Elder Kasey Lightheart

  Walking to lunch. And just like that I've completed my first full week in Brazil! Or rather I should say my 2nd, 1st full week in Brazil. Haha! It's been a really fun and crazy week! It's been a little long, but that's to be expected and it's been a great week nonetheless. On Tuesday, we took an Uber early in the morning, down to the mission office for some further training for us new missionaries and our trainers as well. It was actually really nice to see the other American missionaries again and see how they were doing. We all admitted that our trainers had been working us super hard with studying the language, but that's not a bad thing at all. It was amazing to me how much we all improved in just a few days. One elder, Elder Gannon, who is super pale, showed up completely red. Yeah, he got very sun burnt. But we had a short meeting with our mission president, then all together with our trainers too, and then had pizza for lunch.  Home-made pizza! I also h...

  Me and my companion, Elder Souza Hello everyone! This week has been crazy! On Wednesday night I drove down with Elder Kofford to Grand Rapids, Michigan to do a little companion swap, and stayed the night with a couple elders in Lansing. The next morning President and Sister Heap picked me up, and I departed for Brazil. Now I am here, in São Paulo again, about the same time of year as last year when I first went to Brazil.  I am honestly so excited to be here again.  The work and mission culture is definitely very different, but I know that I will come to love this mission.  My new companion's name is Elder Souza, and he has about 2 months left on his mission.  He actually served in Ghana Africa, English speaking, so he speaks very good English.  He is an awesome guy, and super funny, yet hard working as well. Currently, I am serving in the area Bras Cubas, a smaller part of the mission, but still not super rural.  I actually quite like the ward ...

  Comp Pic! Boy has it been a crazy week! From crazy winter storms, to filming all over our area, we had a super fun week, full of surprises! Towards the beginning of the week we decided to make a video showcasing parts of our area, and introducing who we are as missionaries. We decided to implement a few cool transitions like "slap", "slide", and "jump" transitions. It was super fun to plan out, and also gave us a chance to drive around a lot. We drove to about 5 other towns in our area to film like 3 seconds each of a welcome sign, and also showcased a little of South Haven, including our church building. Unfortunately, we have been struggling to edit the footage, since neither of the editing apps we have can read the high quality footage that Elder Kofford took on his Go Pro. But hopefully, we can figure it out! However, I might be gone before we do... nonetheless, it was a super fun couple of days filming.  Exploring our area More pics at the lighthous...

A cool Chinese restaurant statue Do you ever have those weeks that the days seem super slow, and then you look back and think, how is it already over? I felt that big time this week. Some days were very slow, yet I woke up this morning and felt like my last P-day happened just the other day. Its crazy how that works. Nonetheless, this was a very fun week, and one of the more memorable at that. Elder Kofford and I managed to set a mission record this week for Facebook contacts. We managed to get 108 new contacts this week, meaning we received 108 new responses from people on Facebook. Now don't get me wrong, not all of them were great conversations, but many were good! We managed to make a couple new solid friends, and met quite a few other people who were somewhat interested as well! Part of the reason why we worked so hard was because of a little competition we have been having in our zone. Basically, one of our zone leaders created a bot that gives us a "quest" each day...