"this week was pretty....... well slowwwwwwww!"

 me with a chicken foot in my mouth! no i didnt eat it. i fed it to the cat! lol

hey hey!!! this week was pretty....... well slowwwwwwww! but looking back it went fast! nothing to much happened! this week was weird because of the memorial on monday then p day was on tuesday and wednesday was district meeting then thursday was a full day then friday was super planning so that was like a half day then saturday and then sunday was half a day and now waa la its monday again!!! woot woot!! i dont really know what happened this week it seems like we didnt do anything. hmmmm it was boring that was for sure.

we have some investigators that are pretty lazy it seems like. they dont want to come to church! not everyone has cars like back home so they either have to walk or taxi and they always make the excuse of "its too far and the sun is too hot and i dont have any money to taxi! hello we walk out here everyday to see you we know what its like!!! its just frustrating! the 2 best ones brother grant and john are still just sitting in one spot they wont commit to a baptism date i dont know what to do with them!!! anyhow other than that not much really happened! we have been just mainly finding new people to teach and thats what we have been doing this week.hmmmm what else.... i cant think oh i need some schick razor replacement blades its the hydro 5 razor. it sounds like tegans deal went good! and sounds like she is playing good! ya and elder randle is a funny kid thats for sure he wrote in my journal that i let other missionaries i serve with write in and his is hilarious haha he is a cool kid! but ya thats all i can think of right now! but ill keep thinking. love ya

monday was elder walkers memorial so that took up most of the day!

tuesday we had our normal p day we stayed home and cleaned and did our laundry then at 6 we went to dinner and sister robinsons. wednesday we had district meeting in spanish town it was good it was elder wilsons birthday so he made a cake and then we watched the missionary driving safety video its pretty funny! we then came back to linstead went and seenpeople in deeside. then came back into linstead and seen some more. that was pretty much the day. thursday we went to commodore to see our investigators there but they were gone so we just went and talked to people and then headed to deeside. there we seen brother grant, vivine and michelle. then we came back to linstead and went and found some new people to teach we met mavel and natoya natoya seems pretty cool she has a huge house then we went to dinner at sister davis's house and thats where the chicken foot picture came from. we were out there till about 8:30.

 so we came in after that.

the gold looking one is my plate of rice and peas and chicken that sister davis gave me.

 the white and blue one is wilsons huge plate that she gave him. haha crazy!

friday we had our super planning so we planned then took a nap lol after that we went to commodore and seen stacy. then we met a new lady Nadine she is cool she has met with missionaries before but wants to learn more. then we went to dinner at the other stacys and then we went and saw wesly and that was it for the night! saturday we went on splits with some members we went and seen some less active people that was fun to get away for a little bit! we did that tell about 2 then we went to deeside and sister richards made dinner for us then we went and seen vivine had a good lesson with her. she likes to talk alot.

sunday we went to church we had 6 investigators there and 7 less actives back to church that was good since it was raining. usually hardly any one comes out when it rains but church was good. but after church was over we had 2 people ask for blessings. then sunday night we went to sister robinsons for dinner and we watched Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration with them and john it was really good for john since one of his concerns is Joseph Smith! then we came home so that was our week!!! Everything here is going good. im ready to leave Linstead.  im gonna miss it. but its like my time here is up. i havent got the transfer call yet that will probably be next monday i imagine.

love ya stetson

 pan of macaroni that didn’t get washed for 4 days.

it has mold growing on it. it was nasty!



Rehearsing "Called to Serve" for Elder Walkers Memorial Service.

"its all good"

this week was crazy thats for sure ever since monday it has been nuts. but everything is ok. the week went kinda slow just because of the incident i think but its all good. wednesday we went to spanish town for district meeting and that was good the assistants came and talk to us and told us not to worry and dont be affraid. but ya other than that i cant really think of anything exciting that happened its just been slow. i think linstead is just getting old maybe all of our investigators pretty much fell off the deep end. brother grant and john are our 2 strongest ones and i have been teaching them ever since i have been in linstead so they know everything but they wont accept a baptism date or anything. its frustrating. they say that they know that the book of mormon is true. just like elder lee said missionary work sucks until you find those good people that are awesome and ready to hear the message and ready to change. the hard thing is just finding them people! lol i have been getting over this cold or whatever i have but today it seems like its coming back my throat is sore. today we had a memorial for elder walker. it was good we went to spanish town and they spoke to us and it was good. all the missionaries sang called to serve it was really good we sang it to a different tune i guess or something it was really cool. then Elder Coleman from the 70 and area presidency was there and he talked to us and it was funny he made us laugh. ummmm lets see what else i cant really think of anything else ill send this and think some more. 

 love you all Stetson

(looks like cabbage, tomatoes and carrots....yum!)

HEy i was thinking you need to put good pictures on that website of dads... like that video of me and kyle at the burley rodeo or the one of me and sara at the burley rodeo and then you bought that one picture that has like 3 pictures of me at the filer rodeo. i dont know if you know what im talking about. but thats a good picture of me roping on lippy at the filer rodeo. then for cinch there is some pictures of me calf roping on him in filer and he is holdin the rope tight. its on my myspace page in my pictures. just get good ones on there lol. and this dont have to be any time soon but i was thinking a flag football set would be fun and also send a good football leather one. but ya anyways thats it. still no packages yet darn it. i thought i would get them today but i just got Laurens today but that was it. well my time is almost up! i love you all. have a good week we will talk to you next week i love you!! stetson

"THE TRINITY"

The "TRINITY"

Elder Peterson the "Father", Elder Montgomery the "Son" and Elder Randle the "Holy Ghost".



Tragedy in JaMAiCa

"I dont know if you can see this very good but this picture was taken just before the shooting took place the bullet went between elder ostberg and nelson and then hit the jamaican
elder walker"

This is a 15 passenger van which has 4 bench seats behind the front seats.  Elder Ostberg was seated on the far back bench by the rear window; he was covered with glass and some of the glass went into his right eye; the bullet passed by him on his right side.  He commented that he heard the bullet pass by his head.  Elders Knowlton and Nelson were sitting on the next seat forward and the bullet passed between them.  Elder Walker (the only Jamaican Elder in the van) was seated on the third seat forward (the middle of the five rows in the van) and was struck in the left temple by the bullet. 
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Hell-on-a-church-bus_8303688

Email from Spanish Town

hey whats up? im in spanish town right now emailing we came down here and played football today it was fun. way way hot though! this week has been pretty good. tuesday was just another day as a missionary wednesday the same thing lol. thursday we went to kingston for a zone conference............. well after the meeting we went to TGI fridays and ate i just got dessert



cuz we had a dinner appointment later on. well we didnt make it back in time for the dinner traffic was horrible and we got back in linstead at 9. friday we just planned and went and taught some lessons saturday we came to spanish town for district conference we were here all day then sunday was the sunday session of it so this week has been really laid back but i dont know what else happened oh yes last night we went to a members friends house Sister chandler told us she wanted a blessing so we went there and we taught her about the restoration. well i was losing my voice cuz i have had a sore throat so i just quit talking. well then i asked if she wanted the blessing she said yes. wilson was like you wanna give it? i was like she can pick. her mom said you do it pointing at me so i said ok hopefully my throat will not go scratchy. i started my throat was killing i was thinking there is no way im making it through this. then BAM my voice cleared up it was so crazy i gave her the blessing then once i ended it my voice went right back to being scratchy it was crazy!!!!! but ya thats about all that happened lol or all i can remember! well i love you hope your having a good time in AZ. hey look for elder ware in phoenix thats where he is you know my mtc companion. i love ya stetson

holy cow a missionary got shot today. right after our football game they went through spanish town and the mission bus got hit and a bullet hit elder walker and he got killed that is so freaky. gosh dang people they just shoot they dont aim. ugh thats crazy!....i probably shouldnt of said that now your gonna be freakin out. well my time is almost up i love you all take care!

RIP Elder Jermaine Luther Walker

from left: Stetson's companion Elder Wilson, Elder Luke and Elder Walker
at lunch just prior to the shooting.

"Elder Jermaine Luther Walker from Kingston, Jamaica--serving in the Jamaica Kingston Mission--was killed today. He was shot by a stray bullet while he and seven other missionaries were returning to their apartments after a preparation-day activity. It appears the van they were in was caught in the crossfire as local police were pursuing another vehicle. Elder Walker was immediately driven to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead."

wha gwon? mi a jus sittin here emailin da family... wha ta gwon wit you? lol

Wow another week! its crazy no matter how slow the week seems every monday i look back and say man it just seems like yesterday i was in this cafe emailing! well to answer some of your questions. Yes, all the christmas presents were unwrapped lol everything was pretty much open. well lets see how was the week? well first off monday: after we emailed and shopped and did all that stuff we cleaned the house then i went and took a nap i was tired. well i heard the phone ring so it woke me up. i heard el wilson say ya hold on so i knew it was for me he was like its elder allen, he is an assistant to the president. so i talked to him he said elder montgomery we need you to come to Kingston on thursday for the mission leadership meeting. I was shocked reason #1 i dont have any leadership #2 does this mean im gonna have some lol i was kinda freakin out so that was on my mind for the next couple days. tuesday didnt have much to say lol kinda boring then wednesday we had district meeting. its just not the same without the rest of the trinity there lol. but it was still fun we went out and ate after wards then we came back to linstead. at about 5 we were walking back from commodore. its a town by linstead well i dont know if its a town but its an area lol. and we had just crossed the highway and a car was honking like crazy i didnt pay any attention to it but wilson did he was like thats one of the senior couples. so we continued on. well the honking was behind us again so i turned around and there was randle with his head sticking out of the window i was like what the world are you doing? he said oh we gotta go to some meeting tomorrow hahaha i was like ME TOOO he was like why? i said no clue. so we were both wondering why we were there. well they left and we went on our way. well thursday morning we woke up at 5:30 so we could be in spanish town by 8. well we got there met the zone leaders and took wilson to poulsens and roberts house and we picked up roberts cuz he is the district leader and he was going. so then we head to kingston. when we get there all the zone leaders and district leaders pretty much any one with leadership was there. so i go sit by peterson and randle. we sat through the meeting all day well till about 4. then when it was over we just left still not knowing why we were there. but something must be up. haha but who knows. friday was its usual super planning and then we went to commodore again. a guy was chatting at me calling me all sorts of dumb jamaican cuss words. man he ticks me off. everytime we walk by him he says something to us. then on sunday we just went to church then back to commodore after that but ya nothing much exciting happened! still no baptisms coming up everyone is kinda stuck cuz they live with someone or something. but hopefully we can get someone before the transfer ends. i think it ends february 9. so we still got some time. but any how thats about it. next monday i think were going to spanish town to play football so my email might be later in the afternoon. well love you all! stetson
 

  pics of my old shoes i took them to get new soles put on them. so i thought i would take a picture of them. that's what 6 months of wear looks like...ugh! new sole $2500jm/$30us

"Wha gwon? lol mi ajus sittin here at the internet cafe wishin i was yammin some food mi a starve!"

christmas was so cool gettin to talk to everyone and then to skype that was awesome!!!! our week was boring everything was all closed up on monday except for the bars and one store so we atleast got to go shopping then we cleaned the house haha but then p day ended at 1.  we went to the christmas party at the church and we just hung out there till about 7. it was good but people behind us talked the whole time it was so rude couldnt hear anything cuz they were so loud!!! i felt bad for those kids.
they have been practicing for long time and then people dont even watch!!! 

 i had a horrible migrane and that was no good and then after the party we went to see some people but they werent home so we just went to a resturant and bought a cup and sat by the pop machine and killed some time then we went home but ya nothing to exciting happened but i m just glad i got to hear from everyone on christmas!!!

"Wha gwon? lol mi ajus sittin here at the internet cafe wishin
i was yammin some food mi a starve!" i cant believe another week is here already its crazy the week seemed to go by slow. it has been really hot here!!!! our new years was ok i guess we were supposed to be in the house by 6 President didnt want us out on the streets after that. well we went to a birthday party for a members daughter and her nephew so we were there till about ? whoops lol but it was in bog walk and they had an awesome view of everything. she lives up on a hill and you could see bog walk below us and the river it was pretty....

anyhow i had to move computers i was sitting in the sun and i was roasting so i had to send that email then change but any how we were at the birthday and we told the lady that we had to be in at 6 well i didnt realize it was already 5:45 so she got us some food then some cake and ice cream

 by the time we left it was about ? (ha) so we got home at about ? (ha) when we got home i felt like crap i was tired. well we stayed up till 12 playing battle ship and then after that we went to bed i tossed and turned all night only got about an hour two of sleep! the next morning i got up and drank more pepto and then we headed out ugh what a long day that was when we came home from lunch i went straight to my bed. tried to take a nap but it didnt really work. then we had to go back out again sheesh! but by that evening i was feeling better so that was good. i dont think it was the flu maybe just something i ate...
Tell dad hello!!!!
i got an email from elder randle he said he misses spanish town. he said you know how we always wanted to go to ochi or mo bay or negril, well he says they are cool to look at and there is some cool stuff but it is the worst place to be a missionary. he said he misses the trinity (peterson, me and randle) so do i. we use to talk all the time but now that they got transfered we can't. anyhow saturday was slow and quiet everything was closed. then sunday we went to church it was like a race to the podeum when pres barrett invited everyone up to bear their testimony i had to wait forever for a chance to go up but i finally did! only one of our investigators was there the others we went and seen them in deeside after church they had some lame excuses... sotheir baptism dates arent looking good. We havent seen Naketa i dont know what her deal is then Vivine she still lives with her boyfriend but brother grant is praying about a date he is the one who has been coming to church for about 3 years and still isnt baptized and then we have john them 2 are probably the closest we have at the time but who knows when they will be!! but other than that nothing really happened this week!! but im gonna need new socks again the ones you sent last time already have holes in them elder randle had some new balance ones that were really nice he said it had new balance across the toes but who knows they just need to be like an athletic sock so that way they are thicker! but i also like the nike socks that bai used for basketball the are at fred meyers. and a new jump rope please the one i got it keeps breaking the cord rubs on the handles and it breaks! i havent got you pretzel package yet probaly get it this week or next who knows. wow its 12 degrees thats crazy!!!! i cut my own hair on friday night haha that was exciting the clippers i bought only had 4 gaurds and the ones i had were to big well it ended up shorter than i wanted it but oh well it looks ok. i ve gotten compliments about it so thats a good sign. lol  anyhow i think thats about it well thats all for right now any how i might remember something else. lol im always prayin for ya.

love ya stetson