John Bytheway
Encyclopedia
John Glenn Bytheway is an American author and academic, who is well known as a comic motivational speaker for youth within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church).
Bytheway was born in Salt Lake City, Utah
. He attended the University of Utah
in Salt Lake City and Brigham Young University
(BYU) in Provo, Utah
, receiving a Master's Degree in Religious Education in 2003. He also served as a missionary
for the LDS Church in the Philippines
.
Bytheway is a religious studies instructor at BYU, currently focusing on the Book of Mormon
. Bytheway works as an advisor in the publishing department of Deseret Book
. He also serves on the Aaronic Priesthood/Young Women Writing Committee for the LDS Church. Bytheway, his wife Kimberly, and six children live in Utah. Bytheway enlisted the help of his wife Kimberly to create a guide for newlyweds to help their first year of marriage go more smoothly.
Bytheway was born in Salt Lake City, Utah
Utah
Utah is a state in the Western United States. It was the 45th state to join the Union, on January 4, 1896. Approximately 80% of Utah's 2,763,885 people live along the Wasatch Front, centering on Salt Lake City. This leaves vast expanses of the state nearly uninhabited, making the population the...
. He attended the University of Utah
University of Utah
The University of Utah, also known as the U or the U of U, is a public, coeducational research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States. The university was established in 1850 as the University of Deseret by the General Assembly of the provisional State of Deseret, making it Utah's oldest...
in Salt Lake City and Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University
Brigham Young University is a private university located in Provo, Utah. It is owned and operated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints , and is the United States' largest religious university and third-largest private university.Approximately 98% of the university's 34,000 students...
(BYU) in Provo, Utah
Provo, Utah
Provo is the third largest city in the U.S. state of Utah, located about south of Salt Lake City along the Wasatch Front. Provo is the county seat of Utah County and lies between the cities of Orem to the north and Springville to the south...
, receiving a Master's Degree in Religious Education in 2003. He also served as a missionary
Missionary (LDS Church)
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is one of the most active modern practitioners of missionary work, with over 52,000 full-time missionaries worldwide, as of the end of 2010...
for the LDS Church in the Philippines
Philippines
The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...
.
Bytheway is a religious studies instructor at BYU, currently focusing on the Book of Mormon
Book of Mormon
The Book of Mormon is a sacred text of the Latter Day Saint movement that adherents believe contains writings of ancient prophets who lived on the American continent from approximately 2600 BC to AD 421. It was first published in March 1830 by Joseph Smith, Jr...
. Bytheway works as an advisor in the publishing department of Deseret Book
Deseret Book
Deseret Book is the largest Latter-day Saint book publisher and also owns a chain of LDS bookstores in the western United States. Over 150 people work in its Salt Lake City headquarters...
. He also serves on the Aaronic Priesthood/Young Women Writing Committee for the LDS Church. Bytheway, his wife Kimberly, and six children live in Utah. Bytheway enlisted the help of his wife Kimberly to create a guide for newlyweds to help their first year of marriage go more smoothly.
Publications & audio-video releases
- What I Wish I'd Known in High School
- What I Wish I'd Known in High School: The Second Semester
- Are Your Standards Fences or Guardrails?
- The Best Three Hours of the Week, Audio Talk and DVD
- Big Ideas, Little Budgets: Youth Activities and Family Activities
- Bytheway, It's John: The Second Verse
- A Crash Course in Teenage Survival
- Everything I Need to Know I Learned at Home
- First Solo: Learning to Recognize the Spirit
- Five Scriptures That Will Help You Get Through Almost Anything, Audio talk
- When Times Are Tough: Five Scriptures That Will Help You Get Through Almost Anything, Book
- Get an Attitude!: Heroic Examples from the Book of Mormon
- Golf: Lessons I Learned While Looking for My Ball
- Heroes: Lessons from the Book of Mormon
- Honoring the Priesthood: As a Deacon, a Teacher, and a Priest, Book and Audio Book
- How To Be Totally Miserable: A Self-Hinder Book
- How to Be an Extraordinary Missionary
- How to Be an Extraordinary Teenager, Book and Audio Book
- Isaiah For Airheads
- No-Brainers: Five Hard Decisions that the Gospel Makes Easy
- Out of the Mouths of Babes and Dudes
- Righteous Warriors: Lessons from the War Chapters in the Book of Mormon
- Rough Start, Great Finish!
- Standards Night Live
- I'm A Huge Tool
- Supersonic Saints: Thrilling Stories from LDS Pilots
- Supersonic Saints, Vol. 2: More Thrilling Stories from LDS Pilots
- Tour De Family: Doing Your Part to Help Your Family Succeed
- Turn Off the TV and Get A Life!
- Weed Your Brain, Grow Your Testimony
- What's In Your Backpack?, DVD
- What Are You Carrying in Your Backpack?, Audio Talk
- What I Wish I'd Known Before My Mission
- What I Wish I'd Known When I Was Single
- What We Wish We'd Known When We Were Newlyweds, with Kimberly Bytheway, Book and Audio Book
- Whose Values Do You Value?
- Women Are That They Might Have Joy Too, with Emily Watts
- You're Gonna Make It!
- You're Gonna Make It Through Junior High
- 5 Things You Can Do Today To Bless Your Marriage