About Me
Hi! My name is Brycen Wirick and I am a Senior Software Engineer major at Utah Tech University.
I was born in Las Vegas, Nevada but grew up and graduated high school in Evanston Wyoming.
Here I played football, basketball, sang in the traveling choir, and was a state competitor in track and field.
I am the oldest of six kids. Four brothers and one sister with two nephews and one niece.
I served a two year mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Lubbock Texas.
I met my wife there and we were married in Costa Rica under the La Fortuna Waterfall in December of 2022.
We were just sealed in the newly renovated Saint George Temple in January 2024!
We have lived in Saint George Utah for a little over three years and have loved it!
We enjoy everything outdoors. Hiking, biking, shooting, camping, and exploring the beautiful place we live in. My in-laws live in Texas so we travel there often to visit.
We don't have any kids yet, but we are primary teachers at church. We currently have thirteen 4-5 year olds that we get to teach each Sunday.
When I am not programming or doing homework you can find me playing video games, chasing trains, playing board games, or binge watching shows with my wife.
My goal when I graduate is to find a job that allows me to continue to learn and of course make good money.
My Family
As the oldest of six, my house was always a little crazy. We were the place in the neighborhood where all the kids wanted to be. Not to mention the added noise of the dogs, and whatever cat my sister was trying to rescue that week. With four brothers we did the things most boys do. Video games, throwing the football around, wresting, and tormenting our poor mom. My wife also has four brothers, needless to say I felt right at home. There’s always a nerf gun war, pick up basketball game, cannon ball competition, and Xbox battle happening. And yes, there is always a football game on in the background, no matter who is playing.
My Love Story
Jayden and I first met in February of 2016 in the good ‘ol town of Hobbs ‘Merica (That’s Hobbs, New Mexico for the non-locals). There I was in a church gym at 6am, three or four days after getting off an airplane and with total strangers whom I was supposed to associate the next two years with. The thought of “what am I doing here?”, constantly going through my head. But yet, I knew I was supposed to be there and that I had purpose. And then walks in the sister missionaries. I wasn’t sure what to do because it was slammed into my brain that girls are 300% off limits and so I simply said hi and gestured a handshake, little did I know that I was meeting my future best friend and forever companion.
We saw each other often during the first six weeks of my mission, often for morning sports, at district meetings and church.
We were friends but I was just the ‘greenie’ of the group, she actually had a middle school girl crush on my trainer!
She returned home a few weeks later due to her faithful mission service completed.
We often wrote letters with pen and paper to each other, making it easy to let the friendship flourish.
I told her about my mission stories and she returned with her awful dating experiences upon returning home.
That gave me the inside track to how she wanted to be treated and respected. About a year later, I was transferred across the state of Texas back to New Mexico to a small mountain town called Ruidoso.
We had senior missionaries in that area and low and behold its Elder and Sister… Wait for it… Hjorth! They were Jayden’s grandparents who also were called to the Texas Lubbock Mission!
I served with them for that transfer and interacted with them plenty to get comfortable and familiar with them. It also gave me my inside track to the family and grandma helped to put a little tweety bird into Jayden’s ear.
Fast forward to after my mission, we didn’t ever get to see each other again until the first mission reunion. We only saw each other at the mission reunions until finally we had a chance. Jayden was going to a BYU football game with her Dad and brothers and had finally built up the courage to ask me out. Now it wasn’t a real date, but that’s my story and I’m sticking to it. That day was our first spark to the kindling that grew to a fire. We kept seeing each other every time she came from Boise for a game, and eventually we moved onto real dates with dinner and a movie or other activities. We were always close, like best friends close. We confided in one another and trusted each other. I eventually asked her to go official with me near Christmas of 2019.
The rest is history from there. Jayden’s family moved to California due to her fathers work, and I wasn’t pleased with my current school and needed a fresh start, so we both decided to move to St. George, UT. We got engaged, got married and built roots. Outside of our first meeting, every significant moment of our first kiss, going official, the engagement, even the civil marriage in Costa Rica and now our sealing has been around the Christmas holidays. It’s now an extra special time of year for us and gives me even more to think about and be grateful for. I’m grateful I found a woman that keeps me on the straight and narrow, shares my goals and values, and wants us to reach our full potential together. She loves me almost as much as I love her… And now she can't get rid of me in this life, or the next!
My Hobbies
My dad grew has been an avid rail fan his whole life with a love of photography. As a kid he would take me to chase trains.
We would spend hours watching the crossing lights, listening for the horns, and following the tracks so my dad could get the best shot.
I have great memories of throwing rocks at the boxcars as they drove by. 
This became a great bonding experience for us and I still find myself at the tracks whenever possible.
My Work Experience
I’m good at working with my hands. I was one of those kids who took my toys apart just so I could try and put them back together again. I’ve worked in construction since I was a teenager. I started working as a handy man flipping apartment complexes, changed to project managing pool construction and even worked as an electricians apprentice for a summer. My favorite though has been my personal flips. My wife and I have flipped rooms in several homes along with furniture pieces for others, and some in our own home.
I have always been interested in computers, but the draw to making it a career came the summer before my senior year of high school. My uncle owned his own tech company in Dallas Texas and I went and did a summer internship. My job was to obtain and produce content to help businesses have more of an online presence. I enjoyed the challenge and saw the countless opportunities it could provide.