Hello Mom, Dad, Tegan, Bailee, Pixy, Jerky! And the extended family-Chico, Spit, Lippy, Cinch, Rafter, Pops, Buzz, Worthless Buckskin Horse, Grey and White horse….lets see who else am I missing?

Maybe that’s all. Anyhow its Oct 9th … Wha Gwon? Ya Deh Ya? Mi Deh Ya! Mom stop crying you haven’t even began to read the letter yet! How is everything going back in the promised land? I heard a song by Bob Marley the other day about how Jamaica was the promised land. Well it’s no paradise here that’s for sure! Anyways it has been raining for the past 3 hours straight. The roads have water all over them…so we are pretty much contained for the night. We got drenched earlier today when we were out …a cloud came and poured on us like in 2 seconds we were soaked from head to foot. We came home for lunch then went back out this time I took my umbrella. We went to see some people but they weren’t home. So we headed to the ATM so Elder Lee could get money. The winds picked up and it started pouring rain again so we made a dash for the house. Anyways how is everything back home? How’s the weather? It’s probably about time to start blowing out sprinklers huh? So that means the ducks are gonna be comin in soon! Hmmmmm. How did deer hunting go? Any exciting stories or anything? What about "Teefgan"? What is she been doing? Basketball is getting ready to start up soon, huh? Is the team lookin’ good this year? State Champs or What? That would be cool. WOW Tegan is a Senior…that’s crazy. Mom, you’re getting old!

    "I think I am going to try saddle bronc when I get home. "

(This is why he thinks I would be crying! ha ha! NOT!

Dang kid, he knows I cry every time I get a letter from him!)

(PS Yes...the Mom will be crying if he decides to saddle bronc when he gets home)

Then rodeo through college. I’ll go to ropings and rodeos as a job to pay for my college.  How does that sound? Haha or atleast just ride one saddle bronc horse…looks fun anyways. Well other than that all is good!

I miss you all! Love Ya! Elder Stetson Montgomery

PS Pixy Doooooodle, Mommy don’t love you! :)

pouring rain and boiled green bananas

October 9,2010

It's ugh... 5:51 pm here in Jamaica.
It is pouring rain outside so we are pretty much trapped in the house for the rest of the night! Bummer. I don’t know what to do for the next 41/2 hours before we have to go to bed.

We just finished dinner. Elder Lee made curry chicken and dumplings and boiled green bananas. They are pretty good. Now I’m stuffed and I don’t want to lay down so I decided I would write you and kill some time. I guess I will tell you about Jamaica. Well mostly Linstead because that’s all I really know about. Linstead is up in the mountains. You can get into some pretty good jungle here. But that is only when you go up towards Princess Field, Banbary and High Mountain. All those are in our area. This area is really big. I have only been to Princess Field, Banbary, Treadways, Bogwalk and Charlemont. We mostly stay in Linstead. There are a lot of good nice people here in Jamaica and then there are some that are fried that have smoked too much Ganja! They are mostly the ones that will yell at you and say that we are making Jamaica worse than it already is. It’s probably a good thing I can ‘t understand everything they say. I’m starting to pick up on the patios though. There are about 300 members in the surrounding areas. But only about 100 come out and are active. Alot of people on the church records have either moved or they don’t know where they are. It’s a pretty good area. Elder Peterson said Linstead was his favorite area he has been to. The members are nice. They are just good people. We have dinner appointments every night except for Friday and Saturday nights. That saves me lots of money. There are a lot of fun members…ones that like to mess with us and cause trouble. Sister Tara Richardson (Blake) is one of them…she is funny. She lives in Deeside. Let’s see. I loved my trainer Elder Peterson. He is so awesome. He and I got along perfect! Like you would think I had known him for a long time. He is cool. Totally gonna have to hang out with him afterwards. I was bummed when he got transferred. I wanted to stay with him the rest of his mission. He loved to have fun too but we worked hard while having fun and that was the best. It really made the time fly by. My first transfer flew by so if all the rest go like that WOW! I’m gonna be home before I know it! But I doubt they will all go that fast or that good! It’s only gonna be as good as I make it, I know. My new companion Elder Lee is pretty cool too. He is a Jamaican from Ocho Rios. I’m kindof stressed right now cause I hardly know the area and don’t know where to go and teach. So Breht, do you miss giving me hair cuts every 2 weeks? I sure wish I could get a good haircut. Elder Peterson didn’t do that bad of a job. And it was free too so I couldn’t complain. Well “Bertha” hope you’re doing good. Thanks for being such a good sister and for always putting up with me and all my frequent hair cuts. Thanks for being such a good example by getting hitched in the temple! Couldn’t ask for anything more. I pray for you all the time.

Love ya Elder     
Stetson Montgomery

Letter from Stetson to his Uncle Rob and the

"last bull elk in unit 36A"

There is no way you shot that thing legally!!! you must of went out the night before it opened and spotlighted him then just waited for the sun to come up to take the pictures haha!! but he is a nice elk so either way poached or unpoached he is nice! :) i miss the hunting but just try not to think about it to much i know it wil be better when i get back anyways! i just gotta be strong and deal with it and keep doing my best!! Everything is going pretty good here i had a way awesome trainer and we had tons of fun together and it made the time fly by! thats the way to do it just have fun but work hard! my compainon now is a jamaican and has 4 months left on his mission. he is a really good guy.   Well thanks for the email and the picture talk to ya soon love ya Stetson

hey hey wha gwon? yeh deh ah? me dey ah!!

well its monday again hard to believe that another week has come and gone huh.. the day seem kinda slow but then when i look back the week went pretty fast! lets see first things first how many packages have you sent? ive got 2 but i think there is another one coming or no? did you put the memory card in one of these packages? anyways lets see i was thinkin of maybe having you send a pumpkin pie mix you know the thingy in the can so i can make pumpkin pie but im not sure about that im just always craving GOOD food. lets see this week was ok nothing special other than we have 3 people with baptism dates so we are working toward that. John, Samantha, and Jessica. on thursday we went to jessicas on the way there this crazy rosta man was yelling and cussin at me something about me not paying a taxi man or something he was talkin so fast i couldnt understand i just look at him like keep washing your mo-ped they have big mouths here REALLY big. ummm i havent been scared one time since ive been here and jamaica is a pretty scary place

but i just keep the faith
and know that i will be watched over and protected.
when we got to jessicas i didnt really know what to teach her she says she hasnt recieved an answer yet but i dont know how hard she is really trying. so i taught her about the holy ghost and prayer and just mainly everything she needs to know to recieve or how she is going to recieve her answer! and did you notice i said "I TAUGHT" ya el lee was off who knows where he gets like that like he just zones out and no tellin where he is so i would stop and wait for his input but he would say nothing. we are starting to joke around with each other and have some fun some days though. any ways we had branch conference on sunday pre hendricks came and his counselors so that was cool they asked me to say the closing prayer and i got way nervous haha but as i walked past pres hendricks he hit me with his hymm book on the back of the legs as if to say go get em and i couldnt help but smile and it just made me not be nervous so he must of been able to tell i was nervous or something. he is really cool and a nice guy!our mission pres is the best he is so cool and fun and is just always trying his best to show us that he really cares about us!! we went to spanish town wednesday for district meeting me and elder randle and elder peterson had fun together. we have zone conference this wednesday in kingston then elder peterson is coming up here on a trade off so thats gonna be cool. since he is the zone leader he can do trade offs whenever. hopefully my other packages are here!!  but other than that just trying to find new people to teach and thats part of missionary work. but things are going ok for now!!

love you all stetson

ps ya its ok to use my personal money but im just trying not to make it more expensive on you i still have about 10,000 jamaican in my account so i have money im just tryin to save as much as i can here and there how is everything else going? got snow yet or what? be careful what you put on my blog anyone can see that you know

"good days and then some not so good days"

Hey everyone hows it going? it is almost 6pm so our p day is almost over im so frustrated.
                                     Kingston Zone vs Spanish Town Zone
we went to portmore to play basketball today and on our way back the assistants called elder peterson and said he had to go into the office and since we were in the car with him we went too. well after that we went out and ate at a restaurant im so full... well we just got back into linstead and i swear if one person says something to me thats rude i might just pop them a good one. ugh.  there was a bus  that needed 2 more people so then it would leave and we got on a bus that was empty to come home on. so we had to wait there forever waiting for our bus to fill up.  any ways our week was good we had some good days and then some not so good days! el Lee tells me that pres told him that he is gonna be a zone leader next transfer so that means he will get transfered! pres came and did interviews with us then we took him teaching with us he is funny! we have one girl. samantha that is coming along good so hopefully she keeps doing good! ummm what else we were gonna attend a different church on sunday night but when we got there it was over darn it i want to go see them dance and speak in there tounges and all that. lol tell breht congrats lol i cant wait to see him i dunno if she sent a pic or not but im low on time and dont know if i'll be able to email everyone today darn it. i got everything that was in my package it was so nice gettin good candy i thought i was going to be sick haha but it was all good! well other than that just pray for me haha
love you all stetson

CONGRATULATIONS!!! 

Elder Montgomery you're an UNCLE!!!
Letter to Breht and Jared and the new Baby Jett Ridge

Holy cow bertha that is crazy! wow i wish i could be there darn it but im sure you will have another one before i get back so i better get used to it!!! how is everything he looks alot like you haha the name jett ridge is cool he is lucky to have that name. thats the one i liked out of all of them!!! i got my package and everything and things are still tough with elder lee but they are gettin better! know that i love you. give the lil stinker a kiss for me haha           love ya breht!! stetson

P-DAY TUESDAY

Just got a message from my Jamaican facebook friend that is in Elder Montgomerys branch saying that his P Day will be on Tuesday this week. She mentioned that they are going to go play basketball in Portmore on Tuesday so their emails may come later than usual as well. I'll post it as soon as I get it!

slowest week of my whole mission

Hello again! another p day is here hard to believe huh.. that was probably the slowest week of my whole mission this transfer has been pretty tough on me! we have been in the house alot. its frustrating me. send my spurs or a hot shot something. i sure miss elder peterson we were always just out and about not just hangin out in the house waiting on people to come to us for the gospel lol. its been a long week thats for sure! ugh!!!!! but anyways. i havent got my packages yet. elder peterson has them in spanish town though so i will get them on wed. when we go down there for district meeting! ya my package has been sitting there for like 2 weeks the office elders just kept forgetting it. i guess. but ya everything sounds so good. can't wait they just have no good candy or anything and im living off peanut butter and jelly and its getting old. i cant wait. lol i've been craving candy. ugh the food here is ok some things are weird ex. chicken foot nasty ugh i about hurled its so weird um turkey neck is good

but lots of bones and the thought of eatin a turkney neck lol umm ly fav is curry chicken or brown stew chicken with dumplings yum thats good oh and burger king is good lol.el peterson said he has 2 packages there so thats cool dont know how i will get them back from spanish town haha they pack us in them buses like sardines so it will be interesting with 2 boxes haha! we havent been able to see ricky at all this week. you see me and elder peterson would stay out til 9 and we would go see ricky every night at about 8 well el lee doesn't like to stay out past like 8 it seems. im so bored. when we go in he just sleeps and i just sit at my desk and twidle my thumbs. its so frustrating! about the truck no truck yet. any ways they are selling all the cars that the mission owns and buying little mazda trucks or something its because the roads are so bad and the cars bottom out all the time! but we havent got one yet. anyhow yesterday was fast sunday i got up and bore my testimony its my goal to bear it every fast sunday while on my mission i sit there and try to think of what im gonna even say and the time ticks by and there is like 10 minutes left and i get promted to go up cuz im runnin out of time but then i get another feeling that is just like ahh you dont need to go up just sit here. so right when that happened i jumped up and went and waited in line because i knew if i didnt i would of ignored the prompting to go up! and that was also what i bore my testimony on was listening to our promptings! they are there to protect us and for us to do good and only good stuff comes from our heavenly father. anything thats evil comes from satan so i knew i had to get up there and im glad i did!!!ok i have to write my mission pres real fast then i'll think of more stuff to email you ok bye love you! Stetson 

PS anyways that sucks to hear about morgan missing them buck darn left handed kids anyways! hmmmm breht can have her baby any day? and the name jett is way better than all them other ones but thats like a cowboy name not no city boy name lol thats crazy to think o my goodnesss what they gonna name the lil red head? lol lord i apoligize for makin fun of the red heads and be with the starvin pigmis down in new gini amen!! hey i was thinkin in my christmas package you can go to sportmans and buy a hunting coloring book and send it they are usually by the cash registers and i was thinking maybe some home made dried carmel pop corn??? would that make it in time or go bad? it just sounds so good all the time haha

wow hosman has been out a year thats crazy!!! and ive been wantin schofields email so thanks for that!

Stetsons buddy Brian Schofield (center) serving in the Texas Houston Mission

check out his blog brianschofield.blogspot.com

Lots of Rain...New Companion!

hey everything is good here we got quite a bit of rain last week. i think we only taught like 6 lessons the whole week cuz we were inside all the days. it was boring but me and elder peterson made it fun lol. we got the transfer call on thursday or friday and when elder peterson said he was leaving i freaked. im not ready to have him gone thats for sure. i hardly know the area let alone have someone that has never been here.

my new companion is elder lee. he is a jamaican he is quiet but a nice kid. he has to have the house just spotless he says so we are gonna be cleanin today. i guess he has a hurt foot so when we walk it swells up huge and it hurts him bad. he said that we are supposed to get a truck here to drive i guess. so thats gonna be a crazy experience! but it so far so good. elder peterson is the zone leader in spanish town so i still get to see him every wednesday and district meeting. we are gonna rig a bunch of trade offs so we can hang out for a day lol. he was just such an awesome companion and we had alot in common. any how i still havent got my package yet it is in the office i guess but they forgot it yesterday that ticked me off. anyways some more things you can put in the next package : the ipod with good music on it country disney music just anything good i guess i also need the speakers for it. that guitar lesson book. i dont know if you have sent shoes already but elder randle says docs are the way to go because they are water proof and they hold up really good his were size 12 and they were too big so like a size 11 would probably work they are just the original low top ones i guess but its up to you on the shoes i dont want you to be spending a ton of money on me. but thats all i can really think of right now umm it was conference this weekend so we just sat it the church sat and sunday and watched conference it was fun. oh friday night we were in spanish town doing an interview and after wards we were waiting on a bus to come home

and so were about 50 other people. 

well a bus comes and people flock to it and i was in the middle of it all trying to get on and it filled up before i could get on. so we waited on the next one i got in but elder peterson didnt so i had to get off. the 3rd one came and we didnt even try. so here it was 9:30 and we are supposed to be in our house and we are an hour away from home so we walk out by the main road and there is a bus coming so we wait like cougars gettin ready to attack and when we hear him yell linstead we bolt for that bus and i was being shoved and everything and i didnt think i was gonna get on then el peterson yells prison rules lol so i barge in pushing and shoving and we got on that dang bus thats for sure haha it was crazy but ya thats my excitement for this week! love you all stetson

1st Transfer...coming up....darn it!

hey p-day is on tuesday this week because of transfers. el peterson is getting moved darn it. just wanted to let u know so you wouldnt be expecting an email monday.