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Pheasant Valley Saints
Thoughts, ideas, and messages from leaders, teachers, and members of the Pheasant Valley Ward to support home-centered discipleship.
Weekly Sacrament Meeting Information
Weekly Sacrament Meeting Information
All members are encouraged to attend in-person to partake of the emblems of the sacrament. If you are unable to attend in-person, please reach out to Bishop Wilson to discuss arrangements for you to partake of the sacrament at home.
As a reminder, this is the link for the sacrament meeting broadcast:
10:30 am - https://www.youtube.com/@pheasantvalleybishopric9636/streams
Elders Quorum Priesthood Campout: September 12th-13th, Jolley’s Ranch.
Tithing Declaration: Tithing Declaration will be on September 14, 21, and 28, and on October 12, 19, and 26. Please sign up here: Pheasant Valley Ward Tithing Declaration - Google Sheets
Ward Chili Cook-off: September 20th, 5:00 pm, Jolley’s Ranch, Church Pavilion.
Primary Program: Sunday, September 28th. We will practice for that program on Saturday, September 27th (the day before the program) at 9:00 am.
Ward Musical Talent Survey: If you have any musical talents you would be willing to share with the ward, please fill out this survey: https://forms.gle/c1xuVmD68AJ7Lya47 Youth are encouraged to fill this survey out as well.
Please download and install the Gospel Living App. The Circles feature is a communications tool.
Elders Quorum – Upcoming Activities:
September 12th–13th – Priesthood Campout, Jolly’s Ranch (Canyon Pavilion) Details to come on events—mark your calendars!
Ward Temple Night: 3rd Saturday of every month, the 6 pm session.
Urgent Service Missionary Need: The Springville Employment Center needs senior service missionaries immediately to help those seeking employment by coaching one-on-one, teaching job search skills, and providing encouragement.
Choose your length of service -- 12, 18, or 24 months
Usual shift is 1 day per week for 5 hours and 1 hour of training
Qualifications:
Ability to teach individuals and groups
Basic computer skills or willingness to learn
Willingness to learn job search principles
Temple worthy
For further information contact:
Sister RenLai Merrill
Springville Employment Services Manager
M: 801-508-6004
O: 801-491-7379
rlmerrill@churchofjesuschrist.org
Missionary and Service Opportunities:
We are seeking volunteers (age 16+) to assist in the Springville Family Search Center one afternoon or evening a month. (No experience necessary - will train.) For info, e-mail: 2serveutah@gmail.com
The Utah Salt Lake City Mission presidency has produced a video describing who and how Senior Service Missionaries serve in their mission. See https://youtu.be/IA74YQHLhYQ
Stonehenge Sacrament Meeting: now at 3 pm. Please feel free to invite your family members to attend and support our local residents and ward members.
2025 Meeting Schedule: Our regular Sunday meetings will be from 10:30 - 12:30.
Come Follow Me Manual: If you would like a physical copy of the 2025 Come Follow Me manual, please contact a member of the bishopric.
Spanish-language Temple Session: A Spanish-language session in the Provo City Center Temple is held at 10:00 am every Saturday.
Gospel Living App: All adult members are encouraged to use the Gospel Living App (churchofjesuschrist.org) (also known as “Circles”) to stay connected to the ward and to keep abreast of what is going on. There are other benefits as well. The Gospel Living app focuses on living a Christ-centered life. You’ll discover inspiring content like music, videos, images, activities, and goal ideas. And you can create personal goals, plan activities, set reminders, record your impressions, or message your quorum, class, friends, and family.
Temple Recommends & Setting Apart: if you are in need of a temple recommend or have yet to be set apart for your calling, we encourage you to meet by the Bishop's office (southeast corner of the meetinghouse) after the 2nd hour and speak with a member of the Bishopric. Temple recommend interviews can also be scheduled for Sunday afternoons by contacting Max Gerasymenko (see information below).
Appointments with the Bishop: if you need to schedule an appointment with the bishop, please contact Max Gerasymenko, our ward executive secretary, at 321-978-8734.
Sunday Worship: all members are encouraged to attend in-person to partake of the emblems of the sacrament. If you are unable to attend in-person, please reach out to the bishop to discuss arrangements for you to partake of the sacrament at home.
As a reminder, this is the link for the sacrament meeting broadcast:
10:30 am - https://www.youtube.com/@pheasantvalleybishopric9636/streams
This week’s Come Follow Me: September 1–7: “For the Salvation of Zion”: Doctrine and Covenants 94–97
Click to view the 2025 calendar.
It's Never About the Man
(Some thoughts from January 2018)
Several years ago, when President Howard W. Hunter passed after serving as the President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for a mere nine months, a friend of mine expressed his condolences. My friend was Catholic, and his expression of sympathy was sincere, but he was perplexed at my response. Although I thanked him for his kind words, he didn’t understand why I wasn’t in mourning.
I smiled at him. “President Hunter was a great man. And even though he wasn’t the prophet for very long, I grew to love him. But, it’s not about him. It’s not about the man. It’s never about the man. He was not the Man in charge.”
Howard W. Hunter was never the Captain of the Great Ship Zion. He was merely the first mate. And like any good first mate, he humbly followed the orders of his TRUE Captain.
And likewise, with the recent passing of President Thomas S. Monson, while I do mourn him, I do not mourn for the Church. I was privileged to sing at his funeral, and I honor him as a great man. He finished his race, he served his Lord, and he is with Him now. And he has been reunited with his beloved wife. I am happy for Thomas S. Monson. And I am grateful to serve in the Choir he loved. I am grateful to have sat at his feet (well, up in the Choir loft behind and above him) and to have listened to his loving and prophetic counsel.
But he was not the Captain either.
I read a number of obituaries in the media published after President Monson’s passing. Some were reasonably fair. Others were barely disguised anti-Mormon propaganda. One particularly disgusting piece called the Church a “leaderless gerontocracy,” and said that we would need to wait for the deaths of five more old men before we had a senior apostle “born after WWII.” The point of the “obituary” is that we must be desperately in need of younger men to lead the Church so that we can get past the outmoded notions of the past.
Well, to such critics I say, “You’d best find a comfortable seat, a pillow, and a blanket. Because you’re gonna be waiting a LONG time.”
The TRUE Captain is and always has been the Lord Jesus Christ. And He is not going to change His mind with the times. He is never going to say to us, “Okay! NOW I get it!!! You wise mortals were right all along. Oopsie, my bad.” He will never say that, because His Father sees the end from the beginning. He knows all truth. He is Eternal. And He changes not.
And His Son is the Captain of the Great Ship Zion.
President Russel M. Nelson will be announced tomorrow as the new President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the newly ordained prophet of the Lord. He will serve humbly as the new first mate as long as his mission on Earth shall last. I already love him. I sustain him. But he is not and never will be the Captain.
If you are waiting for President Nelson or any other man or woman to change the Lord’s mind, you are entertaining a false hope. And if you are offering that false hope to others, you are not helping them—you are aiding in their self-destruction and adding to their misery. There is only one truth. Truth isn’t malleable. Truth doesn’t change with the years, centuries, or millennia. The Lord testifies that He is the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
I testify that Jesus Christ lives. I know that He loves us, that He offered Himself as a sacrifice so that we might be redeemed and cleansed from sin, so that we might be made whole. Whatever your burdens, whatever trials you are suffering through, cast your burden upon Him. Do not be deceived by the philosophies and “wisdom” of mortals. Do not wallow in false and vain hopes. He is the one true Hope.
He knows you. He loves you. And He will save you if you will but let Him.
It’s not about the man. It is about the Son of Man. It always has been.
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