Elder Kasey Lightheart

  Fun nature walk, with my new comp! A mission thus far has taught me, unlike anything else, how to handle change, and that change can and should be exciting! This week marked the start of a new transfer, and along with it some big changes. At the start of this week, we drove down to Lansing to pick up my new trainee named Elder Bradford. He's a super cool kid from Portland, Oregon, and is one of the few missionaries originally assigned to Michigan. He actually lived years ago in Eugene, which is pretty cool! Interestingly enough he's got some weird allergies. He is allergic to avocado, carrots and walnuts, and has false allergies to most fruits. Meaning he isn't actually allergic to them, but his brain thinks he is, and causes a reaction. But overall he is a great guy, and I'm sure will grow to be an amazing missionary. Meeting my new comp! The day that we picked Elder Bradford up, my old companion, Elder Seeley, told me there was a cheap piano keyboard at the Goodwill...

  My Caricature :-) Hey guys! How are you all doing? Another crazy week here in Michigan has gone by! From crawlspaces, to early transfers and football, this week was quite fun! My companion Elder Christiansen is a bit of an artist, and is phenomenal at drawing caricatures of people. One of his traditions with each of his companions is to draw a caricature of them and give it to them. Well, since Elder Christiansen is completing his mission and going home in 2 days, he drew his last 2 caricatures for me and Elder Seeley. I'll attach a picture of it to this blog (actually my mom decided to place it at the top of the post), but man is it good!! I'm seriously so impressed by how accurate he can make the faces when he draws people. Like I could only dream of being able to draw that good! This week we also had tradeoffs with the Caro district, and they came down here to Bad Axe. Mainly we worked on filming a new video to post to Facebook, but midway through filming this couple pulle...

  Freshly baked donuts! Another awesome week has gone by! I hope you are all doing well and were able to tune in to general conference this last weekend. This time around my week wasn't too eventful, but I'll try to include as much as I can remember regardless! This transfer we had originally heard that we wouldn't be having a zone conference, where all the elders and sisters in our zone get to meet together. However, this week we found out that we will in fact be having zone conference, as well as interviews with our mission president our last week of the transfer! As excited as we are, we are also a little nervous. So we get allotted a certain amount of miles each month that we are to try to not go over on. Well, last month we went over a little bit, which wasn't completely our fault. But this month we are almost doomed to go over. With transfers, interviews, zone conference, and the Saginaw elders taking our car the next 2 Mondays, for their district P-days, we likel...