Courtnie is married to her best friend, Taylor. Together, they have 5 children and a cute mini goldendoodle. Courtnie loves warm beaches, chocolate covered cinnamon bears, opening and closing down the parks at Disneyland, traveling, musicals, babies, and baking cakes. She graduated from BYU with a BFA in Music Dance Theater and has been teaching voice lessons ever since. She also loves teaching fitness classes at local gyms and feels at peace when her house is clean. Although she spends many hours in the car driving her kids to their activities, she loves watching them do what they love. One of the greatest joys in Courtnie’s life has been watching her kids’ testimonies develop and grow.

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.

Grant Stucki lives in Denver, Colorado with his wife and 6 kids. He loves going on hikes with his family in the beautiful mountains of Colorado. When he's not doing oral surgery, he can often be found going to Denver Nuggets games, teaching seminary, or doing yard work with his kids. He loved his time in dental school at UCLA where he met his wife and made lifelong friends. Living in Chicago for oral surgery residency was a tough, yet rewarding experience. If there's a favorite pastime Grant has while driving to work each day, it's learning from audiobooks. Despite loving the mountains, if given the chance for vacation, Grant almost always choses lounging on the beach in Florida.

Erin Grew up in northern Utah where she met her husband Adam Clark while attending Weber State University. After many moves that have taken them from coast to coast they settled in San Antonio Texas. They are the parents of 7 children ranging in age from 19 down to 4 years old. Erin is blessed to be able to stay at home and feels that raising their family is the single most important calling she could have and rejoices that she has been given the opportunity. Having been given a solid foundation in the teachings of Jesus Christ at the feet of her parents and many leaders she is working hard to pass her love of the gospel on to her children. The Come, Follow Me curriculum has played a significant role in her journey to remove distractions and focus on the scriptures. In her spare time Erin enjoys running, cooking, and spending as much time as possible camping with her family. After so many years of having little children in her care she is cherishing the time she is now able to spend in the temple.

Lisa, the youngest of six children, was raised in Novato, California, and New Canaan, Connecticut. Lisa and her husband, Josh, have spent the past 17 years in Ladera Ranch, California, raising their five children (their oldest just started her first year at BYU). Lisa, a credentialed elementary school teacher, left teaching to join her husband in opening a residential real estate company servicing Orange County, California. But life has seemed to tell her "not so fast" this year, causing Lisa to go back to her roots and deciding to homeschool her remaining four children at home, all while continuing to sell homes. She lives a crazy life but loves the gospel, which is sustaining her during these unusual times.

Emy was born in Utah but spent most of her childhood in Arizona. She returned to Utah to attend BYU before transferring up to Salt Lake Community College to earn a degree in occupational therapy. It was while working as an occupational therapy assistant at the Utah State Hospital that she met her husband, Greg. They became good friends at work and even went on a couple group dates together (but not with each other). After about two years of friendship, Emy realized that Greg was the one she wanted to be with and invited him over for dinner and Simpsons where she took the plunge and told him how she felt. Luckily, he agreed and they were engaged a couple months later. They just celebrated the 21st anniversary of the day their family began and look forward to many more years together. Emy and Greg have two kids, a son that is getting ready for his first year in college and a daughter looking forward to her senior year of high school. Emy chose to be a full-time mom for most of her kids’ childhood. She recently returned to working, but this time as an elementary school librarian which she loved doing for the past four years. Emy is still at the same school but is now in the office as the assistant secretary. Working with young children has been such a joy and having a school schedule allows enough free time for her favorite things: cooking for her family, evening walks with her husband, girls nights, reading, and traveling.

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.

Terryl L. Givens was born in upstate New York, raised in the American southwest, and did graduate work in Intellectual History (Cornell) and Comparative Literature (Ph.D. UNC Chapel Hill). As Professor of Literature and Religion and the Jabez A. Bostwick Professor of English at the University of Richmond, he taught courses in Romanticism, nineteenth century cultural studies, and the Bible and Literature. Currently, he is a Neal L. Maxwell Senior Fellow at Brigham Young University. He has published in literary theory, British and European Romanticism, Mormon studies, and intellectual history. In addition to appearances on NPR, CNN, and Frontline's The Mormons, Dr. Givens has authored or edited dozens of books, primarily through Oxford University Press and Deseret Book.

Tyler was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri, enjoying the “Show-Me State” until he served his mission in Fresno, California. Because he lived in St. Louis, Tyler is a die-hard Cardinals fan (go Cards!). Tyler was the baby of four half-brothers and four half-sisters, but he doesn’t consider any of them “halves.” He was first married in 1999, and then divorced in 2005. He later remarried, marrying Tammy’s sister whom he had the biggest crush on while growing up. Today they have a family of three girls (20, 16, 16) and 2 boys (15, 10). Tyler began his law enforcement career in August of 2000. He first started at Utah State Prison. He later transferred to the Utah County Sheriff’s Office where he currently serves as a Sergeant. He has served in the following different areas throughout his career at the Sheriff’s Office: jail, patrol, investigations, contract-city patrol, courts with specialty assignments on the traffic team, Special Victims Unit, and SWAT. When he is not working, he enjoys spending time playing board games, bowling, and watching movies or hiking with his family.

Although Riley enjoys the arts, music, and a good, sappy romantic comedy, he is usually mistaken for a jock. He currently works full time as a sport psychology consultant, or mental performance coach, addressing innermost fears of most athletes: failure. He enjoys giving athletes, corporate employees, and young people the tools to handle a stressful and frightening world. Riley went back to school at the over-the-hill age of 40 (it’s the new the new 30, right?) to get his master’s degree in sport and performance psychology at the University of Utah in 2017. He is married to the wonderful and talented Georgann Manolis Jensen and they have three beautiful children under the age of 7 (yes, he’s tired). His dream is to serve another mission in France one day (he seems attracted to difficult scenarios), and to enjoy laughing and watching his children make some of the mistakes he made.