Elder Henry Horsley

95% of the people I teach and talk to are immigrants from China who came to America by themselves. Lots of them tell me that they feel alone. I have come to the conclusion that the idea of being alone is false and stupid. It is impossible to be alone. How could you be alone, when somebody literally lived AND died for you? How can you be alone when no matter what you do, good or bad, somebody is gonna stay by your side and love you? How can you be alone when Henry thinks about you 24/7 and loves you so much? Your not alone I promise. I hope you just absolutely marinate in the spirituality of that thought throughout your week, but before that, let me tell you about my tremendous week: - At the beginning of the week Ma Na sadly informed us that she could not go to dinner this week. She said she had ordered us a pickup for lunch from a Korean wing place. She knew we liked spicy so she ordered us one spicy and one normal. When the server gave us the wings he was like: "be careful, th...

Gosh I am thankful for so much. I'm thankful for this catering size chicken fried rice that was given to me yesterday, that I am eating as I write this. I am so thankful for everyone everyday who is willing to talk to me and become my friend. I am soooo thankful for my family and friends. Missions are tough and probably impossible for subpar people like me without being thankful. For everyone on a mission, or if your just at home or whatever your doing I challenge you to be more thankful in your life this week, it genuinely changes your mindset and makes you a happier person. I know I have seen it in my own life. Please nobody leak that spiritual thought to church leadership or I may have just landed myself a calling in the Quorum of the 70 lol. This week was wonderous let me tell you some of the wonderous things that happened: - So we had this new friend that we had a lesson with over zoom at the beginning of the week. I was so excited because this new friend is like super ready...

🚨If I don't answer you I have no idea what is happening, my phone is deleting some of the things people send me, so if I don't answer I beg of you: send it again. I love you so much thank you to everyone who reaches out to me.🚨 The mission definitely started off as a like a -2/10, but I am happy to report I now have it at like 10/10. I am so happy and it is so fun. It's not like a branding myself on dare night type of fun and happy though, it is just a pure joy and love for the work I am doing and for the people I am teaching type of happy and fun. Everyday waking up and knowing your only purpose that day is to make the world a little brighter, gosh darn it, I love it. On paper a mission sounds absolutely horrid, but I am a firm believer of: you can choose to be happy in any circumstance. Yes, of course, being away from my family and friends, and living without the ability to flock and mingle, and having to go to bed at 10:30 and having to wake up at 6:30 does not sound ...

My entire mission so far if somebody came up to me with a button where I could press it and it would send me home and there would be like no consequences, I would've without hesitation hit that button with a smile on my face. But not anymore. Ladies and Gentlemen that is how much I like it now. This is great. I miss all of you unlike anything else but like I can see why I need to be here. Such a wonderful week this week: - The week started off great. We went to Wang's house for dinner. Eric's sister and her husband were going to be there, they are not members and Eric wanted us to tell them about our church a little bit. So I was ready for maybe one of my first normal visits with anyone in this branch. We arrived at there house, and oh goodness, there was SOOOO much good food I was so excited. Eric asked me to give the prayer, so naturally I gave a pretty subpar prayer about how thankful we were for the food and the Wangs and the Gospel and stuff. I said Amen. I looked ov...

Dang, I wish someone would have told me to go on a mission before I left. Maybe like a mission story every now and then from someone in my ward would have sufficed. Oh well, I am out anyway. I'm kidding, this leads me to my first point: thank you all who helped get me out here because its actually pretty neat. If you are reading this and thinking to yourself "there is not one thing that I would like to do less than to serve a mission." Trust me I know how you feel very very well. I arguably wanted to come out less than you. But now I am out and plot twist, it is great. Maybe just give it a chance. If you actually hate it after like 6 months, just give up. I'm kidding don't, but like I'm pretty sure you would like it. Now my week: - I had a way cool lesson on Monday. I have been missing Paxton Newell (my friend who passed away in August) a lot and I have been feeling sad because he wanted to go on a mission very badly and I didn't. And guess who is out, m...