Elder Kasey Lightheart

  Lake Huron Selfie! Hello again everyone! Another week has gone by, and boy has it been great!  One of the highlights of this week was meeting with our friend Ben so much. We met with him 3 times this week, twice for lessons, and a third time to eat at a pizza place called the Gathering Place. It was actually super good pizza, and they had a sale that night, so it was perfect. Unfortunately, Ben had to work on Sunday this week and couldn't come to church, but we talked to him about General Conference next week and he is planning on watching at least some of the sessions.  Pizza with Ben! While walking around the other day we ran into a type of worship service out on the street, in front of the courthouse. We stayed for a little bit while everyone sang songs, and the head person prayed for us missionaries. A guy we had met quite a while ago named Alen was there, and so we got to catch up with him a little bit. After the service was over, we walked with Alen, and he invite...

   Port Austin fun! Hello again y'all! This week has been wonderful! I hope you are all doing well and staying safe. Earlier this week we went over to Sister Pedinger's house again to do some more service. It started with merely clearing out some stuff to set up some pallets for firewood during the winter, and then after a little while, we started pruning trees with any tool we could find. She had 3 clippers, and a saw, but we had to improvise with a huge dull axe (a bad axe 😆) and a rake for the rest since there were 6 of us. Let's just say, it was hard work, but super fun. We worked for about 3 hours and pruned back all that she needed. Although, we didn't have time to help take care of the brush on the ground. Service time. After service, we rushed back home, showered, and got dressed, in order to head to a lesson. This time with our miracle friend Ben, who came to church last Sunday. He's quite the interesting guy! In his apartment, he had a Lord of the Rings R...

Welcoming Elder Seeley to Bad Axe! Yet another week gone by and the start of a brand new transfer! On Tuesday we picked up our new companion, Elder Seeley, who was also originally called to serve in Brazil, and was there for about 6 months before Covid-19 hit. He is a really cool guy and is helping me to learn more Portuguese as well! Even Elder Christiansen, my other companion, downloaded Duolingo and wants to learn the basics so he can come home and mess with his family. As for the Elders down the street, Elder Earle left and Elder Huntsman picked up Elder Sherman, and a couple days later Elder Corry, who is a brand new missionary! Elder Sherman himself is 6'3, so a pretty tall guy, but Elder Corry is 6'7! He's as tall as our mission president, President Heap. But now we have 6 Elders living on one street and one car with 5 seats... yeah it's been interesting working out the car situation, but we are making it work! Twice this week we drove down to Sister Pedinger...

  Fried potatoes, onions and beef. Yum! Hello everyone! This week has been great! With a new transfer starting, many missionaries are moving around, and we are even getting about 38 new missionaries in the next few weeks. These are exciting times for sure! For me personally, my current companion and I will be staying in Bad Axe, but we will be getting a reassigned missionary who was previously serving in Mexico. Earlier this week my companion and I decided to drive down to a town just on the borders of our area that we hadn't been to yet (or so we thought), called Sebewaing. It turned out to be about as big as Bad Axe! While walking around, we ran into two older ladies who were cleaning up a garage sale. We had a great talk with them, and they both accepted Books of Mormon. As we continued to walk down a main road in the town, we noticed a McDonalds that seemed familiar. Turns out we had driven through this town many times. Whenever we drove down for zone conference or transfers, w...

Panda Express with some Elders Hello again everyone! I apologize if this email is a little shorter than usual, but I will try to include as much as I can! This week we met two different pastors from two different churches and had some really nice talks with them. We also met a quiet, but super cool man, named Shane, on the street walking home. As we talked with him about the Book of Mormon, his countenance had a noticeable change, and by the end he gladly accepted a copy. We also had an awesome Sunday devotional in which Cinco, the main writer for Despicable Me talked to us! He had a really cool life story, and is actually a member of our church. He served a mission years ago in Japan, and after having a child, decided against becoming a pop music artist, and settled for becoming a movie screen writer. Yeah, he is very talented and smart, and attended college years ago at Yale. He even wrote years ago a song about the Book of Mormon and sang it to us over Zoom. It was AWESOME! Zoom cal...