Episode 287: Tré Smith, Cyprus Head Basketball Coach, Black Latter-day Saint

Listen, Learn & Love Hosted by Richard Ostler

Richard Ostler

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🗓️ 8 July 2020

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

My friend Tré Smith joins us to share his story as a Black Latter-day Saint. Tré talks about his decision to become fully active in the Church and the role of his wonderful YSA Bishop (now Stake President Kevin Gifford). Tré talks about learning to forgive the drunk driver that killed his younger brother and broke the heart of his good father. Tré talks about his wonderful wife Rachel and her love and support since their high school days. Tré talks about his support of Black Lives Matter and shares helpful insights into life as a black man. Tré, who married a white woman, talks about the goodness and strength of their marriage and the excellent support and love from both families as they were married and started their lives together. Yea, they are an interracial couple, but they just see themselves as two of God’s equal children who fell in love with each other and are building their lives and family together. Tré also talks about the values his is teaching his players at Cyprus High and his lifelong dream to be the head basketball coach at Cyprus High. Thank you for being on the podcast my friend Tré. Much love and respect for you. The great man that you are and the exemplary life you are living and your contributions back to society.

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0:00.0	Welcome to another episode of Listen, Learn, and Love, hosted by Richard Osler.
0:09.2	My guest on today's podcast is my friend Trey Smith.
0:13.1	Welcome to the podcast, Trey.
0:14.7	Brother, Osser, thanks for having me. I appreciate it.
0:17.2	I'm glad you could give me the opportunity to be here and I'm excited to share my story.
0:21.6	For our listeners, Trey is somebody I got to know about six years ago in my YSA assignment in the Magna area.
0:29.6	Trey had recently been married and I got to know Trey and his wife during that time, even though by the time I got there, they were
0:38.7	married, so they weren't in a singles ward.
0:41.3	Trey is currently the head coach at Cyprus High School.
0:45.3	Trey and Rachel have been married about six years.
0:48.0	Trey is black.
0:49.4	He's a black active Latter-day Saint who grew up in the church.
0:53.1	Most of his family is Baptist. He was not
0:57.0	really active in the church until about age 23. When a wonderful YSA bishop, President
1:03.6	Gifford, who's now the stake president of the Hunter Steak, it's mainly to be the Hunter West
1:08.0	steak, was his YSA bishop, the bishop that preceded me, and was key to Trey becoming fully active in the church, what ultimately led to a temple marriage.
1:17.6	Trey and his wife, Rachel, who's a dentist, an associate dentist, and they have a beautiful son who's nearly two years old.
1:26.6	But the scope of this podcast will be a couple things. One is we'll be talking about They have a beautiful son who's nearly two years old.
1:30.5	But the scope of this podcast will be a couple things. One is we'll be talking about Trey as a black Latter-day Saint,
1:35.0	just his journey and why he's committed Latter-day Saint
1:37.8	and just how he's navigated that being black.
1:41.2	We may also talk about his interracial marriage. He is married to a beautiful white
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