Ep. 77 - Westin Wilson - Fighter, Family Man, Latter Day Saint

Latter Day Lives - Talking with Latter Day Saints

Society & Culture

4.7 • 662 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Westin Wilson is a professional mixed martial arts fighter. In this episode, we discuss his time living in Brazil, how he got started in competitive fighting, time off training to serve a mission, time at BYU, his growing family, life as a professional fighter and how being a member of the church affects it all. Westin is tough as nails and yet a humble and inspiring man.

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0:00.0	The Latter Day Lives podcast is not owned or operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of
0:07.6	Latter-day Saints. Any opinions expressed or implied in this recording are solely those of the host
0:12.6	and guests and not of any specific organization unless otherwise stated.
0:28.5	Hello, friends, and welcome to episode number 77 of the Latterty Lives podcast.
0:30.4	My name is Sean Rappier.
0:35.5	I am your host and so glad that you are here with us because we have got such an amazing guest.
0:36.6	Weston Wilson is a professional mixed martial arts fighter.
0:40.6	Yes, he goes out there and gets in the cage with the other guys and dukes it out,
0:46.4	and it's just amazing.
0:48.2	His attitude and his story is just so inspiring and so fantastic.
0:53.0	I love talking to him.
0:54.1	I'm actually a big mixed martial arts fan.
0:57.1	I love watching professional fighting and I'm just fascinated by it. And Weston is an amazing guy.
1:04.7	And this week in my latter day life, I'll tell you how I'm trying to get comfortable
1:09.0	with occasionally being uncomfortable. It's all coming up.
1:13.7	So sit back, settle in, and enjoy this week's conversation.
1:22.7	And today I'm actually recording from my studio in Linden, Utah, but we're doing this over the
1:33.7	internet.
1:34.5	And I normally introduce our guests in kind of the same way.
1:38.1	I tell you just generally who they are and what they're known for.
1:41.4	This week, it's my only chance, so I'm going to do it a little
1:44.2	bit differently. And in this corner, we have weighing in, all right, I can't do it that well,
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