Elder Henry Horsley

Howdy all of my dearest loved ones, I love you all and I hope that is abundantly clear! It is blowing my literal mind that some of you are graduating, and some of you are getting married, and some of you also invested in NVIDIA with me (huzzah), and some of you are doing other things and that is great. There are so many great things going on, and whatever is going on in your life I would just like to say congrats and well done and I miss you. The thought that these literal children the grade below me are now graduating has left me in awe this week. I remember a little more than a year ago when I was getting close to graduation and I decided to go on a mission. I decided that I was gonna go to Taiwan on my mission and I was hyped about that. Over spring break I was in Universal Studios with my family and I remember getting the text that said my call had arrived. I got really excited and mozied my way into a nearby Irish pub excited to open my call to Taiwan. I opened it up and it was l...

Howdy everyone, I hope you had a great week! I love and miss you! So this week on Friday we were supposed to have a baptism for our friend Shanti. Shanti had been coming to church and progressing and she had been loving the lessons so much. She passed her baptismal interview on Tuesday, and we had the whole baptism planned, so the last thing we had to do was fill out her baptismal form with her on Thursday. We got there on Thursday and out of the blue she told us she didn't want to be baptized and that she didn't believe in this message and the only reason she ever wanted to be baptized was her ex boyfriend Keyjun. Judas, this took a literal chunk out of my soul. I felt like I had given everything I had to Shanti and she was just 24 hours away from making this great decision, it was just really really sad. Later that day Elder Yee had to go to the urgent care so I was left alone outside waiting for him to do his thing. I was going through this whole Shanti situation in my mind...

Howdy everyone, before I get into the email today I just want to wish every single Mom reading this a HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY! Moms are so amazing and my Mom is the most amazing of them all by far, and I am so eternally grateful for my Mom and my Grandma's and my Aunts and every other Mom out there! You guys make me want to dedicate every fiber of my soul to the feminist movement, you are so incredible and I am so incredibly thankful for what y'all do! Actually, since it seems that about 2/3 of the people who read my emails are Moms, I am going to make this spiritual thought about Moms. Have you ever just gone to the south and knocked on the most suspect looking door you have ever seen, and then a Mom who has almost nothing opens the door and makes you feel insanely loved? Well I experience that just about every single day. Where I am, it is kinda surprising if you see a Mom and a Dad together with their kids. Most of the Dads here leave and don't ever come back. But someth...

POV you are me and you wake up and it's your birthday! You miss your friends and family a lot, but you're super excited that you get to talk with them today. You also share your birthday with your little sister Jane, and so you miss her a little extra. So you call your family in the morning and Jane looks at you and starts sobbing and says that she doesn't want to celebrate her 9th birthday anymore and then proceeds to cry even harder, and then you cry cause you miss her, and then your Mom starts crying because she misses you and feels bad for Jane. This theoretical scenario that I just described actually happened this week on my birthday (thank you to everyone who reached out, it was so nice and it meant so much to me). When I called Jane on Thursday morning it made me very very sad because we are birthday buddies, and all that I wanted for my birthday was for her to have a good day. After she cried for like 5 minutes my Mom finally suggested that Jane open up a present, a...