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Sarah Collins

Sarah Collins is a podcast producer, writer, and content creator for Deseret Book. Despite listening to podcasts all day for work, her favorite pastime is listening to a podcast while driving in the car. Sarah would pick Diet Dr Pepper over Diet Coke any day, and she prefers it with a large fry after running a big race. An avid reader and music enthusiast, she dreams of spending a day with none other than Taylor Swift. Sarah is from Lindon, Utah, and for her the best day ever is spent on a hike with her dog.

Susie Hernandez

Susan (SusieQ) Hernández was born and raised in Southern California and has lived in Las Cruces, NM for the past 15 years. She loves to travel with her best friend and kitty in their RV, and they're working on visiting all 49 states; will fly to Hawaii. Just 13 states to go! Susie served a mission in the far away land of the Arizona Tucson Mission, and loved the people of the southwest! Susie is an elementary school counselor and enjoys teaching kinder to 5th graders all about social emotional learning. Her next travel destination (not in the RV) is Israel with three of her best friends. She can't wait to see where Jesus walked because her love and testimony of Him grows each day as she studies Come Follow Me and listens to each of the Sunday on Monday podcasts.

Greg Ward

Greg didn't know what the word "Mormon" meant until he started dating Kirsten senior year in high school, though had a crush on her for more than a decade. Suffice it to say Kirsten was Greg's missionary, taught him the Gospel, introduced him to BYU, and waited for him while he served a mission in Venezuela. Greg graduated BYU with a degree in Electrical Engineering, though always preferred the business side of things. Currently he is COO for a life sciences instrumentation company in Provo, UT. Greg's hobbies include paragliding and sailing.

Jessica Nelson

Jessica Nelson is a historian and documentary editor for the Joseph Smith Papers. She completed a BA in American studies at Brigham Young University and an MS in history at Utah State University, where she held the Milner/Butler Editorial Fellowship at the Western Historical Quarterly. Her thesis, titled “‘The Mississippi of the West’: Religion, Conservatism, and Racial Politics in Utah, 1960–1978,” was awarded the Lester E. Bush Best Thesis Award by the Mormon History Association in 2018. Previous to joining the Joseph Smith Papers, she worked as a research assistant for the women’s history team at the Church History Department.

Monica Nystuen Westbye

Monica Nystuen Westbye was born in Drammen, Norway. Although she was baptized at the age of 8, she considers herself a convert. After losing contact with the church, she reconnected with two missionaries from Utah at the age of 23. She is forever grateful for the gift of the Holy Ghost and for her faithful grandmother’s draw of the Plan of Happiness. Both helped keep Monica close to Christ and Heavenly Father.

Jamie Goodwin

Jamie Goodwin grew up in Denver, Colorado. She met her husband, Doug, in college, and they are now the proud parents of four children. When she's not cheering her children on in their extracurricular activities, she stays busy as a freelance writer and editor.

Carina Westbye

Carina Westbye lives in Drammen Norway and is a 4th generation member of the Church. When she Is not cooking at the psychiatric unit where she runs the kitchen, she likes to go on hikes, explore new trails, or read a good book. She loves being an aunt and is blessed to be an important part of the lives of my nieces and nephews. She loves amusement parks, roller coasters, and a good pizza at home. She treasures knowing that she is a daughter of heavenly parents and loved by Jesus. He is her light, hope, and peace.

Gerrit J. Dirkmaat

Josie Candland

Josie is a fun-loving, spontaneous dancing, always laughing soul who believes people should hug more. Born and raised in Mesa, Arizona she moved to Spokane with her family for her junior and senior year then moved to St. George recently completing her freshman year at Utah Tech. She sees the gospel in a different way than most, which prompted her early morning seminary teacher to say, “You should start a gospel podcast for kids,” which she is still trying determine whether or not was a compliment. A fond phrase of hers is “I love me some Jesus,” and she is convinced if anyone has a secret handshake with Jesus, it’s her.

Elder Ahmad S. Corbitt

Elder Ahmad S. Corbitt was sustained as a General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the April 2023 general conference. At the time of his call, he had been serving the First Counselor of the Young Men General Presidency. Elder Corbitt has served in a number of Church callings, including full-time missionary in the Puerto Rico San Juan Mission, high councilor, counselor in two stake presidencies, stake president, and president of the Dominican Republic Santo Domingo East Mission.