"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