About the Authors

Po Nien (Felipe) Chou is a professor and religious educator for the Brigham Young University–Hawaii (BYU–Hawaii) religion faculty. He received his BS from George Washington University and his MS and PhD from BYU. He has served in a variety of teaching and administrative assignments inside and outside the United States with Seminaries and Institutes, BYU–Hawaii and BYU Religious Education, and the Correlation Research Division. He has served in a variety of Church callings, including service as a counselor in a mission presidency, high councilor, bishop, temple ordinance worker, institute and early-morning seminary teacher, full-time missionary in the California Ventura Mission, and member of the Church Curricu­lum Resource Committee at Church headquarters. He has authored or coauthored various Latter-day Saint articles and Voice of the Saints in Taiwan.

Petra Chou is a homemaker and adjunct faculty at BYU–Hawaii, and she has taught for the Laie Elementary in Hawaii and in the Chinese immersion program for the Alpine School District in Utah. She received her BS from BYU and her MEd in instructional design from Western Governors University, and she is a doctoral student at Utah State University. She has served in a variety of Church callings including service as a counselor in a stake Relief Society presidency, ward Relief Society and Young Women president, branch Primary president, temple ordinance worker, institute teacher, full-time missionary in the Hong Kong Mission, and member of the S&I Research Committee at Church headquarters. She has coauthored various Latter-day Saint articles and Voice of the Saints in Taiwan.