Elder Henry Horsley

Hello everyone! I hope this week has brought you much joy and tranquility like it has for me. I found out on Monday night that I will be training this transfer. I was decently surprised that I was gonna be training, but I was pretty excited that I was gonna get the opportunity to do it. This news brought me back to the exquisite times of my training, living with my beloved Elder Campbell, being objectified and loved by my best friend Peter Chen, and teaching and baptizing some amazing people. After I thought about that I was so excited for my new little man to experience what I had experienced. Then I started to remember the negative parts of the beginning of my mission. I remembered how scared and sad and alone I felt when I first got to the mission. I remembered how badly I wanted to give up and go home. Remembering this worried me because I really did not want my new companion to have to feel the way that I felt. When I picked up my sweet Elder Yee I noticed something different in h...

When I first got to Texas I remember meeting this one missionary named Elder Guzman. When I first met Elder Guzman I didn’t think he was real. He was perfectly obedient, insanely hard working, and he always had a smile on his face through the fun and the not fun parts of missionary work. In my mind I was like “nerd” and kinda just disregarded the example he was setting. The fun things to do as a missionary was stuff like cool lessons with people or baptisms, and I very much enjoyed doing the fun stuff and it was easy for me to keep a smile on my face and work hard with that stuff. But when I had to do things like language study I just wanted to evaporate, it put me in such a bad mood (ask Elder Campbell he can confirm). It was crazy to me that Elder Guzman enjoyed putting maximum effort into every single thing he did. I was blown away that he was doing all of these things that sounded literally so horrible to me and he was still the happiest missionary that I knew. After a while I foun...

Ahhh ni hao all of my loved ones, I miss you all so much and I hope you are doing splendid wherever you are. My mission has been pretty neat and I am so thankful for it. My spiritual thought this week comes from literally my favorite activity ever, which is doing baptismal interviews. This week I got to interview a fella named Dominick. Dominick is a big theater guy and does a lot of plays and stuff like that. I don’t think he was super sure about me at first and then one time I told him that I saw the play Wicked and now me and him are as tight as two people can be. So me and him met this Wednesday to do his baptismal interview. We started by talking about plays for a considerable portion of time, and then we did the baptismal interview. He passed with flying colors and then asked if I could be the first person he bore his full testimony to. I obviously said yes and then 45 minutes later he finished and I was beyond inspired. Dominick has had some super hard stuff in his life (very co...

Hello everyone I would just like to say that I love you all so much I would also like to declare that I love my mission so much and I would also like to give my spiritual thought today on a lot less depressing of a topic: seed planting. So seed planting is pretty much a small interaction that missionaries have with people that “plants a seed” in them, and then in the future that seed grows into something like meeting with the missionaries again or going to church or getting baptized or something. For those of you not following let me put this in Lorax terms: the city of Thneedville was living in great apostasy. The people were all brainwashed by the billionaire tycoon himself Aloysius O'hare. O’hare told the people that they didn’t need anything new and they just needed his cool hip air. And they believed him. Until Ted got sus of this whole brainwashing from O’hare so he decided to go talk to the Onceler. Then the Onceler helped him to see the great state of apostasy that his peop...