Scott Bair:  

Life I grew up in West Jordan, Utah, in a family of seven. After graduating from West Jordan HS, I attended Pacific U. in Forest Grove, OR for a year, just to get outside the Zion Curtain. From 1992-94 I served a full-time LDS mission to South Texas. As a Spanish-speaking missionary in the Texas Corpus Christi Mission, I served in Pharr, Harlingen, Kingsville, Brownsville, and last of all, San Diego (a small town of 2500 where I helped establish a branch). It was awesome. I returned home in 1994 and attended BYU, completing a B.S. in Sociology in 1997. I loved BYU, and got really excited about theory and philosophy my last two years--which lead to grad school. In the summer of 1996 I worked at the Anasazi Foundation (anasazi.org) in Mesa, AZ, an adolescent wilderness treatment program, and little did I know how important that decision would be! Not only were the program's philosophies life-changing, but that is also where I met my future wife, Shauri Goldthwaite. I had a total crush on Shauri, but she was dating my roommate at the time. I was actually glad when she left on a mission to Temple Square, so I could write to her and get a second chance. We wrote and continued to be good friends, but Shauri didn't think I was her type. :P After BYU, I moved to Auburn, AL to work on an M.S. in Marriage and Family Therapy (MFT). Shauri had a change of...Expand for more