Elder Henry Horsley

Hallo everyone! Hope everyone's week went swimmingly! K I've been thinking. In our lives we hit our highs and we hit our lows. When we are at our highs we stand up tall and proud and we are like "God look! I am doing so good!" We think "man things couldn't get any better" then BOOM we get hit from behind with something hard. Over and over again, and we are like "God how could you do this to me?" And eventually we fall. Plot twist that is literally what God wanted for us the whole time. It's daunting when we fall to our knees, it's a very lonely thing. We soon realize that the only thing we can do is to pray. I felt that this week, I needed the Lord over and over and over again. I always do. After falling down a bunch I realize why I must fall. We all will fall, but the best part is that we don't have to get back up alone. My heavens I love how that works. I love being in the YSA but judassss like every single YSA is so down to tex...

Howdy everyone! We have transfers this week and I am going to do some YSA work which I am just tickled about. I have consistently missed all of you throughout my mission, I really do love each of you. I have just been so blessed with the family I have, they mean everything to me. For my spiritual thought today I legit just want to share something I learned from each of them: Dad: Throughout my entire life I have never once seen my Dad do anything for his own gain. Everything my Dad does is fueled by the two greatest commandments. I feel as if my Dad is completely rid of pride, and because of him I want to turn outward in every situation just like my Dad. Mom: My Mom loves me more than anyone in this whole world does. My Mom is the greatest example to me of what it means to care about someone more than herself. My entire life she has put me and my family's needs and wants above her's. I pray to one day be able to share as Christlike love as my Mom does. Calder: My brother Ca...

Welp, I'm at 18 months now which is crazy. This feels similar to when I was fat and ran cross country. The sisters in my MTC district just finished their missions (congrats) and this feeling is like nearly identical to when I was like .7 miles into my 3 mile races and people would be finishing. But just like fat Henry, I will finish. I feel just beyond blessed with the 3 areas I have served in and all of the amazing people I have met. I love and miss all of you! I saw pure Christlike love from someone this week. I was on an exchange in the Chinese branch this week and it literally felt like a vacation to heaven. We got to go to lunch with my super good friend Yan who I met about a year ago, and when I saw her she lovingly greeted me with a non-optional hug and we were just hyped to be reunited! We sat down and she started asking me about each member of my family, and somehow, someway, she remembered their names and was asking specific questions about each person. She said when I f...

My oh my hello everyone! Shoutout everyone cause I love and miss all of you! An especial shoutout to Lance for obtaining a job where he combats the very illness that plagues him. Very honorable. So if you don't already know, my oldest brother Calder whomst is knee deep in the finance program and no longer an eligible bachelor (shoutout Erika), had quite the mission experience. Calder got reassigned cause of covid to the Texas Dallas West mission then after like 8 months there he got to go to his original assignment in Ukraine. Then Russia declared war on him so he got sent to Germany to finish his mission. Every Monday in our mission we have a zoom call where we go over everyone who was baptized that week and it shows you all of the missionaries who taught that person. There was this dude named Brian Akin who got baptized, and I saw that the very first name to teach him was Elder Calder Horsley. Oh my I was SHOOK when I saw this. Calder literally taught this dude 5 years ago, an...