1st Baptism...Happy Birthday!!!

anyways about my week. it was good we pretty much spent alot of time with ricky and chris trying to get them ready to be baptized. friday elder brough came up to interview them. i went with him to chris's house and he interviewed him when they came out of the house he said well he is good to go! and he wants you to baptize him! i was shocked i was for sure elder peterson would do it because he has been teaching him for awhile but he picked me i was nervous then we wen to rickys and he backed out he said his mom needed to think about it more and when we talked to his mom she said she would sign the paper for him to be baptized he is 17 thats why we have to have parent permission but it was realyy him he has been up and down lately we went there thursday and he had stupid questions about the gift of tounges and stuff like that and he said he wasnt going to be baptized this week so we just left and i bore my test. to him and then we left he called 10 minutes later sayin he wasnt going to let someone else run his life(his dad) and he was going to be baptized! well then when we went to interview him he said no so hopefully we can work with him more this week to get him ready! oh and yes the sun goes down at 6 and its dark about 7 lol any how thats crazy about shawn gee! tory killed a nice bull tell dad and have tory send you some pics. but ya i baptized chris friday night it was a very cool experience i was really nervous but it went good! i made my own birthday cake yesterday and celebrated with el peterson! your cake looked way better lol but it was still a cake im gonna try to send some pics and im almost out of time

love stetson
PS i havent got my package yet darn it!!. it is raining and thunder thats how it is everyday here everyday at like 2 it pours hard

Basketball.... then email, Whew! We thought it would never get here!

Well i havent got your package yet darn it i was hoping to get it today! no birthday card either! my pumas are 11.5 but i dont know about that whole puma thing anymore but still look and tell me what you think it might look goofy with church clothes.... we have hot water most of the time if our little hot water heater shower head thingy works! everything is good here we are expecting 2 baptisms on saturday thats exciting i will probably baptize one of them! nervous haha oh and the reason it took so long to email today is because we went and played basketball in portmore spanish town zone vs kingston zone it was fun but really hot! so know we have to get home and hurry and do our laundry and go shopping all before 6 its almost 3 now. i went on my first trade off this last week i went to spanish town with one of the zone leaders!  i want you to send me that purple jump rope thats at the house and a play rope preferrably and ummm oh ya work out bands like the elastic ones you know what im talkin about? and the a P90 X book. im dying to get my package though gee its my birthday sunday i want it for my birthday hopefully it gets here in time!! is jared and dad bow hunting? did jared go buy a bow or what? if so what kind? it sounds like the girls are doing good i'll email them hopefully i got time today. but ya everything is good here love you all!! Stetson

PS  oh we met this guy and he told us to come back on sunday so we did and he was way drunk so we started talkin about the word of wisdom! but he went off about jesus christs mom and all kinds of stuff and he asked me what Jesus told his apostles so i was like what are you talking about? and he got all mad and was like what did he tell them so i thought i would mess with him so i told him Jesus told them that he liked frosted flakes... he sat there and then was all yes yes yes brethern shake it shake (he was shakin my hand) lol it was so hilarious i was doing all i could not to bust up laughing and elder peterson was behind the guy just rolling it was so funny! probably not what i should of done but it was funny! we are supposed to go see him again today so im gonna try to record it from my camera atleast what we say he is crazy though!

1st SUNDAY...1st TALK

 just to answer some of your questions.  we come to a computer lab thing in Linstead where we have to pay $190 for an hour and 15 minutes online. we cant print emails well i guess we could but i imagine it costs money.  i had to speak in Church the first sunday i got to Linstead crazy i cant even remember what i talked about lol forgivness or something. it went good though cant really use any roping stories or hunting stories here because they have nooooo clue what you are talking about haha. we eat tons of rice. rice and peas they call it. its just rice with beans. um chicken fish pork is the main things ackee which is like a vegtable/fruit its kinda like eggs i guess but taste way different its pretty good it just depends on who cooks i guess but they always have a ton of rice like a mountain of rice and a couple pieces of chicken or something. ugh chicken foot soup had that at a wedding its like a soup you drink i guess it was wierd.  sounds as if the fair went good. thats good! i wish i could of been there i want some american food gee wiz! we are teaching a kid named chris he has been taught a ton of times but wants a vision or something to confirm his answer so the other day we taught him then asked him to pray about it so he was like can i pray right now so we were like ya so we knelt down and he prayed "the whole time he was praying i was praying that he would get his answer" when he said amen we just sat there for about a minute we stood up and i knew i felt it but wasnt sure if he did. elder peterson asked how do you feel? he said honestly.... pause i was like no way he had to of felt it... then he said i cant deny it i know its true!! so cool he is gonna be baptized the 25th it was really cool to see that! we are still workin on Ricky he said he kows the book of mormon is true so i dont know whats holdin him up... anyways those are some nice hair clippers i bought.. they sound like sheep shears... garbage! i was thinkin maybe you could get me some black pumas. another missonary had all black shoes on so i thought maybe thats the way to go for shoes i dont know what do you think? well all is well here Love you all when you talk to tim ask him what is he doin with his life? i sent him emails and he never writes back jerk face haha well love ya stetson

September 6, 2010

Hello everyone ok first things first things i need. Robs email. maybe some sheets for my bed the fitted one and the other one to we don't have a dryer so we have to let everything hang dry so it would be nice to have another set of sheets for that. some fair food haha that sounds so good. some thicker socks like tube socks maybe some that will stay up good but are thicker than these thin church socks they are wearing through already. some hot tamales :). what about my memory card? should i send it home when it gets full then you can just upload my pictures? if thats the case send one my way and i'll send mine back or however you want to do it it just takes to much time to email them. oh ask brandy how she does that tea bag thing where you light it on fire and it flies out of your hand. maybe start lookin for me some shoes maybe some that tie or even ones like my sketchers (my brown slip ons) just get them in black same size as them thats the hard part about getting shoes is they might not fit good ummm i think thats all i wont need the shoes for awhile though.. Anyways how was the fair or how is it... i dont know when it started. i really want some fair food gee that sounds so good. everything is going good here my companion left for 3 days and went to Kingston for some training so i was left here in Linstead only being out one week they left me in charge with Elder Kraus from Port Antonio      he hasn't been out long either so we were lost.  We were supposed to have a baptism on saturday but Chris hadn't got his answer yet he said so who knows... and Ricky our other one that should be gettin baptized this week is second guessing it i guess you could say. his dad is from some other church and is giving him some hard times but i hope he just stays strong because he is a good kid! the members are really good here like i've said we have dinner appointments everynight except fri and sat. so thats nice. some food is good and others are a little ify haha. it rains all the time so if your not wet from the sweat your wet from the rain. its been exciting though i really miss the cool nights here you sweat all the time its crazy. i still can't really understand what some people say so i just stand there and wait for elder peterson to say something so i know what they are talking about haha. hmmm what else... it sounds as if bai is doing good at csi so thats good. how is tegan? have they started school yet? well i cant think of anything else. how the hunting going dad? have you been? keep me posted. well i didnt get an email from you this week so i dont know what to say love you all stetson

PS i just got your email sounds hectic :) i wish you could send me stuff for monkey bread but we dont have a microwave. darn it they dont have brown sugar here or tortillas or cinnamon candy i guess i'll just fill my memory card up then send it home since your planning on sending another one to me so that will work out good. and that way i dont have to email pictures home. i've been videoing as much as i can. i wish i could walk down the street and video but my camera would probably get stolen. i just want some american food gee wiz a big steak or something. they have a kfc haven't eatin there yet though well im gonna try to look at my blog really quick bye

August 30, 2010...send food!!!

hey hey hey everything is good here its crazy hot and always rains everyday ive been here it has rained. i dont need new shirts i sweat off pounds everyday i think. we get fed almost everynight by some different members except for fri and sat we cook us a fancy dinner when we have to make it ourselves we take 2 pieces of bread spread something we call peanut butter on one slice then some strawberry jam on the other slice and thats what we eat like every meal haha except breakfast we make egg sandwiches which im already sick of. i could use some sweddish fish and some of the watermelons and mike and ikes and twixs and kit kats oh and barbs carmels maybe some tortillas to i dont think they have them here make a list of everything you send and put it in the package so i know if customs stole anything.i think i can buy shoes here when these ones get worn out deoderant i can buy here toothpaste and soap to so no worries well thats if they put money in my bank yet. im gonna tak 20 u.s and get it transferred to jamaican money. dad i havent seen any horses i here there isnt very many only some by ohco rhios or something like that and they mainly race them. thats funny that kid saw me at the mtc walking around in my cowboy boots haha. you better keep using spit. your supposed to finish him up for me so when i get back i have a good horse. me and my compainon are doing good we get along good we are going to set a baptism date with a kid tonight for sept 11 he is so excited he said he got answers to his prayers and he came to church yesterday. all his friends are members so that helps we gave him a book of mormon last night so hopefully he keeps doing good. i gave a little girl a blessing yesterday i was so scared she was sick and she was crying the whole time i was blessing her and we took our hands off and she quit crying before we left she was up running around way cool experience well i got to go now im gonna try to send some pictures today if i have time well love you all stetson

Email From Jamaica

 i made it to Jamaica its crazy here its really dirty you could call it i dont want to wear sandles thats for sure haha but im up in Linstead which is in the mountains my new companion/trainer is Elder Peterson from Morgan Utah he is cool i was worried about getting an un cool trainer know what i mean. its really hot here though im always sweating we walked eveywhere yesterday it was pretty cool we walked with a jamaican and he showed us a short cut through the jungle it was crazy it was just like being up in the mountains. but nothing like the Idaho mountains thats for sure. they talk really weird i cant understand what they say most of the time. i got a bag juice yesterday and this little boy came up to me and wanted it so i gave it to him he was cute but he slapped me when i shook his hand to leave. i couldnt believe it lil stinker. they drive like crazy people here. you think utah is bad lol honkin all the time going like 60 mph all over the place its crazy. 


Lauren

Selling bag juice to thirsty persons outside the Kingston Ice Factory,

on Harbour Street, in downtown Kingston.

Nothing quite as good when you're hot and hungry as a half frozen bag juice and a boiled corn on the cob!

1st Email from JAMAICA-mon

KINGSTON JAMAICA

 hey everyone its day 3 here in jamaica it crazy here i got off the plane and it was like so hot like humid we drove to the mission pres. house which is really nice. they made us dinner and everything and we got to get a tour of Kingston... its no vacation thats for sure we were in the ghetto it was so crazy the way they live down here is crazy they drive like a bunch of maniachs honken all the time and stuff but we got our transfers and im up in Linstead with Elder Peterson he is way cool he is from morgan utah linstead is up in the mountains up in the bush which is jungle we walked through it to go visit some members yesterday it was crazy its so thick. its way hot here like non stop sweating our house is pretty nice im not complaining thats for sure. but every thing is going good so far the people up here are nicer than in Kingston. everyone in kingston askes for money and is smokin ganja and you cant understand a word they say. a guy walked up to us on sunday when i was in kingston and said answer me this he said something that i couldnt understand at all so i just sat there and looked at him and looked at elder Gardner and said what did he say and he said just say no he was busting up laughing. its so hard to under stand them sometimes. but i like it alot better in linstead. my compaion is really cool so thats good i was worried about the whole companion deal but i got a good one. other than that all is good up here. we are gonna go grocery shoppin after our internet time is up. the reason i looked chubby in the pictures is because they feed ya like they are gettin you ready for slaughter they want you to gain a bunch of weight before you leave. but i think its all gone now we walked a long ways yesterday and all the sweating i did im sure i lost 4 pounds. i dont have to buy a bike they had one here for me i just got to get some things to repair it. new tube and stuff so thats good. well i gotta go love you all Stetson 
(I couldn't resist...he hasn't sent me a picture of his bike yet...but wouldn't he love this one?..ha ha!)

Ist Email from Mission President

The picture was taken at the mission home.

In front is Sister Israelsen. From left to right, Elder Randle, Elder Ostberg, President Hendricks

and Elder Montgomery.

Dear Brother and Sister Montgomery,
We are happy to let you know your son arrived safely in Kingston, Jamaica. He is in good spirits and arrived anxious to become involved in the great work being done here. When he arrived we met him at the airport and brought him to the mission home where he spent his first two nights. We helped him with banking and immigration matters and then provided training and orientation.

He was interviewed and met his trainer, Elder Peterson. They then went to their area where they began the work he came here to do. Your son will be serving in Linstead. As parents we can appreciate your concern for him and his welfare and felt you would like to know he is safe and doing fine.

We want to thank you for raising such a fine son and for your support for him while he is here. Your support for the next few weeks while he may experience some homesickness will be very important. The work is really beginning to blossom here in Jamaica and the people are warm and friendly. We are confident he will have a special experience. We can assure you we will do everything we can to help him grow and develop and are confident his testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ will increase. Through his mission experiences he will draw closer to our Savior. We are so grateful to have him here.

We will appreciate your continued support. Please feel free to contact us if we can be of assistance.

Gratefully,
President and Sister Hendricks

Pictures From The MTC

Elder Egbert and Elder Montgomery

Elder Montgomery with his companion Elder Ware

The Jamaica Kingston bound Elders (Montgomery, Randle & Ostberg)

Elder Montgomery at his best!