Elder Henry Horsley

Oh my I love and miss all of you! I hope you had a great week, I for sure did! I am feeling God's love more for me and for the people I interact with every day. That is all I could ever ask for. I was DEEP in thought this week and this question came to me: "from my efforts, would ____ be different if I wasn't there?" A true follower of Jesus Christ is one who initiates positive change in everyone and everything around them. So if I attest to be a true and genuine follower, my answer should never be "no" to that question. I feel as if I ever leave someone, a situation, a place, or an experience the same that I found it then I have failed. If many of you came to understand the enormous impact you have had on me throughout my life, I believe you would truly understand the potential you have to create positive change in people's lives, like you have done in mine. I am very grateful to each of you for that. Continue to "let your light so shine" ...

ni hao everyone! I hope each of you had just the best week, my week was pretty great! We just got transfer news and I rejoice to inform you that I get to die in the Chinese branch with these people who have come to feel like family to me! We had just the most elite baptism this week for our friend Shi Jun Hua. Shi Jun Hua is one of the most humble and purely good people I have ever met in my entire life. Everytime I go to his home I leave feeling like my bladder is about to explode. The amount of bottled water I consume each time I visit his home would blow your mind. Shi Jun Hua is someone who really understands what the Savior meant when he said: "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another." As a missionary I don't have many temporal things to offer people, so as of things pertaining to the world I am pretty much useless. But I can offer a message of hope and purpose like we did to Shi Jun Hua. When ...

What is up everyone?! Hope your week went swimmingly, mine did. "Behold, I am the law, and the light. Look unto me, and endure to the end, and ye shall live; for unto him that endureth to the end will I give eternal life." Everyone, including me, is looking for light. I've noticed in my life and in other's lives that we often fall victim to darkness disguised as light. We look to things like lust or riches to lighten our lives, but in all reality those things leave us with more darkness than we started. I feel like I have experienced every possible emotion while on my mission, but I think one day I will forget almost all of them. But I know I will always remember the light. I am grateful for that and I would encourage everyone reading this to seek after true light. Forget everything I just said, you will remember only one thing from your mission: leadership assignments. Just kidding haha I love you all here are some great things from this week: - We had the most l...

Hey everyone I love and I miss you! I hope you had a great week! "But what could I have done more in my vineyard? Have I slackened mine hand, that I have not nourished it? Nay, I have nourished it... I have stretched forth mine hand almost all the day long, and the end draweth nigh." What does it mean to be nourished? I think we might read that and be like "hm yes I love when God nourishes me with a bunch of money or a hot girlfriend" but in all reality that is the opposite of nourishment. I believe the point of nourishment is growth, and growth is extremely uncomfortable. Nourishment will inevitably be a hard and purifying process, but sometimes we don't realize that that very nourishment process is what will make us bring forth fruit in the last day. Those that bring forth fruit will not be burned when the end comes. Idk what my point here is but I wanna be one of those who brings forth fruit at the last day. The cost is great, but the reward is far greater...

Hey everyone, hope you've all had a blessed week! My week has been lit with my dearest Elder Romney, we truly are as tight as a dish. It's cool because I lowkey thought at the end of my mission it'd be a demon to go out and grind, false, all I want to do is the absolute best I can do before it's gone. "For whosoever will save his life shall lose it; and whosoever will lose his life for my sake shall find it." I think that part of losing your life for Christ's sake is really choosing to love one another as He has loved us. I see that every single time I am with the members of the Chinese branch. I am shocked with their ability to care about about some random dude from Utah more than themselves. You legit cannot go into one of their home's without being given food. You can't leave without feeling loved. It is insane and I wish that I could sufficiently type how it feels but I cannot. They just truly have forgotten themselves and I wanna be like tha...