Lisa Barlow has glam on retainer — and now she has her eldest son, Jack, again at residence following his mission journey to Colombia.
The Actual Housewives of Salt Lake Metropolis star, 50, shared an Instagram Story on Monday, June 9, that confirmed her and husband John Barlow on their technique to the airport to choose up Jack, 20, from the airport with an enormous bunch of balloons. (The couple additionally share son Henry, 13, who was alongside for the experience.)
“Jack is on a flight on his manner residence from Colombia proper now,” Lisa advised her followers. “We’re so excited to get him. It’s been the quickest and longest two years, like, all on the identical time.”
In one other video, Lisa filmed Jack draped in a Colombian flag as he greeted mates who’d additionally just lately returned from missions. “Look who’s residence!” Lisa exclaimed earlier than hinting there’d be a welcome-home occasion for Jack. “Come to our place!”
A 3rd video confirmed Jack posing with a number of mates who’d made him an indication studying, “Welcome residence EBG (Elder Child Attractive).” An elder within the Mormon church is the introductory workplace of the priesthood, whereas Child Attractive is, in fact, the nickname Lisa famously bestowed upon her youthful son in an episode of RHOSLC.
Jack has been within the South American nation since late 2023 finishing a Mormon missionary journey. Mormon missionaries spend as much as two years in a location assigned by church officers, doing volunteer work and proselytizing.
As RHOSLC viewers noticed in season 4, the Barlow household was shocked when Jack advised them he deliberate to postpone school and full a mission journey. “When he advised us, I used to be crying as a result of I haven’t been concerned within the course of,” Lisa advised her husband in a September 2023 episode of the Bravo sequence. “I feel I’m nonetheless coping with the emotion that I had no concept, and he’s been prepping for a 12 months, after which it makes me assume that possibly he does want extra time with me, or possibly he simply desires much less.”
Lisa and her household realized that Jack could be going to Bogotá throughout a “mission reveal” occasion in an October 2023 episode of RHOSLC. On the soiree, she advised attendees that she’d been “anticipating, like, Europe or one thing, or New York.” Throughout a confessional interview, the Vida Tequila founder admitted she was nervous about Jack’s project.
“I can’t consider he’s going to Colombia,” she mentioned. “He’ll in all probability be held up at gunpoint at the very least a couple of times on his mission. My buddy’s son was simply there. He was held up at gunpoint, like, weekly, so he carried, like, an additional couple of bucks in pocket and simply, like, handed it over. He’s like, ‘OK, I see the gun, right here’s the money.’ However I imply, total, it’s thrilling.”