Elder McKay Horsley

It was a wonderful two weeks, with some stressful moments here and there but overall good. First things first is I said I would write emails every week for the rest of my mission 2 weeks ago, I have repented for last week and will be trying again. The adversary is exhorting all of his tactics to stop me from writing these emails (don't want to) but it's a good thing that the strongest warriors (me) get the hardest challenges (writing emails). I consider this my Job arch. This week I got the blessed opportunity to go outside and not freeze my toes off. There is quite literally no greater degree of gratitude one can feel when going outside for a 2 hour finding block without 3 pairs of pants on and 5 layers of coats. The utter joy from wearing a short sleeve shirt is unimaginable. We had the blessed opportunity to use our Chinese to teach the Law of Chastity twice this week to some fellas who had a LOT of specific in depth technical term questions. I will concede I have not yet ...

Hello everyone, I'm going to try and write one of these every week now for the rest of my mission, so we're going to hit a solid email 180 to finish my mission off. I feel like I'm beating a dead horse everytime I bring up the weather up here because I talk about it all the time, but it really has a huge effect on everything we do. It also has to be nearly the least exciting topic to talk about, but this week was pretty consistently -15 or -20 celsius. Although, other than this week, it's been a light winter. On the other hand, the upside to the weather is that the police are finally getting off our tails because they don't want to be outside. I was informed by President and Sister Barth this week that I have about 50% of all reported "getting kicked off the train station" moments in the mission in the last little while. They told me I needed to stop cooking so hard directly in front of the city officials. The church is getting lawyers involved now becaus...