Cottonwood Creek 3rd Ward

COTTONWOOD CREEK 3RD WARD 

Sacrament Meeting

March 15th, 2026

Presiding:  Bishop Jon Williams

Conducting: Brother Jeff Abbott

Organist: Sister Jan Bryner  Chorister:  Brother Keith Ritchie

Opening Hymn:  #10

"Come Sing to the Lord"

Invocation: Sister Tori Siebers

Ward Business: Brother Jeff Abbott

Sacrament Hymn:  #175

"Oh God, the Eternal Father"

Passing of the Sacrament

Speaker:  Brother Ladd Cox

Speaker:  Sister Caitlyn Southwick

Congregational Hymn #4

"Truth Eternal"

Speaker:  Brother Clayton Southwick

Closing Hymn:  #27

"Praise to the Man"

Benediction: Brother Graham Abbott

2nd Hour: Sunday School

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!

3rd Ward 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 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

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

(3/9/2026) Howdy y'all 

We're back again with another one! Life's been moving along. Some things happened this week that I'll get into later. But...

thguoht lautirips...

Today, I feel like sharing a story that I found jn a nice little book my parents sent me. Took 3 months, but I got it. It shares 

"In our friendly neighbor city of St. Augustine, great flocks of seagulls arr starving among plenty. Fishing is good, but the gulls don't know how to fish. For generations they have depended on the shrimp fleet to toss them scraps from their nets.

And now the fleet has moved

The shrimpers over the years had created a "welfare state" for the seagulls. The birds never bothered to learn how to fish for themselves, and they never taught they're children to fish. Instead, they led their little ones to the shrimp boats for their food.

Now the seagulls, the fine free birds that al.ost symbolize liberty itself, are starving to death because they gave into the 'something-for-nothing' lure! They sacrificed their independence for a handout

Let's not be the gullible gulls. We must preserve our talents of self-sufficiency, our genius for creating things for ourselves, our sense of thrift, and our true love of independence" Marion G. Romney

I hope this got you reflecting. I hope we can "learn how to fish" so that our source of nourishment doesn't dissappear, and we are left to starve and suffer. We need to understand take charge of our testimony. From the amazing talk by Brother Kevin G. Brown. He says 

"To me, the words take charge, work, care, own, nurture, and feed [our testimony,] sound like an agent given stewardship for something precious and important"

We are stewards of our own self, and God has a way he wants us to steward ourselves. He knows what will bring us the most joy, and all we need to do is OBEY. To us, obedience can look like people are just trying to control us. We see it too often. Faith gets broken when others misuse it. But God gave us a way to know for ourselves if our sources are true and trustworthy. 

I testify to you that they are: tried and tested by millions around the world. This gospel brings joy, happiness, peace, and gratitude to all who truely want to use this doctrine to change their lives for the better. I know that these blessings can apply to us, as we diligently look to strengthen our testimony. God will not leave us in our efforts. 

Ok, thanks for reading, here's the events of the week. 

- We are now a trio for the week as one elder left for his mission, since he was visa waiting

- Now with 3 missionaries (1 team) we have 3 branches to work with. It will be a week for sure for sure. Love these moments

- We have two baptismal dates planned now! So cool to progress this branch a bit

I ate foutou with president and it was so good. 

- We had Elder and sister Morrison from the seventy come and speak to us. They truely are inspired and brought the spirit to our meeting. 

- Last week before transfers, hoping to stay in Vridi Canal with my step son to finish his suivi. Fingers crossed 🤞 

But that's my week.  Hope yours went well. Please feel free to send me an email. I love to hear from you guys. 

- Elder Hill 🇨🇮

Join the photos! Im trying to update weekly, but wifi's not always available ⬇️

 https://photos.app.goo.gl/xDALHF5FdXDSeg899 

Images: 

1. I don't  know why my siwwy companion woves to sweep

2. The new dream team trio!!

3. Sisters had a baptism. So fun 

4. The Zone Conference

5. My beautiful sector

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

(3-9-2026)   Drunk guys, wings, transfers, and tortilla fight

Wow... yeah so we'll get into the title in just a minute. Helloo everyone, what a great week of GOZO (joy) it has been! We've been moving along great up here in my 3rd Transfer of Huamachuco. The rain 🌧 here has been absolutely killer latley. I'm pretty sure that Huamachuco might just be taking Utahs water so sorry about that hehe.

     Okok so lets begin, 

Monday night came home to our fire alarm🔥🔥 going crazy. Don't worry we were all fine, we actually think it got triggered by the trash🗑 as we were compensating and cleaning up for the other elders. Who knew how dirty 4 people could be🤷‍♂️

Tuesday was the day we recieved news about our transfers. But before all of that we had some amazing lessons, but way far... so we walked a lot. On the way in between lessons we got called over by a couple drunkards🍾 who wanted to talk to us about the state of America🇺🇲. Little did they know that, we are some sheltered white boys because we not in America... This night we got to go eat some amazing wings 🍗, called alitas cevichadas. Yeah I'm a fein for peruvian food. Then we recieved transfer news where I am staying in Huamachuco for a 3rd... wow I wanna go... but the news is onky one of the elders was leaving so we celebrated our last day together by doing the tortilla fight trend found here⬇️

https://photos.app.goo.gl/68u3jX7q7jzgih2Z7 

Wednesday, i hit my 7 months nothing crazy

Thursday was our transfer day and we recieved a new elder, se llama elder Herrrera. And if any of you can keep up, this guy was my Zone Leader in my first two transfers, and was also there the day i stepped of the plane into trujillo from lima. So excited for this transfer with him.

Friday we had two Noche de Hogars or family home evenings. They were amazing!!! In between each family home evening we had english class👨🏫. PEOPLE FINALLY CAME! We taught about the basics. Our last family home evening was literally just eating food. We ate something called 🐓pollo saltado. It was gas of course!!

Saturday we ate some good crepes. They were also quite gas ⛽️ 

Spiritual thought 👻💭:

     Well since I'll be staying another transfer, I wanna make this spiritual thought about the steadiness of God and what that means for us

     So for the most part many of you already know of the verses that talk of how God "is the same today, and tomorrow, and forever" Moroni 10:7

     So what does that mean. God will not change. God will not even budge of shake or tumble. He stands on firm ground and asked us to stand where he stands. So in other words, God is consistent, doesn't matter where you stand or where you think he should be, God stands tall above all. What does God stand on... only the truth and rightousness, and mercy and justice. We must learn to be consisten and steady like God the father and his so. We know that only through Jesus can we stand on a firm foundation.

Ok in closing, let Jesus be your example, and chose to follow him with faith. And maybe if you dont quite have faith yet, hope that his light is sufficient. Love you guys!!

WFW (weird food of the week)

- so I ate some Duck. Now some of your are like, "what thats bot that weird" but wait there's more. The way they cook it makes the muscles and tendons really elastically. So while eating we were getting whipped in the face. Pretty funny if you can imagine it hahaha.

Thanks for all the love, Emails and more from everyone. Just know if your on the fence on emailing, just do it!! Plz 🙏

- elderhill

See all of Elder Marcus Hill's photos and videos here:

ELDER HILL'S FLICKS

https://photos.app.goo.gl/68u3jX7q7jzgih2Z7

1. Saying goodby to pobrecito 😔 

2. Sleepy comp💤 

3. Viking restaurant 

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