Elder Henry Horsley

Howdy everyone I hope y'all are having a fantastic summer break! Someone go swim in a dang pool for me that sounds wondrous. My first decree for when I come home is that everyone is invited to my house for a swim party with plenty of friends, plenty of booze, and a guaranteed great time (no booze though). I am feeling spiritual right now so let's see what I can whip up with this spiritual thought: Something that I have really noticed on my mission is that everything is tied back to love. A good missionary cares, a great missionary loves. I think that the Beatles put it best when they say "all you need is love." If all I had left was love, I would have everything in my life that I needed because everything in my life that actually matters is centered around love. If I had everything taken away from me except love I would still have my family, my friends, possibly a super hot spouse, and this gospel which is centered on love. I was listening to this talk earlier this w...

Howdy everyone I hope y'all know how much I love you and miss you! This week was so bittersweet because I got transferred from a place that I love so dearly (Tyler) to a place that I love so dearly (Plano Chinese branch). The branch is just as unhinged as I remember and I love them so much! Ok so we had a super cool miracle this week with our friend Danny. Danny was one of the first people that I met on my mission and me and him quickly became really good friends. Danny had been taught by missionaries in Maryland before but he never got baptized. At first I was like "wait let's just baptize this guy" little did I know that isn't how missionary work works. At the beginning of my mission we were teaching Danny every week, and every time I felt like the lessons were just going incredible. I would invite him to church every single week, but he refused to come. I noticed that every time I would talk to him his faith had declined more and more. I started to get so disc...

Howdy everyone I love and miss y'all! It's crazy that a year ago I was on my senior trip in newport. That was neat but my gosh it was nothing compared to this mission. I am hyped for all of you who are about to go, it is life changing. (I desperately want to see what happens to all of you going so plz add me to your email list) Actually, change is what I want to talk about for today's spiritual thought. It feels like every single day someone explains to me why change is impossible for them. Before I refute that claim let me tell you a story. Earlier this week I felt prompted to go back to the place where we got fentanyled and where we had to make ourselves throw up. We got there and my boys Tyler, Nathan, and Blake were so hyped to see us. We started talking (outside of the apartment hallelujah) and eventually we got on the topic of change. Tyler decided to tell us that he is officially 1 month and 11 days sober from meth. I was like "congrats Tyler that's amazing...

Ahhhh Texas is messing me up. I swore against country music prior to this whole mission thing, but now honestly it slaps. Not your dumb white girl country, no I am talking real East Texas down a couple of beers in your truck while holding your unregistered firearm type country music. Oh it is so good. But ya I miss y'all I hope you had a great week! This week I was honestly so impressed with the faith of one of our friends. He was planning on being baptized this last Friday and he was so insanely excited about it, but sadly that is not a possibility right now. When he was younger he was accused of a very serious crime that he didn't commit. This man is physically incapable of lying and the evidence that they had on him was so lame and pathetic, so I knew that he didn't do what they said he did. We learned that he is not going to be able to be baptized for a while and it actually broke my heart. I felt empty and miserable as we had to tell him that he couldn't be baptiz...