great as always, and I cant believe January already went by! Only 11 more months of 2014.. Its gonna fly.

As far as events went this week, we had an activity on friday, where called karamate. Where everyone drinks matte and sings karaoke. It was really fun! Its interesting here in south america, because everyone knows alot more english than we know spanish. I think its because they listen to alot of songs in english!

We have our recent convert Aquiles whois doing awesome. We bought him a triple, which contains the book of mormon, and 2 other awesome books. thats why its called the triple, anyways, on his table he had his triple and hhiis book of mormon. (the blue one) and we had a discussion about how his reading was going, and he told us that the triple was more interesting, even though they are the same book. We all laughed, and we explained to him that they are the same story. haha.

Last night was pretty hard because I had to say goodbye to my new family. Im not gonna lie, it was pretty hard because there is a good chance I could never see them again. But I will see my family at home again. But we had a big barbeque, and enjoyed times together. I gave them my final little goodbye speach and they all cried, and it was just great and sad. I also bore my testimony yesterday, which was a little harder in spanish, but the ward building was full of people and many told me they cried with my testimony. Its hard because tese people are truly my family now, and I have to say goodbye to them because Im leaving this area today!

Im gonna miss these 2 elders Im with too. We had an awesome time together and really just enjoyed the mission to the max. Working hard, and playing hard.

Saturday, we painted the back of this families house bright green. I love all the colors people paint there houses here (:

Anyways, thats about it on my week!

I hope you all have a wonderful beautiful snowy week, Ill keep getting tan for all of you (:

Love:

Elder McGee

Whats up YALL. miss all the good ole english slang (:

I miss all the good ole english slang (: 

Its weird to think about speaking in english now, even when I speak in english with another gringo we talk in the spanish form, like we use spanish vocabulary and say things that dont make any since in english, but it makes since to us (:

This week was super cool! As they usually are!

One of our companions had to go to the hospital this passed week because he got sick, so we had to stay in the house one day. Another day we helped out with a church activity the whole day, so we really didnt have much time to work this week. But we still managed to find 9 more people to teach which was more than last week. Which is amazing because last week we had a full hard working week. Its interesting sometimes when you have less, you manage to work just as hard or harder becuase you think wiser. Its kinda the same principle as tithing.

One day this week we were helping a member set up his swimming pool. Everyone here has the plastic setup pools in their little side yards. But anyways, this show was on about all the awesome places you can travel in Chile. It was really amazing, and it was even more amazing that they were using music from my favorite band: Angels And Airwaves. It was just a nice relaxing gift (: Sometimes you just gotta be thankful for the small things in life. Another small but awesome thing that happened this passed week was that some of our investigators bought some really nice picture frames for some pictures of Jesus that we gave them, and they put them all up in their house. Its cool to see someone put Jesus Christ as the center of their home. So I encourage you all to put up a picture of Jesus in your house if you dont already have one. We should always remember what he did for us. He died for our sins so that we can live with our Heavenly Father again. That is something we can never repay, and somehting that we should never forget. ´

I learned how to make sopapillas this week from a member who is just like my Grandma McGee. It was awesome.

We had some really inspiraing and spiritual lessons this week. One of them ending with tears in everyones eyes. Those are always the best. BEcuase that means they felt it and we had the spirit with us teaching. There are a ton of other things but I need to do a better job of writing them down (:

Sometimes I dont even have time to write in my Journal because my companions are both so cool, and we talk about life and drink matte (:

Anyways,

Have a good week. Do somehting that makes someone else happy. 

Hello Beautifuls (:

I just want to start off and thank you all for the continued love and support. Everyone doing all the little things really makes a difference! Whether its a pray at night, an email, or a letter, I am just so thankful to know and be associated with such great family and friends (:

Im glad you have all enjoyed my adventures and stories as much as I have. It truly has been a blessing to be here in Chile and give these people my everything.

Currently we are in a trio. So Im with two other missionaries! Its pretty fun, and goofy to be with 2 other people (: One of the elders came out with me, so we had a good time in mexico together! Im with Elder Maxfield from utah, and Elder Sosa from Honduras. We have a blast. Working as hard as possible, and having fun in the process.

As far as miracles, this week I took part in one that was mighty strong. We had given this lady a blessing like 3 months ago. It seemed as just a normal blessing, and I didnt think much of it, and then this passed week, she told me that this blessing had saved her life. She went to the doctors for pain, and they thought that had found cancer, so thats why she asked us for a blessing, but she didnt say anything about the cancer. She had to go to the doctor again to run some tests to see what it was and ebverything like that, but they couldnt find anything. She said, there was nothing wrong in her body. She was perfectly fine. So that to me was a testimony of the power of the priesthood. If you dont know what the priesthood is, ask a member of my family. Its truly a blessing for me, and my testimony was strengthened. (:

This week we had service again every single morning, and we are working out, and running, and we are just going going going. My body is just being pushed to the max, but I love it (:

We ate sushi one night at a members house!

One day we had to eat two lunches, I almost died!

Other than that, we are just here in Chile as representitives of Jesus Christ devoting all our time and energy to teaching people about the Gospel of Jesus Christ, Gospel means the teachings of Christ. (:

So I hit 6 months in the mission this past week, and it was cool that the other elder that came out with me was there because we both burned ties (: It was fun! I never thought id be this far in the mission!

Today we had an asado with the whole zone, that was way fun, and then we played soccer for a while! It was fun! Oh asado means barbque!

Well thats my week in a jiffy (:

I love you all and continue to pray for friends and family!

Thanks for enjoying my adventures with me!

Elder McGee

Haz lo grande o ve a casa!

Wow this week I feel like I learned a ton! I've adopted a new motto for my mission: TRABAJA AL MÁXIMO! Work to the max. Because that's all I wanna do. I can't stand preparation days, or the times when we have no choice but to lose time. Lose the Lords time that is. We only have 24 hours a day to give it our all, because ever day that we don't accomplish our best, our day was lost. If we're not getting better and accomplishing more than the day before, we're not progressing to live with God again. I learned a ton this week. Because I feel like I truly gave it my all. Because I did that, the devil worked harder on me. We had problems with our ward mission leader because I was working, working, working. We were late to some of our meetings because we were teaching everyone! Basically he got mad because I gave it my all (: but what can we do besides try harder.

We planned a really cool Noche de Hogar for everyone in the ward this past week! The theme was to read the book of mormon. We made a huge book of mormon, and I made 2 videos! One of them was a movie trailer and a challenge! It was alot of fun, and we had a good night!

This week we really focused on trying to find new people to teach. I think my favorite thing is when something clicks in someones head, and the understand the importance of baptism, or to follow Jesus Christ. There is always a light that starts to glow in their eyes! But my ultimate favorite part is when someone offers a very sincere prayer, usually the first one in their lives, and they feel the spirit and a receive an answer. That is by far my favorite part of the mission!

This passed week we also did a ton of service for these people in Chile. Everything from painting, to mowing, to rewiring a house for electricity. Its so great to help people and not accept money. Just to see the relief on their faces is all the way worth it (:

I really am enjoying the mission! Its such a blast, and theres not anything else I would rather be doing (: One night this week, we had 4 more others come and stay the night in our little apartment. It was really fun. We ordered pizza, which came by moped, and drank matte (: I feel like im just livin the good life.

I love you all, and hope you all are becoming better ever day, because that really is the purpose of each day that we have.

Wow hey! Another week, another year!? Where did the time go! But Happy new year!!

Link for a video Jordan Made:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxezFuKuAh4


Wow hey! Another week, another year!? Where did the time go! But Happy new year!! (: I hope you all enjoyed this wonderful new year! 2014! What a great time to put awesome new goals! 

The new year passed pretty awesome! I thought it would be lame because we had to be in the house at 7, but it actually turned out to be the best New Years I have had! A family brought us dinner which was so great! And then the assistants called us and dropped off 2 more missionaries. So we had a mini party. There is a little thing outside of our window, and we put a blanket out there, and watched the fireworks and drank matte! It was just so tight! I don't know why(: but people here are crazy. There were just people everyone until like 6 in the morning. It was pretty fun! I invited some really good mate! We Its actually Terere, or however you spell it, but its lemonade, matte, and Ice. Wow Its so good on these HOT days here in Chile!

This week was great! We had changes, which I think I told you guys about. But my new comp is ending his mission this change too! So I've now "killed" 2 missionaries. It's great though, because I have learned so much because they have 2 FULL years of experience! It's so tight. I think this passed week was really the week that I learned the most spanish and progressed the most. I did a lot of talking this past week (: one day this week we started off really good! Studying, feeling the spirit, and doing everything right. We then went out into the street, and we had 2 of our big plans call us and cancel almost back to back. It just really got me down. I'm not sure why, but we decided to just buy some lemonades ( you can buy something called an express, which costs like 50 cents, but it's a small glass bottle and you drink it and then give them the bottle, they are sweet) anyways we sat down and offered a prayer. I said it with a ton of sincerity! We then carried out and decided the go check out this part of the sector which is super far! So we walked like 20 minutes down this rocky road where all these super rich people live. Anyways long story short, we found 6 new people to teach in one day! Only after a trial of your faith can you be blessed. I have learned that over and over and over in the mission!

This past sunday, we had an investigator come to church after 5 months of teaching her family. She always told us that she would come when she wanted too. The other night, I dont know how or where it came from ( Well.. It was the spirit) But I said some amaazing words. A little bit palo ( Literally means stick, but here it means like direct), but I was loving. Somehow it worked. She came to church after 5 months of trying!! Talk about miracles. She also excepted a baptismal date (: Wow! Working miracles baby.

I just wanna give a shoutout to Michael Bowman, and Rick McGee for having birthdays this week. I love you both (: Also another shout out to Tearnie McGee who has a birthday coming up! Wooo! Here in chile, if you have a birthday, you have to put your face in the cake, and then everyone eats it after. Its pretty funny. They sing feliz cumplianos, and then say Bite it, bite it, bite it!

Well thats about all that happened in my first week of 2014 in Chile (: You guys are such a great support!!