Thoughts, ideas, and messages from leaders, teachers, and members of the Pheasant Valley Ward to support home-centered discipleship.
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:
12:00 pm - https://www.youtube.com/@pheasantvalleybishopric9636/streams
YSA Conference: coming in August
Stake YW Camp: July 13-16
The Springville Employment Center needs Employment Service Missionaries!!! This mission offers flexibility in both length of service and weekly hours. The service entails encouraging job seekers, meeting with them, teaching them effective job search skills and helping them find job opportunities. The Service Missionary must have a desire to help others, be comfortable using or learning computer skills, and be willing to learn effective job search principles. Applicants need to be 26+ in age and temple worthy. Interested individuals are invited to visit the Springville Employment Center to learn more. Stop by Monday or Thursday from 10:am to 3:pm or Wednesday from 2:pm to 7:pm at 1672 W 700 S Suite C Springville. Inquiries may also be made by contacting Sister RenLai Merrill at 801-491-7379.
Help Bring Comfort to Children: The Dry Creek Stake Girls Camp is collecting materials to make fleece and quilt blankets for children in hospitals and hospice care.
We need:
• Fleece (≈2 yards)
• Cotton fabric (≈40" x 50")
• Quilt batting
• Yarn (bulky/medium)
• Quilting needles & safety pins
Drop off by: May 30
Location: 834 Matteoa Ln
Questions: Jillian Neel (801-472-2336)
Every donation helps create something warm, comforting, and full of love. Thank you for supporting this meaningful project!
Ward Choir: thanks to all who participated in ward choir. We will be on break during the summer and will reconvene in August.
Skills Survey: We are looking for ward members to share skills, talents, hobbies, or experiences they would be willing to share with the kids in Activity Days: https://forms.gle/i435CgxpqZXYXDbz6
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.
Emergency Preparedness isn't just for the home. Here is a list of items you can have in your car to help you be prepared for an emergency: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11KC6rOWX2fM6NNQSqpc17EfD3E3VApo9/view
Please download and install the Gospel Living App. The Circles feature is a communications tool.
Ward Temple Night: 3rd Saturday of every month, the 6 pm session.
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: will still be at 3 pm. Please feel free to invite your family members to attend and support our local residents and ward members.
2026 Meeting Schedule: Our regular Sunday meetings are from 12:00 - 2:00.
Come Follow Me Manual: If you would like a physical copy of the 2026 Come Follow Me manual, please contact a member of the bishopric. One per family.
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 by contacting Jared Lotz at 385-445-1128.
Appointments with the Bishop: if you need to schedule an appointment with the bishop, please contact Nathan Petersen, our ward executive secretary, at 385-202-8520.
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:
12:00 pm - https://www.youtube.com/@pheasantvalleybishopric9636/streams
This week’s Come Follow Me: June 29–July 5. “If the Lord Be God, Follow Him”: 1 Kings 12–13; 17–22
Click to view the 2026 calendar.
(Some thoughts from 2018)
John Dickinson (1732-1808) is not the best-remembered of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America, and that is, in my not-so-humble (and almost always correct) opinion, a profound shame, especially today.
Dickinson was a member of the Pennsylvania delegation to the Second Continental Congress, and in that congress, he was the leading voice AGAINST American independence. In fact, when it came time to sign the Declaration of Independence and to pledge to each other their lives, fortunes, and sacred honor, Dickinson resigned from Congress, refusing to sign.
His reasons for doing so, when viewed strictly through a modern lens, seem misguided at best, self-serving, unamerican, or even treasonous at worst. However, to do so would be to do a great and loyal American a terrible disservice. Dickinson was a true American patriot and an honest and selfless man who laid his life on the line for his country (meaning, the U.S.A.). He argued forcibly that American independence was wrong at that time, because he believed the colonies could not win a war against the greatest military power in the world at the time (Great Britain), he believed the colonies would need the help of a great foreign nation (and we did—France) before we could declare independence, he believed we needed a national government in place before we could declare independence (he was one of the authors of the Articles of Confederation and insisted they be completed first), and he believed that violence was not the answer to settling the dispute. While I am grateful that the voices for independence won out (and that very narrowly and only by a miracle—and by that, I mean Divine intervention), I can understand all of Dickinson’s arguments. A lot of what he said made a lot of sense viewed through the lens of 1776. What Dickinson did, he did out of deeply held principles.
After refusing to sign the Declaration and resigning from the congress, John Dickinson enlisted in the militia and served with the Continental (U.S.) Army. He served faithfully and bravely. In fact, at one point, he refused a commission and served as a lowly private. After the revolution, he continued to serve this nation until the end of his life.
John Adams (1735-1826, Second President of the United States) led the push for independence, and he and Dickinson were bitter and vocal opponents in congress. But when Dickinson refused to sign the Declaration, Adams said of his opponent, “Mr. Dickinson’s alacrity and spirit certainly become his character and sets a fine example.” In other words, he praised his rival. Even though they were political enemies in a cause they both held to be of supreme importance, they respected each other as human beings.
Can we not today learn from Dickinson’s and Adams’s example? We can disagree strongly over issues we think to be of vital importance and still not resort to HATRED and VIOLENCE against those with whom we disagree. Dickinson was WRONG, but he was SINCERELY and HONESTLY wrong in his firmly held principles, and he was still an HONORABLE and a BRAVE man.
Mr. Dickinson was a true American patriot. May we learn from his example. And that of his adversary, John Adams. To do less, would be unamerican.