The Elder Barr Blog

Thanks for the great email. I really appreciate hearing from you. Also, how was San Francisco. I hope to be able to accompany you on some of the trips that you make.

Things here are going okay. I am having a little bit of struggles with my companion and my district leader. I don’t want to rant about it though. Hopefully between my roommates and President Searle and myself we can get things sorted out.

I am glad to hear that the computer industry is progressing, and I am anxious to have access to a good computer again. It will be really cool I think to explore all the new technologies and things that have been developed over the last 2 years.

Speaking of trunky, I also realized that there are only 76 days left. Actually, next week is the last of the double digit weeks. This is week 11. I do double check the calendar from time to time. I have enjoyed the mission but I am really excited to be able to be back with my family.

The developer island sounds really cool. How does it work? Is it one giant world with different locations within it, or are there different instances of the world? Does it have its own language? What can you do within it? Can you incorporate live data on to the “physical” features on the island - i.e. a billboard on a building that gets its data from an xml feed? Anyway, I suppose I will need to play with it to get an idea of how it works.

We have been teaching a lot of good people lately and that has been nice. We have some people who are on the “faster track” i.e. within 6 months they will most likely be members, and some people who are much more throughly investigating the church, i.e. several years before they will be members. Our job is just to help them along the way.

The ward is doing great. Last night we went on a split with a young man from the ward, to teach one of the investigators. It was good. He’s coming out with us again tomorrow. I think that this is good for the investigator and the young man.

We tracted in to some great people this week, and now the trick is to follow up and keep their interest alive. I think that we will hopefully see more visitors at church in the upcoming weeks.

Alright, I better go. It is more work to email everyone but I enjoy it. Thanks for everything Dad. I really appreciate it.

Take care,
Love, your son,
Elder Stephen J. Barr