"we have been eating like kings"

sounds as if tegans party was the place to be last night lol! we are having trouble getting on a computer at the library there is a ton of people so we might have to go to the church or something. About the arrow...... i remember losing one. i did lose an arrow back there tho broad head and all! ya see i was trying to see how my arrows would fly at 60 yards so i shot from the front of the yard and well i missed i looked and looked for an arrow but had no luck so that was my bad...sorry garret (cousin Garret found his arrow when he cut his foot on it while playing volleyball (barefoot) out in the yard)

 well about the baptism....... i dont know what happened with martha we saw her this week on wednesday and she was cool and acted like nothing had happened and we just talked to her for a while we just decided to push it off for a while. she has got a new boyfriend that lives in east end and when we go by there she is always in east end.. so who knows a big bummer thats for sure! lets see how was the week?.... it was good i always forget what happened when come in here but lets see.

Elder Randle and Montgomery with the Ockeys

 (The senior couple from the Bahamas. He is a  counselor in the mission presidency.)

 i know that the Ockeys came to town this was their last trip here they go home in june sometime. but they were here from friday evening so we have been eating like kings thats for sure copper falls then claypso grill then back to copper falls sunday night... copper falls has prime rib only on sunday night and monday and i had been dying to try it so i had to go there the last night they were here and its pres ockeys favorite steak house so he was fine going there 2 times in one trip. well lets just say that this prime rib was nothing compared to the one that me and dad and carl and kat had up in salmon at The Ranch. dad probably remembers that when we were putting in carls system that was good prime rib this was nothing.... maybe when i strike it rich i will have to take the ockeys there lol this sunday was a woozy. hardly any members showed up. good thing there was tons of tourists we only had 2 investigators at church so that was a bummer.... we had dinner at Charolette horns house one night and she had 3 friends that go to school with her and they were hilarious Chris and spencer and yemi they are so funny we were all on the subject of Bear Grills and they were making fun of this other show that does the same thing thats called surviver man. well they were like ya surviver man complains he says all they give me is one match and a piece of jerky..... then spencer says bear grills would say.... THEY GAVE YOU A MATCH? oh my it was hilarious everyone was busting up laughing couldnt stop my eyes were watering hahaha it was fun! we went and were playing catch last monday at the baseball fields and we saw the lady up by the cook shack and noticed she had tons of boxes outside so we went up and asked if we could take them to the garbage for her she said yes. so after that we told her if she ever needed help doing anything to call us so she did later that week we went and helped her move a bunch of shirts and baseball pants down stairs into the storage room. so now we can play on the fields without getting run off! then that same monday night we were supposes to teach the family home evening lesson and we had no clue what to teach it on or what we were going to do... well at about 5 i remembered those talks and things brandy sent to me. well i used the one that she did at autums baptism. me and randle did it together it was awesome did the phone calls and all. everyone was like thats so cool! i wrote her a letter telling her thanks for the talks i just gotta send it. anyhow i dont remember what else happened it was a good week though. anyhow if anything else comes to mind ill let you know
i love ya stetson

"uuuuuuuuuggggggggggghhhhhhhhh..."

well good morning! sounds like things are hectic around the house lol! well we are going to get the baseball mits today. the lady has seen us looking at them the last 2 times we have went in there and we asked her if there was another store that would have them and she said not the quality of these ones! so we went and looked and she was right they were junk. so the next time we went in there she said that she would take 20% off so that was nice. hopefully this time we go in its 30 or 40% that would be nice! on to Martha...... well she was supposed to be interviewed on friday night well we saw her that morning and she said i will get off work early so we can have time get ready! and we still had to teach her a thing or two well..... that night we went to her house and she was no where to be found so we waited then i said she probably is just gonna meet us at the church so we went there and nothing it was getting down to the wire and we went to her work place nothing well we went back to her house and her car was there so we knocked and her sister wendy answered the door and said that martha was tired and she was asleep uuuuuuuuuggggggggggghhhhhhhhh... did she forget she had an interview????? well she never came out so we decided to push it off for a week called her and called her and nothing she wouldnt answer our calls so we have 2 phones we hardly use the one so we called her last night and she answered we just asked when we could go and see her she said wednesday so we will find out what is going on then i guess... someone must of told her something or something had to of happened because she was solid thats for sure. any how we have found some new people though that are really cool. Tasha she brought her family to church she is looking for the true church she said. so thats awesome. then also a couple other people so things are going good! anyways lets see here hmmm i dont know what else to say anyhow well i love ya all! Stetson.......everything is going good we are about to get booted off people are waiting in line so i gotta go!!! love ya thanks for everything!!!

"monty and rands baked goods for fast and instant relief!!!"

well lets see here this week was a good one! Well lets see here what made it so good..... well just being with randle is a good one haha but over all we have 3 people with baptism dates Martha Yolanda And Kerry-an marthas is this saturday so that is way cool! yes we have a baptism font in the church but we let them decide on where they want it to be! saturday we had some time to spare so we went across the street from the church and knock some doors at this really nice apartment complex well the people were nice but not interested we knock on # 7 the doors had glass on them so you could see threw them. the guy looks threw and i wave at him he throws his head back like rolled his eyes and sighed.... he opens the door and says we are good christians we attend church and we ARE TAKING A NAP!!!! hahaha if randle and i were bettin men we would say that he was batting for the other team if you catch my drift!!! it was hilarious! knocking doors has turned into a fun thing to do. we make it fun. and the people get a kick out of it! we have had some other crazy lessons with some people one being a gothic girl with her crazy step mom words cant even explain that one! we went and seen sister small this week. i must be gettin old i found my self doozing off while sitting there. next thing i know im out! must of got that from the bartlett side of the family! for our dinner time we have been going and watching baseball games.  its alot of fun we usually just catch the first little bit then our time is up but its still tons of fun! thats why we are wanting baseball mits so that we can play catch and maybe round up a bat so we can hit some balls on p-days! how much do you think it would cost to send some baseball mits out? last night at the palmers we learned how to make crepes they were pretty dang good for me and randles first time they were good!!! Last week we made a cake and shared it wiith some members they all came back and said that was the best cake ever so i guess we have a career in cooking cake maybe we could start a little side business called monty and rands baked goods for fast and instant relief. oh the fun we have. its been the best time of my mission so far....well that time with peterson was one of the best too. but everything is good. things are going really good! any how i love you all!!! and yes i tried monkey bread and it turned out ok. we had some bisquits at the house that were buttermilk bisquits with butter in them so they turned out good but just not the best! ok i better go talk to you soon!!!! and ill get some pics sent to you to love ya LOVE STETSON

"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