After All This Time (Week 100)

Monday, June 30, 2025   5:36pm 

Hihi yall, buenas noches!! Santos Cangrejos amigos, we're in week one hundred, how crazy is that? Basically the final stretch at this point!

DONT MEAN THE RACE AINT OVER THOUGH, cuz we're still seeing miracles, baybee. 

Like first off, we had an awesome lesson with Noah about the Word of Wisdom, the Law of Chastity, and Tithing; usually thats a difficult lesson, but she was very in agreeance with everything and had even brought a journal to take notes in. Que capa, no? We did change her baptismal date to the 13th of July mostly because of her midterms, but still, super ready for her baptism, I'm way excited for her!!

We had a lesson with a Facebook reference we received, the guy's name is Esteban, he's pretty cool, really wants to come to church, didn't come but that's chill. He's a bit on the older side which means that our visits have been mostly him telling us about his life and not understanding me very well, but I'm sure we'll have a cool experience with him this week. Maybe.

The grand finale of the semana was the baptisms of our friends Horacio and Tamara!! Holy shenaiah, I'm so proud of them, the progress that they made in such a short time is incredible, their faith and desires to learn are on a level that barely anybody has and wow, I just love them a ton. I had the privilege of baptizing Tamara and Elder Morán of Horacio, which was so beautiful and the Spirit present was so almost tangible. The members also helped a ton with legit everything, like we didn't even ask them to do half the things they did to help is out, but they did them anyways and yeah, just all around amazing Sunday, glad that I could finally get some people in white before leaving.

And yeah, speaking of which, this is basically my last week in the mission, an idea that I don't think has quite hit me completely yet, but it's happening regardless. I'll probably talk more about this next week, (if I can send an email😬) but I've been thinking back on my mission experience a lot and the growth and change that I've had and also seen in other people, and I can truly testify that those changes have come through the Savior, Jesus Christ. As I've tried to make Him the focus of my teachings, I've realized how I can better follow His example and be better as one of His disciples, which in turn has helped me to help others realize the same. Even though I might be taking the tag off soon, that title of disciple will never leave my heart. 

So yeah, just a few days left! I'll try my best to be able to talk to yall next week, but for the moment, this is all from me! Have a great night yall, say your prayers and study your scriptures!!

Ciao for now!

-Elder Montgomery

Unas para la casa🤑

Some nice naipes

LETS GO ALDOSIVI!!

Gotta respect the Plusmar

Por fin

De 10

My Argentine evolution is complete

I love these guys

Listo

FECHITAAAA!!! (Week 99)

Monday, June 23, 2025   5:28pm

Hi yall, how's it going? 

Alright, this week, it was honestly really good even though we didn't find a lot of people, because a ton of our progressing friends have made a ton of good progress.

For example, Tamara and Horacio, the couple we found a couple weeks ago accepted a baptismal date! We had an awesome lesson with them where we went over the questions in the baptismal interview, and both of them are very ready to be baptized on the 29th, this Sunday!! We're really happy for them and super grateful to have helped them make this decision in their lives. My experience with them has honestly showed a lot of the value of enduring to the end, that even though I have quite a long time in the mission and also a very long time without baptisms, the Lord is still blessing me for the efforts I am making. He is amazing, isn't He? 

We also set another baptismal date with Noah, the chic we got as a reference from some hermanas! Noah is so cool, she's already read a lot of the LdM and understands the story really well. She's also started praying every day and is loving the peace she is feeling from the Spirit. We've invited her to be baptised the 6th of July, which will probably also be my last day in San Martin, wild to think about but I am more than happy if she is my last baptism. 

The ward has helped us out a ton with these wonderful individuals and I couldn't thank them enough. The amount of growth I've seen here in the last few months is astonishing, not only in a numerical sense but in a spiritual sense too, so many of the members here have been sharing some amazing testimonies in Sacrament meeting, in our lunches, in our lessons with our friends, and dang, it's very satisfying to see. 

A couple of members in the ward got married this week!! We helped out with a few preparations for their reception Friday evening and had quite a fun time chatting with all the members and their friends! The power also went out about halfway through the thing, but didn't matter much, the emergency lights were on in the church and a member had a Bluetooth speaker and everything, so the show went on! Really happy for the couple, one of them was a recent convert and she's also progressed a ton, hopefully they can make it to the temple this year too! 

This Sunday, one of the speakers for Sacrament meeting didn't show up, so the bishop asked one of us to give a talk instead, and as I had just finished Jesus the Christ the night before (go read it), I offered to speak. It was quite honestly a blessing in disguise, preparing that talk in about ten minutes really helped me realize what is most important to me about my Savior and also just how much my testimony of Him and His sacrifice and love has grown. Out of everything I've done in the mission I am honestly the most appreciative of this growth that I've had, and while I still lack a lot, I know that this relationship I have with Him now will help me receive exactly what I need. 

Welp, I'm getting pretty close to the end now so today was spent doing some last minute shopping for some gifts and souvenirs and such. I've got too many siblings to keep happy I guess. It was rainy all day though and now I'm pretty tired, so I'm gonna check out and hit the sack. Hope yall have a great week though! I'm praying for yall always! Much love,

-Elder Montgomery 

This is Noah!!

Helping out with a wedding

Brillante

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Did some movie impressions, this is Shrek

Cars

Lion King

Beauty and the Beast

Frozen

Elder Robertsito🥰🍦

 

Last Word *With President* (Week 98)

Monday, June 16, 2025   9:21pm 

Hey everyone, buenas noches/tardes wherever you might be in the world.

This week was an interesting one, full of a lot of probably last words with a lot of people because...

Had my last interview with President Antuña! Well, kinda, he'll be doing a temple recommend interview with me the day before I leave, but as with the normal interviews, it was my last. It was chill, we mostly talked about what my plans are for after the mission, making sure I'm not going to go inactive once I'm home. I'm not, don't worry. So yeah, quite the abnormal interview, but makes sense lol. 

Also had my last Zone Conference, and that was a bit more of a gut punch in my feelings side, mostly because someone had the bright idea to put all us old missionaries in the middle of a circle and sing 'God Be With You Til We Meet Again.' Ouch, this already hurts enough yall. It was a great conference though, learned a lot about prayer and about the Holy Spirit, how well connected they are as well as how to make my prayers a lot more meaningful. There's also a really good talk about that by Elder Bednar called Pray Always from the October '08 conference btw. Had to say some more or less final goodbyes to some very dear friends of mine, take quite a few pictures, eat some good empanadas, the whole lot. Gonna miss them conferences.

Well! Outside of the day of my reckoning encroaching ever closer, San Martin has been going really well!

We got a reference from the missionaries and a member from a pueblo called Punta Alta (visited while I was in Monte lol) for a chic named Noah, who had visited a friend there and went to church with him and enjoyed it a lot. We met with her during the week and gave her a tour of the church with the bishop of the ward and she loved it a lot, but especially the baptismal font. A very good sign, that. But yeah, had a great lesson about the Restoration, invited her to church, and she came! Heck freakin yeah! We'll be meeting with her again tomorrow to talk a little about baptism and the gospel of Christ, hopefully put a baptismal date, who knows. 

Also visited with the husband of the Aguirre family that we've been helping reactivate. Just that day the members were going on a temple trip, so he had some questions about what happens on the trip and in the temple, so we explained and he though it was pretty cool lol. We also asked if he had though about baptism recently, to which he said no, but also would like to take his time to think about. So not a straight up no, but definitely going to happen when I'm out of here. 

Our friend Tamara and her family also showed up this Sunday, we weren't able to get a lesson in with them this week though. We're currently planning when we might be able to pass by, because Tamara apparently has a lot of questions and we have a lot of answers. Should be a good week all in all.

It's also late. I'm tired. I played volleyball today and that was really fun. Also talked with my mom. Shout out to her  she's awesome. OH FREAK AND TO MY DAD, HAPPY FATHER'S DAY YALL!! I've got a lot of great father figures and examples of good men in my life, but my dad is my favorite. I've had a lot of moments recently where I mention some principle to someone and they asked how I learned that and I realize that my dad taught me about it. Thanks dad, wouldn't be a great missionary without you. And of course to the best Dad of all, my Heavenly Father. He's blessed me a lot during my time here  and I'm excited to continue my life as a disciple of His Son. 

Anyways love you guys a ton! I've got a few more emails left, just hang on for a little bit more and I promise I'll stop annoying you soon haha. Have a great night!

Pray your heart out

-Elder Montgomery 

My brother!!'

Love ya Smith

Gonna miss my California bro

Made it🫡

VIVA CHILE🇨🇱

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In front of a sushi restaurant

お父さん、いつ日本に行くの

Best alfajores in the world they say. They were right