Elder Henry Horsley

What up everyone I love being a missionary, it's the best thing ever! I love and miss y'all so much I hope life is amazing for you! Alright tbh when I found out I was coming back here to the Chinese branch 2 months ago I was slightly disappointed. I was so hyped being an English missionary because, uh idk how to say it, just being an English missionary was legendary. I found out I was coming back here to the branch and I love these people with all my heart, but out of pride I guess I thought my efforts would go unnoticed because the branch is difficult and it is just so different from all other missionary work in this mission. I remember coming back and reading a poem that my dad gave to me when I left for my mission (the mission has gotten me dependent on inspirational poems haha), the poem says: "Father, where shall I work today?" And My love flowed warm and free. Then He pointed out a tiny spot And said, "Tend that for me." I answered quickly, "Oh ...

Howdy everyone! I love my mission and I love you! I hope that everything in your life is just going swimmingly and I hope that you know that you mean a lot to me! I have just loved being a missionary these last 50 weeks. I have found such a great love for the people that I get to go out and serve every single day. Some people say to me "man it must be so hard to be a missionary, I'm so sorry" but in my mind I feel like a Chick fil a employee because everything I get to do all day truly is my pleasure. A mission is definitely a hard thing and think sometimes too many of us missionaries just get way too lost in that. I read too many missionary emails every week that just talk about the negatives of the mission and it makes me so sad. Jesus Christ could've fully gotten lost in how impossible and difficult it was to atone for the sins of the world, but He didn't, He turned completely outward and focused only on the love He had for us. The atonement seems to always be...

Hello everyone! I hope you are all doing great and loving life right now. I definitely am, I am so grateful for my mission it has been such a wonderful thing. I have recently been reading all of my journal entries from my mission so far and my goodness, I was so lame. When I was reading some of the things that I wrote I was just so disappointed in myself. Some things I wrote were so prideful and just unkind. I remember having a hard time at the beginning of my mission but I just don't think I realized how much anger was controlling me. I was thinking to myself "oh how I wish I could go back and be nicer or less prideful." I feel like that happens a lot in my life, I wish so bad that I could go back and right a wrong. I am so imperfect it is insane. That is why people like me need a Savior so badly. Because of Him I am able to take these lame things that I have done and just move on and be forgiven. One of my favorite scriptures says: "For I will be merciful to the...

What up everyone I hope y'all had a great fourth of July! I definitely did, I got to hang out with my boy Elder Waters all night, shoutout to him and Jack Barlow (they look the same) and to all the ladies reading this, he goes home momentarily and if I were you, I'd get on that quick before he's taken. He is a tall, good looking dude, super strong testimony, he's got a great personality, and he's got probably the most impressive model train collection you will ever see. So ya, definitely procure that for yourself. The Lord is always so clutch when we put our trust in Him. We have this friend named Billy and I have spent a great portion of my mission trying to help Billy get baptized. I love him so much and I really care about him, so I wanted him to take this wonderful step so badly. Last week we had a lesson with him and I started being pushy with Billy about baptism and I sincerely regret doing that. After that lesson I realized that I alone could not help Billy ...

Ni hao everyone I hope y'all are about to have a splendid 4th of July. This time last year I was lighting my friends up in a church parking lot with roman candles, now I'm lighting the people of Texas up with roman candles except these ones are filled with the good news of the restoration of the gospel. Both experiences have been great. This week we were having a phone call lesson with our super dope friend Joanna. When I am teaching people I love to tell them how I found them. During this lesson with Joanna the Spirit told me that I should tell her how I found her and her Mom Yan. This prompting was incredibly easy to follow because I love doing that and also I remember that experience so vividly. It was about 6 months ago when I was dying for some Costco pizza, so we went to Costco for lunch. We got there and I quickly noticed that there was a multitude of Chinese people in this Costco. This made me very excited, so I ordered my food and meandered my way over to these two Ch...