branded with LOVE...

...with his "star S" horse brand

any how this week was pretty good i got to go on a trade off with elder peterson and i bought some new shoes. i dont know if i told you about Naketa. anyhow she was one of our best investigators but she kept calling and cancelling our appointments so we pretty much dropped her. well tuesday night we got a text on our phone that said hi this is Naketa can you come by tomorrow so we can have a lesson? i was shocked so i called her set up at time for thursday. me and elder peterson went up there and the lesson was awesome i extended her a baptism date and everything it was so cool she is a really good investigator!! we also have Vivine her sister is a member and she should be to she is way ready and knows everything BUT she lives with a guy ...and all that so that sucks cuz we cant baptize her unless one moves out or they get married so she is stuck!!! me and elder peterson made that pumpkin pie we used vanilla wafers for our crust we just smashed them up and wa la it was so good! but it was a fun trade off!!! i have some more stuff to send for christmas but i ran out of money so i couldnt send it but hopefully i can do that soon. but the rest of the week went pretty good nothing really exciting happened i have been so tired when its time to go home. man im draggin my butt and then the mornings come way to fast and then its the same all over again! Thursday i got a call from our branch president he wanted me to tell wilson that he wanted him to give a talk on sunday. so i told him. then i said to randle and peterson man im glad im not new in the area they always make you give a talk well sunday president barrett came up to me and said guess what? i need you to bear your testimony on service for me. ugh! talk about being put on the spot lol but it went good dont remember what i said but it sounded good at the time! then i was tellin peterson about that and he said ya it sucks to be a new missionary in the area but when you've been there a while they dont even give you a heads up they just call you up lol it was funny!!! this friday is our christmas party every zone has to do a skit we are doing the nativity scene but we are gonna spice it up with sayings from different movies to make it like a comedy it should be fun!! but any how thats about it!!! PS HAPPY BIRTHDAY GRANNY now you really are one so you cant get mad anymore when i call you that hahaha well love ya
LOVE stetson

Just like that another week is gone...

hey! our christmas party is on the 24th. i think we can open the packages there or we can bring them home and open them at home. i think its up to us! ..and calling home ive heard two ways. i can call you and you call back or i can buy a 1000 dollars of credit and that will give me a 1000 minutes of international calling time and i just call you so either way i dont know which is one cheaper! i will prolly call and you call back. 

 i think i can call Lauren or if you want she can come to your house. either way its up to you guys there!

i did buy the guitar. its sweet! 

its all black and it has palm trees around the circle thingy lol i still have to get it tuned. i have to get the electric tuner from randle so i can do that. 

this week was good. wednesday i went on a trade off after district meeting with El Randle! all i can say is when we finally get to serve together we are gonna be awesome lol we just teach so good together and the lessons just flow. we have a blast while teaching and it just makes everything so fun and i cant wait until we serve together...

well i hope we do i mean i got my fingers crossed.

we had a birthday party for me and elder peterson wednesday night. we made cake and had ice cream and we ate that and it was fun! then el peterson had to leave so me and randle played pin the tail on the donkey and then took pics of stuff and went and got pics of his neighbors christmas lights! then we stayed up just talking it was fun! the next day first thing when we were riding to the church randle was riding with no hands and then his bike went one way and he went the other haha it was like slow motion. he like looked at me then BAM!!! he hit so hard. my gosh it was so funny! then we went and bought the guitar and then we were walking to the mall to wait on wilson and roberts to get there so we could trade back. well freakin randle slips on some oil on the road. my guitar hits the ground.
 
 gee crazy kid! i knew we should of said a prayer before we left the house hahaha we were joking about that the whole day that thats what caused all the accidents was buying the guitar.
it was fun! then we had to trade back and when we got back i was like bummed cuz they have really good investigators and we dont and when you have good investigators it just makes everything so much better and i was just doggy feeling. 

but when we got to Vivine's and brians house we taught them and then i just went for it and extended them a baptism date and they both accepted it. it was cool and when we left we found new investigators and everything just got way better! then on friday we went to bambury to see bro miller we talked with him 

then we went to friday night activity and only a couple people showed up but we played checkers and ping pong. i was the checkers champion lol then we went outside to leave and a guy from the kingston branch was all mad at the kids playing on the soccer field. so i had to be the bad guy and run them off. they were all mad at me! i think its better that they are playing soccer rather than out makin trouble. so the next night they were there again so i walked up and they had looks on there face like crap we gotta go! but i called one over and said just make sure you shut the lights out when your done and then they were all excited! lol but ya sunday we got drenched walking to deeside and when we got there sister grant made us dinner and right after that we had to go to sister robinsons for dinner. ugh!! two in a row i about died. i was so full it was crazy! but just like that another week is gone. crazy! transfers are on the 29th so comin up fast! well i gotta write president hendricks. ok later! 

love stetson

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Non Stop Sweat...Roping Dummy...and Guitars

well yes i got my thanksgiving package! so thats good. sounds as if everything is going good down there besides the cold weather. its been pretty hot here. ugh non stop sweat and when you walk a couple miles your toasted. lol but today we went to portmore to play basketball. it was fun but really hot. we (spanish town zone) got our butts kicked by kingston zone we played 8 games to 11 it was so hot and man i about died. lol they have some kids that have played a little college ball so its not fair but we came back and won a couple at the end it was fun though! we won 3 of the 8 games!

i cant believe that its almost christmas its so crazy to think about it. sheesh. lets see this week was ok nothing really special happened. we are just trying to find some new people so that we can have more investigators. just when you think you have a good one it all goes south ugh. Naketa was doing so good and now we havent seen her for about 2 weeks. she keeps calling and cancelling darn it. but we met a lady named Raquel she is cool she lives just down the road from us she is very interested and her 10 year old son is to. he came to the christmas devotional with us. he is a cool kid and so hopefully things keep going good! i cant really remember what else happened hmmmm did i ever tell you i made a roping dummy????

well i did. i used the bottom of a chair and a bike helment and a piece of pvc pipe haha it works pretty good! i also taught bro. blake (tara's husband) how to rope he caught on super fast. he was running around at the friday night activity roping everyone it was funny! i might have to leave one of those ropes here when i leave..

i dont want to leave Linstead though. it is so cool and the members are so cool. as for the christmas program i have no idea what we are gonna do for our skit. i dont know if we will be at the party cuz we are having our mission one the same day. so i dont know about it. the ohter day a guy yelled at me for not buying an orange from him he was following me yelling at me on the street so i turned and said listen i dont have any money or i would buy one to make you happy but i dont have any so beat it. hahaha i hate when they chat at you elder wilson is good at just walking away not me i always chat back hahaha its fun! oh ya i spent some money off my card. i was running low on my mission card so i took some out. elder randle and peterson bought guitars and they are trying to talk me into it to buying one. its like 17000 jamaican $.  i dont know how much that is in american...elder randle said he would be my bank and loan me half. lol  im still kickin it around. i gotta make up my mind by wednesday though im going on a trade off with elder randle in spanish town so we are gonna go and check them out. we talk on the phone almost every night and they are always playing them. it sounds fun. but who knows what i'll do. lol but ya everything is going good here just tryin to get people baptized so i can go swimming again. hey gretchen took some pictures at the branding last spring see if you can get some of the pictures from her and send some my way thanks. ummmm i dunno. i can't think of anything i need right now i always remember something right when i walk out the door though. lol time is up I LOVE YOU!!!!!
love stetson

 El Montgomery relaxing in the hall "talking to a little toddler named christoph"

(photo courtesy of Jodie-Ann Chen :)