(Copied from Elder Randles Blog)

 Me Then monty in front of me then Nelson behind me then Romney then Ostberg then Taylor On the flip side from the front is Roberts then Dale then Kraus. And the one if the front is the missionary from south Africa.

The Christmas party in Kingston was a lot of fun. It was cool to have all the missionaries together. We drove in Thursday night, and stayed at Elder Montgomery's house.  That was a lot of fun. We stopped to get some mattresses from another house and on the way over when I was driving we lost a mattress on a curve haha. {yes they were strapped down, but we had a strap malfunction} All the sudden I hear a big BOOM. At first I didn't know what it was so I kept driving. Then Elder Kartchner reaches his head out the window and says ya we lost a mattress. So now I'm about 50 yards from the corner so we pull over to go and get the mattress, it had been maybe 5 minutes by this time and we get there and the matress is nowhere to be found. So someone in Jamaica got a real nice Christmas present. The party was fun. it was good to see Elder Montgomery, man I could serve my whole mission with that guy.

haha nuttin nah gwon at tall

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Thanks to Sister Colleen Smith we have a picture from the 2011 Jamaica Kingston Mission Christmas party.  
Well this week has been pretty good! Its crazy how fast December went by. Seemed like just a couple days passed and then it was Christmas. We had our Christmas party on Friday which was a lot of fun. Its always good to see everyone. It was funny. Elder Randle and i were 2 of the few that got Soon come packages (meaning that our family sent ours late and they haven't arrived as yet) but it was funn.y atleast i wasn't  alone! Elder Randle and i are pretty good friends we just get along great! He reminds me a lot of Tory i remember coming back from Cayman and i kept calling him Tory when i would talk about him crazy. anyhow Ohco Rios Came and stayed the night Thursday night. so that was Elder Randle. Kartchner, and Forde. So that was fun. Christmas day was good. we got a big meal Thanks to Sister Mack and a few others. then gettin to talk to the Family was awesome. Then the rest of this week has been weird. Monday which is usually P-day was just a normal day we had to go out and teach and that was the day alot of people were celebrating Christmas and then Tuesday was Boxing day or another excuse for people not to go to work lol. But we have had some really good lessons with people so thats been awesome! as of right now we have 4 people with baptism dates so thats cool one is coming up on the 7th and the others are a ways off they will be the 21 of January. But everything is going good we have some good investigators so thats good! On Christmas eve we went to Devon house with the assistants we got some ice cream and then we were checkin out the shops well one was all chocolate stuff so we went in and were looking. Elder Hoffman couldnt resist and the same with Elder Brockbank. Well Elder Kraus and i were like no way. well we were sittin outside while the other 2 were eating and the owner came out and was all how come they are eating and you aren't? Elder Kraus was all well im broke. he said what do you want? so he said the covered cheesecake. then he asked me and then he came back with 2 and said Merry Christmas! we were shocked! We told him he had our business. so we are going to make it a tradition and go every once and a while! But anyhow thats about all that i can remember from the week! anyhow i love you all!!! 

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!

Love Stetson! 

One more thing for the blog... we went and saw a guy that we had met a couple days earlier and we get there and we have our lesson with him and we ask him if he has any questions and he says no. but i do have one for you... and that is if i can share some of my dinner with you... Well he gets up and goes and dishes us out some food. i tell Elder Brockbank it better not be chicken foot cuz that girl that just came out of the house looked like she had chicken foot... well sure enough CHICKEN FOOT and rice! Well i push it around and just eat the rice and Elder Brockbank is over there gagging like dry heaving about to lose it lol so then i ask the guy so how do i eat this? (even though i knew how) then he said just put the whole foot in your mouth and then eat all the meat off the bone.... MEAT? thats not meat... Thats like gristle. it was so nasty. i did my best and that was it! next time im gonna say im allergic to that crap lol!! 

Season's Greetin from JaMaiCa!

"Season's Greetin?" well you might be a red neck..... lol

 or the red neck just didnt get the whole painting in the picture lol

Well the week!... 

This week has been pretty good. We have had some pretty exciting things going on. Thursday we went and did a service project for a less-active lady with the assistants. We helped paint the house and chop her yard! We chopped some tree branches and all kinds of stuff! thats one thing they do here right before Christmas is they clean up the place usually paint there house and all kinds of stuff!  It was fun probably dont sound fun but i guess you just had to be there! I love doing service cuz i get to wear the ol Cowboy boots ha thats the best part they are like wearin slippers after a long hard day lol. We also had our branch Christmas party on friday night it was good for the short while i was there. 

About half way through i had to leave with the office elders and go and do a baptism interview for them! And what an interview it was lol. The man i interviewed was defiantly ready but his wife was kindof negative about the whole thing. She had never sat in on any of the lessons  so she thought she would sit in on the interview and see what it was all about! Every question i asked him she would want an explanation of it after he answered so i would have to explain it all From the word of wisdom to the sabbath day lol. when i asked the if he would keep the Sabbath day holy he was all well Saturday is a hard day to keep holy.... well your in Luck cuz the Sabbath is Sunday he was all i know i know.. well his wife Who is a Saturday worshipper was like WHAT you are going to need to tell me why that is lol So i did. Every question she would ask me it seemed like i didnt have to think of what to say it was just given to me! It was an awesome experience! even when she asked me some questions that i had no clue what to say then i just listened and bam there it was! Really awesome! Saturday this week was defiantly the highlight of the week! everyone we had planned on seeing was home and the lessons we had with them were awesome! Sunday Kerry-ann and Chrissy were our 2 investigators at church which was awesome! they have been practicing for Christmas Sunday so the 4 of us missionaries joined the choir then i gave up lol but heck i may just jump on board for the heck of it ha. But everything is going good cant believe that its Christmas week pretty crazy to think huh? Honestly it doesn't even seem like its possible for it to be! this hot weather has got me all confused! It just seems like it has been a long summer lol then when i get home it will be going right into fall time lol but any how thats about all that i can remember from the week!!!

I love you all

Stetson 

"the week was a little better than last"

Picture of the Kingston Zone 

 Then some random guy that wanted me to take his picture and email it to him so he could put it on facebook! 

i dont care who you are thats funny right there lol 
Well lets see here....

this week was an alright week... Dont really know where to start though.... Umm we had a zone meeting where we had all the missionaries in the Kingston Zone come into Kingston for a meeting. It turned out really good. Then Thursday we had ZLC (Zone Leader Conference) which is always awesome to go to! I have said it a bunch but it is my favorite part of being a Zone Leader. We did some service for an investigator this week we helped chop her yard. about 10 minutes after starting a guy comes out yelling at us telling us we cant chop it we have to pull the weeds or else they will grow back again. well yes that was true. then he was all. you missionaries, maybe you dont understand. so he tries to tell us that its like it teaches in the bible that the wicked weeds will grow taller than the righteous and you can pluck them up and then they are gone for good. i dunno he was crazy. but we ended up chopping the back yard. Used machetes which is the worst way to mow a yard lol i dont understand why they do it with machetes... anyhow im still wearing my flip flops around its getting kinda annoying....i can start wearing shoes this week...but hey dad was right when he said you wont need shoes you'll need sandals. so that was true lol. Sunday morning i called a bunch of our investigators and only like 2 answered and they said they wouldnt be able to make it to church so i was bummed out. it sucks when you work your tail off through the week and then you go to church and no one shows up. But we did have one show up and also a members daughter that we are teaching so that was good! but church was filled up so that was good. seems like every week its fuller and fuller. Probably cuz Christmas is coming up. but either way its a good sight lol!  We got to go to a baptism that the Assistants had. there was so many people that they had to move it into the next room so that was awesome. it was an awesome service! but ya the week was a little better than last...i got my package on friday and lets see what else? ya i got the kool aid....dang what did i do with that... hmmm i could of used that the other day lol...but then again i have no sugar lol...anyhow ya i think we will be able to skype i just have to ask them! church is the same here just sacrament meeting then we have a dinner appointment at like 3 or 4 at sister macks then thats all so far for that day but ya thats about all...i cant really think of anything else.... 

anyhow i love you all!!!

Love Stetson 

"this week has sucked just so you know... like big time worst week of my mission."

Well......... What happened this week? 

I don't know what to say! the highlight of this week was Sunday. Not because we had all our investigators at church... Nope we were far from that but the Awesome thing has been is seeing Steve our recent convert Bless and pass the Sacrament the last 2 weeks. Also seeing Sandra another recent convert go up and bear her testimony yesterday and then to see Blossum answering questions in Gospel Principles like she has been there a long time. Elder Poulsen and I had some good converts thats for sure they are solid as a rock and it so awesome to see that. Thats one thing nice about staying in an area A long time. you get to see your converts progress and learn its been awesome thats for sure!
Also this week i had my ingrown toenail cut out i was so nervous. We got there and sat for a while waiting on the doctor then they put a rubber band around my toe and some iodine. i was like what the crap is this the local vet shack?? Then the nurse was all thats all it takes the rubber band cuts off circulation to the
nerves so you cant feel anything...

 She touched my toe and i was like i can feel that lol well then the doctor came and gave me 3 shots in my toe hurt bad. But they got it all cut out. Afterwards i was getting all woozy about to pass out so we went down to the food court and got some food. Elder Brockbank had to wait in line while i sat down i was all dizzy and i was for sure i was going down. i guess just thinking of him cuttin me with a scalpel kinda freaked me out. but its all better now still have to wear my flip flops around until its fully healed. Shower with a bag on my foot is a pain as well. i think i just wont cut my toenails again. 

But this week has been full of less active work really we have some good investigators but they aren't really doing anything so thats frustrating but everything is only as good as i make it and im trying hard to make it good! 

But ya thats about all that i can recall 

Love ya Stetson 

"is this an ol folks home?"

Well the week!!

This week has been good. We had a baptism on Saturday night!! 

Blossum Finally got baptized it was really awesome to see that. She has got a huge testimony thats for sure! Elder Flake(the senior couple) confirmed her and it was an amazing blessing! 

We also had Kardea come to church! That was awesome she is the one that Elder Poulsen had no Faith in and then  we go and see her and everything changed but she is really busy with school and work so its tough to see her through the week but something keeps saying don't give up on her so im not! then Adonna sent her kids to church alone 14,9 and a 6 year old i have no clue why she didnt come i was bummed out!  And then Patrice she is the lady that Trent Garner used to teach she keeps ignoring us or thats what i think anyhow i hope not but we stop by and call and nothing so that sucks. We are also teaching Kerry-ann she is doing awesome she is just scared its like she wants to follow her answer and keep learning but at the same time she is worried that she will have to change and not do the things she used to do so she is kinda stuck. those are our main investigators! The other night we got blown out so we walked around in an area called Havendale. 

Well it was late about 8:30 and we were just yelling at gates lol we got some pretty crazy responses one was an old folks home we ring the bell and the gate opens and then it just clicks this looks like an ol folks home and we just talked to a bunch of nurses that just got off work.. so we stand there awkwardly then a lady comes out of the house door i say ummm is this an ol folks home? lol Elder Brockbank starts laughing she was all yes! oh well we are missionaries Sir you will have to come back everyone is asleep. then the next gate Hi were missionaries! MISSIONARIES? at this time are you crazy oh boy Tromping through the house yelling and cussing then slams the door lol it just not the best time to find people are afraid to come out at night. Tuesday i went to the doctors i have an ingrown toenail that is bad bad so i have been on antibiotics for the week and then tomorrow i go and get it cut out so that sucks. you got me freaking out about this dang toenail dang.... i ve talked to other missionaries that have gotten theres cut out and they say they use a scalpul lol freaking doctors i hate em  i have been walking around in flip flops all week lol kinda funny looking but doctors orders! But everything is going good! transfers are this Wednesday! crazy huh November  is over dang that went quick. but thats about all that i can remember for now! have a good week I love you all! Stetson 

That's how many more days...

stand up sit down FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT

Well lets see here....

What happened this week.... 

Well by the end result of it which is. did anyone come to church this week?? NO!! 

So that was a bummer and church was really good this week. But lets see here we have a couple good investigators.. Blossum is doing awesome she is scheduled to be baptized this saturday so that is awesome! We have been teaching her for a long time but she has such a strong testimony of the gospel it awesome!!!  We have a couple others that are doing as well so thats awesome! We went to a church on saturday just to visit it was a Seventh day church. a lady invited us. so i said well if we come to yours will you visit ours? she said yes so we kept our promise. dang it was just like Larry the Cable guy says Stand up sing sit down pray stand up sit down!! I wanted to start yelling lean to the left lean to the right stand up sit down FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT it was a work out for sure!! Then they said we have 2 Elders from the Mormon church with us today will you stand up please. so we stood up i thought it was going to be like the Ron White experience that he had at church! (Ask Kyle about that) but it was pretty good i learned that God is merciful and the righteous will be saved. only took about 2 hours to get that across to everyone! Oh yes and Praises be to Jesus! anyhow that was an experience. Oh and that lady never kept her promise. called her up and she said.oh i have to work at my shop im to busy to come... ummm do you not think we were busy when we came to your church??? people just dont stand by there word.. Well then this Sunday night we were looking for a less- active lady so we get to the gate and a young kid comes out and i say is Carlene here?

 yes she is around back. so we go around back and i asked are you Carlene?

 No thats my sister oh well whats your name?

 Kelly oh well where is Carlene? 

i dunno thats her business..

 Well then i asked how old are you? 

19 

oh well how old is your sister? 

17 

oh really? 

yes. 

when is your birthday? 

October 8th! 

no way thats my sisters birthday and you remind me of her because you both like to pull peoples legs a lot...

 She said ok what does that have to do with anything? 

well you see Carlene the church keeps records. And i think your Carlene because it says here that carlenes birthday is the 8th of october and you just said your birthday was the 8th of october so is that true???? 

YES 

she was trying to hide lol but we had a good lesson with her it was a tough one though she said all missionaries were the same they just go on missions because they have to... I gave all i had but it didnt work it made me just feel bad for her because she was just so negative about everything. but anyhow that was a funny story! then to end it off this last Monday we were at Michi's doing our shopping and a lady was handing the carts out and she asked if i wanted one i said yes then i said thats the one i really want. pointing to the scooter with the cart on it for the old folks and she said go ahead take it! So Elder Nelson and I took them haha it was hilarious. we had a blast on them!! But anyhow everything is going good Transfers are coming up not this week but next week crazy huh! im on my 11th one just 6 left after this one is over! elder randle was over 2 weeks ago and he got to looking at my calander and he said you kow it seems a lot longer when its on paper lol

anyhow i love you all thanks for everything!!! Love Stetson

PS we played basketball today. my new shoes fit perfect!!! if i could only get my shot down dang

 tell the ol shot doc i need some more training 

Jett laughing at Stetson's dog, Jerky!

"this week has been very trying"

Well another week 

it has been pretty good. Sent Elder Poulsen off on Tuesday and then i spent the day with Elder Mackay until Elder Brockbank and Randle came in they got in late tuesday night. it was cool to talk about Cayman with Elder Randle. then Wednesday morning Elder Mackay and Randle headed back to Ochie. this week has been very trying seems like everyone we were teaching started to be flaky so we would go to see them and they wouldnt be home so we walked around a ton this week just talking with everyone that we seen. We were walking around and we ran into a crazy guy who would mumble a few words and then you could catch like one word he would say then he would mumble again. and then catch 2 words kinda like the guy on king of the hill.... Anyways all that i caught from him was that Cable and wireless came right through here and something about down that way is where Jesse James is or maybe cable and wireless came through here with Jesse James hot on its heels thats probably what it was... who knows i dont speak Spanish lol. Then on Sunday after church we went and saw our investigator. We went over the baptism questions with her WOW we asked if she believed Joseph Smith was a true Prophet she Said yes then we asked here what that meant and she bore her testimony of it and it was awesome! she is so awesome. just having some financial problems so we left her with 2 baptism dates to pray over the 27th of nov. or the 4th of dec. so we will find out tuesday.  But everything is going good other wise Elder Brockbank is a good missionary. Knows his stuff thats for sure. total city slicker though. he is from murray utah lol. but not much really happened this week like i said just some finding and more finding. any how have a good week!!! 

I LOVE YOU ALL Love Stetson 

"it is awesome to be a zone leader"

"...and that aint the half of it lol"

Well what a crazy week it has been! been pretty slow for teaching wise but other than that everything was good. We had 1 full day of teaching this week every other day was either sitting at the doctors office with Elder Nelson or at district meeting or at ZLC and the super planning so Saturday was our only full day of teaching. so lets get started on the week eh? Well Tuesday was the day we were at the doctors office we got a call from Elder Nelson asking if we could take him to get his wrist looked at well we went and tried to see the people that we had planned on seeing but no one was home so we went and got them took them to the doctor then the rest of the day was just pretty much normal. We are teaching a lady and her Family i think i talked about them last week ..? Well we saw them she is awesome thats for sure. Some people that live in her lane give her a hard time for meeting with us but she just blows them off and says i will find out for myself if it is true so thats awesome most people will just believe anything they hear and then there is just another person to add to the list of rumor starters. But not her... so thats awesome! Wednesday now we had district meeting. Thursday we had ZLC which is always awesome i learned a bunch from it it is awesome to be a zone leader and to be able to be in that council! 

District Meeting
After zlc we went to see one of our investigators. we seen her on the road talked to her for a bit then she went into her yard. i keep hearing bad things about the church and then said i cant meet with you today. her family wont let her have any part with meeting with us. Then friday we had our super planning and then we headed up to Yallahs to do 2 baptism interviews for them. we Split up i went with Elder Weldon and went and taught and then went and did one interview and Elder Poulsen went and did the other one with Elder Deihl. Both went good and they were both baptized saturday so thats awesome! so that took up most of our day Friday. Then on Saturday we had our baptism interview with Sandra. Elder dale and I went up and he interviewed her and She was ready as well so we had her Baptism yesterday morning. It was awesome she asked me to Baptize her so that was really cool! 

she is going to be a good edition to the branch here. Kardea also came to church! so that was awesome but everything has been going good for us. been a crazy week full of meetings and other stuff it was a good week! Elder Poulsen leaves for the Bahamas tomorrow his paper work finally went through so he is set to leave. pretty sad to see him go he has been a good companion. but he is needed somewhere else. But that was my week :)

Love ya --- Stetson

 A view of Kingston from Red Hills

MUCHO TRABAJO Y NO DINARO

(much work and no money) 

Well this week has been really good. We have been workin really hard at trying to find new people to teach. We have been walking around and just talking with everyone. Last week i went through some former investigator records and found a lady that had been taught 3 years ago. her name is Patrice. she is a really nice lady. she said she was going to be baptized then but had surgery and that put a halt to it all. but she said that she is more than ready now so thats pretty cool. She had been taught by Trent Garner pretty crazy huh she was all he was such a nice kid always wanting to help me out. when i told her he just lived down the road from me she was all. what a small world lol so that was pretty cool.  We are also teaching a lady we met  last week sometime and she has been really interested she said that she had a friend tell her to stop meeting with us cuz we believe that the devil is Jesus Christ she said i told that lady that i am gonna find out if these things are true for myself so that was awesome. I have no clue where people get their rumors about the church its ridiculous! but she is a really nice lady she has 3 kids and we have been teaching them as well. One day after teaching her we were walking back to the truck and we hear hey Mormons. come back here. and then just a bunch of yelling ahhhh hey come here ahhh lol it was like what the crap is going on. well there was 2 guys in a bar they were pretty white but not really it was weird they defiantly were not Jamaicans thats for sure. so we go in the bar and we are talking to them. the one guy seemed to know alot about the church and about missionaries the other one was soo drunk he could barely sit in his chair he just kept sayin come here i wanna tell ya something. so he would pause then say come here i wanna tell you something.... on and on lol well i sat by the guy who wasn't so wasted and then the other guy pointed at me and said come here i wanna tell you something. i was all i can hear ya just fine from here so finally i got up went over to him and he was all i would like to pray for you would that be ok? we said sure. i was just thinking ok this is going to be nuts. but honestly it was a pretty good prayer. then when he finished the other guy was like dang that was a good one straight from the heart. i felt that lol. then he whispered im an undercover cop but shhhh dont tell anyone. so i dont know if thats true or not but thats what he said.. lol so that was pretty crazy! We had to move on of our baptism dates back another week she had a concern about Joseph Smith but she resolved her concern herself so that was cool and she is now gonna be baptized This coming Sunday so thats awesome. we had a really good day at church though. We had 2 kids just randomly show up and they had tons of questions from the Gospel Principles class it was about the Plan of Salvation really nice guys though. Blossum showed up so that was awesome and Adonna was there as well. also on saturday morning we went and helped the Elder Quorum chop some bush it was pretty fun used machetes and chopped it down. i got a big ol blister on my hand dang it. Skinny was right when he said you'll come back and your hands will be all soft. lol i feel like an office worker lol.   But this week was good for sure everything is going good Elder Poulsen is still here Paper work still not done so who knows how long he will be here. i always joke and say your just gonna be here another Transfer lol but anyhow thats about all that i can remember from the week as of right now!!! oh yes i got my Halloween package on friday that was fast huh! i had a bunch of halloween pictures for today but i went and left my camera at home dang it! but any how I love you all!!! Love Stetson 

"it was a very trying week but i'm lookin on the bright side"

Well lets see here....... This week was pretty good but it had ups and downs for sure. one of the downs was sitting at church with no investigators there. i was dang why isnt anyone here. They tell us they are gonna come and then they just dont show up. They let little things get in their way. We had a lot of appointments fall through throughout the week so it was a very trying week but i'm lookin on the bright side. i know there must be something i need to learn from this week. But for the "ups" we still have a date for this coming weekend so everything is set for that. so thats always exciting. . We had to move one of our baptism dates back a bit she is just going through a tough time so we are going to let her get on her feet before we baptize her. Well im not sure if i have told you about K?...ring a bell??? anyhow we met her about 4 weeks ago or so. well she was the only one out of like 4 other people that seemed somewhat interested so she gave us her phone number and we tried to see her a couple times but she was just really busy with school. Well Elder Poulsen had been like just forget about her lol but something told me no dont give up. so last sunday we got to see her and we just talked a little and then we left. well Yesterday we went back and we had no clue really what to do or what to teach her so we just started by getting to know her better and then it was like a totally different person. it was awesome. she had read the pamphlet and understood it perfectly she is defiantly coming around. as we walked away Elder Poulsen was like i take back everything bad i have ever said about her lol it was pretty cool!! we had a a pretty crazy night saturday night at about 4:30 am i woke up and it was really quiet in the house i was like what the crap its never this quiet. well it took me about 15 or so mins to put it all together. well the power was out duh lol no fans or light from outside coming in. THEN i hear gunshots. ok thats cool. then a little later 6 more all from different areas it was insane. Elder Poulsen and i were just like hmmmm some one is just hammering really loud thats all lol the power stayed off for the rest of the morning but it sure was a crazy night for sure i have no clue where the shots came from but they were off in the distance. so that was the craziness for the week thats for sure! but anyhow im still with Elder Poulsen his paper work hasn't gone through as yet so who knows how much longer i will be with him lol but everything is going good!! any ways that was my week in a nutshell! i love you all love Stetson 

PS yes i got the rest of my birthday package thats the sweetest calander ever thanks!!

"like a drum on the tin roof"

Well here it is another week already can ya believe it? shoot i can't hardly. i was a couple days behind this week so it made it feel as if it flew by. pretty crazy. but this week was good for sure!!! Yes. this Wednesday is Transfer day. but i wont be getting a new companion as of yet. Elder Poulsen is going to Nassau Bahamas but his paper work isnt quite finished so they cant send him out there as of yet. so i will have him for another week or so. then once that goes through. elder Brockbank who is in Nassau right now will come here with me. so thats who my new companion is going to be. i dont know a thing about him he was in nassau when i was in cayman. so we would see each other on skype and all but thats about all i know of him lol. But anyhow so thats transfers. now for the week. the week was pretty good. we kinda had a slump week though. seemed like nothing would go right. we had a zone conference this week which was awesome on thursday it was really good. we still have 2 people with dates for the last sunday in october whatever that day is. it just slipped my mind. and they are doing great. its a bummer cuz we can only see them once or twice a week because of their work schedule and stuff. and then we just have a few other people that we are teaching that really arent doing anything. so its been kinda rough we definately need to find some new people to teach thats for sure. but everything is going good other wise! im sad to see Elder Poulsen leave though he has been a good companion thats for sure. last night we got home and we planned and all that and then he jumped in the shower. well it seemed as if he was in there for like 2 minutes so i said dang that was quick. he said ya just wanted to leave you with some time. you know just trying to be Christlike.  i said you know i knew you would learn something from me haha. i said i have been tellin ya this whole time that you are bound to learn something from me hahaha it was pretty funny! friday night i believe it was. i woke up at like 2:30 having to go to the bathroom real bad so i went in the bathroom and there was a roach in there. so i was holding it in waiting for this huge roach to leave or move out of the way. well i took care of business then i tried to kill it. lol my aim must be off at that time in the morning cuz i couldnt hit it to save my life. it was flying. YES THEY CAN FLY. lol and i was trying to be quiet so i didnt wake Poulsen up. lol it was hilarious i never got him though came close several times. lol then i couldnt go back to sleep. i kept thinking it was gonna fly in and land on my bed. then it started pouring rain and it was like a drum on the tin roof and then it ended up raining all saturday. i got soaked from head to foot while Poulsen was nice and dry under his rain jacket lol i said come on take it off companionship bonding time man lo.l but he wouldnt. lol anyhow everything is going great so no complaints! well have a wonderful week i love you all!!!! Love Stetson

PS tell rob i never got his hunting stories..... or was there none dont get much huntin done sleepin in the truck lol well my time is up now darn it but tell him to tell chad what i said!!! lol anyhow i have to go i love you!!! bye

"Just a normal missionary week"

Well the week...........i dont really know what happenend this week lol. Just a normal missionary week i guess! we had some pretty cool experiences getting a baptism date. we pretty much left it to her. we said you pray about it and see how you feel. well we went there on saturday. we can only see her on saturday and sunday nights. but we asked her about it and she said October 30 was the day she wanted to be baptized so that was awesome!!! We have another one with that same date. so as of right now we will have 2 baptisms by the end of the month!  We have been trying to find new people. some times its pretty stressful. i ask my self several times daily is there anyone who wants  to find the truth??? its kinda hectic but we keep pushing along and we have found a couple this week that seem to be pretty interested. so we will see. This sunday was fast sunday there was tons of great testimonies givin. i sat there the longest time debating on whether or not to get up. then i remembered how  i felt the last fast sunday when i didnt get up so i went up at 15 past 1 and i was the very last one up and im so glad that i got up! i must of got dads cryin genes cuz i was about to that point. but i atleast held mine in! lol shoot this is short but i dont remember anything else.... thats horrible. anyways The weather here has just been really rainy and then hot, rainy then hot its either one or the other. we got soaked the other day. we walked from one appointment to the next and it came down withing a couple minutes. i was soaked clear through. thats the worst! well sorry this aint much. but everything is going good!!! Transfers are next week wednesday so im gonna be gettin someone new i think anyhow have a good week!!!

by the way i made 2 carmel apples the other day and have made a couple of the chilli cheese wraps. they hit the spot thats for sure. that chilli was so good. cant get anything like that out here. 

Love Stetson

"you can always put your money on the Prophet" :)

The week......

Well lets see what i remember from the week.. Well on Tuesday i got my birthday package that was awesome they took the apples though lol so i have to buy some apples to have my caramel and candied apples but thats no biggy. then lets see here hmmmm we are teaching a really cool family Christine and her 2 kids Abby 9 years old and Jevoni 13 years old we also teach christines 2 sisters umm lets call them Pet and Kody thats not their real names but thats what everyone calls them anyhow they are awesome i love going over there. they absolutely love the message and everything we teach. they all have Baptism dates for the 23 of October! Then this weekend was awesome because it was conference and you do everything you can to get the investigators to come to that cuz you can always put your money on the Prophet :) well its true. right after the morning session Blossum turned to us and said we need to talk about my baptism im ready. i was like YES haha. Sandra also came and she loved it we were planning to have her baptism next weekend but we haven't got to see her much so we are gonna have to push it back. ummm hmmm lets see what else happened oh i went on a trade off down to downtown kingston with elder stubbs on wednesday  it was crazy they live in a 6 man house lol its pretty busy in the mornings trying to get ready but it was fun! then i dont really remember anything else cripes thats bad!! but i know we have 6 people with baptism dates and today was super hot playing basketball in Portmore but it was way fun got a nice sun burn and a blister on my toe but everything is going good here in Jamaica!!!!

I LOVE YOU ALL stetson 

"nuttin na gwon at all me a jus sit pon di chair everytin crisp zeen!!"

 GOOD MORNING BIRTHDAY BOY! Wha Gwon?

"nuttin na gwon at all me a jus sit pon di chair everytin crisp zeen!!"

Well another week is gone! Crazy This week was a really good week thats for sure! We had 2 Baptisms Woot woot so that was awesome!!! Ann-marie and sister watson got baptized saturday night. Boulevard elders also had one so 3 people were baptized that night. i got to do their baptism interview for them. its a cool thing to do and for that kid only bein 13 he is as sharp as uncle robs knife i cut my finger on that night in ridleys parking lot! and then on sunday we went to Boulevards sacrament meeting which is at 9 in the same building we go to. we had to go there to confirm ann-marie and sister watson i got to confirm sister watson also so my first confirmation it was way cool! i was nervous but once i started it went good!! Then last night we went to the Flakes for our normal Sunday night stop and as we are leaving i got floured by Poulsen. Its something Jamaicans do on peoples birthdays. 

 i thought i was gonna make it 2 years without gettin floured but i guess not lol. i really dont know what made this week so good maybe it was just the weekend part but it seemed like there was more but i cant remember anything! When we were at Boulevard branch sister dill walks up the stairs and she has a cake looking thing in her hand well she hands it to me and says happy birthday so when we went home in between churches i opened it and looked and it was a legit cake with sprinkles and M&Ms on it. she spoiled me thats for sure. Well then i woke up this morning and i felt like i had been hit by a truck and i thought why in the world am i so sore?? then i remembered old age is kickin in lol so i got up and poulsen was in the kitchen doing something so i walk in and he has a bunch of candles on the cake and says just thought you would like to blow some candles out for your birthday so i blew them out and he videoed it and he was all what the crap... Then says in to the camera, Lauren the candles didnt work lol Lauren sent him some trick candles to try and get me once again this year but for some reason the candles didnt relight. so he was like thats no fun. so we made one up. he changes his alarm clock to 5:52 and then i jumped in bed. i was all sprawled out on my bed and he comes in with the cake and was all hey Get up!  i was all suprised that i had a cake and then i blew out the candles and they kept relighting. so it was a funny morning this morning. but anyways this week has been good!!!

picture of the sunset outside the church

and some random rasta guy in the back of a truck. we call him captain red beard cuz he looks like a guy on the front of the ship sayin AyRRRRR The smell of the sea hahaha it was hilarious... 

picture of a donkey cart lol

  well my time is up i gotta go!! i love you thanks for everything!!!! hope you got all my emails and pics!!! 

 i love you all have a good day and week i love you!!!! Love stetson

♫¸.•*¨♥¨*•.¸¸¸.•*¨♥Happy Birthday♫¸.•*¨♥¨*•.¸¸¸.•*¨♥ ELDER MONTGOMERY!!! ¸¸.•*¨♥¨*•.¸¸♪

  

      ♥♫¸¸.•*¨♥ Happy Birthday to You ♫¸¸.•*¨♥Happy Birthday to You ¸¸.•*¨♥¨*•.¸¸♪♥ 

♫¸¸.•*¨♥¨*• ♪♫¸¸.•*¨♥  HAPPY BIRTHDAY dear STETSON ♥•.¸.•♫♪★

                  •*¨♥¨*• ♪♫ HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU •*¨♥¨*• ♪♫
                                                            
                                                                            

                                                                                     ...WE LOVE YOU STETS!!!

"everything is going good for us right now"

Well what a week!!! Lets see what i can rememeber from the week.... Well we will start with people with Baptism dates... we have Sis. Watson and her daughter Ann-marie who will be getting baptized this coming saturday but there is a catch... Saturday they moved out of our area. they moved into the Boulevards elders area so now she is going to be baptized into that branch which is kinda a bummer cuz we have been teaching her for well ever since i have been in Kingston and now right before they get baptized they move. but oh well at least they are getting baptized. We then have Sandra Parks she is a members wife and last night she accepted to be baptized on October 9th so thats cool she has been doing awesome she has been reading the Book of Mormon like crazy she'll call us and just say whats it mean here and we will explain it and she just loves it so she is doing awesome! Blossum is also doing good she just didnt come to church on sunday which was a bummer and Junior didnt come either he is awesome but i have no clue why he wasnt at church. but everything is going good for us right now... Well now some crazy stories this week we were heading to Yallahs to do a baptism interview and we had Elder Snelson and Weldon in the truck with us Poulsen was driving. well we are pulling up to a stop light and i see a guy running and a girl not to far behind running also. well i just thought they must be trying to catch the bus (they had school uniforms on) well NO thats not what was happening Poulsen starts to like turn around in the middle of the road so i was all what you doing he said that guy stole that girls bag. well there was already like 3 other cars turning around to go help so  we just stayed in line. well they caught up to the kid. well from what we could see anyways but right when he told me that i was ready to bail out and go chase the kid down but it was to late... then later in the week friday i think we go to see an investigator named Karen well she lives in a yard with about 4 other houses and they are all family well we knock on her door and we see Alley and some other guys up at the other house well all the sudden things start to get western all kinds of yelling and crazyness well alley walks out the gate pissed and he is still yelling then this big guy that i had never seen before comes by the gate well we are just sittin there right in the middle of it and then BOOM a rock flies into the gate from alley throwing it well the big guy runs over grabs a cinder block and slams it on the ground and then grabs all the pieces well he is going to get alley but then a little squirmy guy that reminds me of skinny is holding this guy back or trying to well he is doing his best just as skinny would with dad or something well everything calms down except for the yelling lol Mark comes out and was all man you guys are right in the middle of the war zone lol so that was crazy. anyways i cant really remember anything else thats horrible. but everything is going good here. crazy that september is almost over with. seems hard to believe but any ways i love you all!!! Stetson 

PS tell skinny to be scoutin out a nice 5 point for me this year so that next year he will be a big one and we can go kill it! tell him i miss him and i cant wait for next year huntin season its gonna come fast 

"look at this i have goose bumps man hahaha!"

(Pic of Alfred...the one that yells MY LORDS lol)

Well this week was awesome!!!! We had some really good days this week!! I cant remember all of them but i can remember about 2 or 3 days ago lol!! Saturday was a crazy day we had some pretty crazy stuff happen! first thing crazy was we were in an area called casava peace well we went to see an investigator who wasn't there so we headed back to our truck we were about 40 yards from our truck when a little truck pulls up and 3 or 4 guys jump out and run up this drive way to this house well when we can see whats going on we see a lady on the ground and she is screaming and a guy is pretty much beating her up so i was thinking what are we gonna do??? people were running from everywhere to see what was going on well we see a cop truck come pulling around the corner about a hundred yards away so i wait till he gets closer and i pull out. my thought was to get him to slow down so that they would see all that and stop. well they drive by the house i was like no way... all the sudden the truck slams on its brakes 4 cops bust out guns drawn running up to save this poor lady!!! So thats crazy story number 1!!!
Now number 2..... after that we went and saw Shamala she is 13 we get to her house and her mom was just leaving so we all get chairs and sit outside and we are teaching her everything is going good we have her friend in on the lesson to well towards the end Shamala starts acting funny like she was getting sick or something she kept putting her head down and we would ask her something and she would struggle to answer well all the sudden she jumps up immediately in tears just balling well we can hear her in the house like heaving trying to breath so her friend goes in and then comes out so we get up and run in the house trying to figure out what to do well she is on the floor suckin for air so we call her mom to see if she has athesma or what but she said no. well she gets up and sits on the bed and then after a minute she is fine again.... it was so scary. i had no clue what to do. but she is fine!!! Anyways things calmed down after that... for a while anyways well later on that day we were at a less actives ladies house dropping some Book of Mormons off at her house we were supposed to read with them but we had to get up to red hills and we were already late well on our way out of the lane we pass a couple guys and we are a good 10 or so yards past and i hear no they arent Jehovah's Witnesses so i thought ahh just ignore them. well then i thought no tell them What church you are from. so i turn and im still walking away. i point to one of them and say he is right we arent J.W's. well he asks then where are you from?? so i tell him and he walks toward us we start talking to him and he is all im really interested to learn more. so we run to our truck and get a pamphlet to leave with him and all. and when we get back he says ok so what makes your church so different from everyone elses?? so Poulsen tells him all kinds of things then i thought Prophets so i said Junior if Moses was on the earth would you listen to what he had to say???? he laughed and said well ya. so i say well thats our message.... and explained it. it was one of the coolest experiences ever when we walked away i looked at elder poulsen and said it was funny!!! and all that happened on saturday!!!
 

(pics from port royal)

well on sunday we had 5 people at church wo wo that made me happy we havent had to many there the last couple weeks and its been a bummer but this week was awesome!!! but everything is going good we got BRAND NEW FORD RANGERS so thats what we are driving now. so thats pretty cool elder poulsen me and Baird got to drive them off the show room floor that was pretty cool. that was a fun day we were all in seperate trucks heading to the office .well i dont know the way coming from that way so i was in the middle of the pack. well poulsen ends up in front and has 2 guys jump in the back of his truck at a red light. then baird has a guy on a bike holding on getting a tow. and then he ends up holding on to the one im driving. well eventually we get back in our normal line up then baird who was in front gets pulled over at a stop light for not wearing his seat belt so now im in front lost and poulsen gets stopped at a red light but miraculously i made it back to the office. lol it was so funny!!! any ways this is way long so im gonna wrap it up just know everything is going good here!!!! I LOVE YOU ALL STETSON

(Nice boat huh??)
PS. hey i need your enchillada recipe granny

"NO one steals my scripture case and tries to run off with it"

well if you think this looks bad you should see the other guy he is about twice as bad.....NO one steals my scripture case and tries to run off with it.... the story.... well we were walking to a lesson and a guy asked whats in the box??? money? i said no scriptures! well.. we get to our appointment and there he comes walking up and my box is on the ground well im talking then next thing i know he grabs it and takes off with it so i chase him down jump on his back and tackle him..

Man if coach woulda put me in 4th quarter...

 anyways he swung and clocked me in the mouth and tried to run off again so i grabbed his shirt pulled him in and decked him in the nose and he staggered so i hit him again and he was down ... then i said give me my box and he wouldn't so i kicked him in the ribs. well when i did my foot hit a rock so it jammed my toe really bad but i got my scriptures back!!!

picture of me icing my lip and my foot at the same time during my studies!!!

...hahahaha that was a pretty good made up story huh??? well this week was pretty good

besides the fact that i have an ingrown toenail that i have had for a week and then on thursday i woke up with a swollen lip. didnt think anything of it.  i just told people poulsen hit me in his sleep. then on friday i woke up at about 1:30 am and it was the size of texas. i guess i had an allergic reaction to something but i dont know what from.. so i iced it all through super planning and by the time it was time to go it had went down most of the way so thats good. Thursday we had zone leader council which is one of the best parts of being a zone leader mainly because we get to talk about all the missionaries and plus learn from president hendricks also so its awesome! we also got transfer calls for this coming week me and poulsen are staying together again woohoo that made me happy. our whole zone is pretty much staying the same besides the office. it is getting a new office elder and thats the only change! ummm lets see here what else... we have got a lot of really good investigators right now seems like a lot of them are pretty well rooted in if the would just come to church.. we have blossum who wasnt able to come to church yesterday darn it and we also are teaching a members wife who is way cool we have seen her twice this week and both times have been awesome she lives way out by the airport which is quite a drive from where we live but she is worth it! then we have a girl name shamala she is 13 her aunt and uncle are members and she spends most weekends with them she was begging us to just baptize her but we told her we have to teach you everything first and her mom was happy when she heard that and then we just have some others that are doing good also! we have been ridin dirty in our truck lol our registration is expired our fitness test is expired and we are missing a tail light and a blinker we are supposed to be getting new trucks tomorrow so they didnt want to renew everything for that reason. so we have been dodging all the cops lol but thats about all that i can remember from the week! it sure has been good and everything is going good here in Kingston!!!

Well i love you all! Stetson