I’m Paul Smith.  I’m married to Ceptember Smith, and we have 3 young children.  We live in Holbrook which I feel is one of the best places on Earth to raise a family.  Here we have a greater opportunity than in other places to teach our children work ethics and responsibility as we raise goats and chickens.  We love it here so much, that when our family outgrew the small farmhouse we’d been living in, we chose to build a new home across the street rather than move out of town.

I served in the Germany, Düsseldorf mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.  Afterward, I graduated from Weber State University with degrees in Computer Science and German Business Language, and a minor degree in Japanese.  My experiences with foreign languages have provided me with deeper insights into historical events than most Americans learn, particularly surrounding the first and second World War, and the lessons to be gleaned.  History has shown how easily and quickly a nation can give up its rights while letting the government’s powers grow out of control, and I wish to help my fellow Americans avoid repeating such mistakes.

I am conservative, with strong beliefs in traditional values, such as family, religion, and personal responsibility.  As a boy scout, I made an oath to do my best to do my duty to God and my country, to help other people at all times, and to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.  That oath still stands, and right now I feel that I can best fulfill it by continuing to server as Precinct #6’s representative to the Republican Party.