Hey guys!
So it has been another fast week! So the week started off great with a visit from our Mission President. President Toone joined our district meeting which was lots of fun having him there. He has lots of amazing insights so it was cool to have him with us. He came down to our district for interviews which were very amazing. He is such an inspired man! I know that he is truly called of God! Our interview was great! He is a very personal man. It was a great start to the week. The next day I went on exchanges with a brand new missionary named Elder Parry. He is a fun Elder with lots of energy. We learned a lot from each other. We had a cool experience teaching one of our investigators here in Kenai. We planned on talking about the spirit and how we can feel it and the environment we need to be in, but as soon as I said the opening prayer the spirit instantly said to change the topic. So the first thing out of my mouth was well today we want to talk about repentance. Elder Parry had a priceless look on his face with being only about 3 weeks in the field. He did great though and it was one of the most powerful lessons we had with Andy. He is so close! Please keep him in your prayers! After our exchange we had a long day of contacting people. We contacted over 40 names that day! It was a busy but long day of not a lot of interest. We finished the night with a pretty awkward experience. So we invited a Ward missionary to a lesson with a less active we never met before and just set a appointment with them. On our way over to the lesson we were telling him who we were going to go see and he told us how him and that person have a bad past together. He decided to stick it out and see what happens. Oh man the look on the less actives face was priceless when they saw who we brought with us. Definitely one of the more tense moments of my mission! You could cut the tension with a knife it was so thick! Everything went well and we left on okay terms. Lesson learned to plan farther in the future haha. On Saturday we had a district tract in our area that went great! We got like 3 return appointments! It was crazy but for some reason everyone was interested. As I was praying and thinking about why this one Tracting day was so successful my mind thought of the long day of rejection we went through earlier that week. I learned that blessings come when we endure with faith. It my not be immediate blessings or obvious ones but they will come. Another time I saw that was when we were Tracting with long street no one was interested until almost the very end. We walked up to this guy who was just getting dropped off from work and said hi. He instantly told us he wasn't interested. We asked if anyone in his house was and he said his grandpa was a devote baptist. Long story short we ended up asking about if he was very religious and found out he actually had some soul searching questions. We answered all of them by briefly teaching the Plan of Salvation. We also corrected some rumors he heard about Mormons. He walked away with a Book of Mormon and promised to read and pray about it. I'm excited to check back up with him. It was cool to see how at first he said he wasn't interested and actually told us not to talk about God with him but because of the spirit he walked away with a Book of Mormon and a changed view about Mormons. I sure love watching the spirit do its thing! So ya this week was one full of cool faith building experiences. I love you all and miss you a ton! I want to wish my dad and grandpa a very happy birthday! I love and miss you guys a ton! Hope you both had a great birthday! Thank you so much for all you so for me! Love all of you! Bye!!
-Elder Barney
2 Timothy2:3
Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
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| He can still ride a bike |
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| House with lots of licence plates on it |
