COTTONWOOD CREEK 3RD WARD 

Sacrament Meeting

January 18th, 2026

Presiding:  Bishop Jon Williams

Conducting: Brother Jeff Abbott

Organist: Sister Karen Holt | Chorister:  Sister Mila Jueschke

Opening Hymn:  #73

"Praise the Lord with Heart and Voice"

Invocation: Brother Nicholas Abbott

Ward Business: Brother Jeff Abbott

Sacrament Hymn:  #1007

"As Bread is Broken"

Passing of the Sacrament

Speaker:  Sister Marianne Harrison

Speaker:  Sister Wanda Penovich

Congregational Hymn: #66

"Rejoice. the Lord is KIng

Speaker:  Sister Delene McMillan

Closing Hymn:  #1033

"Oh How Great is Our Joy"

Benediction: Sister Jane Thomas

2nd Hour: Sunday School

Cottonwood Creek Stake Single Adults 36 and Older

Mondays at 7:00 PM, there is a weekly Come, Follow Me discussion group for the Cottonwood Creek Stake Single Adults held at the home of Shelly Ashcroft - 1780 East Julho Street (big blue house on the corner of Paulista and Julho).  Come prepared to  share a personal insight or question from the week's assigned reading.

Scheduling the Building

To schedule the building, Bro Woodward had created a direct email for people to request building reservations rather than calling him (see his instructions below):

I now have an email set up specifically for scheduling the building.

cc3scheduling@gmail.com

 I’d like all further requests (from all ward and stake members) to be directed to this email only as it makes it easier for me to get all events scheduled as soon as possible.

For anyone who needs to schedule something, please include your name, contact info, the type of event (including what sections of the building are needed such as the gym or pavilion) and what day(s) and time(s) they need.

I will respond within 24-48 hours letting them know it’s been scheduled or if their time slot is occupied already.

English Language Classes

English as a second language (ESL) classes are being offered at the Stake Center every Thursday evening from 7:00 to 8:00  and all are welcome.  If you are interested or have questions, please contact Lisa Hill at 801-712-2910.

Please see the English Connect tab for more details.

Temple Recommend Interviews

New recommends or renewals of recommends expired more than 1 year

• Please schedule an interview with Bishop Williams through Brother Todd Robinson. 

Renewals of active recommends or those expired 1 year or less

• Please schedule an interview with one of the counselors through Brother Tracy Fisher.

Cottonwood Creek 3rd Ward Plan

VISION:

To help ourselves and others become true followers of Jesus Christ, receive the blessings of the Holy Temple, have enduring joy and qualify for eternal life.

WARD SCRIPTURE:

"By small and simple things are great things brought to pass" Alma 37:6

PRIORITIES:

EVERY member LIVES the gospel of Jesus Christ

EVERY member GATHERS Israel through missionary work

EVERY member should CARE for the poor and needy.

EVERY member ENABLES the salvation for our kindred dead.

Full-time, Local Missionaries

The names change now and then, but the phone number stays the same: 

801-259-1129. Always here, always energetic, and always ready to serve!

Our missionary ADDRESSES:

Elder Jesse Bramwell

Arizona Tempe Mission

6001 S Lakeshore Dr

Tempe AZ 85283

Elder and Sister Christensen

Inner City Project

1294 E Siesta Dr

Cottonwood Heights, UT 84093

Elder and Sister Ellis

Inner City Project

7817 S Canterwood Lane

Sandy, UT 84093

Elder and Sister Hart

Church Service Missionaries (My Hometown Initiative)

North Granger,Utah

1691 E Madsen Ln

Sandy, UT 84093

Elder and Sister Haslam

Texas Fort Worth Mission

Drake on Summit

1424 Summit Avenue, Apt 4064

Fort Worth, TX 76102

Elder  Marcus Hill

Peru Trujillo Norte Mission

Marcus.hill@missionary.org

Elder Carter Hill

Cote D'Ivoire Abidjan East Mission

Hill.Carter@missionary.org 

Elder Preston Penovich

Church Service Missionary - Salt Lake City East mission 

1620 E Creek Road

Sandy UT 84093

Elder Zo Velluto  

Kentucky Louisville (Spanish speaking)

1325 Eastern Pkwy

Louisville, KY 40204

News from Elder Carter Hill (hill.carter@missionary.org)

(1-12-2026) Wake Up

Howdy y'all

Don't know where the southern accent came from but today's a special.  Woooooh!! We got two spiritual thoughts cause why not? It's my email, but it's your choice if you read it. 

Spiritual thought #1 comes from a fireside recording my comp has. Its titled "Wake up from your phone." I want to read to tout a small part of what I wrote in my journal

"We all search for digital distractions. There's the story from the book 'Percy Jackson'  he shares and I love it. There's a bot and he needs to save the world in about a week. He and his 2 friends [find] themselves at a casino. There are floors and floors of games and distractions, which lead them to lose themselves. A couple of hours in this magical casino became 5 days. This can apply to our own technology habits. There is an infinite amount of distractions on our own personal 'magic casino'. An intended 10 minutes becomes hours wasted." 

Isn't that interesting? I feel that real joy isn't fabricated online. Its with real life interactions. I how that we can take another look at our own personal technology habits. I hope this part touches somebody because it really is impériaux in this advancing world. AI will only make it easier to suck more time away. 

Ok I'll add the weekly thing here, then the second spiritual thought after. 

-We've met some pretty epic people this week. I would say that we had an important showing at church as well. Our little branch lacks a lot of armor young men to carry the priesthood. So that's all we've been teaching lately. We had about 5 of these young men attend church and it was HUGE!

-We found another rat in our courtyard area and had a fun time charging it around until it jumped from about 8 feet in the air and escaped.

-I had splits with our zone leader and it was really cool. He's from congo so my French was tested a bit. But we're standing strong 💪 

This is my intended spiritual thought so send me an email if you read the whole email (emphasis added) 

Spiritual thought #2

This comes from a general conference talk given by Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf. In it, he breaks down the story of the prodigal son. I really loved it, but I'll try to be quick... try. 

He talks about the sorrow the father felt after the prodigal chose to leave his family, assuming he'd never come back.

But because of his love, he gives his son his inheritance and sends him on his way. The prodigal probably felt free and a thrill of adventure. As he spent his inheritance 

Elder Uchtdorf tells us that "the party did not last—it rarely does. Two things happened: first, he ran out of money, and second, a famine swept through the land."

He probably fought every reason to return. Who world accept him? But, starving, and lowly of heart, he could only think of returning to be his father's servant.

Only the unthinkable happened. As he came walking up to his house probably rehearsing how he'd only try to be accepted as a servant, his father sees him long before the son does and runs up to him with a GREAT. BIG... HUG.

This father's love for the lost son had only grown while he'd been away, so much so that he caused the whole house to celebrate at his return. 

I love this story as with other parables about lost things. In all parables, the lost items are recieve with great joy when they are returned. The same is true about souls who are lost like this story of the prodigal. Both men and women are missed by God as they choose to turn away the true joy they have. But God's love only grows as he will come running up to any willing soal who feels went need to return.  NO MATTER THE CONDITION, NO MATTER THE STATE.  God loves you, and there is nothing you can do to take his love away from you. I say these things in the name of Jesus christ amen

To next time, and also send me and update email. Its been a couple of weeks hasn't it?

-Elder Hill 🇨🇮 

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News from Elder Marcus Hill (marcus.hill@missionary.org)

(1-8-2026)  Hey fellas we made it to the new year and my 5 MONTHS!!

Hows it going peeps hope everyone took a look at the new year and started some decent new year resolutions that they are fine with ending in more than 3-4 week😅

This year will be my one and only full year as a missionary which is kinda crazy to think about. Luckily things will only be looking up from here right...

Things in Huamachuco have never been crazier!!! Nothing happened sorry to get you excited about nothing💀 Its been pretty boring this week with New years and all that fun stuff. We had the joyful opportunity of watching all the crazy fireworks go off around the area and let me tell you they were crazy🤪 They have this pretty interesting tradition of making mannequins and then lighting them on fire filled with all sorts of bad memories. Really quite scary to watch not quite knowing before it happened... Another thing is it has been raining like crazy here with literal rivers through the streets. I HAVENT SEEN THE SUN IN 5 DAYS. I came so unprepared😅🌧 

WFW (Weird Foods of the Week)

• Cuy Frito (Fried guinea pig)

  Thoughts: Honestly would have enjoyed it more if there was more to eat🫠

• Chicken Foot

Thoughts: Again more meat please but this was less enjoyable due to foot tendons🤢

SHOUTOUTS📢

• Elder Baer is starting the Mission Field this week!!

Love you guys lots hope everything is flowing smoothly for you all and the rest of your days are happy merry and bright😉

-elderhill🇵🇪

ELDER HILLS FLICKS

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Stake History Publication Now Available

We want to let the ward know that we still have several of these books available.  Please check with the bishopric or any of the clerks if you are interested in one for your library.

Sandy Utah Cottonwood Creek Stake 

Brothers and Sisters, 

We are excited to announce the publication and availability of “Worthy of Remembrance” a history of the Sandy Cottonwood Creek Stake 1978-2022. Sister Terri Packer, a member of our stake, has done an amazing job compiling and writing the history. 

The stake has subsidized the cost of publishing the history in an effort to make the book available to as many people as possible. The history contains spiritually uplifting experiences shared by members of our stake in their own words. It includes interesting information about the area, the history, and creation of our Stake. The book is beautiful, readable, inspiring, and full of many, many, photographs, which tell a history of their own. 

Copies are available now. Ward clerks have access to the books and can help with the process of purchasing the history. The cost of the book is $10. Each ward has received a small number of copies to provide to those wishing to purchase. More copies are available for wards to obtain. In addition, copies of the history will be placed in each of our meetinghouse libraries for those who would like to explore the book without purchase. 

Those who live outside of the stake and are interested in purchasing a copy may contact our stake executive secretary, Don McOmie, to coordinate receiving a copy. 

We hope that you will find the history to be as wonderful and inspiring as we have. It bears witness of the hand of the Lord at work in the Sandy Cottonwood Creek stake over many, many years. We highly recommend it to all. 

Warm Regards, 

The Stake Presidency