Chad H Webb was sustained as First Counselor in the Sunday School General Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on April 6, 2024. He began serving on August 1, 2024. This article explores his life, from his upbringing in Idaho to his impactful service within the Church.
Early Life and Education
Chad H Webb was born in Rexburg, Idaho, on December 18, 1964, to Larry George Webb and Paige Webb. He grew up in southeastern Idaho. As a young man, Brother Webb was attending the College of Eastern Utah (now Utah State University Eastern) when he had a foundational spiritual experience that deepened his testimony.
One cold night he went for a long walk around Price, Utah, and thought about everything he was learning. “I felt that all the answers to my prayers and questions came, and I felt very deeply how true the gospel and the Church are,” he said. “Those truths came with great clarity in my mind, along with the feeling that Heavenly Father was aware of me. I felt His love and His direction.
Brother Webb graduated from Brigham Young University with a bachelor’s degree in Spanish and a master’s degree in educational leadership and foundations in 1997.
Missionary Service and Language Skills
He served as a full-time missionary in Veracruz, Mexico. Less than four decades earlier he had a life-changing experience as a missionary in Mexico, where he learned the language and came to love the people. Talking to people was still difficult. Even after receiving his call to the Mexico Veracruz Mission, the thought of being a missionary made him nervous.
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For Brother Webb, once a shy young man unsure about how to share the gospel in English, let alone Spanish, it was a meaningful, full-circle moment. On Feb. 18, 2024, Brother Chad H Webb and his wife, Sister Kristi Webb, had the unique opportunity to join Elder Ulisses Soares of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and his wife, Sister Rosana Soares, as speakers at a worldwide devotional for young adults.
The devotional, which originated from Mexico City, Mexico, was historic. It marked the first time an entire event produced for a global audience was broadcast in a non-English language. Elder and Sister Soares and Brother and Sister Webb spoke in Spanish. Prayers and music were also shared in Spanish.
“To get to share some feelings and testimony in Spanish in Mexico was a wonderful experience and privilege,” he said, adding that he and his wife felt blessed in their ability to speak Spanish that night.
Marriage and Family
Brother Webb married Kristi Ann Bronson in the Logan Utah Temple on August 4, 1990. They live in Layton, Utah, and have six children.
He was teaching at the Provo Missionary Training Center when he met Kristi Ann Bronson, a sister missionary going to San Juan, Puerto Rico. More than a year later in December of 1989, Brother Webb was visiting his parents in Tremonton, Utah, for Christmas when a missionary just returned from Puerto Rico spoke in sacrament meeting. With a phone book in hand, he began calling every Bronson in the Ogden area. He found her family after the third or fourth call.
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Within seven weeks, the couple was engaged. Eight months later they were married in the Logan Utah Temple.
“She is simply the best person I know,” Brother Webb said of his wife. “She is a faithful disciple of Jesus Christ and a loving friend to everyone.”
Said Sister Webb: “It was clear that Heavenly Father brought us together. I don’t know how we would have met otherwise. I feel like He has been guiding our steps all along.”
Professional Career
He has worked in Seminaries and Institutes of Religion throughout his career. Brother Webb taught released-time seminary in Salt Lake City and institute in Virginia and Utah. He coordinated institute programs in Washington, D.C. and supervised training and selection of seminary teachers. Since 2008 he has been the administrator of Seminaries and Institutes of Religion and Church Primary and Secondary Schools.
Over the last three decades, Brother Webb taught seminary and institute, coordinated institute programs, supervised training and selection of seminary teachers and worked as an administrator of Seminaries and Institutes of Religion.
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One key mentor has been Elder Paul V. Johnson, of the Presidency of the Seventy and the newly sustained Sunday School general president, whom Brother Webb first met at a CES symposium in the mid-1990s. They became better acquainted during a 1997 Church education tour of Italy, Egypt and Israel, where Elder Johnson served as the tour director. His wisdom, balance and dedication to following the Prophet while remaining committed to family has had a powerful impact on the Webbs.
The experience was another example of how Heavenly Father helps His children, Brother Webb told the Church News after he was sustained as first counselor in the Sunday School general presidency in April 2024 general conference. He begins serving on Aug. 1.
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“He helps us feel qualified for whatever He has asked us to do,” he said. “I’ve learned to put my trust in Him whenever I’m asked to do something.”
Church Service
Brother Webb has served in a number of Church callings, including full-time missionary in the Mexico Veracruz Mission, elders quorum president, high councilor, bishop, and stake president. Brother Webb was released as Layton Utah Valley View Stake president shortly before his call.
Church members begin participating in Sunday School in January of the year they turn 12. (Younger children receive religious instruction as part of the Primary.) The purposes of Sunday School are to strengthen individuals’ and families’ faith in Jesus Christ through meaningful study of the scriptures and to help Church members teach one another the gospel of Christ.
The Sunday School General Presidency works with the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles to provide appropriate teaching material for religious study in the home and Sunday meetings. The Sunday School General Presidency counsels, inspires, and instructs local Sunday School presidencies who direct the religious instruction for their congregation. The general presidency is assisted by members of the Sunday School General Advisory Council.
Sunday School classes are held on the first and third Sundays of each month.
Recent Activities and Teachings
Brother Chad H Webb, first counselor in the Sunday School general presidency, spoke during the Saturday afternoon session of October 2025 general conference about teaching with and learning from the Holy Ghost. Consider the role of the Holy Ghost in gospel learning, both at home and at church.
Gospel instruction is most effective when learners are prepared and when teachers foster personal revelation. “Then, as we’re given opportunities to share what we are learning through our study and from the Holy Ghost, we help each other to be instructed and edified. As we apply gospel principles, the Spirit again bears witness of their truthfulness.”
Teachers can focus on the progress and needs of learners, while learners can exercise their agency to signal to the Holy Ghost that they’re willing to be taught. Teachers invite the Holy Ghost by teaching true doctrine. “True doctrine is found in the scriptures and teachings of modern prophets.”
Teaching and learning should always focus on Jesus Christ. Even when He’s not directly referred to in a scriptural account, a teacher might ask about a time when Christ exemplified a principle. “In our homes and Church meetings, as we focus on Jesus Christ, teach His doctrine and learn diligently, we invite the Holy Ghost to deepen our faith in Jesus Christ and help us become more like Him, which is the aim of all gospel teaching and learning.”
In July, Brother Webb spoke during summer commencement exercises at Brigham Young University-Idaho, encouraging graduates to keep their spiritual, social and intellectual momentum. In June, he conducted the meeting for Elder D.
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