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.