Welcome to Joy in His Service. Today's guests, Ron and Jenny Stutz, know a thing or two about building a Gospel-centered family that lasts. Married for 38 years, they've raised four sons, moved all over the country, and somehow managed to gather all their children and nine grandchildren back to Arizona. In this episode, you'll hear how a couple who met and became friends at a BYU dance at Sundance built a family culture that has carried them through busy careers, frequent moves, and now into a season of temple service and grandparenthood.

We talk about what it really was like to have their first baby by their first anniversary, why they chose to start their family early when so many today are waiting, and how simple habits like family home evening, scripture study, and regular temple attendance shaped their home. Ron and Jenny share powerful stories from nearly two decades each at girls camp and boys camp, miracles in the mountains, priesthood blessings in the wilderness, and moments when youth quite literally had to pray their way off the mountain and learned how to recognize the spirit.

Ron also pulls back the curtain on his years working in church technology, including helping implement the missionary age change, the shift from flip phones to smartphones, and increasing general conferences worldwide reach, plus how he saw the Lord's hand hastening the work in very specific ways. Then we shift to the temple, what they learned as ordinance workers, how serving has changed their daily lives, and how temple covenants became even more real as they sat at the bedside of their parents in their final moments.

At the heart of our conversation is their testimony of Jesus Christ and eternal families. You'll hear Ron's simple conviction that God can make much more out of your life than you can by yourself, if you'll just let him. And Jenny's plea to their posterity and to all of us to choose faith, stay where the spirit is, and live so that families are forever isn't just a motto, but a reality. Stay with us as we talk about youth, missions, ministering, temple service, and what it really looks like to let God prevail in an ordinary Latter-day Saint home.

Today's episode is a conversation with elder and sister George, lifelong Oklahomans who found the gospel as teenagers, raised a hodgepodge family of six children, and now have a bustling posterity of 18 grandchildren, spread mostly across Arizona. After careers that took them through Maryland, Virginia, Illinois, and eventually to the desert, Brother George worked with the FBI and recently retired. They now split their time between caring for a three-year-old grandson and coordinating one of the most quietly powerful efforts in the church, senior service missions.

In our discussion, they'll pull back the curtain on what senior service missions really look like, how one couple can help oversee opportunities across four coordinating councils and 40 stakes, by missions at places like institutes, the bishop storehouse, employment services, and transitional services are every bit as real as proselyte missions, and how surprisingly flexible these callings can be for people still working, caring for family, or juggling other responsibilities. You'll hear stories of an 80-year-old returning to full activity through service.

Our least society president who still spends a day a week at a therapeutic horse ranch and senior missionaries who serve while battling serious health challenges and insist they don't want the blessings to stop. If you have a thought, I'd love to serve, but I can't leave home or I'm too busy or I'm not sure there's a place for someone like me. This conversation might change your mind.

Welcome to Joy in His Service. Today we have an inspiring couple, Courtney and Tyson Davis, who share a remarkable journey of faith, family, and service. You'll hear how their love story began not on a typical date, but through shared church callings at BYU, setting a powerful foundation for their marriage.

We dive deep into Tyson's transformative experience as a bishop and Courtney's candid reflections on the sacrifices and profound growth their family experienced during that demanding time. They'll share how they continue to serve together in youth leadership empowering the next generation and fostering spiritual growth.

From a miraculous encounter in Puerto Vallarta, their revealed God's guiding hand, to their heartfelt advice for parents and youth today, this conversation is packed with insights on how service strengthens testimony and brings abundant blessings. Join us to discover their powerful message for future generations and how putting Christ first truly shapes a life of purpose.

Welcome to today's episode of Joy in His Service. Today, we dive into an inspiring conversation with Chloe Varvel, a young woman on the brink of a life-changing journey. Chloe shares her heartfelt story of faith, resilience, and the unexpected turns that have shaped her path. From her experiences working in the temple, to her excitement about serving a mission in Independence, Missouri, Chloe's journey is filled with profound insights and personal growth. Join us as we explore the moments that have defined her , the challenges she's overcome, and the unwavering belief that guides her. Get ready to be inspired by Chloe's story of dedication, love, and the pursuit of a higher calling.

Today's episode is a little different in the very best way. We're sitting down with Mike and Amy Isom on the morning of their 47th wedding anniversary. Their parents, grandparents, and longtime members of the Chandler area with four grown children. In this conversation, we trace an incredible journey of discipleship through five missions and beyond. A five-year local service mission teaching the strengthening marriage course that ended up transforming their own relationship even more than the couples they taught an 18-month assignment at the New York and Pennsylvania historic sites where the Sacred Grove was literally their backyard as they helped pioneer virtual tours that reached over half a million people in more than 100 countries.

Several seasons serving as the Nauvoo pageant, Remy helps clothe entire cast in pioneer costumes and the Isom subscribe what it feels like to live in a Zion society for six intense weeks each summer. And then a call to to Brazil's Porto Alegre South Mission accepted in faith with almost no Portuguese, but they learned to rely completely upon the Spirit, Google Translate, and the kindness of the saints. And finally, beginning a service mission from home to continue supporting their mission in Brazil remotely. Along the way, Mike and Amy share how they navigated unexpected cancer, sold their home, flew back from Brazil twice for family medical crisis, and kept choosing Christ while also choosing their children. They talk about seeing the veil thin in the sacred grove in Nauvoo , learning to follow quiet spiritual nudges, and discovering just how deeply the Savior loves His children in every circumstance. If you've ever wondered whether senior missions are worth it, how to prepare for one, or what it really looks like to put your life in the Lord's hands, this episode will give you stories, practical perspective, and a powerful witness of the Savior. Stay with us. By the end of this interview, you might find yourself checking mission opportunities, looking up the Nauvoo Pageant application dates, or at least asking...

What more could I do to serve?

Troy and Stacey Hansen know a thing or two about covenants, callings, and saying yes to the Lord again and again. Both were born in the same small Utah hospital, delivered by the same doctor two years apart, though they wouldn't meet for another two decades on a blind date that wasn't supposed to be about them. But after an unexpected injury kept Stacey home from school, their paths changed, and so did the course of their lives together. From that beginning, they built a Christ-centered marriage, raised three children, now spread across Utah and Nebraska, Texas, and are the proud grandparents of seven, six of which are boys. In this conversation, we walk through a remarkable lifetime of quiet, steady discipleship.

Troy's mission detour as a visa waiter in the Arizona Tempe mission, and the full circle moment of later serving in that same mission presidency. Their years working side by side with the rising generation in a YSA stake. The experience of organizing a brand new stake from scratch, calling bishops and a patriarch, building a stake center and interviewing and setting apart hundreds of missionaries. You'll hear Stacey's powerful story of going after the one as a primary teacher and how a class of eight year olds learn that prayers plus action can literally change someone's life. You'll hear their very practical, honest take on ministering, on what to look for in an eternal companion and why teaching callings extend far beyond the classroom walls. And then we look forward.

Troy and Stacey are now preparing to leave everything familiar :home, career, and the comfort of being near family to serve as member and leader support missionaries in the Adelaide Australia mission. They share the extraordinary four generation story that ties their family to Australia, the financial and emotional realities of going as senior missionaries, and why they feel an urgent pull to tie the autumn years of their lives to the Lord. If you've ever wondered what it really looks like to put the Savior first in midlife and beyond, to prepare now for a future senior mission or to more fully consecrate your marriage and your ministry, this episode will both challenge and encourage you. Stay with us. You're about to hear a tender, faith-filled, and very real conversation with Troy and Stacey Hansen.

On today's episode you'll meet Charles Chuck Malone, a convert to the church, long time real estate broker, patriarch and temple sealer, whose life has been shaped by trial, faith, and a very real relationship with Jesus Christ. Chuck grew up a fun-loving Methodist kid in Holbrook, Arizona, the kind of kid who got a Bible thrown at him in Sunday school, got fired from auto shop, and then turned that failure into a trumpet scholarship.

As a teenager, a simple desire to earn his Eagle Scout led him to an LDS Scoutmaster, to the Order of the Arrow, to unexpected spiritual experiences, and eventually to a phone call home where he told his bishop, I'd like to be baptized into your church. From there, the Lord took him on a remarkable path, serving a mission in Eastern Canada with almost no gospel background and a setting apart by Elder Thomas S. Monson, driving his way through college after boldly declaring, I'm a drummer before he'd ever played a beat. Meeting his wife, Linda, in a community production of The Sound of Music and then riding the roller coaster of a real estate career where he says he became a millionaire in nine years and a pauper in the tenth four different times.

In our conversation, Chuck shares his conversion story and how the Lord used unlikely people and moments to guide him. The miracles and personal tutoring that led him to become a temple sealer. What he's learned standing at the altar about sealing power, faithfulness, and inviting Christ into a marriage. Sacred experiences with proxy work, including powerful moments with ancestors on the other side of the veil. How repeated financial loss and deep personal trial became a gateway to discovering hidden gifts and writing books like the sweetness of trial and winning through trial. And the simple message he hopes his posterity will remember 100 years from now.

If you've ever wondered what really happens spiritually inside a ceiling room, how to think differently about your own trials or how an ordinary kid can become an instrument in the Lord's hands, this episode will deepen your love for the temple and expand your faith in what God can do with a willing heart. Stay with us. Chuck's stories of conversion, ceiling power, and never giving up will change the way you see your covenants and your own life.

Today we sit down Brother Kelly Pond, a stake patriarch in the Chandler South Stake, a devoted husband to Marcie, and the father of six. Professionally, Kelly spent over 30 years supporting orthopedic surgeons, often in the OR, and bringing technical expertise and care to countless joint replacement patients. But this conversation goes far beyond work. In this episode, Kelly shares the tender story of receiving his call as patriarch, how humbling it felt, the immediate spiritual confirmation, and the unique blessing of serving alongside Marcie as his scribe.

We explored he's learned about creating a home where revelation can be felt in the three inspired phases of a patriarchal blessing, preparation, pronouncement, and transcription. You'll hear how he invites youth to come spiritually ready, how revelation comes in the moment during the blessing, and how careful transcription preserves what the spirit intended. Brother Pond also talks about the way his calling has changed how he sees people, recognizing divine potential in everyone, and why patriarchal blessings matter at every age including for converts or lifelong members who may not have received one yet.

He offers practical ideas for youth and parents, preparing through prayer, scripture study, the temple, journaling impressions right after the blessing, and even recording memories and family search as a personal Leahona. We finish with a powerful message to the rising generation. Your divine identity is discovered and deepened through making and keeping covenants, and true joy is found in becoming a disciple of Jesus Christ. Stay with us for this thoughtful, faith-filled conversation.