The Salt Lake Tribune has a nice profile on Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin. While it starts out out discussing his new friendship with University of Utah football coach Urban Meyer, the article goes on to give a nice biographical sketch on one of the lesser known(at least for me) apostles .
In his sermons, Wirthlin returns again and again to the lessons of football.
His coach, Ike Armstrong, believed the game required “not only football prowess, but also courage, duty, dependability, perseverance, integrity and enthusiasm, which resulted in physical, emotional, and even spiritual conditioning at the highest level,” Wirthlin said in a 1978 speech. “The end product was to be nothing less than character of the most solid kind.”
These are the feelings Wirthlin now shares with his friends, Urban and Shelley Meyer, and the young Ute players.
“He obviously has a passion for his Mormon beliefs,” Meyer says, “but he also has a passion for Utah football. He knows it and I know it and the players know it.”
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