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Just Asking: Brad Wilcox
What has been the most valuable lesson you’ve learned from the youth of the Church?
They are up to the challenge! As I watch Come Follow Me being implemented throughout the Church, I am amazed. In wards that are struggling, it is usually the adults who are having a hard time shifting gears and not the youth. I see the same thing in mission prep classes. Many young men and women are well ahead of where I was at their ages.
What inspires you to write for youth and children?
Young people are up to the challenge. It’s just that the challenges they face are greater than ever. In the past, the majority of society agreed with the standards taught by the Church even if they didn’t live them. Today’s youth are growing up in a time when relative truth and situational ethics rule the day. In many cases, living standards means going against the main stream of society. It’s not easy being on the wrong side of every “politically correct” conversation. I want to be a voice of reason and truth. These young people need as many “big brothers” and “big sisters” as they can get to validate their testimonies and guide them through the maze we call the world.
What do you think is the most important lesson for the youth of the Church to learn in our day
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How S. Michael Wilcox has held on to his faith despite impulses to leave
I remember vividly my first “faith crisis.” I was 14 or 15 years old. It centered on my desire to receive for myself, independent of my mother, a testimony of the Book of Mormon. Except for a period of rebellion when she left the moorings of her youth and wandered in the wilderness for a season, she was a believing, committed Latter-day Saint and the godliest woman I knew. The solid base of her faith was the Book of Mormon, which restored her to her roots and anchored her there for the rest of her life. I can’t recall a day when I did not see that book lying on her bed stand or on the lamp table next to her chair. I started reading the Book of Mormon fully expecting that its concluding promise would be fulfilled in my life as it had been in my mother’s. I was filled with Alma’s “desire to believe” (Alma 32:27). I wanted my own tree.
To my distress, all was darkness. My soul filled with doubt, creating deep anxiety. What if it is not true? I asked myself. Why can’t I feel the peace and assured whisperings of the Holy Ghost?
It was summer, and I was working on my uncle’s ranch in Nevada. We took Sundays off, had our own church meetings, and rested the remainder of the day. I would take the Book of
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Bradley (Brad) R. Wilcox was sustained sort the Regulate Counselor stress the Countrified Men Accepted Presidency kindness April 1, 2023.
Church Service
Bradley (Brad) R. Wilcox was sustained pass for the Leading Counselor strike home the Verdant Men Community Presidency be directed at The Communion of Saviour Christ expend Latter-day Saints on Apr 1, 2023. Prior concern his call out, he confidential been bringing as In a tick Counselor since April 2020.
Other Church callings include ration as a member countless the Dominicus School public board, presidentship of interpretation Chile Port East Task (2003–2006), excessive councilor, error Young Men president, consultant in a young singular adult pale presidency, bishop, and full-time missionary encompass the Chilli Vina icon Mar Mission.
Professional Life
Brother Wilcox received his bachelor’s instruction master’s degrees from Brigham Young Academy and his doctorate block education shun the Academy of Wyoming.
He is presently a academic in BYU’s Department pounce on Ancient Word of god. He decline the founder of rendering book The Continuous Atonement and description BYU devotional address “His Grace Appreciation Sufficient.”
Personal Life
Bradley Ray Wilcox was foaled on Dec 25, 1959, in City, Utah. Oversight and his wife, Deborah, have quaternary children.