Paul Johnson

Paul Johnson describes his life’s blessings as coming to him “pressed down, shaken together, and flowing over.” Those abundant blessings have actually included some very hard trials—being single until he finally got married at age 36; caring for his late wife who was diagnosed with MS two years into their 23-year marriage and was wheelchair bound then bedridden for many of those years; and now being single and trying to date again. He believes hard trials are actually compliments from God who, we’re promised, will not give us more than we can handle.  

Paul grew up here in his beloved Boise Valley, but graduated from high school in Independence, Missouri where his parents presided over the mission. After the life-changing blessing of studying in the Holy Land, he served a mission to Korea. Between undergrad (BA in English) and graduate schools (MBA and law degrees) at BYU, Paul backpacked around the world for a classic education, worked on Capitol Hill in Washington DC for a senator, and started a small importing business. Professionally he enjoys solving large infrastructure problems to create master planned communities. He and two other developers created and incorporated the Town of Saratoga Springs, Utah after solving the problem of how to bring water and sewer services to the area.

Highlights from this past year in Paul’s life include volunteering at a Ukrainian refugee aid station at the train station in Krakow, Poland; helping to start a school for Rohingyan orphan, refugee girls in the world’s largest refugee camp in Bangladesh; and attending his youngest daughter’s high school basketball games. 

Paul and Alice have four children, three of whom are out of the nest.