Bio of Dave Winkler

I have 5 children, ages 23 to 12. My oldest son served a mission in Salvador, Brasil. He is married and attending USU. My oldest daughter is studying to be a nurse at Weber State. The next son is a senior in high school and has a scholarship to attend Snow College this fall.

I still live in the ward that I grew up in. I've been heavily involved in scouting over the years. After the mission I served as secretary in two elder's quorums and then as a seventies group leader just before they ended that calling. I was a young men's president and a second counselor in the bishopric. Currently I teach the High Priest group and lead the singing in sacrament meeting.

I have taught Spanish for the past 18 years at Bear River Middle School. In order to better support my family on teacher's wages, I enlisted in the Utah National Guard, then became an officer. I specialized as a Spanish linguist and retired in June after twenty years service. In addition to my involvement in Spanish, I also teach English as Second Language to immigrants both during the day and in evening classes.

I have had the opportunity of going back to Panama five times with the military and Honduras once.

I graduated in 1981 from Weber State, then got my Masters of Education from Utah State in 1987. A glutton for punishment, I finished a second bachelors in Spanish in 1995.

I served most of my mission in small "two elder towns" or in Panama City. Over the past twenty years of visiting Panama with the military, it was great to see the progress of the Church there. The last time I was there, there was a stake in David, a stake in La Chorrera and two stakes in Panama City.