8-14-17

Hey guys!
                                                                                                                                                                  Sooo this week has been insane! First off our trip to Homer was super awesome!

Homer is the halibut fishing capital of the world and also one of the most beautiful! It has one  of the very few spits (a peace of land that sticks out in the middle of the ocean) in the world. We saw some really amazing sights and had a ton of fun with the members that drove us down. The Owen family is one of the coolest people I have ever met! They lived in Homer for a little bit so we got to see all of the cool views that the tourists don't see, so that was a huge bonus.  One of the views you can see is the spit and 3 ice glaciers.  I also got some cool pictures of some fire-weed when it's blossomed. It is really cool and  is all over the place here! So we went and checked out the spit and it was really surprising all the cool stuff they have there. They have a ton of shops and even some

places to eat. They even have this place where you take a charter to go catch halibut then you watch them cut it up then you go across the street and give them the fish and they cook it up for you so we can it your fresh catch! I sooo want to do that one day!!! It's crazy how much fish people eat here! Down in the lower 48 we pay lots of money for that type of food but up here you get sick of eating it so much! Being up here has ruined me for fish. I love fish but it won't be the same when I get home. So anyway the Homer trip was super dope! It was a great start to the week! The rest of the week was a ton of service all of the place! After this week I have a different out look of service. I use to not get to excited for it which I know is bad, but after seeing all the good we did it really softened my heart. On top of the service we had some great lessons. One of which was with Andy. We brought a recent convert with us this time and it was perfect! They grew up together and literally have like the same story and questions. It was super awesome lesson! One thing I learned from it was that Satan is so good at deceiving. He try's to make himself sound like you. If we listen enough to negative thoughts then eventually we will start to believe it. So cool insight there. Then to top the week off we had a crazy cool experience! We were doing a district tract in the Zone Leaders area and we knocked on this guys door who told us he has his own beliefs and closed the door so we moved on. As we were knocking on doors on the other side he came running across the street with his wife and asked if we could come over for dinner on Tuesday. We were speechless. Just shook our heads yes but then quickly remembered we have Zone Conference that day and we will be in Anchorage. We scheduled it for the following week. They didn't say why but just said they wanted us over. In my mind I am thinking this is going to be crazy awesome or crazy bad. I hope it turns out great and I am really excited to see what happens. Never had this happen before! It's like the feeling you get when someone you knocked on their door says come on in and your like "oh my goodness! I never got this far before! Is this what it's like!" It felt just like that! Anyway that was the cool story for the week. Today we do the beautiful 3 hour drive to Anchorage and spend the night then go to Zone Conference then drive back. Long few days but I'm super pumped! Well hope you all have a great week!

-Elder Barney

2 Timothy2:3   Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.