HOME COMING DAY
12-11-17
Hey friends and family!
This is a crazy feeling writing this email. Honestly it doesn't feel real that I will be home anytime soon. This week has been a sprint to the finish for sure. I was a little bummed that one of our investigators baptism got pushed back a week due to some stuff in Salt Lake. I am pumped for Andre to be baptized! This week we also had MLC where we got smart phones. One week left and now we get smart phones, story of my life. It was such a weird feeling holding one and also seeing my companion have one. Weird. Anyway once Saturday hit and we got our transfer calls it hit me that this is it. I kinda just been trying to forget about going home and now it hit me pretty hard. I'm excited to see my family but really sad to leave the mission. I love it here so much but the best part is all the amazing people. Not going to lie it can be hard out here at times. There is rejection, it's cold, it's dark but I'm telling you it's all so worth it! I can't even put into words how grateful I am for being on my mission and meeting those that I have met! I have come to know who my Father in Heaven truly is. I have also come to love my Savior Jesus Christ. I am so thankful for his Atonement and the power to change. Helping people repent and have Faith is the best thing I have ever done. This has been the happiest two years of my life so far! The thing that makes the mission so great and happy is charity you feel for people. Words cannot describe what true charity feels like. When you are able to see someone how Christ sees that person it changes you. This church truly is God Kingdom on earth and I invite all to come and see for yourself. The Book of Mormon is true and Joseph Smith is a prophet of God. It's so simple, all you need to do is ask and excise faith and you can know these things are true too. This is Gods work! I have felt the joy Christ talks about when he tells us how great our joy will be if we bring just one soul unto him. I will always thank my God for these past 2 years! Everyone in Alaska and the Yukon, thank you so much for all the amazing memories! I will never forget you! Everyone back at home, thank you for making this possible. I will see you soon!
My home coming talk will be this Sunday Dec. 17
Rigby 14th Ward @ 11:00 a.m.
602 Sundance
Rigby, Idaho
Hey friends and family!
This is a crazy feeling writing this email. Honestly it doesn't feel real that I will be home anytime soon. This week has been a sprint to the finish for sure. I was a little bummed that one of our investigators baptism got pushed back a week due to some stuff in Salt Lake. I am pumped for Andre to be baptized! This week we also had MLC where we got smart phones. One week left and now we get smart phones, story of my life. It was such a weird feeling holding one and also seeing my companion have one. Weird. Anyway once Saturday hit and we got our transfer calls it hit me that this is it. I kinda just been trying to forget about going home and now it hit me pretty hard. I'm excited to see my family but really sad to leave the mission. I love it here so much but the best part is all the amazing people. Not going to lie it can be hard out here at times. There is rejection, it's cold, it's dark but I'm telling you it's all so worth it! I can't even put into words how grateful I am for being on my mission and meeting those that I have met! I have come to know who my Father in Heaven truly is. I have also come to love my Savior Jesus Christ. I am so thankful for his Atonement and the power to change. Helping people repent and have Faith is the best thing I have ever done. This has been the happiest two years of my life so far! The thing that makes the mission so great and happy is charity you feel for people. Words cannot describe what true charity feels like. When you are able to see someone how Christ sees that person it changes you. This church truly is God Kingdom on earth and I invite all to come and see for yourself. The Book of Mormon is true and Joseph Smith is a prophet of God. It's so simple, all you need to do is ask and excise faith and you can know these things are true too. This is Gods work! I have felt the joy Christ talks about when he tells us how great our joy will be if we bring just one soul unto him. I will always thank my God for these past 2 years! Everyone in Alaska and the Yukon, thank you so much for all the amazing memories! I will never forget you! Everyone back at home, thank you for making this possible. I will see you soon!
My home coming talk will be this Sunday Dec. 17
Rigby 14th Ward @ 11:00 a.m.
602 Sundance
Rigby, Idaho
12-4-17Well it was my last fast Sunday on the mission yesterday. It is crazy to think I got one more Sunday left! This week was crazy and it finally hit me that my time here is coming to an end. On Saturday I hit my 2 year mark of my mission. It was weird to think back on all that. It's been such an amazing 2 years! This isn't my last email so I will save all that stuff for my last one. Any way this week was awesome with Exchanges and teaching and lots of other fun stuff. I went on a Exchanges with one of the new missionaries Elder Brown from Rigby Idaho so it was fun to talk to him about Rigby and all that Idaho stuff. Elder Brown is an amazing Elder with lots of fun energy so we had a great time together. I also went on exchanges with one of my good friends Elder Ryan! It had been awhile since we have been on am Exchange so it was sick to see him again! It's always so fun going on exchanges with him because his this surfer dude from Cali and always wants to "flow" my hair with his blow dryer so I'm always lookin fresh after being with him! While on exchanges with Elder Ryan we went and did a Zone service at a tree lighting celebration in Eagle River, we were directing so it was cold. The funniest part of the service was Elder Brown had one of the stop signs and I guess he got bored so he started playing with the sign, we see cars stopping and going and backing up so we look over at Elder Brown and he is just throwing the sign in the air and confusing all the cars! Man that was super funny! After the service we walked around and talked to people. We even saw Santa and his Reindeer. Of course we got a sweet picture with him. That was a pretty fun service!
The next day which was Saturday was crazy! So we met with President Toone early in the week and we are trying to get every area in the Zone to baptize in December. So we fasted for everyone we are working with and tracted for 4 hours in different missionaries areas. We knocked a lot of doors! It was a good way to celebrate the 2 year mark. I was able to go get some wings for dinner with my friends later that night which a blessing haha. On Sunday I had a surprise visit from one of my childhood friends, Brian Palmer. They moved up to Alaska like 10 years ago and I finally found out where. He came to church and it was cool to catch up with him. It was a trip seeing him. It was like a small taste of what it will be like seeing my friends when I get home. So this will be my last full week but it's ending with a bang. Andre will be baptized this Saturday right after our Ward Christmas party. I am so excited for him! He is doing so great! He has stayed so strong and is so excited to be baptized. It will be something to never forget when he gets baptized. This coming week is a big one for me. I'm excited to end strong! I will keep pushing. I want you to all know that I love my Savior and I am grateful for the Priesthood man he has help me become. Change is real! I love you all and hope to see you really soon!-Elder Barney
11-27-17
Hey guys!
So what a week it has been. First off thanksgiving was crazy! We did it Alaska style and went big with 3 dinners! I have never been more stuffed in my life! The food coma was real! We started the day eating with a part member family who owns an Asian restaurant and had an Asian Thanksgiving. It was delicious and different to eat fried rice ad sesame chicken on Thanksgiving.
- Elder Barney
11-20-17
Hey everyone!
So this week felt forever long but a lot has happened as well. Last Monday was fun because we took a hike to a waterfall. It was cool because everything was frozen so it was different looking. The best part of the hike was actually throwing watermelon of a cliff! Goood stuff. The biggest thing this week was actually our Zone Conference. Our whole Zone got Facebook which made for a long Zone Conference. Elder Ogden and I gave a training on the initiative for this Christmas which is Light the World, we did the same thing last year and it worked so good so we are doing it again. We had a good time training about it and thinking of some cool ways to share it, all and all it was a good Zone Conference and crazy to think that was my last one. Interviews with president was good as always, it's really great to see the love he has for all his missionaries. This week we had a few lessons with Andre and it went awesome! He is super elect. We have video chat him a few times a week and are in daily contact with him to help him quit smoking and drinking. He is doing great with reading and you can just see the change in his eyes. We were on Exchanges one day and we were teaching him and we taught the word of wisdom in depth, the lesson it's self was a little shaky but he just excepted everything we told and loved it. He is already doing missionary work at his job by trying to get his friends to meet with missionaries as well. We met with him Sunday and talked about his baptism on the 9th of December and he was so excited. A lot of families in the Ward invited him over for thanksgiving but he turned them all down because he wants to fast that day for strength to overcome his smoking! We will also be giving him a blessing that night. He is so on top of it! He is definitely a highlight of the day to teach. We have also put a new family on date for the day after I go home. It's sad I won't be here but I'm just excited they will be baptized. They don't know I want be here yet so that will be hard to tell them. All and all the work is going great and things are well! Hope you all have a great thanksgiving!
-Elder Barney
2 Timothy2:3
Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
Hey everyone!
So this week felt forever long but a lot has happened as well. Last Monday was fun because we took a hike to a waterfall. It was cool because everything was frozen so it was different looking. The best part of the hike was actually throwing watermelon of a cliff! Goood stuff. The biggest thing this week was actually our Zone Conference. Our whole Zone got Facebook which made for a long Zone Conference. Elder Ogden and I gave a training on the initiative for this Christmas which is Light the World, we did the same thing last year and it worked so good so we are doing it again. We had a good time training about it and thinking of some cool ways to share it, all and all it was a good Zone Conference and crazy to think that was my last one. Interviews with president was good as always, it's really great to see the love he has for all his missionaries. This week we had a few lessons with Andre and it went awesome! He is super elect. We have video chat him a few times a week and are in daily contact with him to help him quit smoking and drinking. He is doing great with reading and you can just see the change in his eyes. We were on Exchanges one day and we were teaching him and we taught the word of wisdom in depth, the lesson it's self was a little shaky but he just excepted everything we told and loved it. He is already doing missionary work at his job by trying to get his friends to meet with missionaries as well. We met with him Sunday and talked about his baptism on the 9th of December and he was so excited. A lot of families in the Ward invited him over for thanksgiving but he turned them all down because he wants to fast that day for strength to overcome his smoking! We will also be giving him a blessing that night. He is so on top of it! He is definitely a highlight of the day to teach. We have also put a new family on date for the day after I go home. It's sad I won't be here but I'm just excited they will be baptized. They don't know I want be here yet so that will be hard to tell them. All and all the work is going great and things are well! Hope you all have a great thanksgiving!
-Elder Barney
2 Timothy2:3
Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
11-13-17
Hey guys!
So this has been a great week!!! We had lots happen but the best part was Daniels baptism! It was awesome! He was so happy! It was such a joyful moment seeing him after being baptized.
When I shook his hand and congratulated him the spirit told me that this kid will do great things. I loved seeing the smile on his mother's face and the tears in her eyes when she saw him in the water. I love seeing people being baptized but this one was different because seeing the whole family happy and full of gratitude really hit me. I am thankful that I know this gospel is true and I am great everyday to be able to tell people of its truthfulness! So that was the big highlight of the week. Okay so for the big change of the week is that we got Facebook. We had MLC, which is just a meeting for Zone Leaders, and we learned all about it and made our accounts. It is really helpful for the work! We have already been able to share videos and messages with our investigators everyday. We have also been able to do video chats with them as well. It has been a huge help in the work. The missionaries in our zone have not got it yet but we keep telling them that it is so amazing. A lot of missionaries aren't to excited for it and see it has a distraction but to be honest it's not any bigger distraction as they have right now. If you are focused on your purpose honestly it's not that tempting. On the other hand it was a trip to log in into facebook and see profile picture of friends with their spouses that I had no idea they were married! So that was crazy to see all of that and it felt just weird. Anyway all and all Facebook is a really great tool. All the missionaries in the Zone get it this week at Zone Conference so that should be fun. This is going to be my last Zone Conference and I was so hoping I didn't have to give a training but we will be training of the new Christmas initiative. Got a fun week ahead. The rest of this week has been great times with teaching lots and going to meetings. Oh one other highlight in my life
is that Panda Experience just opened up in Eagle River so mission just got even better. Well that was the big stuff of the week! Well love you all and hope you have a good one!
-Elder Barney
2 Timothy2:3
Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
Hey guys!
So this has been a great week!!! We had lots happen but the best part was Daniels baptism! It was awesome! He was so happy! It was such a joyful moment seeing him after being baptized.
When I shook his hand and congratulated him the spirit told me that this kid will do great things. I loved seeing the smile on his mother's face and the tears in her eyes when she saw him in the water. I love seeing people being baptized but this one was different because seeing the whole family happy and full of gratitude really hit me. I am thankful that I know this gospel is true and I am great everyday to be able to tell people of its truthfulness! So that was the big highlight of the week. Okay so for the big change of the week is that we got Facebook. We had MLC, which is just a meeting for Zone Leaders, and we learned all about it and made our accounts. It is really helpful for the work! We have already been able to share videos and messages with our investigators everyday. We have also been able to do video chats with them as well. It has been a huge help in the work. The missionaries in our zone have not got it yet but we keep telling them that it is so amazing. A lot of missionaries aren't to excited for it and see it has a distraction but to be honest it's not any bigger distraction as they have right now. If you are focused on your purpose honestly it's not that tempting. On the other hand it was a trip to log in into facebook and see profile picture of friends with their spouses that I had no idea they were married! So that was crazy to see all of that and it felt just weird. Anyway all and all Facebook is a really great tool. All the missionaries in the Zone get it this week at Zone Conference so that should be fun. This is going to be my last Zone Conference and I was so hoping I didn't have to give a training but we will be training of the new Christmas initiative. Got a fun week ahead. The rest of this week has been great times with teaching lots and going to meetings. Oh one other highlight in my life 
-Elder Barney
2 Timothy2:3
Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
11-6-17
Hey!
Hey!
So ya this week was pretty awesome! It was transfer week so I got my new comp Elder Ogden
and he is freaking awesome! We were already good friends before so it has been cool to be comps. This week we had some great lessons with some elect investigators. Daniel passed his interview and will be baptized this Thursday! We are pumped for him! It has been a lot of fun teaching him. His mom is really great and super nice. She is a convert of 4 years and really loves this gospel. She bore her testimony this Sunday and it was powerful to hear her testify of how grateful she was that she found this gospel. It has been a true pleasure teaching her son. Also this week we taught Andre which went great! We moved his baptism date up. I told him I would quit drinking soda if he stops drinking beer and now he is all excited to make me stop drinking soda. Tomorrow is when he quits beer so I guess it's my last day for soda haha. He is the guy we have been teaching in the yert tent thing. He is super elect and ready for baptism. He has such a strong testimony of change its crazy! He tells us that he wants to be a better man and wants to stop sinning to the point of being perfect. It's been fun teaching him about the Atonement and how we will be perfect one day but for today we just need to give our absolute best. I love teaching people with such a desire it's inspiring. We are also teaching another kid who is such a stud! He is in seminary and not even a member. He has amazing questions. We taught about the Plan of Salvation and it was really awesome to answer such great questions but the highlight of the lesson is when we taught about the Atonement. It was such how powerful moment to teach a teenager that the Savior knows him and loves him enough to die for him. As we testified to him about the Saviors suffering I could see in his eyes how much it really meant to him that someone loves him that much. Daniel always pay attention when we teach but once we started talking about the Atonement he was on the edge of his seat hanging on to every word. We hope to be inviting him to baptism this next lesson which I can't wait for! So other than some awesome lessons and transfers that's about it for this week. Oh expect with transfers I ran into my son, last comp I trained, Elder Hatch.
Things are all good! Hope you have a great week!
-Elder Barney
2 Timothy2:3
Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
and he is freaking awesome! We were already good friends before so it has been cool to be comps. This week we had some great lessons with some elect investigators. Daniel passed his interview and will be baptized this Thursday! We are pumped for him! It has been a lot of fun teaching him. His mom is really great and super nice. She is a convert of 4 years and really loves this gospel. She bore her testimony this Sunday and it was powerful to hear her testify of how grateful she was that she found this gospel. It has been a true pleasure teaching her son. Also this week we taught Andre which went great! We moved his baptism date up. I told him I would quit drinking soda if he stops drinking beer and now he is all excited to make me stop drinking soda. Tomorrow is when he quits beer so I guess it's my last day for soda haha. He is the guy we have been teaching in the yert tent thing. He is super elect and ready for baptism. He has such a strong testimony of change its crazy! He tells us that he wants to be a better man and wants to stop sinning to the point of being perfect. It's been fun teaching him about the Atonement and how we will be perfect one day but for today we just need to give our absolute best. I love teaching people with such a desire it's inspiring. We are also teaching another kid who is such a stud! He is in seminary and not even a member. He has amazing questions. We taught about the Plan of Salvation and it was really awesome to answer such great questions but the highlight of the lesson is when we taught about the Atonement. It was such how powerful moment to teach a teenager that the Savior knows him and loves him enough to die for him. As we testified to him about the Saviors suffering I could see in his eyes how much it really meant to him that someone loves him that much. Daniel always pay attention when we teach but once we started talking about the Atonement he was on the edge of his seat hanging on to every word. We hope to be inviting him to baptism this next lesson which I can't wait for! So other than some awesome lessons and transfers that's about it for this week. Oh expect with transfers I ran into my son, last comp I trained, Elder Hatch.
Things are all good! Hope you have a great week!
-Elder Barney
2 Timothy2:3
Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
11-2-17
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10-30-17
What up!!
So this has been a nuts week!!! First off I will start with my transfer call. So I will be staying in Bear Mountain and be getting a new companion, Elder Ogden. Elder Ogden is one of my good friends out here so I am super stoked to serve with him! My companion Elder Pauga is sadly leaving to go be the Zone Leader over a new Language Zone in Anchorage. I loved serving with Elder Pauga and learned a lot from him! He is definitely a friend for life! So that was the big news! I am super pumped I get to serve with one of my really good friends for my last transfer so that's dope! Anyway the rest of the week was super busy. Tuesday we had one of the districts in our zone go to the institute building for district meeting so the institute director could teach them about working with the YSA. That was interesting because there was a whole Zone of missionaries there when they got there so we had to go show up and it just was kinda crazy but it ended up working out. We learned a lot about institute which was cool because not to many missionaries know a lot about it because we came right out of high school. Anyways that was Tuesday but then Wednesday was really busy with teaching. For some reason the only day any of our investigators could meet this week was Wednesday so it made for a crazy night of teaching but made the rest of the week kinda suck with no teaching but hey at least Wednesday was legendary. We taught Andre first that night and it was sick! He is on date for December. It was a super spiritual lesson. He told us in the beginning of the lesson how happy we was that he met us and how thankful he is for us teaching him. One of the most powerful moments of my mission is when he said with tears in his eyes that he is grateful that we are here and all I could think of is how thankful I am that I'm here too. We taught about the restoration and it was really powerful. On Sunday he came to church but told us he had a bad leak in his yurt so we left and helped him patch it because it was raining really bad but after that we taught a lesson. He told us he was struggling with drinking and smoking weed. He gave us his pipes and told us to throw them away so we chucked them in the river. He is so ready and committed! It's crazy how strong the spirit is in that little yurt each time we teach him! After teaching him Wednesday we taught a new investigator who is friends with one of our priests. He is really elect! We then went to a part members house after and put the wife and kids on date! It was such a great day! Those days make it so worth being a missionary! It really makes up for all the sucky days! The rest of the week has been finding and getting things ready for transfers. We have some Elders moving apartments so we spent some time moving things around. All and all it has been one amazing last week with my Soa. I will really miss Elder Pauga but I'm excited for him to go back to the Tongan Ward. It's crazy to be starting my last transfer but I am finishing strong!!! A lot of my friends went home this transfer but I was able to say bye to a few of them. See them in 6 weeks! Well I love you all and hope you have a great week!
-Elder Barney
2 Timothy2:3
Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
What up!!
So this has been a nuts week!!! First off I will start with my transfer call. So I will be staying in Bear Mountain and be getting a new companion, Elder Ogden. Elder Ogden is one of my good friends out here so I am super stoked to serve with him! My companion Elder Pauga is sadly leaving to go be the Zone Leader over a new Language Zone in Anchorage. I loved serving with Elder Pauga and learned a lot from him! He is definitely a friend for life! So that was the big news! I am super pumped I get to serve with one of my really good friends for my last transfer so that's dope! Anyway the rest of the week was super busy. Tuesday we had one of the districts in our zone go to the institute building for district meeting so the institute director could teach them about working with the YSA. That was interesting because there was a whole Zone of missionaries there when they got there so we had to go show up and it just was kinda crazy but it ended up working out. We learned a lot about institute which was cool because not to many missionaries know a lot about it because we came right out of high school. Anyways that was Tuesday but then Wednesday was really busy with teaching. For some reason the only day any of our investigators could meet this week was Wednesday so it made for a crazy night of teaching but made the rest of the week kinda suck with no teaching but hey at least Wednesday was legendary. We taught Andre first that night and it was sick! He is on date for December. It was a super spiritual lesson. He told us in the beginning of the lesson how happy we was that he met us and how thankful he is for us teaching him. One of the most powerful moments of my mission is when he said with tears in his eyes that he is grateful that we are here and all I could think of is how thankful I am that I'm here too. We taught about the restoration and it was really powerful. On Sunday he came to church but told us he had a bad leak in his yurt so we left and helped him patch it because it was raining really bad but after that we taught a lesson. He told us he was struggling with drinking and smoking weed. He gave us his pipes and told us to throw them away so we chucked them in the river. He is so ready and committed! It's crazy how strong the spirit is in that little yurt each time we teach him! After teaching him Wednesday we taught a new investigator who is friends with one of our priests. He is really elect! We then went to a part members house after and put the wife and kids on date! It was such a great day! Those days make it so worth being a missionary! It really makes up for all the sucky days! The rest of the week has been finding and getting things ready for transfers. We have some Elders moving apartments so we spent some time moving things around. All and all it has been one amazing last week with my Soa. I will really miss Elder Pauga but I'm excited for him to go back to the Tongan Ward. It's crazy to be starting my last transfer but I am finishing strong!!! A lot of my friends went home this transfer but I was able to say bye to a few of them. See them in 6 weeks! Well I love you all and hope you have a great week!
-Elder Barney
2 Timothy2:3
Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
10-23-17
Hey guys!
So this has been a shorter week because I just had Pday on Wednesday but hey still had a good time this week. So first of the Temple was super awesome and I had a great time playing frisbee golf afterwards! We saw a ton of moose as usual and they wouldn't move out of the way! Moose can be so annoying! Anyway I realized this week how Alaskan I have become. I really find Moose annoying and no longer cool and I eat a ton of ice cream! Seriously I didn't think much of it until someone pointed it out but almost every dinner we go to the dessert is ice cream and when all the missionaries get together we celebrate with an ice cream cone at McDonald's. We have a ton of ice cream in our freezer and always are snacking on it! No joke Alaskans really love their ice cream and find moose annoying. So ya that was my thought of the week. Other then that this week has been fun and crazy. Lots and lots of meetings and figuring things out with transfers. We definitely have been blessed with amazing people to teach! Our teaching pool isn't very big but the people we do teach are super elect. We have a new investigator we are pumped to meet with this Wednesday. He is friends with a priest in our Ward and sounds really elect because he is enrolled in seminary and loves learning about the Book of Mormon. Also Andrea is still on date and doing good. Daniel is also getting close to his baptism as well. He is so cool and very excited! He is getting baptized the same day his mom and sisters were! Lots of great things this week! Excited for this next week. This is the last week of the transfer then I start my last transfer! What the heck!? Time has gone by way to fast! Well love you all and hope all is well!
-Elder Barney
2 Timothy2:3
Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
10-18-17
Hello friends and family!!!
Wow! What a crazy week it has been!! Today we get to go to the temple! That's why our pday got moved to Wednesday. So this was an extra long week but man there was a ton that happened! Okay first I'll start with Zone Conference last Wednesday. It was soooo AWESOME!!! We did a Zone Talent Show! So we had a spiritual part in the beginning with trainings and stuff. That was weird because for the first time we didn't have to wear suits and got to wear regular clothes. It felt just weird giving a training in those clothes but hey it was dope! After the spiritual stuff we had a crazy fun time with the talent show! Everyone's was so funny! We had Elders teaching us a fun Irish dance all the way to a the sisters doing a funny cooking skit! There was a lot of crazy funny stuff. Each companionship did a talent or skit and each district did a talent and a skit. For mine and Elder Paugas talent we arm wrestled our mission President hahaha! It was such an intense fight! I went first and man we gave it everything we had and he took me down! It was so much harder then I thought haha!
-Elder Barney
2 Timothy2:3
Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ
10-2-17
Hey guys!
So this has been an amazing week! First off General Conference was crazy awesome! I love hearing from our prophets and apostles! It seemed like every talk given had a message specific for me. It is always crazy listening to Conference as a missionary because you are constantly saying oh man I wish this investigator or this less active was listening. It gives us lots of good messages to share through the next few weeks. One big thing I got out of the messages was becoming what God needs us to become. Elder Hollands talk really hit me. I know we try our hardest to become like our savior who is perfect but we always fall short of perfection but that is where the Atonement comes in. I thought I knew a lot about the Atonement until this week when I realized I haven't even scratched the surface. Although I don't understand everything Christ did for us I know it happened. I am so grateful for the Atonement of our savior and so amazed at his love. It is 100% possible to change and improve. Something I have realized is that it is important to feel some sorrow to feel some gilt to feel just a portion, and it will be only a small portion of what he felt. It's important to feel that to better understand what he did for you and to better appreciate it. It has been an eye opening week as I have studied and pondered the true meaning of the Atonement of Christ. So that's something huge I have taken away from Conference and throughout this week. On top of a great Conference we had a really awesome week with working hard and having fun. I went on exchanges with Elder Paskett who is a new missionary. I had lots of fun but it was a weird experience because they cover the military base and part of that base was my first area. So there was a lot of déjà vu with memories rushing back. After exchanges we met with our Mission President and man oh man was that an amazing meeting! I love President Toone! He is such a knowledgeable man. He taught seminary for years and was a CES Director so he knows a lot of good stuff! We asked a lot of questions and our minds were blown! This church is so true!! Anyway it is always nice meeting with him and getting a energy booster! The rest of the week was running around meeting and talking to everyone we could. We did a crazy service where we were suppose to help build this guys cabin type thing but ended up shoveling gravel into mud in the rain. We were soaked and covered in mud! So ya that has been my week. I hope you all have a great week!
-Elder Barney
2 Timothy2:3
Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
9-25-17
Hey everyone!
This has been an insane week! So I said goodbye to Kenai and Elder Hatch and went to my new area. It was super sad to say bye to Kenai and my companion. I really loved my time there! The people are so amazing. This is always the hardest part of being a missionary is leaving after you love the people. There is memories in Kenai that I'll never forget! Most of those memories are because of Elder Hatch. I have loved my time with him and loved training him. He has taught me so much and I am so proud of that kid! He is staying in Kenai so I know it's in great hands. Although it's sad to say bye it's exciting to start a new adventure and adventure is what this new area is for sure! My new Companion is Elder Pauga from Arizona. He is Samoan but is called
Tongan Speaking. We are in a English Ward but he is only here for a transfer with me then goes back to the Tongan Ward. It's awesome because I love learning Tongan with him! So much as happened already since I have been here. Seems like we have a ton of meetings and lots of exchanges this coming transfer which will be fun. This area doesn't have to many investigators well actually none. It was crazy though because just the few days we were together we saw so many miracles and found lots of great potentials! Oh and out of no where on Sunday we find out a nine year old of a recent convert family wants to be baptized. We had the first lesson with him and now we are preparing him for baptism! So many miracles it's crazy. Also we have had a lot of fun! One of the funnest things was driving up here with Elder Lewis! Oh my goodness it was so beautiful!!! I love Autumn in Alaska. Then the fun just continued with Elder Pauga! I love him because we are just super chill together! Oh and our apartment is crazy dope! We have an awesome hammock that is perfect for late night chilling. So on top of having a crazy awesome Soa (companion in Samoan) we have a really great Zone with lots of new missionaries. Ever companionship but us and one other is training! Crazy how many greenies there are but that just means lots of greenie fire! Well that has been my week so far!
Hey everyone!
This has been an insane week! So I said goodbye to Kenai and Elder Hatch and went to my new area. It was super sad to say bye to Kenai and my companion. I really loved my time there! The people are so amazing. This is always the hardest part of being a missionary is leaving after you love the people. There is memories in Kenai that I'll never forget! Most of those memories are because of Elder Hatch. I have loved my time with him and loved training him. He has taught me so much and I am so proud of that kid! He is staying in Kenai so I know it's in great hands. Although it's sad to say bye it's exciting to start a new adventure and adventure is what this new area is for sure! My new Companion is Elder Pauga from Arizona. He is Samoan but is called
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| Just Chilling |
I love you all and hope you have a great week!
-Elder Barney
2 Timothy2:3
Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
-Elder Barney
2 Timothy2:3
Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
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| Traveling with Elder Lewis |
9-18-17
Hey everyone!
Okay so this was such a crazy week! This is probably the busiest week of my mission! So much has happened! I guess I will start with transfers. I am getting transferred to Chugach in the Bear Mountain Ward, Chugach is just a little north of Anchorage. I am excited and sad to leave, I am excited to end my last 2 transfers strong but sad because I love the people here in Kenai. I will really miss my companion Elder Hatch. Training him has been such a fun experience. Watching him grow as a missionary was such a blast. He is a true friend and I'm very proud of him! Okay so now for the biggest news of the week, Andy got baptized!!!!
His baptism was one for the books. Not only was it amazing to see him happy and changed but the baptism set up was nuts! So the story is that we tried to fill the font in Kenai but after letting it run for awhile we checked on it when it was half full and it was straight nasty brown! I guess the city was cleaning out their pipes at that moment so it was gross water. With time ticking we made a mad scramble to change it to the Soldotna chapel which was about 20 minutes away. The font there takes 4 hours to fill but we had less then 2 until the baptism. So we called the Zone Leaders and they started filling it up and dumping big buckets of water to help it go faster. Once we got there we had a train of dumping the buckets.
The water got really cold so we started boiling huge pots of water and dumping them in there! It was nuts! After all said and done we did it! We filled it just in time! The baptism went great and at the end Andy bore his testimony. This was the coolest part! Seeing him after being washed clean and saying he knows this is Gods church on earth, this is something I will never forget. I have truly come to love him! He had been meeting with missionaries for years and I am so thankful that I was here when he got his answer! This is Gods Church! Great day that was! So let's go back to the beginning of this week.
I sure hope I can when the time comes and I'm determined to do so. Oh! And at Zone Conference my whole posterity of people who I have trained and who they have trained were there so we took a family pic! I just found out though that one of them is training so we are one short now. I am a great grandpa! After Zone Conference we drove back and had a blast. The next day we went to a baptism in the Zone Leaders area but right before the baptism they called and said that there will be a MLC that I need to go to the next morning so I will be trio up with them for the night and tomorrow morning. It was fun to be in a trio with 2 of my best friends in the mission for the night! The MLC was very good. Elder Foster went over a lot and helped us understand more about how to work with the wards. I wish we could of been there in person but since it was 3 hour drive we just Skyped in. Still got a lot out of it so that was good. Well that was my super crazy week! We have been running every which way saying my
goodbyes to Kenai and getting Elder Hatch ready to take over the area. Kenai has been an experience I will never forget! I love the people here so much. Lots of memories have been made here that I will cherish for the rest of my life. All the goodbyes we sad but its not a forever goodbye. One of the good byes was the coolest ever! Brother Ellis has really awesome cars and one of them is a sweet Camaro that he built himself. I told him my last wish is to take a ride in that car and burn some rubber. So we did! I have never been. In a car like that! Holy cow that thing was super fast! He did this super sweet burn out that melted the asphalt in his drive way. Dream come true riding in a car like that! Well Bear Mountain here I come!
Love you guys and hope you have a great week!
-Elder Barney
2 Timothy2:3
Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
Hey everyone!
Okay so this was such a crazy week! This is probably the busiest week of my mission! So much has happened! I guess I will start with transfers. I am getting transferred to Chugach in the Bear Mountain Ward, Chugach is just a little north of Anchorage. I am excited and sad to leave, I am excited to end my last 2 transfers strong but sad because I love the people here in Kenai. I will really miss my companion Elder Hatch. Training him has been such a fun experience. Watching him grow as a missionary was such a blast. He is a true friend and I'm very proud of him! Okay so now for the biggest news of the week, Andy got baptized!!!!
The water got really cold so we started boiling huge pots of water and dumping them in there! It was nuts! After all said and done we did it! We filled it just in time! The baptism went great and at the end Andy bore his testimony. This was the coolest part! Seeing him after being washed clean and saying he knows this is Gods church on earth, this is something I will never forget. I have truly come to love him! He had been meeting with missionaries for years and I am so thankful that I was here when he got his answer! This is Gods Church! Great day that was! So let's go back to the beginning of this week.
So Monday night to Tuesday night I went on Exchanges with one of my favorite missionaries! Elder Lewis! We had a blast together! We are like the same person so we just crack each other up so much! When we exchanged back we all drove up to Anchorage together for a Zone Conference. The Zone Conference was super awesome! We learned a ton from Elder Foster of the seventy. We also learned that we are getting Facebook on this mission. We will see how that goes but I guess we get it in just a few weeks. We learned a lot of working with member. The biggest things that hit me was when they introduced Facebook they said the greater the agency the greater the growth. I believe that! And also he asked us to think about what we want to say in our last prayer as a full time missionary. I have really been thinking about that. I only have 2 transfers left so the end is just right there so can I say to my Heavenly Father I have done all I can and have given my all to this work?
I sure hope I can when the time comes and I'm determined to do so. Oh! And at Zone Conference my whole posterity of people who I have trained and who they have trained were there so we took a family pic! I just found out though that one of them is training so we are one short now. I am a great grandpa! After Zone Conference we drove back and had a blast. The next day we went to a baptism in the Zone Leaders area but right before the baptism they called and said that there will be a MLC that I need to go to the next morning so I will be trio up with them for the night and tomorrow morning. It was fun to be in a trio with 2 of my best friends in the mission for the night! The MLC was very good. Elder Foster went over a lot and helped us understand more about how to work with the wards. I wish we could of been there in person but since it was 3 hour drive we just Skyped in. Still got a lot out of it so that was good. Well that was my super crazy week! We have been running every which way saying my
Love you guys and hope you have a great week!-Elder Barney
2 Timothy2:3
Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
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