John Wayment

John’s wonderful talents and abilities are in the mechanical arena, not computer techy stuff, so I hope it is alright if I sneak this stuff in with out him knowing…..

After Graduating from WHS he served an LDS mission in Canada, after returning home he attended Weber State College and Graduated in auto body. He worked at that profession for a couple of years and migrated on to farm tractors and diesel mechanics by starting at Brigham Implement and working his way up basically teaching himself the necessary skills. Combining that with his natural mechanical abilities he is now an A+ mechanic at Great Salt Lake Minerals and Chemical Corp, where he has worked for over 30 years. He survived an award dinner and "roast" that they gave him last year for his time with the company.

He is the CEO, Manager, Accountant, Shop Foreman, Service tech, Purchasing Agent, Head Mechanic, Secretary, and Clean-up and Maintenance Crew for "Johns Farm Repair"; (in other words the sole proprietor of his own business, keeping many of the tractors and farm equipment in the area running.) I tease him that he is like being married to a doctor, getting calls in the middle of the night for repair help.

There are also many other machines in his shop that are primarily used for stirring up lots and lots of sand (Wheelers). With our sons he enjoys fixing up and riding them. There is always two or three wheeler "projects" in the works at his shop. He restores the wheelers to almost better than new condition. He is always fixing things for everyone, helping people, and designing and creating things. He is a very skilled welder and has made several trailers and other useful things for us. His skills are very beneficial to have around. I never call repairmen for anything.
The wheelers and John make it on many scout and hunting trips with the boys, and the annual or semi annual trips to Jerico /the Dunes, with family and friends. His grandchildren now enjoy riding the new addition to the wheeler family, the little 70.

Our family history…. We met at Weber State, just before he graduated, (good timing on my part). We’ve been married 33 yrs., Six Terrific Children, and of course Seven of the cutest and smartest grandchildren around (stay tuned for breaking news of more this winter).

Someone commented that we had a very nice looking family, and that all of our kids were good looking. To this John said "Sometimes an ugly old bull, can throw some good looking calf’s. "
I’ll follow the other bios here and say…We have I national gymnastics champion, 1 RM, 2 in the military, 3 Eagle Scouts, 4 married children, 5 golden wheelers(or many more), 6 children, 7 grandchildren, and a cockatiel in a black cage ….. sorry no partridge. (We also have two dogs, but they are the kids.)
I got John on a cruise to Alaska, he’s not sure about more, he’s a land lover. Especially if it’s sandy land.
John has been scout master 3 times, and loves hunting, horse packing and fishing with the guys.

Seriously, John loves helping and playing with his kids and spending time with his grandkids. We also have one son safely back from Irac, and we are so thankful. Our children have varied talents and careers ranging from Fiber optics, Cosmetology, to of course Mechanics, they all show signs of inheriting their dads skills. Shawn is a foreman of a directional drilling company that installs the fiber optics, Jadee owns her own Cosmetology business and keeps us all look’in GOOD, Burke is a Bradley Mechanic (military tanks, etc), Torin is a Mechanic working with his father at GSL. Corynne has started a career with the government, and wants to develop her photography skills more, and Daniel is just beginning to try out his abilities. Our parental paydays, as we call them, are that our children have made great choices and are working hard at being wonderful spouses and parents and staying close to the Lord. Our youngest has now graduated from high school, he plans on serving a mission soon. He hopes to work in the CSI field in the future. We don’t know what do to with this empty nest thing that is just around the corner, it seemed so far away just yesterday. Life just keeps getting better and better and our home and hearts are never really empty.