5 investigators at church "we are kickin" and 3 for 3 on fast sundays

(pictures taken at the Natural Bridge)

so we didnt go to the cave today because there is too much water going in it or something who knows i think the guy just didn't want to take us through today. he said it will take like 3 hours to go all the way through. but who knows. we cant go next monday either cuz that is transfers. but ya everything is good. lets see my week went pretty good transfers are on the 15th. so next monday p day will probably be on tuesday unless neither of us get transfered i'll try to let tara or jodie know so they can email you for me and let you know what is gonna happen. oh use the p.o box address for everything. i don't think they will leave the package at presidents house unless he is there so thats probably why it hasnt been delivered yet. what happens if they cant deliver it they better not chuck it ill be mad. hmmmmm i dont really know what to say ummm oh i thought you could send some german chocolate frosting haha they dont have it here and i want to make a cake lol how do you make scones? this week went pretty good i dont remember what day it was i think tuesday we didnt have anything to do and we were just riding around waisting time. elder lee was leading us around and we ended up back at the house at 5 we have dinner at 7. and i was thinking to my self im not staying in this house 2 hours ill go crazy so he was heading back to his bed and i said get in here we have to make a plan he said for what i said for what we are going to do cause i cant stand being in this house. so i said put your shoes on. we arent stayin in this house. so we went out and he was all excited later on and he said man you need to get mad more often. we went to dinner and he kept talking about it. the next day went better and he helped plan    hmmm friday night we had a activity we got to watch a movie. we watched how to train your dragon. it was so cool just to sit down and watch a movie haha next friday is game night so that will be fun! sunday we had 5 investigators at church we are kickin on gettin them to church its just gettin them to commit to baptism thats the hard part. sunday was fast sunday. there are some crazy people here to you know like sister cheney lol ya not that bad but just goes on and on. and then some white boy got up lol ya me. im 3 for 3 on fast sundays so thats good ummm hmmm i dont know what else. i need to send you my memory card it takes way to much time to email the pics home if i have some time ill try to email a couple. but ya everything is pretty good here weather is good. just want to get a baptism. we dont have anyone like really serious yet but were trying. so you got some of my email thats good. when we were emailing the power went out so the guy told us to just come back and he would give us our time again. so here i am back online again!! i cant really remember what i told you in my first email lol and we went and did our laundry and went shopping then we just came back to the email place so im online again i have an hour left online so if your on im on to!! but i love you all just gettin to talk to you is awesome and for christmas i think i just call you then hang up and you call me back that way it doesnt cost me anything. but ya linstead is in the mountains pretty safe i guess it can still get bad though but we havent had any bad weather. so thats good. my halloween was lame most people here didnt even know it was halloween but i ate some sweddish fish so that was good!! other than that i didnt do anything i thought about wearing my green hat and cowboy boots to church that would of been funny!!! but ya sucks dad didnt get any thing darn it that prolly wraps up the deer hunting for them huh? well im gonna email  the girls. love ya stetson

   

 above: Elder Peterson, Montgomery, Randle and Lee 
    

Everyone-can-now-go-to-work...YEAH!

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Everyone-can-now-go-to-work---ODPEM

Tropical-storm-warning-discontinued ... Pray for HAITI

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/Tropical-storm-warning-discontinued-for-Tomas

Tomas downgraded to tropical storm watch ... Whew!

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Tomas-downgraded-to-tropical-storm-watch

NATURAL BRIDGE & TGI FRIDAYS

Hey hey! i havent got my package yet darn it i was hoping to get it at zone conference last wednesday but it was a no go!! any how the week was pretty good nothing to exciting happened but things are starting to go better so thats good! ive just kinda thought well stetson its only going to be as good as you make it so just relax and go with the flow. and the last couple days have went better. i cant belive that october is already over and  there is only 2 or 3 weeks left in this transfer that is crazy. this morning we went to the Natural Bridge thats why im emailing late its way cool and i got some cool pictures! next week we are going to some caves so next weeks email will be later to!!! just a heads up! anyways me and el randle and el peterson all were together jumping across rocks and el lee and el powell were off together it started raining a little and so they wanted to leave so we left. darn it. i wanted to stay there longer its not every day we get to do stuff like that! but anyways. we havent been teaching anyone that is really serious about any thing. i got into bible bash with a lady the other day that said god and jesus and the holy ghost were all one person so i whipped out the bible and read some scriptures to her about when jesus was praying to heavenly father and i asked who was he praying to himself??? she said his spirit lol. she was crazy thats for sure!! but ya it was a crazy week nothin real exciting! there is a hurricane coming this way they say and its coming towards this part of the island and will be here thursday.

http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/news/Hurricane-watch_8114238

Workmen battening down the Bank of Jamaica building in downtown Kingston, yesterday as the island prepares for the passage of Tomas. Tomas, which was a tropical storm yesterday, is expected to pass just east of Jamaica as a category 2 hurricane by Friday morning

so they told us to start to prepare for it. so it could get crazy here lol! ugh i cant think of what else happened this week my mind is blank i'll send this one then i will probably send another one when i think of some more stuff. love stetson

TGI FRIDAYS IN KINGSTON, JAMAICA

PS sounds like a crazy hunting trip haha thats cool they finally got deer though! 1 thing i left out in my other message was that me and elder peterson went on a trade off wednesday after zone conference it was fun we came to linstead and just had a blast for the rest of wednesday and half of thursday! zone conference was good it lasted forever!!! we went and ate at tgi fridays afterwards it was so good and i felt like i was back it the u.s didnt even seem like jamacia. lol it was fun a bunch of us went and we got to watch some college football and stuff it was way fun!!!well im almost out of time.  

                                                                                love you all elder montgomery

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