A young man from Cache County has died while serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, church officials announced Wednesday.
Brennan Conrad, 18, from Hyde Park, fell Wednesday from the roof of his apartment building and died in Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic, a church spokesman said.
Conrad was a “very bright, very happy, optimistic young man,” said Mario Durrant, president of the church’s Hyde Park Utah Stake, which Conrad attended. “He was a tremendous missionary. He was having great success, and [the other missionaries] loved it.”
Durrant said Conrad had spoken to his family by phone on Monday, after a church announcement last week that missionaries could weekly contact their families via phone and text.