Elder Kasey Lightheart

  My keyboard that I'll have to leave behind! "Elder Lightheart, how would you feel about returning to your original assignment on Febuary 11th-12th?". "President Heap, that sounds great to me!". This conversation happened two days ago over the phone with my mission president. Looks like I'm going to be returning to my original assignment of the São Paulo Leste, Brazil mission in about 3 weeks!! It was honestly really sudden, and way sooner than I expected, but I am super excited to be heading back. However, I will miss this mission very much and all the people I have met.  This week in South Haven, we certainly saw some miracles! Maybe not the crazy kind of miracles you hear about, someone being super prepared to receive the gospel, or instantly desirous to be baptized, but miracles to us. For one, Elder Kofford and I had 58 new "contacts" or conversations with people on Facebook this week. That number may mean nothing to you, but to us, that'...

  Me and my new companion, Elder Kofford Hello everyone! This was a big week full of huge changes, and boy has it been an adventure. On Tuesday, I said goodbye to Bad Axe and drove down to Mount Pleasant with Elder Bradford to then get on a van with a bunch of other missionaries. The van was about an hour behind schedule so we were all waiting for a while at the church building. At one point someone found a bat in the church building, just chilling on the wall. we weren't sure at first if it was real or fake, but it turned out to be real. After the hour passed the van pulled up and me and a couple of other elders from my district got in the van and drove down to the mission office in Lansing. I was honestly a little scared since I knew nothing about where we would be living, or how we would get there, but luckily, with some asking around, I figured things out. Last pic with Elder Bradford Transfers! (See if you can spot me.) We got the keys to our Malibu, packed our stuff in, and t...

  One last trip to the Beach with Elder Bradford Hello again everyone! Man has this been a crazy week. As you may or may not know, since I arrived in Michigan, I have been serving in Bad Axe, and have been here for about 6 months. Well, I'm finally heading out to a new area! I found out on Saturday that I will be transferring over southwest to a town called South Haven. From the pictures I saw it looks really cool, and is directly on the coast! I figured when I got transferred that I would be landlocked, but I'm once again stationed on the coast, this time on the West Coast of Michigan. That means I'll see the other great lake, Lake Michigan. My new companion will be Elder Kofford who came in with Elder Bradford's group of missionaries, so he's still a pretty new missionary.  I'm excited for Elder Bradford though! He is staying in Bad Axe and, not only did we set one of our friends, Stacy, for a baptismal date last week, but our friend Ben also accepted to be ba...

  District Council   Happy New Year everybody!!! Can you believe it's 2021?! It's going to take some getting used to, as I think we have all used the word "2020" more than we have ever used a year before. It's been so eventful after all. This has been quite an amazing week! We invited our dear friend Stacy to be baptized a few days ago, and she accepted! We set a date for February 20th and we are so excited for her!!! It's very likely that I will be leaving Bad Axe in about a week at the end of this transfer, so I won't be there for the baptism, but its still super exciting!! We also had a fun New Years Eve! We bought some Martinellis and played some Chess and Chinese Checkers. We also ate lots of chips and sweets (as we still have lots of sweets). It was a little uneventful of a New Years Eve, but that's totally okay. Immediately after New Years we have begun to set mission-wide and zone-wide goals, which is super exciting.  This P-day was super fun a...