Hanae Yamamoto was born and raised in Miyazaki, Japan. She has been playing piano for over 20 years! Hanae served a full time mission in the Hawaii, Honolulu mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. To this day Hanae continues to play the piano and is currently studying Piano Performance at Brigham Young University. She is busy attending school while taking care of her husband and 2 little boys. Hanae loves cats, ramen, online shopping, and playing with children. She is a talented young woman who works hard and loves meeting new people. She aspires to be a homemaker and professional piano teacher.

Dr. Jennifer Finlayson-Fife is a Latter-day Saint relationship and sexuality coach as well as a Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor in the state of Illinois. She has a PhD in Counseling Psychology. Her teaching and coaching focus on helping Latter-day Saint individuals and couples achieve greater satisfaction and passion in their emotional and sexual relationships.

Sandy grew up in Virginia but has lived in six other states as an adult, making friends and memories all along the way. She currently calls the Midwest home, where she is a wife and mother who always has her hands in a project or two. She loves to travel with her family and friends and is currently teaching cooking classes, using her family history research degree, and teaching early morning Seminary with her husband, Greg. Her perfect day would include being surrounded by family and friends, playing games, eating great food, dancing in the kitchen, and trying to convince people to do things that would make her laugh.

Kristen Walker Smith is a co-host of the One Minute Scripture Study podcast, a Deseret Book masterclass teacher, BYU Education Week speaker, EFY teacher, and bestselling author. Kristen graduated with a Bachelor of Arts from Brigham Young University where she met her darling husband of almost 20 years; they are the parents of three wonderful, rascally children. When Kristen isn’t teaching the gospel you can usually find her rock climbing, listening to Elder Holland talks, or eating peanut butter—frequently all at the same time.

Michelle Franzoni Thorley is a Mexican American visual artist, anti-racism consultant and plant lover. Her work and words are available on Instagram at @florafamiliar.

Miyamoto Loretta Jensen, of Laie, Hawaii, is a professional genealogist that specializes in Polynesian family history work. She is of Kanaka Maoli (Native Hawaiian), Samoan, Tongan, Japanese, Korean, English, Swedish, and French descent. Miya's various jobs include being a Pacific Area Content Strategist for FamilySearch, a freelancer for clients who want help with their genealogy work, podcast host for "Tala Mo Le Moe: Oceania Mythology and History told as Bedtime Stories," AND co-host with Michelle Franzoni Thorley on a new podcast show for Deseret Book coming summer of 2022. In her free time, she loves to eat out at different restaurants with her husband, teach herself how to paint, tend to her plants, play with her cats, learn how to make foods she never made before, swim at the pool with her son, lift weights because it makes her feel like a beast, listen/dance/sing to BTS, eat boba with her best friends, explore different makeup looks, surf when she's visiting home, and spend quality time with those she loves most. Miya currently resides in good ol' Provo, UT. You can follow her @ThePolynesianGenealogist on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and TikTok.

Abe Mills spends his time with his amazing wife and wonderful children creating content for their SUPER FUN, UPBEAT YouTube channel, Sunshine Mafia. He performed in the Christian boy band Jericho Road, graduated from BYU with a degree in broadcast journalism, and served a mission in Houston, Texas. He loves traveling, serving, performing, and experiencing different foods and cultures from around the world with his family!

John is a 46-year-old Seminary principal in Morgan, Utah, where he lives with his wife, Sunni, and their three sons for the last 12 years. John has been a Seminary teacher for 21 years. He enjoys sports, restoring old vehicles, and most of all, spending time with his family, especially on trips in their RV.

I was born in Ecuador in a non religious family, when I was 6 I moved in Italy, a place that became my first home. At the age of 10 I met the missionaries of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints and got baptized a few months later. I served a mission in the Rome, Italy mission, where I had the privilege to serve 10 months in the Rome visitor center. Recently I decided to start a podcast in Italian for the members of the church here in Italy, it’s called “Mano nella Mano” which means “hand in hand” and my mission is to inspire others while we walk hand in hand with God and our Savior Jesus Christ