Elder Kasey Lightheart

At Carl's baptism. What a special experience this was! Hello all!!! Long time no see! For those of you who weren't aware my P-day this week got moved from Monday to Friday, so that's why I haven't uploaded a blog email yet.  These past 2 weeks since last Monday have been jam packed full of lots of fun memories, spiritual experiences, as well as humbling moments.  Earlier last week we had a day on Wednesday that was planned to the max, with several lessons, but one by one they all fell through. Although it was a little disheartening, it gave us time to plan for the week and for our friend Carl's baptism. Then, that night it opened up our dinner plans, so we went to Bonefish Grill, a somewhat fancy restaurant that we had been given gift cards to. We decided to bring the other elders in our household as well, and figured, if we bought the cheapest entrees, that we could all just pitch in a few dollars each, along with the gift cards, and get a solid meal. Well

Another week down! I have to say that I have been absolutely loving it here in my little area in Florida, Cypress Creek. The more work I do here and time I spend with the members and people here, the more I dread leaving. As excited as I am to go to Brazil, I'm gonna miss this place so much. Nonetheless, I've still got a couple of weeks here and I fully intend to make the most of them! This week was absolutely amazing and, though it might have started off a little tough, it has proved to be one of the most miraculous and profound weeks I have had.  Starting on Tuesday of this week, things were quite interesting.. After our studies and lunch we set out to do some knocking for a few hours, and after little success and quite a few Spanish-speaking families, we ran into a gentleman named Ronny, sitting outside in his driveway with his mother. We ended up talking to him for an hour and a half or so about a lot of different things. Ronny was from Venezuela, but spoke really

Yes, I actually had a blast playing football, and our team won! This week has been a whole jumble of things, including my very first exchange, an awesome stake conference in which a member of the Seventy attended, and an incident where my companion got t-boned on his bike. Ultimately, the week has flown by, and I just cannot believe it's P-day again! Starting off the week, as I previously said we had my first zone-wide exchange.  Basically how an exchange works is our zone, leaders choose one elder or sister from every companionship, and exchange them with another companionship in another area. This provides not only a brief and fun change of scenery, but it also gives us a chance to see how other missionaries work, and certain ways that they go about their day, that you might implement to your own area and companionship. For the exchange, I ended up spending the day with Elder Bester in the Riverside Park area, Spanish-speaking. Our zone leaders thought it would be good fo