Elder Henry Horsley

"I wish you knew you were in the good old days before they were over" -Andy from the office. Yep that quote is slapping right now. I miss my dearest most wholesome scrumptious little companion Elder Campbell. I never thought that I would miss him this much, but good heavens I do. I like my new companion, but Elder Campbell seriously was just a cool guy honestly. I loved talking to him. My favorite all time quote from him was when I was talking to him one night about dare night. Dare night is this thing that my high school did where you were like basically on a date and did a bunch of dares with your team, and it was pretty hype. I told Elder Campbell how for one of the dares I got a brand on my posterior and he was a bit shaken up that someone would even do that, so I instead gave him a much more wholesome example of what I did that night. I told him how me and Lexi both put pop rocks in our mouths, and then just kissed for moment (don't worry mother it wasn't that in...

AHHHHHH it's Christmas tomorrow! Being a missionary during Christmas is really weird but cool. Spending Christmas with Elder Campbell instead of my family is not as enjoyable as you might think, but the part that is so cool about it is that I am able to serve Christ the best I possibly can during this season when we celebrate His birth. That is the only Christmas gift I have ever been given that can top my OneWheel I got last year: The birth of our Savior. I am so greatful for Him, because without him I would be nothing and have literally no purpose. We all know the song "Here Comes Santa Claus." It's the song that talks about like reindeers and Santa coming to your residence and I forgot what else happens, because I really only remember the second verse. Not many people know the second verse, because all of the dumb San Fransisco/Portland type people want us to forget it, so when this song plays on the radio or when it's in a movie or something, they usually only...

I used to think that the only people who could pray for cool things were people in the scriptures. I thought that people like me could only pray for lame stuff like moisture and service opportunities. I remember multiple times back home praying that my student gov leaders would stop being bums and give me an A, or that my dad would just straight up forget that we needed to mow the lawn, or that women would find me insanely attractive, pretty much just stuff like that. But for some reason none of those ever worked. I would wake up excited to see this whole prayer thing work, and my Dad would be like "lets mow the lawn son" and I'd be like: "dang it, welp, I guess prayer doesn't work, oh well." Well guess what I figured out? Prayer does work. Quite well. I found out that it is about your intentions. I realize now that there is a difference between 6th grade me praying to wake up with a medical emergency so I can skip mountain bike practice and missionary me pr...

So every year me and my family go to disneyland with our neighbors the Andrewsen's. Think about the most fun thing you have ever done and times it by like 8, and that's pretty much what this experience is like. This year we went (without Mckay and Lance gosh darn it) on August 3rd and 4th, and good heavens, it was sooooo fun. I became a missionary on August 6th. Idk what I thought being a missionary would be like, but I will just say that being a missionary was not even close to as fun as disneyland. I went from mobbing on the dang Incredicoaster with my family and the Andrewsen's (except my Dad, he "claims" it makes him sick and he is just there for the family time idk) to like being a missionary and my new option for fun was like pondering or journaling ughhhh. Again I don't think I 100% grasped what you were supposed to do on mission, but let me tell you, this was quite the letdown. Once I got to the MTC I was just praying that this whole mission thing woul...

Before my mission I heard a lot of people say "my biggest regret of my mission is that I didn't treat my companions as nicely as I should've." When I first got to the MTC I was literally given the GOAT companion at the start, my boy Elder Francom. Not only was he amazing, but the other missionaries in my district were literally celestial beings. I haven't heard from many of them, but I straight up wouldn't be surprised to hear that they have been exalted already (I love you guys). At the MTC me and the boys of the district did not throughouly grasp the rules of being a missionary, so we were all pretty much companions and it was wonderful. If someone wasn't feeling it and wanted to stay at the dorm we, would totally just be like "COMP SWAP!" or we would just straight up leave them behind completely alone and go on our merry way, and literally no one thought twice haha. Ah those were the days. Being around these people 24/7 was sooooo easy, and I ...