Weatherman's also a man of letters

You probably best know Clayton Brough as either the weekend weathercaster on KTVX, Ch. 4, or as an award-winning geography/journalism teacher at Eisenhower Junior High School in Taylorsville. However, he's also a successful writer of seven religious books dealing with doctrines and teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Brough, 52, a West Valley resident, has written a book on patriarchal blessings, another on the lost tribes, one on translated beings and four others.

Even though several of these doctrinal books deal with unusual/offbeat subjects, he was careful not to speculate or jump to any conclusions in them. His goal was simply to compile references that were otherwise hard to locate or tie together.

He researched his first LDS book in 1974 while recently married and attending Brigham Young University.

"I spent my limited spare time researching and locating official pronouncements of the First Presidencies and other general authorities of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on contemporary — and sometimes controversial — topics," Brough said.

"I did this because I wanted to find authoritative answers to some of my own questions. However, I eventually accumulated so much information on so many different subjects that I thought my material might be a valuable reference book for people with similar questions or needs."

Other books followed, and he spent about a year researching each one.

"I love teaching," Brough said. "I teach junior high students because I enjoy being around them."

He also gets excited about weathercasting.

"Climatology is weather research," he said.

He considers teaching his primary job and compliments KTVX for understanding and working with him on that endeavor.

Brough has also done two weather books and another on the history of Mosida, Utah County.

"Working two or more jobs has provided my family with a modest income and has taken up a considerable amount of my time," he said. "However, these jobs are not the most important things to me. . . . The most important things to me are those that have eternal significance — which is my faith, the wife and children, and my relatives, friends and students."

His children and his wife have supported him fully in all his jobs.