Elder Kasey Lightheart

  My new trainee, Elder Costa, and I Wow what a week it has been! Starting last P-day I stayed the remainder of the night at the mission office, with the office elders and missionaries going home, and then saw them off at 5 in the morning the next day. Then, after a long while of waiting, my  new companion, Elder Costa, arrived along with 2 other elders and one sister. We had a little meeting, and then ate some pizza, which was actually super good! Most of the pizza I've had here so far hasn't been near as good as the pizza I've had back home, but this place was very good. But after lunch we took an Uber all the way back to Bras Cubas, which was about an hour drive.  Elder Costa is from Santarém, Pará, a city in Brazil, way up in the north, where it is much hotter! He's actually a pretty quiet guy like me, which is interesting, and he loves to play video games. He's very prepared though for a mission! He has a strong testimony, and a big desire to serve.  My new...

  The wonderful Suelen family Hello everyone! Yet another amazing week in the service of the Lord has gone by, and boy am I grateful to be out here! This week, I spent my last few days with Elder Souza, who will be flying home tomorrow morning. I'm definitely gonna miss this hilarious and awesome Elder. It's been a lot of fun serving with him, and learning from him, as he is an amazing missionary, and will certainly be a wonderful member missionary as well. I also found out yesterday that I will be staying in my area, Bras Cubas, and will be training a brand new missionary! I have no idea who he is, or if he will be a Brazilian or not, but nonetheless I am so excited!  This week we also had another lesson with our friend Ana, and invited her to be baptized this next Sunday in which she accepted! Elder Souza is sad to miss the baptism, but happy for her nonetheless. She really has been prepared to receive the gospel, I can tell you that much. There are a few things still left t...

  Feliz Dia das Mães!!! Or rather Happy Mother's Day everybody! This week was awesome as always, with a particular day of the week full of miracles that I am excited to share.  Towards the start of this week we had a meeting with all the zone leaders to discuss the training of all the missionaries, and how the work is going. It was a great meeting, but best of all, I finally got to see my MTC comp, Elder Morales, in person again! He hasn't changed a bit since I last saw him. Okay maybe a little, but it was awesome to talk with him again. For Mother's Day as well, Elder Souza and I were trying to come up with something musical we could do for our moms, but couldn't figure out anyway with just our phone to play music and record at the same time. I attempted to play piano and sing at the same time, but let me tell you, it's much harder than it looks. So ultimately, we just resorted to singing acapella. But it was also very nice to call my mom and grandma on Sunday as w...

  On our way to Zone Conference! Zone Conference!! By far the highlight of my week this time around was finally getting to meet as a zone in person for our conference. I'll admit, I was super nervous to give my first ever training in a zone conference, and certainly stressed more than I needed to, but the hard work and worry paid off. I ended up getting a lot of compliments afterwards, especially about an analogy I used about the growth of a butterfly. After about 4 hours of training, we all went outside to eat some burgers and fries, and play games. I wanted to play soccer with all the Brazilians, but there are no other American elders in my zone, and I didn't want to be the only American playing, so I chickened out. But I ended up playing some Uno and Phase 10 with a few elders and sisters, which was super fun. Afterwards, we took a big group photo, and returned to our areas, Elder Souza and I ensuring that every missionary went back to their area on time. Picture with Elder ...