"me and randle have been tearing it up!!"

Hello good morning felize navidad :) we are at the church. the library is closed. its like discovery day or something. the day columbus came here. wow what a week it was it flew by i must say. i guess thats what happens when you are having fun!!! me and randle have been tearing it up!! we have had some of the best lessons of our missions these last couple days!!! when we leave the investigators house we are just like man we hit the nail right on the head! things are going awesome!!! we have 2 people with baptism dates that we extended this week martha and yolanda martha has come a long ways in just a couple meetings yolanda still has a lot to do but she is working on it and she has quit smoking. well thats what she says anyhow! but the week has been way good we have met lots of new people that seem to have a lot of promise!!! but its just like i have always said. it doesnt matter where you are its who your with!! im so lucky to be out here with randle. he is probably the best missionary in the mission! but all is good here. we are gonna do something today.  i dunno what though. its a holiday so most things are shut down. i know this is short but i just dont know what else there is to write about. i had a brain fart darn it! oh ya i got everything. the cookies were molded though darn it. anyhow i love ya all!!!! Stetson

"im really loving my mission right now"

good morning!!! well its 12 right now we are emailing a little later than usual today. we have been shopping and running a few errands this morning. we came to the library to email. its free here. so thats good and plus that will save us some money. we spent 30 dollars on grocerys this morning that was pretty good for the both of us. we decided that we are just going to split the food. so we buy it together and we can eat any of it! i think we might go to a car museum or go shoot some hoops or something not really sure yet!!! this week has been awesome so far since randle has got here things have been going good like i said yesterday me and randle teach really good together. things just seem to flow a lot better! we are just such a good team i guess you could say. i can always rely on him if i get stuck to be there for me to back me up! and it seems like we are always on the same page. there has been lots of times already that i will be thinking of a scripture and i will see him looking for one and it always is the one or relates to the one that i was going to share!!! so i think there is alot of good things to come!!! 

 but it was so good to see every one yesterday and get to talk to everyone!!! everything is fine here. im really loving my mission right now. its going so good. me and randle have fun together. so there is really no dull moments! any how i love you all i hope all is well with everyone!! :) well randle is ready to go!!!

 i love you all have a good week!!! LOVE STETSON

"Guess who is coming to Cayman....it starts with an R and ends with an E with ANDL in the middle haha can you believe it?????"

hey hey another monday is here pretty crazy huh!!!! well as you know randle is coming out here to replace dale he will be here 7:30pm tuesday night!!!! its gonna be a blast i cant wait! if there was any one in the mission i would want to serve with it would be randle or peterson again! honestly i bet that randle is one of the best missionaries in the mission. he is a star thats for sure!! so im pretty dang lucky to get the chance to serve with him. Elder Dale he is going to santa cruz with Elder Kraus. i cant believe i have been in cayman almost 3 months isnt that crazy? man time flies by thats for sure!!! this week has been a good one we had some slow days but thats normal but over all we have found some good new people and thats always good hopefully some of them actually come to church! We have been teaching Yolanda for a while now. well we found out that she smokes ganja and we have been trying to help her stop. well we were in west bay the other day and she lives in prospect. so we called and said we are gonna come by. well that gave her about 20 minutes till we got there. we knocked on the door and heard talking and all kinds of noise and 5 minutes after standing there someone opened the door. all you could smell was ganja. she came out we said we cant even teach you right now your high. she got all defensive and said no im not. ugh were not stupid. so we left. we were debating on dropping her but she called the next day and apologized and said she knew that it was wrong and needed to stop but still. its  gonna be tough to get her to stop. church was awesome it was fast sunday which i totally forgot about. i had no clue what to bear my testimony on so i sat there and just kinda thought and prayed and then i thought tell my family how much i love them even though they cant hear me. so thats what i did i got up the 2nd to last person and told everyone that and how the branch has been a family to me and on and on! it was so good but before i got up dee-an looked back at me and gave me the look like i thought you get up every fast sunday. so when i got up i said well dee-an loooked back at me and i think she was trying to say if you go i'll go.... but maybe we were on different wave lengths :) it was funny everyone was laughing! so i said i'll keep it short so she has time and sure enough she got up! :) it was cool! our recent converts are awesome!! they are doing good Jack is the executive secretary and dee-an is the young women secretary so they are doing awesome!!! yesterday was a day to just go to people and let elder dale say good byes so nothing exciting happened yesterday. friday and saturday were slow and the other days. i really don't remember what happened. but any how next sunday is the day wo wo i cant wait to call its gonna be awesome anyhow i love you all!!!!! love stetson

aka "John Wayne Montgomery"

hey hey hey hey! any how what a week! today is a holiday and that means everything is all closed up. friday was a holiday (good friday) and now monday is like the day after easter or something i dunno! but this week has been pretty good it flew by thats for sure. i cant believe that april is already gone! this week we did tons of finding and knocking doors that has to be the most awkward approach to talk to some one. its just so weird. most people make an excuse or something. but we actually have found one good person this week by knocking doors! its way easier to just have them out in their yard and just walk up to them. i think cayman is alot like serving in the states but what would i know! yesterday had to be one of the funniest days and one of the best days! church was just amazing! the 3 speakers were good. the Englands they are leaving back to utah saturday. bro england has been here going to school and now they are leaving. thats a bummer. then sister bush spoke. she told a really good story. i dont really remember how it went but she said she was gonna email it to me so thats cool! some guy named Eric came to church about half way through sacrament i went up and met him. he said it was his first time here. he stayed through the whole time. in preisthood session they had him stand up and introduce himself he said honestly i have heard so many bad things about this church.... but he said i dont know why i dont see anything bad going on here. he said honestly i feel like i have been here before and i will definately come back! it was awesome!! such a good guy he participated in sunday school and priesthood. so hopefully he sticks around!!! after church we went to the Robinsons for lunch they made tacos. hit the spot!!!! then we went and took a little nap and then we were back at it. we went and saw some people that we had met earlier this week. we told them that we just wanted to present the message and then after that have them ask questions. that went way better than the first time we talked to them! Trevor is (hard headed) he said i will compare your words to mine. we said man just ask god. thats all we ask. he still never commited to it. but the girl winsome did so that was good! after that we went to Birdys church. we promised her if she visited ours we would visit hers so we had to keep our promise! right when you walk in if you are visiting you sign your name on a paper so they can introduce you. El Dale just put trent dale well i put John Wayne Montgomery!!!!! I didnt tell dale i did that. they announced my name and i stood up and waved dale was busting up it was so funny. oh my they sang and danced and got all crazy and then the preacher would yell and shout hallelujahs and raise their hands to the air and all kinds of stuff. he would always give us a look cuz we wouldnt do it. he said we dont worship quietly like some churches we give praise and all that. it was the most ridiculous thing i have seen. they were screaming during the prayer and they gave a blessing to a lady it was just nuts!!! anyhow thats all i can remember right now!!! i love you all!!!! love stetson

PS hey i havent got the easter package yet maybe tommorow i will get it!

ya crazy its already time to call home again. i got the skype email but i have no clue where the password is. i dont see it! im not sure what time i will call. i will call home first and get everything arranged or i will call and hang up and you can call back and then we can arrange it. k. ugh i  got 2 free t shirts this week.  the manager of del sol here is chad carter and they had some shirts that they couldnt sell so he gave us one and then we got one from an investigator who has a shop and her shirts are way expensive but she finally just said pick one out and you can have it. so im good on shirts now!

"super good week and weekend!!!!"

hey good morning im online!!!!! what an awesome week it has been!!! this weekend we had zone conference so president hendricks and elder gardner and emery came saturday morning we had zone conference all day saturday we had lunch that day at the Ashbys it was like a feast!!! then we went back to the church and finished zone conference it was awesome just being able to have pres and the assistants there just with the 2 of us was awesome!! at 5 we went to the Palmers for dinner just me emery dale and gardner then we went out teaching for a little while well emery had heard that Copper falls steak house was to die for and thats where pres and the ockeys were going so he asked if we could go with him he was like well didn't you have dinner already? but emery did some good sweet talking and we got to go! we didnt meet there till 9 that night well we are supposed to be in at 9:30 at the latest. well president said since your with me you can be out later we got home at about 11 we went home and all crashed!!!! it was such a good day! well sunday was way good to getting to hear president hendricks speak and we had lots of investigators there. after church we went to Eats cafe with everyone then we went and seen a couple people then it was time to take them to the airport it was sad to see them go! it was such a good weekend elder emery and gardner are awesome assistants emery is way cool he goes home at the same time as elder peterson so thats coming up quick!! oh friday night we (the ockeys and me and dale ) ate at calypso grill its a sea food place and i was not looking forward to eating fish but they told me what to order so i got Mahi-Mahi it was so good it didnt even taste like fish. pres ockey said if it tastes like fish its not good. it has been an awesome weekend!!!! i got ahold of Winsome. she has been ignoring us. i invited her to church she said no im not going. then she told me why. she said that she wasnt impressed. she said that it was rubbish(garbage). she said i dont want to go to church to listen to people talk about there own life i want to learn about god. so i told her why we have people speak and ray ray ray and she said that she wouldnt come back so i said look back at how you felt when we were teaching you you felt good huh. she said yes well she said i love you guys and you guys taught me good. but church was not impressive to me. so i just said winsome give it one more try! she said she would i was hoping she would be able to come sunday so she could here pres hendricks but she was busy. but she said she would come so we will see how that goes!!! any how it has been a super good week and weekend!!!! LOVE Stetson

PS ya i told breht happy birthday already but i thought it was the 16^th. tell dad happy birthday for me to!!! and tell him to USE SPIT AT the brandings IDIOT GOSH hahaha or is he affraid he will get dumped??? Hahaha im gonna have a lady make me some roping reins i need to know how long to have them made. i like the length of the braided ones that dad bought at vickers they are like a tanish color.

YA PRES HENDRICKS IS FROM TEXAS!!!! UGH I WENT TO MEL VANCE THE CHIROPRATCTOR CAUSE MY NECK WAS KILLING ME AND HE FELT IT AND WAS LIKE WOW THATS BAD SO HE ADJUSTED ME AND PUT A MACHINE ON ME THAT FEELS LIKE A HAMMER TAPPING YOU IT JUST LINES YA BACK UP. BUT I NEED TO GO BACK SOON AND HAVE HIM DO IT AGAIN

ya i like my new shoes i havent wore them more than 2 times though. i mainly wear them to church. no since in just throwing my other shoes away when they still have tread on them or like dad would say about tires as long as they have air in them they are good! well my time is up gotta go i love you all Stetson

"we had 10 investigators at church yesterday"

hey hey its already another p day crazy huh!!! thanks for all the pics of the horses!!! lippy had that limp when i rode her last and ya i think it is in her shoulder i had to stop riding her. she hurt that when i was at plant foods roping on her i nodded and she bolted out and i pulled on her reins so she wouldnt break the barrier and she did something like stubbled or stepped funny who knows. but thats where that happend. because of it so hopefully that guy can fix her!! what is he gonna use her for? where is he from?  this week was good we have found lots of new people so that is way good we had 10 investigators at church yesterday so that was way good! hopefully we can get some with a baptism date this week! yesterday we went to a church the new testiment church of god! well the pastor there has been telling every one that we worship the devil so we went and talked to him and totally called him out on it he was spitin on his own words hahaha we stayed for a while and he introduced us over the pulpit it was crazy like a rock concert! ya this week has been way good though it flew by thats for sure.we went to north side last week for p day its way perdy over there really white sand and just cool places.  it hasnt been raining much here just off and on but mostly it has been hot. president hendricks and the 2 assistants are coming here saturday so that will be fun! im gonna ask the assistants to bring my guitar when they come. hopefully they can!!! hmmmm i cant really think of anything else no i dont think i need anything special ummm maybe a tee shirt.... just one of my white shirts i have or somthing that i can wear on p days... !!! love ya Stetson

PS hey send me the monkey bread recipe!!!! they have bisquits here!!!  i love you all!!!!!

"i love conference"

 me with bob and bonnie

me with sister small ... she is so funny!

me with sandra cruz, she is a member...we went to lunch with her one day.

hey hey hey hey good morning!!!! how is everything going? this week was good i guess. conference pretty much made the week i would have to say! ever since i have come on my mission i love conference. i remember dad coming in my room and changing my channel from buck mcnielys hunting show to conference but i would always change it back hahaha. but now i love it and this conference was way good!!! we watched it at the church. they had it brocasted on the big screen sunday. we had a bunch of people bring food and we had a feast in between the sessions then the power went out about 45 minutes into the last session so we didnt get to watch the remainder of it! we even went to kerry-ann and clives to watch but they didnt have the right station and there internet wasnt working! other than that this week was ok our investigators well the main one pretty much just dropped i dont know what has happened to them the dont answer the phone or anything darn it they were so good i dont understand why that happend. but we have been trying to find new people and thats our main focus so hopefully this week we can find some! i have got all your letters well i think so anyways 2 with the address things in them and another one from a while back! but ya everything is going good its already april and thats crazy today is my 8 month mark crazy huh its goin by quick!!! any how i love you all!!! love stetson

"wow what an awesome week it was"

good morning!!!! wow what an awesome week it was. i think the reason being was because of bob and bonnie. they are awesome and they just made my week!!!! THANK YOU FOR ALL THE STUFF!!!! the shoes fit good and the razors are the right ones and grandmas cookies seemed like they just came out of the oven. they are delicious. i almost have them all gone. haha the football is way nice i dont know if i want to throw it. haha its to dang nice!!  i got some pictures but i left my camera in the car darn it! sounds like your week was crazy down in vegas!! probably hot just like it is here huh but not as humid! hmmm i cant really think what else happened this week i just know it was good cuz bob and bonnie came!!! oh i had to go to the hospital on wednesday. i think i had a killer migrane on tuesday like it about killed me. i called sister hendricks she said to go home and rest and told me to do all kinds of stuff but nothing helped. i had the migrane from 10:30 to 8:30 or 9. 2 excedrines didnt even help. so the next day i went to the hospital they gave me allergy pills to take and said that had to be the cause of it. so i have been taking them and havent had one since. they gave me a pain killer but havent had to take one!! ummm what else hmmm i dunno what else! oh i was wanting the branding pictures like printed out you know what i mean and the send them to me in the mail :) crazy granny! anyways i love you all and thanks again for everything i love you!!!!

PS: YA I WENT TO THE CHIROPRACTOR ALSO. BROTHER MEL VANCE IS ONE AND HE ADJUSTS US FOR FREE AND HE SAID NOT TO TAKE THE PILLS BUT JUST COME IN AND SEE HIM MORE REGULARLY SO WHO KNOWS HE DID POP ME PRETTY GOOD BUT WHO KNOWS IF ITS ALLERGIES OR MY BACK WAS OUT OF PLACE!!!

my time is almost up i love you have a good week!!! tell Tim hi :) Stetson

"march is almost over so crazy!!!!"

well another week is gone!!! crazy huh this week flew by and march is almost over so crazy!!!! well me and elder dale are staying together thats cool they called with transfers this week! crazy i have been here a month and a half already huh! well things went good this week we taught some good lessons and we have met some really good people that are just awesome Winsome is the latest she is awesome such a nice lady!! ! but nothing really exciting happened just the same old stuff lol it has been pretty nice here breezy but not scorching hot.. i had to teach district meeting wednesday it went ok not the best its weird teaching it over skype ummmmm ya i went to church and got sick afterwards after lunch! i got really sick my body was aching and i had a fever and when i would stand up i felt like i was gonna pass out.  i took a tension headache pill but my muscles were still achy. i thought that would help. i dont know what the deal was there but i feel a little better today still kinda drowsy but better! i got your letter this week. mom thanks for the $20 still have it in my wallet lol hoping to buy some good food with it today ummmm lets see  our shower had a crack in it and it was leaking on the people below us so we 

had to use our landlords shower for 2 days but its all better now! ummmm im excited for bob and bonnie to get here thats gonna be so fun!! i wish we could drive them around but we cant do that darn it just have to visit them for a while then maybe eat lunch with them i wish we could spend all day with them darn.... anyhow sounds like it is warming up there a little thats good!! hey ya i got the pics and the video of jett man he is a chunk. what you feedin him? lol we went and got an estimante how ever that is spelt ummm on a hair cut. freak one lady said 30 dollars i about jumped out of my pants and they were so snotty and rude they said they would texturize it for 10. freak they are nuts her scissors must be gold or something! guess im gonna have to go to the local beaner and have him cut it lol anyhow im gonna go i'll think of some more stuff hopefully! love ya Stetson

PS ummmm 20 will buy me i dont really know haha i dont know how low i am on money. probably am cause its getting down towards the end of the month! dale has been here since september some time im legal to stay here until november 15th or something then my work permit expires so i could stay till then just depends!!

The tourists Elder Montgomery and Elder Dale met recently were, Jean Phillips and her family from Rupert, Idaho and Wendi Smith and her husband from Centerville, Utah. Crazy thing is, I know Jean Phillips...small world, huh? But she didn't know Elder Montgomery was my son. When Wendi asked them for their “Moms” phone numbers so she could call us when she got home, she said they looked a little surprised...like “really” you're gonna call my Mom? They both said it was fun seeing missionaries on the island and visiting with them. They said they "looked great!!!" Jean said her daughter spotted them as soon as they got off the ship and went running up to them,"they were so excited to see us!"
"They were both so friendly, and looked happy and healthy," they said.
Thanks again for the phone calls Jean and Wendi! It was such a fun surprise!
I enjoyed talking to you! Thanks for thinking of us! ~Leanne