Nicholas is Home

Dear All,
Nicholas arrived on Friday December 18th. We have had a great reunion and feel so blessed to have him safely home with us. He spoke in church today and did such an excellent job, I cried all the way through. He is such a wonderful young man.
Andrei is doing well. You can keep up with all of his emails on a blog I created for him. The address is andreibarney@blogspot.com It has all his emails and some pictures. Check it out.
We hope all is well with you and yours and that you are having a wonderful holiday season. We are.
Love,
Darcy

Sight Seeing in Lima

December 9, 2009

hey family

everything up there sounds like it is going great it is cool to hear about everything that is going on im glad that everyone is having a good time. its going to be hard to answer all your questions but i will try last wednesday we went on our tour of lima and we got to go to like down town lima and see all the sights we saw a bunch of really old building and stuff like that which was way awesome we went to several museams and more things like that we went to pizza hut and got to eat which was amazing to be able real food for a change and then in like the last 45 min. we got to just go whereever we wanted and buy stuff i bought two jersies and a baseball cap made of leather its pretty sweet me and jay both got one haha we are stylin. i did get a new companion but he isnt a latino because there wasnt enough for all of us to get one so i got shafted but that is okay i will survive. his name is elder culp and he is pretty cool he reminds me a lot of chase mccormies which is funny. i was kinda dissapointed not to get a latino but its okay i will be okay. i have i think 1 week and 6 days left here and then i leave. i think that i leave the tuesday before christmas we are flying and im not sure about calling home hopefully either then or on christmas but idk. i will let you know. that is really cool that nick gets home pretty soon im not going to lie it doesnt seem like i will ever be there but i know it will come soon enough. in the meanwhile i will make the best of the time i have now and try to make memories out of everthing because pretty soon that is all i will have left.
that is cool that you guys are going to wyoming im a little jealous but i guess its okay i will just make it up when i get home well you still havent answered my question about my camera my comp had a cord that i am using now but im i need something for the field.. i will send a few pictures home today...
it sounds like everything is going great up there thanks for the advice and the prayers stay safe and have fun

love elder barney

ps tell cody i said hello

Last Days in the PERU CCM

December 16, 2009
hey Family.
things are going pretty well down here im getting really excited to leave this place im starting to get sick of the same routine everyday. today i went to the temple and that was pretty sweet it was my 3rd time to go in lima so im starting to get used to all the spanish. the language is tough and i know i am going to be absolutely blown away and humbled whenever i hit the field but i still want to get out there. i feel like i can understand quite a bit and i can usually get the jist of what people are talking about but it is always hard for me to reply in rational thoughts that make sense haha. but i know that it will come. so it is my last week here it really seems like the time has flown by! i think that the thing i am going to miss the most is just the atmeshpere of being around a bunch of missionaries. like whenever i get sick of someone there will be someone else to talk to.. whenever i go to the field not only will there not be anyone to talk to when i get sick of my comp, i probably wont be able to talk to them cause they are latinos haha... anyways i think this is going to be a pretty crazy christmas it is going to be like my 3rd day out in the field with a language that i dont understand and with a dude that i dont really know at all.. but oh well i will try to make it a memorable one. a little fun fact that i found out is that our president at the mtc here is the brother to jon groberg who is the guy that is on the other side of heaven i thought that was so cool.. anyways apparently having the last name barney in peru is kinda a pretty funny joke so far i have had at least 8 grown adults sing the barney song to me in spanish no less.. it is pretty funny.. on saturday i went proslighting with a 12 year old kid who is a member and every 5 to 10 minutes he would randomly bust out in the barney song haha!

anyways i am glad everthing is going good back in the usa to try to answer your questions about the mail i have only recieved one letterhere at the mtc from jon idk about the pouch mail i really dont know how these peruvian things work so probably just send everything to the mision home unless i say differently thank you for the memory card, and stamps i hope the stamps work down here but i dont know. i will try to send home my other memorycard as soon as i get it. but i ave a question i dont know if you would know but is there a way to send a whole bunch of pictures over the internet instead of just on or two just let me know if you know.. i hope everything is going good let me know about how thatcher soccer is doing and anything else new in thatcher. thanks

love elder barney

Peru MTC

Dec. 3, 2009

Dear Family,

well i just recieved like 5 emails from a ton of people so i will try to answer all the questions. everything is going pretty well today is going to be awseome all of the latinos and older missionaries left today so now w3e are the oldest now i think there are only 23 new latinos and 10 new kisds from provo so we are not all ggetting new latino comps but i'm pretty sure that i will get a change. that is cool that you guys had a good thankgiving with just yourselves and that dad and natalya are going to swim the alcatraz im excited that is cool that nick is coming home in 3 weeks i bet he is stoaked. um...we are going on a tour of lima later today and we get to go to all kinds of catacomes and old buildings and we will eat at pizzahut i am so excited um... idk what else is new i'm doing well on money and idk about a raincoat i will get back to you on that. what i do need idk if you already sent it but like a new memory card or my camera computer plug i forgot it at the house. spanish is still realy hard but i can feel that it is coming slowly. im trying to pick it up as fast as possible so i can focus more on the work. im not sure what else i can say it souinds like the soccer team is doing well you should keep me updated on them.. idk i hope everything is going well please ask any other questions i missed im sorry if i did i love you and miss you all

love elder barney

MTC in Peru

Dear Families,
We think you will enjoy seeing your missionary with his comrades at the Lima Missionary Training Center. Partnerships are vertical. One companion is standing. The other is kneeling front of his standing companions. We are trying to be better people every day to be worthy of the wonderful young men and women preparing to carry the restored gospel to every people in every climb.
With love,
Hermana Jeanne Groberg, wife of the president of the Lima, Perú CCM

Peru MTC

November 18, 2009
hey mom,
i sent an email last thursday i dont know if you got it or not but pretty much i made it to peru i have been here for a week obviously haha but for the most part i am having a relly good time we eat rice and chicken almost every meal it is so good except i am getting sick of rice haha. i got a new companion he is from the states and his name is elder wilde he is from california. all of the new missionaries that came with me are pared with other new missionaries we will have americans for 3 weeks and then latinos for the last 3 so i am excited for that. i like my new comp he is really good at spanish he helps me out a lot but still neither of us aree as good as i would like it is really tough. today we went to the lima temple and it was so sweet everything at this MTC is way more chill and laid back then in provo we pretty much just walked outside the walls got on a bus and went to the temple by ourselves it is only like a mile away so we took a bus there and walked back. it was my first real experience "in" peru and i really loved it just being around the people was so cool. "not that i could comminucate with them but it didnt matter haha" but anyways fill me in on everything how is everyone how are my friends whats going on in the news what is going on in sports i dont really care just let me know haha i hope eeryone is doing great it was good talking to everyone on wednesday i look forward to hearing from you every week and just so you know im not turning into nick i am just trying to make the best of everything haha so have fun and stay safe.

love Elder barney Jr.

p.s. i have no idea about the adress the pouch address i´m sure if you send it to the mtc i will get it but just in case the adress here isidk righ5t now but i will send another email with the address

Andrei in Peru!

November 12, 2009

hey i made it!
we flew into lima last night at around 1 in the morning and everything went good customs was slow and we didnt get to the mtc till 3 so that sucked. lima seems really ghetto and trashy for the most part but i am guessing that is going to be most of the country. but it is way different here than in provo i´m guessing from just the first few hours so for the most part i feel like i know nothing as far as spanish goes there are many latino kids running around and i dont understand them at all but i will contiue to pray for help. i got a new companion he is white and from california his name is elder wilde we get a native in 3 weeks. it was really good to hear from everyone yesterday and it sounds like everything is going good and i hope that it is i was only supposed to let you know i made it so i hope you are all well i love you and will keep you in my prayers
Love Elder Barney

Arrival in the MTC / Oct. 21, 2009

Andrei arrived safe and sound in the Provo, UT MTC. I know because the President of the MTC sent me an email to let me know he had checked in and would emailing us soon. Andrei also sent a letter that arrived on Monday Oct. 26, 2009. Not much information, just that he is doing fine and enjoying his companion Elder Parks from Salt Lake City. Andrei's new address is:

Airport Drop Off

October 19, 2009
This morning we dropped Andrei off at the Phoenix airport for his flight to Salt Lake. It was a bittersweet occasion with smiles and tears. It is amazing how the human heart and brain sometimes don't work in unison. We know in our minds what is best and right and yet our hearts betray us with sickly feelings of loss. It just doesn't make much sense to me, but I know that it happens just that way.
Andrei will stay with his grandparents in Lindon UT for 2 days before he is dropped off yet again at the curbside of the Provo, MTC. Thanks mom and dad for having him.
Andrei spoke in sacrament meeting on Sunday, Oct. 18, 2009. His topic was repentance and he did a fabulous job of explaining the 5 steps and illuminating the topic with his own personal experiences. Though I am not sure the law enforcement individuals in the congregation appreciated his rendering of the "tennis ball" incident as it has become known, but I think most enjoyed his application of a true gospel principle in his own wayward teenage life. His testimony was sincere and heartfelt and made both his mom and dad shed some tears of joy in realizing what a great young man their little boy has become.
There were many friends and family in attendance and we sure thank everyone and the important role they have played in helping our son. Friends can never be underestimated in their influence for good and Andrei has had some of the best friends ever. Their parents have done an excellent job raising valiant sons and daughters and we feel so blessed for Andrei to have grown up over the years in their homes and with their families. Thank you! You are an answer to a mother's prayers.
The journey is just beginning for Andrei. He is on the Lord's errand now and we gladly turn him over to His care and service.