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.