The Elder Barr Blog

Thanks for the email. Sounds like everybody is busy. I am excited to see how second life works. I hope that we can make some good money off of it.

I am glad that you got to go the the Salmon days festival. That is one thing I miss. I tell people out here that there is really good salmon out there, but you have to live in Seatlle to get it. Here they only sell farm-raised “Atlantic” salmon. More like “pond-lantic” if you ask me. They have to spray paint them pink just to make them look somewhat normal. Gross. Because of the pollution it would be hard to eat fish that you catch in New York. We might go fishing with a guy we know in a few p-days, and hopefully there will be a good catch.

The work is going well. I have a young new companion, and it is fun working with him. He is a lot like me when I came out, which means that he may have some growing to do. But he will make a good missionary. We have some high quality investigators, and we are trying to find more.

I am trying hard to not get trunky. It is hard though. FYI today is the 12 week mark. . I hope we hear back from the UW. If not I would want to apply to a private school somewhere nearby. I am thinking that I would try to get into computer science before bio-eng, so I will probably have to spend a quarter or two taking some classes to boost my GPA. Anyway, I’ll have to worry about that soon enough.

Thank you so much for everything. Things are going so well here. The money is running out though. I will need a deposit by next week Wednesday for groceries. We are meeting some investigators for lunch in a few days, which is nice but going out to eat can be a financial hit. Plus there was an Elder going home 2 weeks ago and they wanted to eat out before he left so that alone put me behind.

Anyway, I should go. I have to write my siblings. Plus Tom J_______ wrote so I need to write him back. I like the new system.

I love you very much.
Love,
your son,
Elder Stephen J. Barr