"Everything is fine fine fine through the sunshine and the rain!!!"

Everything is fine fine fine through the sunshine and the rain!!!

Well another week is over with this week seemed to go by pretty slow but now looking back it seems to be a flash. We have had some really good things happen this week! Lets start first with.... Blossum.. We have been teaching Blossum who is really active in her other church but she has come to church one time and she loved it. Well we had a baptism date for her on the 28th but that fell through so we had planned to give her another for the 11th of september. So we were at her house teaching her The Gospel of Jesus Christ and we were going through it principle by principle and we were on the Holy Ghost something seemed to be bothering her or something she just seemed antsy so we stopped and Poulsen must have noticed it as well cuz he asked do you have any questions or concerns about anything we have taught? she paused and then looked up and down and said when is the next baptism? i know that these things are true and it is as if someone is telling me that its what i need to do! She started crying and i mean crying almost to a sob she was just so sad about having to give up her other church and she doesn't think she can just up and leave it like that. it was a really spiritual lesson and now we just have to help her understand that there is only one true church! Ok next on the list would be..... oh i got to do my very first baptism interview this week! that was pretty exciting Edler Dale and Hoffman had a baptism saturday night and i got to interview her for it. i was so dang nervous but it wasn't bad at all!! On saturday we went and helped our Neighbor Mark.. he raises chickens and it was time to kill some so he wanted help so we went and helped him clean them. talk about a pain in the butt that is a job and a half. he would cut there heads off and then they would hang up side down for a bit then he would dip them in Hot water and then he would give them to us to pluck all the feathers off.

 it took almost 2 hours for me to clean 2 chickens. shoot if ducks were that much of a hasel. i wouldnt hunt them. that was R..I...D...icoulous thats for sure! ummm well thats about all that i can remember about the week but everything is going good. hard to believe i have been here almost a whole transfer already. we should be getting transfer calls later this week or early next week transfers will be next wednesday i hope i stay here with Poulsen im really enjoying serving with him! anyways i love you all have a good week!!!

LOVE STETSON

 pixy is gonna be mad. atleast sister moodies dog dont bark and growl at me all the time!!

"its just a 5,000 dollar ticket"

well another week is gone and what a good one it has been! so funny story i got pulled over this week ha ha its just a 5,000 dollar ticket though!

we were on our way to district meeting and i was driving its a 4 lane high way 2 lanes going each way. well i was passing a car and it honked at me. i was like whatever car im not even close to you. well i look on the other side of the road and a bus is flashing its lights. AKA slow down cop ahead. well thats why the car was honking at me trying to tell me to slow down but it was all to late. the cop walked out into the road put his hand up and told me to go to the side. he took my licence and all dissappeared into the bushes where his car was and wrote me a ticket. whats weird is he gave me the choice to sign it or not and said i didnt have to so i didnt. i guess we cant pay them anyways cuz we dont have a TRN number so it will make a good journal entry lol. another funny story.. we were sitting at the stop light and there was a little girl probably about 4 or 5

 and she was a chunky little butter bean she was selling ginup well i thought it was funny so i got my camera and took a picture trying to be all sneaky and all well my flash went off so i totally got busted evryone turned and looked at our truck then the light turned green Poulsen stalled for a minute till the cars cleared and then flew past all of them haha it was funny!!! we have also been seeing Alfred alot in just random places on his bike (he is the one that throws his arms in the air and yell MY LORDS then honor honor) he pretty much worships the ground we walk on :) it makes the day seeing him he just yells so loud and its just funny!!! this week has just been crammed full of funny things its been hilarious! our AC in our truck is broke so we have been baking in the truck.

also this week we had a area president here Elder Vinas. He is doing a mission tour so we had a zone conference on saturday it was awesome. he is a super nice guy, we have also had a couple awesome lessons with steve. he is so cool solid as a rock to. we shoulda been having another baptism this coming sunday but Blossum didnt come to church sunday so we had to postpone it so that suck but she will eventually be baptized she said she walked to her church yesterday and she said that it just didnt feel right the whole time she said she was thinking about our church and about everything she has learned so thats good so maybe next week she will be baptized but everything is going super good here im lovin Kingston. i have no idea what we are gonna do today randle and his comp are staying with us they came in for zone confernce so im not sure yet. anyways i better get going im short on time. i love you all!!!! have a good week!!!!!

LOVE STETSON

"another week gone and over with"

Well here it is another week gone and over with! what a busy and good week it has been. seems like all week we have been busy trying to get steve prepared for baptism we seen him every night and everything went awesome i dont think i will ever teach some one like that again just some one so prepared or so excepting to everything we taught. it has been awesome teaching him! Steve was baptized on sunday morning so everything went good! saturday night we had to go to the church to fill up the font so we cleaned it out first and then we were just waiting for it to fill up so we played a game of horse. using a box juice which is like a box milk carton and we used the trash can we got pretty creative it was a ton of fun i had Poulsen beat but some how he came back and won dang it. Elder Poulsen is awesome i am having a blast serving with him! i cant really think of what else happened this week. i know i went on a trade off with Elder Gurr he is a brand new missionary been out 2 weeks about we walked like crazy shot all the way from one side of there area to the other my feet were pretty sore at the end of the day shoot i cant remember anything else that has happened this week thats bad lol love Stetson

(Seth Phillips told Stetson before he left to get Usain Bolts autograph for him)

hey Tell Seth that this isn't his autograph. But Im still working on getting that for him. But this was accidentally put in our mail box so i thought i would take a picture and send it to him! 

"3 people with baptism dates"

(zone conference and yes thats the mission president on the floor lol)

Well good morning all! i will jump right on into the week i guess and see what i can remember from it! ok well tuesday what happened tuesday shoot i dont remember lol but i know what happened wednesday lol we had ZLC or zone leader conference where all the zone leaders get together and talk about stuff about the mission and each of their zones and goals and all kinds of stuff it was at presidents house. after it was over i went to the back room and found the box with my cowboy boots and some other things in it that i couldnt take to cayman with me because of the lack of room. i got it back it was good to slip on my boots and walk around the house. now they are used for my book holders on my desk haha..

The rest of the week went really well we have 3 people with baptism dates 2 for next saturday. Ten-a and Steve. steve has totally come prepared and everythiing we teach he just loves and he knows that its true so thats awesome. he had a wonderful experience at church sunday also so that was good! lets see what else. There is a guy here that always sits on a corner near our house and everytime we drive by we honk and he throws his hands in the air and yell MY LORDS then he crosses his arms over his chest to make an X and then says honor honor it is the funniest thing ever! oh yes also ummm thursday to celebrate my one year mark we went to Lil tokyo to eat dinner and when we left it had been pouring rain the whole time we were in there which was like 45 minutes well the roads had rivers running down them there was so much water traffic was horrible it pretty much ruined the night we ran to boulevard to get the missionaries there so they didnt have to walk in the rain it was crazy lightning and thunder and all. the most i have ever seen it rain!! Well i dont know what else happened this week i got my guitar back so thats good ummm well i will send this and see if i can think of anything else!!!! I LOVE YOU ALL stetson

 (a picture of the Fleet lol ours is the silver one)

"Cayman just seems like a dream"

Well hello from Jamaica!!!! wow it dosent even seem like i left here. Cayman just seems like a dream. it seems like i went there once. but it just seems like a long time ago.. anyhow the plane ride back was so bumpy we were in the clouds the whole time it was not the best but we made it safely.. once i got back i went straight to meet up with Elder Poulsen and Martinez. we pretty much just ran around the rest of the night went and got ice cream and that was pretty much it. well the next day was transfers so we went to Yallahs and picked up the 2 there and then headed to Spanish Town. lots of new missionaries came in 7 i think total. 3 are being trained in the kingston zone so thats pretty cool. once we got back to kingston and took the missionaires to yallahs again we got back home at like 7 so we went out and seen a few people. then the next day ummm i dont relly know what happened the next day lol saturday we went to district confernce in spanish town driving here is nuts you pretty much cn do what ever you want and you gotta watch out for the other guy doing what he wants.. we have a truck here so thats nice. the roads are horrible. then on sunday we went back to spanish town for another part of district conference i got to see a bunch of people from Linstead that was way cool.. i got to see Naketa and the richards and joys daughter that got baptized after i left and a whole bunch of other people.. so that was way cool... ummm i cant fall asleep at night its so hot i got spoiled in cayman with the ac so know i just lay there forever. and our shower is freezing cold but it has tons of pressure so thats nice. other than that nothing has really happened we have met a guy that is from the states and he is here with a member and we had a dinner there after we ate she told us to stay and talk to her friend steve so we did well he wanted to know his purposee in life and we said well we have that answer for you. and from there on he has loved every bit of it he says this is the reason he came to Jamaica so he is way cool... this morning we woke up to a flat tire on our truck so the office elders came and got us and then we went to get iot fixed but everything is closed today for a holiday so we couldnt get it fixed so we are currently driving the mission bus around hahaha its pretty fun to drive. i feel like a taxi man we went and played ultimate frisbee at the park and now here i am at the mission office emailing so that has been my week. i didnt want to come back to jamaica but im enjoying it so far Elder Poulsen is way cool and that makes everything awesome so ya anyways i love you all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOVE STETSON
ok will do funny story elder mccreedy got to cayman on monday night. well we
waited at the airport for him for well... ever his plane was 2 hours late.
well we finally see him come out so i slip into the trunk of our car. randle
pulls up pops the trunk i come out reaching for him it was hilarious i got
it on video hahaha yes!

Advancement in the Jamaica Kingston Mission‏

Dear Brother and Sister Montgomery,

We are pleased to inform you that your son, Elder Montgomery, was called to be a Zone Leader for the Kingston Zone of the Jamaica Kingston Mission. He will develop and use many leadership qualities in this new assignment as he performs this valuable service for the Lord.

He has the responsibility of guiding, leading, and being an example that will inspire the missionaries in his zone. He will also instruct, counsel, and direct them in their proselyting efforts, and help them to be more effective missionaries. Elder Montgomery will need your support and encouragement to do his best in this new calling. He is growing in spiritual knowledge and wisdom, and is an outstanding missionary.

We love your son and pray continually for his growth and well-being. May the Lord bless you and your family as you continue to support and encourage him in his missionary endeavors.

Sincerely,
T. Scott Hendricks
Mission President

"headin back to Jamaica..Kingston Zone Leader"

kerry anns baptism

jack henry and his family after church

Well another week is over with and it will be my last one spent here in cayman :( Saturday morning i got the call from President Hendricks that i would be headin back to Jamaica. I will be in Kingston with Elder Poulsen im gonna be a zone leader in the Kingston Zone. he is one transfer behind me so im older than him and this is like his 2 transfer in kingston. and yes we are getting 7 new missionaries today or tomorrow. umm elder poulsen seems pretty cool he is from a po dunk place in nevada Alamo. i think. he is nice. he was in my zone when i was in jamaica and i got to know him a little bit. but kingston is huge yes. and just busy. but everyone that goes there says that they love it so we will see. I cant believe that my time is up here already im bummed that i have to leave. This branch here is awesome and know that im leaving im gonna miss it a whole bunch. The members here will pretty much bend over backwards to help you out with anything you need so thats one thing that has been good here and also just the branch it self its pretty amazing! But i guess its time for me to go somewhere else. The new missionary Elder Mccreedy gets here tonight at 7:30 and i fly out tomorrow at like 1. President Ashby will be getting back today i tried to call him but he said that he was in Atlanta on a plane so he couldnt talk so that whole deal worked out perfect. Anyways this week has been a week of trying to rebuild the "teaching pool" We have been doing tons of knocking doors and all that had a little bit of luck but nothing much! i cant really think of what else happened this week.... Sunday was really good though it was defiantly a good one to end on. church was good we had 5 or 6 investigators there and 1 general authority lol so that was cool. after church we just went around so i could tell people bye. stopped by the hospital to see Sister Small she is mad that im leaving. she just kept saying tell them you got the flu and you cant go back or tell them just to keep the other one in Jamaica and you stay here lol she is funny. 

Elder dale must of told Jack that i was leaving. he called me on Saturday and was all so whats up? i was just like nothing. then he said ok i see how it is your just like any other Rodeo cowboy just come to town and not tell anyone your leaving and leave them all broken hearted. he must watch to many old westerns. Thursday night we got to go to dinner with Jordan and Margret the new interns for Del-sol we went to pasta night again and also Chris and aubry the 2 that took Chad and Megans spot went also. had a good time there with them. The lady that im had make those reins for me dosent have them done i doubt she has even started them she was like you told me to take my time... well ya that was like 4 months ago lady lol so we will see if she has them done by tomorrow or not. But anyhow i dont really know what else happened but i will send this and then if anything else comes to mind i'll let you know!!! ya Pday is still on monday!! and its pouring rain here now what a great last day huh lol and i just got another letter from you today. the one you typed. well its time for us to go i love ya mom thanks for everything!!! I Love you all!!! Stetson

"It was a really cool experience"

(Working on our tan in the car)
Well its Monday again!!! Pretty crazy. this week flew by with our trip to Jamaica and all it felt like from Tuesday to Friday was just in fast forward and now here it is another new week! We went to Jamaica for zone conference usually they come out here but they had a whole bunch of people that participated in the conference so they just shipped us over there. Got to meet lots of new missionaries. i hardly know half of them from being cooped up in Linstead and then coming out here. a lot has changed so it was fun to meet some new ones. after the conference we went to TGI Fridays all of the zone was there our total bill was like 35,000 Jamaican thats insane. they are gonna love the missionaries. After that we stayed the night at the Kingston zone leaders house Elder Martinez and Poulsen then the next day we hung out in the office till it was time for us to get on the plane and head back to Cayman. We had to go to Miami i never knew it was so hard to get back in your own country lol they had lines and lines of things for us to do. maybe it was just because we were coming from Jamaica. but that airport is huge we had to take 2 trains a billion escalators and finally we got to our terminal by the time we got there i was pooped. by the time we got back to Cayman it was about 7:30 or 8. first thing we did is went and seen Naketa. She was leaving the next day so we wanted to check and see what time her flight left. then on Friday we had just a normal day i was so tired from the flights that i was draggin my butt all day. we got to see Naketa one more time before she left she told us that she is going to get baptized on the 30th in Jamaica so i hope that still goes through. then we had a branch BBQ at the beach that was tons of fun! We got there a little early to help out but some how we found our way to the swings we were swinging and then Randle was all you have to jump out so he went first then i went i totally biffed it my foot rolled in my clod hoppers and i went down it was so funny. i had sand in my pockets and all over. we got to play some volleyball also and we also got so good pictures. At 7:30 we had Kerry-anns baptism interview that was crazy we had to take the web cam from the church and go to her work place cuz she couldnt leave work for a minute or 2 i didnt think we were going to be able to have it but we finally got it done! Saturday we were running around getting things ready for the baptism no one would answer there phones so we had to go to there house and ask them if they would give a talk at it finally it came down to it and it all went good! I got to baptize her it was awesome the whole thing was good the talks and everything couldnt of asked for anything better!! It was funny i was in the water with her and she looked so nervous then she looks at me and says DONT DROP ME hahaha it was so funny. It was a really cool experience. Sunday she was confirmed in church so now she is a member woohoo!!! Randle had to give a talk and also the 2 new interns. also we had tons of visitors here some from Utah Idaho and Arizona Mesa even. but none of them knew Rob Bob Slob Bartlett. but ya that was pretty much the week!! we have a lunch appointment today at an indian resturant then i have no clue what we'll do. 

Love Stetson

"You might be a redneck....."

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELDER RANDLE

Well HAPPY MONDAY AGAIN! seems like the week just flew by again sheesh! well the shoes look like they will be perfect!!! they are the exact same ones that randle has and i wore them a couple time and i loved them so good goin granny!!! well this week was pretty good. we didn't have our baptism dang it. Kerry an called us and told us that there was no way that she was going to have enough time to see us and to squeeze in the interview she is a workaholic and she has some crazy hours lately. but we are on for next Saturday so thats way cool! i think this week was just the average week nothing to exciting happened found out that there are red necks where ever you go dont matter where you are  

 anyhow... We had a pretty cool experience this week last Saturday we met a guy named Hectar. well on sunday we had planned to go and see him at 4. well there are just some people that you just look back on after talking to them and say is it really worth our time to go back?? well after church we went to sister smalls for a quick visit then after that we left and Randle asked where to now? i thought and then looked at my planner and saw Hectars name. i thought hmmm he probably has forgotten we are coming and it will be weird but i said lets go see Hectar.. when we got there he was expecting us and invited us in his wife Digna came out and joined us.we were talking to them and getting to know them. Digna hardly speaks English. they are from Honduras so we were doing our best. come to find out she used to visit the church in Honduras and she loves the church she would say over and over i love the Mormons i love the church.. so we asked do you know if its true and without hesitating she said yes! her husband has lots of questions about the church and has been awesome to teach he left for a week to New Jersey so thats a bummer but she is still here and she came to church and loved it! she told another spanish speaking lady that she had been praying that she would be able to come back in contact with the church and then thats when we knocked on her door thats pretty cool right there! We are still teaching Naketa and she is doing awesome we have had some really good lessons with her! ummm lets see here this sunday was really good Chad and Meghan Carter spoke in church they are going back to Utah Monday and they were giving there farewell talks they were awesome. Chad has to be one of the funniest guys ever he is always cracking jokes! last p-day Helen and peter invited us over for a BBQ for Peters birthday they are the type of people that will do anything for you. helen said i know you guys are away from  home and you miss home so i thought you guys would enjoy coming over for this later that night they had fireworks at Caymana Bay it was lame they lasted 5 minutes but it was better than nothing any how i dont really remember much but it was a good week for sure any how i'll send this and if anything else comes to mind i'll let ya know! 

love stetson

 

i never knew "skinny" had a real estate business in cayman lol

oh this wednesday we are going to jamaica for zone conference we are flying there. usually they come out here but for some reason we are going there. we fly out at like 7 wednesday morning and then dont get back here till thursday night at 7. 

"its my 11 month mark today incase you forgot" :)

"Well lets see here..... this week we had some pretty funny things happen! well this is what i remember anyways! well we will start with Austria.. We were knocking some doors and Austria opens up! thats not her name we just dont remember it! She had a weird accent so we asked where she was from. She said Austria i immediately about bust up laughing and when i looked at Randle i knew he was thinking the same thing!  DUMB AND DUMBER when Llyod says thats a lovely accent you have... New Jersey??.. girl AUSTRIA .. Austria well good day mate lets put another shrimp on the bar-by hahaha i was wanting so bad to say it but i couldn't bring myself to it! so we talked to her for a bit but she wasnt interested... well on thursday night we had a dinner appointment with the Carters for Randles birthday at Grand ol house for there Pasta night.. we got there early and we were just walking around and waiting on the carters when we hear some one say hey i know you two... we turn around and it was Austria she works there. well we talked to her for a bit then the Carters showed up. they asked if we had a table and we told them we had no clue how it worked. so they were looking and they asked one of the waitresses and then that one went and asked Austria so we were giving her thumbs up and stuff trying to get her to give us the only table in the place and sure enough she gave it to us. so its a good thing we knocked on her door!! Pasta night was really good. you walk up to a table that has a bunch of different things on it chicken onions peppers ham cheese just a ton of stuff well you get a chef and you tell him what you want and then  he puts it all in a pan then you pick the sauce you want and then the type of noodles and wa la you have your own made pasta!!! it was really good!!! 

sometime this week we were at Naketa's and she was saying the closing prayer. she talks so quiet that you can barely hear her well i swore i heard her say Amen so i was hesitant but i said amen well i look up and she is still praying i look at randle and he has a look like what are you doing? i was like crap and then put my head back down and almost bust up laughing it was not good at all but it was pretty funny!!!! She is doing really good she is one of our best investigators by far!!! Church this week was good it was full finally it had been kinda slow the last couple of weeks Kerry-ann, Yolanda and Nakeeta came to Church yesterday. That was really awesome. We had so many people at church that we had to sit in the hall. It was a good sacrament meeting. We got to stand in on 2 baby blessings so that was way cool and then after that we were in the hall and the doors were shut and they are passing the sacrament and we had just got the water and there is a guy trying to get in the chapel but Gabriel wouldnt let him in. he is all pissed and stuff so like at the same time me and randle stand up and pulled him aside and start talking to him he was all thats a bunch of garbage if i cant go in. we said just wait till this is over and we will be able to go in. after that they opened it up for testimonies well there was only about 30 minutes probably and i told randle i probably wouldnt go up well he said if i go you go so i said ok and he said and you better be up there right after me so when he got up to walk in i swept in right behind him and followed him in. when we got to the podeum he turned and was a bit startled for how close i was he said he wanted me on his heels so i was lol i sat down then after he went i went!  Then after church we went and saw Hector, he was someone that we found earlier in the week. We went and saw him and found out that he is married and they are both from Honduras. Well it turns out that his wife was visiting with missionaries back in Honduras and that she used to go to the Church all the time and she prayed and knows that the church is true. She was really excited for us to find them. They attend a different church but not for really any special reason. Hector told her he kinda had a problem with the Book of Mormon and she was trying to teach it to him. Then he brought up some small concerns to us but after we explained things to him he was very open. So we are excited to start to teach and work with them. after we seen them we went and had dinner at the Rhones and then after that we went and seen kerry-an we hadnt seen her all week she has been busy doing someones auditing or something so she has had to work late so we were worried about her baptism date so we asked her and she said yes but why does it have to be in the middle of the week? cant it be on a weekend we were like what day did we say? i thought we said the 9th but she said the 12th so we told her that it was the 9th and then everything was good so this saturday she will be baptized!!! woohoo and thats pretty much the news for this week!!! it flew by these last 2 weeks have gone by super fast but anyhow happy 4th of july and its my 11 month mark today incase you forgot :) love you all!!!