David ridges author biography

Finding Isaiah

David J. Ridges, a returned missionary from the Swiss/Austrian mission, had not planned to work for the Church Education System (CES), he was going to teach German.

Early in life he was very busy, what with working at a printing press, completing his degree in German and minor in physics at the University of Utah, taking care of a young family, and planning his German student-teaching classes at Kearns High School.

That summer to make ends meet, he took his family to Wyoming, where he was a lumberjack.

Just before the school year started, CES offered him a concurrent student-teaching job at Kearns High School along with his one teaching German.

But it was in the seminary classroom he fell in love with “teaching kids and helping them with ah-ha moments in the scriptures.” However, he reminded us that every teacher has at least one disruptive student.

In David’s case, he challenged the rowdy teen to best of ten games in ping-pong.

David said that