Elder Henry Horsley

Hello everyone! I definitely missed yall a lot this week, I really hope that each of you are doing well! "Thou shalt have no other gods before me" This phrase is said like a billion times throughout the Old Testament and after a call with my parents I think I am starting to understand why. To be frank with you I thought I had never worshipped another god, but as I have been out on my mission more I recognize that I do have other gods that heavily influence me. My mission has been especially hard for me recently, and I have been super discouraged and I just didn't know why. I realize now that one of my main gods, foundations, and driving factors in my life was the praise of this world. I love it when people know the good that I do and they praise me for it, and I think I started to forget my real God and I chose to chase after that god. That god has nothing for me, it has only brought me pride and disappointment. I think any other god other than our Heavenly Father will...

What is up everyone I love and miss you! To being frank with yall, this week was a demon haha, but we made it through and valuable lessons were learned! The situation that made this week a demon is sadly classified. But I want everyone on this email list to understand that I believe we can either be focused on our own sadness or pain, and just constantly dwell on it. Or we can help someone else. Doing that this week healed me from these classified hardships, and I know they can heal you from your own classified hardships. I like this quote: "you often bury your trouble in the hole you pull someone else out of" Despite the classified events, there were still some wonderful things that happened this week: - I was on an exchange with a legend who goes by the name of Elder Banks, and we got out of a super cool lesson with their friend Cesar. We needed to make some calls so Elder Banks was like "Elder Horsley while I report on this find us a restaurant we can call at....

Ni hao everyone I had a lit week! I hope you all did too, cause I love you! Regardless of how you slice it, the movie Madagascar 2 is just a spiritual experience. There is a part in the movie where this cold blooded crew of New Yorkers get stranded in Africa and they are like "We're New Yorkers for crying out loud! When we need water, we build a dam!" and so they go to this river and construct a dam. Plot twist, this dam ends up causing some problems. All of the animals (including my brother Mckay's celebrity crush, Gloria the hippo) suffer because they have no more water. I think that in our lives we all have our own river, and we can choose to let it flow or dam it. When we dam(n) ourselves, we almost always do it because of selfishness. In my opinion everyone on this email list is super cool and has the opportunity to have such a big impact on many many people. If we are constantly obsessed with ourselves, we will never have that impact, our water will never flow....

The Lord has immensely blessed my life this week with daylight savings. Yesterday it was 7:50 PM and still bright, I felt like one of the Nephites when Christ was born. I am overjoyed. I also love and miss all of you! Ok for the spiritual thought today I wanna tell you a story about my elite friend Sonia (with her permission). I remember teaching Sonia about the word of wisdom a little more than a year ago. She was so elect, but legit could not go more than 1.5 days without drinking (that was her record). We tried so hard to help her but it just didn't work out, and I was quite sad about it. Sonia soon had to go back to Malaysia and I was really worried for her cause she had a super bad situation over there. Anyways, she goes back and like 3 months after that I get a text from Sonia and she says: "thank you for your prayers Elder Horsley, I have completely stopped drinking alcohol, God has blessed me so much." At first I didn't even know if I believed that or not. ...

Hallo what is up! I actually love and miss you all! I saw God's hand frequently in my life this week, it was awesome! This week I felt that with the Lord's help I was able to do a lot of wonderful things, but there was one thing from this week that I very much regret. We were having a lesson with our friend in this hot and really loud restaurant. God bless him, but judas he was a quiet talker haha. Idk what my problem is, but throughout my life when I've had a quiet talker on my hands, I just become a terrible person. We were trying to explain to him how we can only teach people who wanna come to church, and he kept making his rebuttal that he doesn't wanna come to church, but he only wants lessons. After like fifteen times through the exact same conversation I could barely hear, I just started being impatient with him and giving him a little sass. I wasn't mean, but I just wasn't as kind to him as I should've been. I didn't think it was a big deal, but...