Elder Calder Horsley

Hey everyone! Sorry, I don't have a ton of time today. I'm gonna keep this short and sweet! I'll just hit the highlights! - I made it to Ukraine! I'm currently serving in Lviv, which is actually the prettiest place ever. Why is Europe actually the coolest? - My companion is a native named Старійшина Орлов. He's the branch president where we are serving, so I'm pretty much the assistant to the regional manager. - Ukrainian is cRaZy haha. All my brain cells are constantly working trying to figure out what the heck is going on. I'm so happy to be here and to be serving the Lord. Jesus is the best, and I invite you all to come to know Him! Read the Book of Mormon and the Bible, and find out the role He plays in your own life. As you come to know Him, you will also come to know just how much He knows you. I LOVE Y'ALL!!! - Старійшина Хорслі

Hey everyone! Well, this was my last full week here in Texas. It's super sad to be leaving, but I know the Lord has a work for me to do in Ukraine. I can't wait to get there! It's bittersweet to leave, but I'll be back to Texas soon enough. I'm just happy that I get to have two missions! Weekly Highlights = - Our friends Tara, Taofiki, Elizabeth, and Freeman all accepted our baptismal invitation! It will be sad to miss their baptisms, along with all the other people we're teaching, but I know they will be in good hands with Elder Gregerson and Elder Hodges. - We had zone conference and that is always fun. It was super fun to see my old companion Elder Ames and talk to a bunch of mission friends. - Lincoln is going to get the priesthood next week! He's such a stud! - Found out I'm going to have around 16 hours of travel to get to Ukraine (that's including layovers). It's going to be cRaZy! - We celebrated Father's day with our friend James. H...

Hey everyone! I hope you an awesome week! I know that we did out here in North Dallas. I'll jump into the highlights! - We had transfers this last week, and I'm staying here in my current area until I go to Ukraine! I'm so happy about it! This officially makes me the longest missionary to ever serve in this ward (as far as we know). - We got someone added to our companionship, so now we're in a trio! It's me, Elder Gregerson, and Elder Hodges! I love both of those guys, and this last week has been the most fun week of my whole mission by far. - We were in a lesson with Lincoln this week, and when we walked out someone's cat just ran into his apartment and hid under one of the couches. He was NOT happy about it 😂 he did a pretty good job of covering it up though. While we tried to cat wrangle he kept walking outside and telling random people "come get your cat". It was hilarious haha - Lincoln also got baptized! It was such an incredible experience! E...

Hey y'all! What a week it was. I'll just jump straight into the highlights, because we had a really good time! It was a great way to end the transfer. - Our bike lock code stopped working one day so we had to have our Elders Quorum president come help us steal our bikes back from the staircase we locked them up on. We spent 15 minutes with a hacksaw just going to town on that thing. Luckily we were in a pretty sketchy area so it looked normal. - Our new ward mission leader speaks French so we've been taking him to all of our French speaking friends' houses and he just balls out and teaches the whole lesson in French. He is an absolute legend. - Our friend James is literally already a member. He introduces his friends to us and tells them they need to get baptized by proper authority. He hasn't even been baptized yet, but he's so excited! - LINCOLN IS GETTING BAPTIZED THIS WEEK! LET'S GOOOO! - We just got transfer news, and both Elder Gregerson and I are sta...

Hey everyone! We had another great week! Here are the highlights: - Coker is a hypebeast. He showed up to church with $700 sunglasses on and kept them on for all of sacrament meeting. He's such a stud. He and his family are also on baptismal date now! Keep them in your prayers, because they are awesome! - We invited our friend James to be baptized as well, and he is now on date! He's super excited. He's from Kenya, so shout out to McKay for bringing some Kenya magic to the family for this week 😝 the members here have been super good at welcoming him, which has been super helpful! - We got a painting of the plan of salvation from an investigator. He made it while he was drunk and we were trying to teach him. That was a crazy lesson. Never have I ever heard more conspiracy theories about aliens than during those 30 minutes. - Angeline and her family came to church again! They are awesome, and we're hoping to invite them to be baptized soon. We just to bring some French ...

Heyo everyone! I'm actually writing my email in the morning today. This is absolutely insane. I can't even tell you the last time I wrote an email with more than 10 minutes left in pday, probably because it was during my training. We had an awesome week, and I wanted to make sure I had enough time to write down all of our cool experiences! - Jeffrey is once again alive. We had been teaching him about a month ago, and then he broke his phone and became homeless. We thought he had died. Alas, he was able to make contact with US this week and he told us he wants to be baptized! That may be a challenge because his life is psycho, but the good news is that he isn't dead! MILAGROS! - We found this huge African family where neither of the parents speak English, but the kids do. They have to translate for us, and also none of them can read. They're awesome though! We helped them get the Book of Mormon app so they could listen to it in French, and they're stoked about it. T...

Hey everyone! This week was awesome! We saw so many miracles. Definitely one of my most favorite weeks of my mission! - Cornelius got baptized! It was so incredible. I got to baptize him, and it was everything we hoped it would be. Cornelius was so happy! Afterwards he bore his testimony and said "I am the happiest man in this building right now, because I am the newest born". He is an absolute stud! Now he's working towards going to the temple, which is awesome! - Our friend Coker cried when we shared the first vision. It was legendary. - We got approved to go knock on doors! Its crazy! Honestly tracting is not that fun but its cool that we have it back haha. - We found some random guy named Ike who was supposed to get baptized in London but then lost contact with the missionaries. He asked us to get him baptized, and we were like "OF COURSE". - Lincoln sits through Gospel Doctrine class like a champ. It's incredible. He is so excited to get baptized, a...