Bio of Joel McIntyre

Family: Married Connie Christensen with three children: Stephen - age 20 - serving a mission in the China Hong Kong Mission; Scott - age 17 - a Freshman at BYU; Lauren - age 13. Connie is from Salt Lake City. Met her at BYU. First date was a bust because she had put her missionary into the MTC earlier that day. It got better with the second date. Helping to put me through grad school, she worked for actor Tom Selleck's dad. She has become accomplished at quilting and home production and storage. Stephen was a sponsored skateboarder and produced skate videos before beginning college and serving his mission. He won first place ribbons for art submitted as a teenager at the Los Angeles County Fair. Scott and Stephen grew up playing baseball on the same Little League field as Home Run slugger Mark McGwire. Scott played High School ball for Claremont High and won awards for most improved and most inspirational player in successive years. Laurie played clarinet (before the braces were installed) and is the family's resident veterinarian.

Church: Have served most of my adult life indirectly or directly with youth. Served as a Scoutmaster, quorum advisor, and twice as Young Men's President, served in Elders and High Priests leadership. Conducted Stake Athletic program for several years. Served as an executive secretary and counselor to a bishop, later on a high council. Have just completed fourth year as a bishop.

Education: B.S. - Accounting 1983 - Brigham Young University. MBA - Finance 1984 - University of Southern California Graduate - 2000 - Pacific Coast Banking School - Seattle, Washington

Work: Have been a commercial banker for 19 years, in direct sales and later line management. Currently, manage the middle market business segment for Union Bank of California in the Greater Los Angeles area.

Hobbies: Golf (two holes in one), fruit and vegetable gardening for home storage purposes, watching and attending baseball (Go Angels), hockey (Go Ducks) and BYU athletics (Go Cougars).

Community Service: Served on a board for Rotary International, and fundraising boards for a chapter of the YMCA and a hospital charitable foundation. Member of the Dean's Advisory Council for the School of Business and Economics at Cal State Northridge. Coached Little League and Pony League baseball teams and all-stars for several years. Coached unsuccessful one year (0 wins) in youth soccer.

Comps: Jeff Jarman, Richard Rygg, Brian Johnson, Maximo Pereira, Mark Walus, David Romero, Nathan Low, Jim Gawrys, Blair Barton, Mark Johnson, Greg Iverson, Matthew Smith, and Gary Crawford. Areas: Comayaguela, Choluteca, Danli, Yojoa, Santa Cruz de Yojoa (all Honduras), Ustupu (San Blas, Panama), Zapote (San Jose, CR)

Memories: The "Sons of Colon", Elder Nicol's faithfulness in speaking his language for the full two years, having a six-foot wave crash over the head of a baptismal candidate just as the prayer was concluded in a cove off Ustupu, remembering how the entire Ustupu branch go swimming in the jungle river as soon as the final baptismal service prayer was concluded (and having to confess to President Muren that I took a couple of backstrokes myself once), wrecking the mission van while Elder Smith and I were sent to Puerto Limon to prepare for the opening of that city.

Sometimes the greatest rewards come with time and hindsight. Another bishop was called to serve in our stake about one month after I had received the same call. After we had served together for several months, he approached me one day and asked "So how did you like Santa Cruz de Yojoa?" (a small town that Elder Walus and I had opened to the work). I found out that this good brother was called to serve in Honduras two years later, and in Santa Cruz, and that the work had been thriving with 30-40 members.