Rick is 38 years old, and he grew up in Prescott, Arizona. He is the oldest of four boys and three girls. In high school, he played the saxophone in the jazz band and also participated in the drama department’s presentations of Oklahoma and Bye, Bye Birdie. Rick served a mission in Toronto, Canada, Spanish speaking, returned home and received a bachelor’s degree in English Literature with a minor in Spanish from BYU, a second bachelor’s in Horticulture from Utah State, and has his master’s in English Literature from Northern Arizona University. Learning is definitely one of his greatest loves. He taught English at the high school for three and a half years–a profession that he truly loved. Rick now has an insurance practice with New York Life–another profession that he has fallen in love with, as well as teaching English part-time at our local community college. Additionally, in his spare time he does volunteer work with the Boy Scouts and loves to dabble in landscape photography.