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Sister Craig at the podium at BYU–Hawaii wearing a pink dress and purple lei.

General Young Women leader says navigating the last days requires knowing the tactics of the adversary

To protect themselves from spiritual danger and the ploys of the adversary, the first counselor in the Young Women general presidency encouraged students to actively put on and use the whole armor of God.

A close-up of the badge on Saksak's neon green collared shirt. The badge is a rounded black triangle outlined in yellow with a balancing scale on it. It says "BYUH & PCC Security" in yellow.

Saksak, a BYUH student who has worked as an on-campus security guard for 3.5 years, says employment is about how you care for and serve others

Edmund Saksak has worked as a security guard at both the Polynesian Cultural Center and at BYU–Hawaii since 2017, making him one of the students who has worked the longest in his position.

Mau and Mccarty standing side by side wearing long-sleeve green shirts with hats on in front of the pavillion where they take care of the oysters. There is a beautiful background of green palm trees and mountains.

Kualoa Ranch uses oysters to organically clean its fishpond and newspapers with banana and coconut leaves to grow taro with less weeding

Farmers and researchers are using oysters in a more than 800-year-old loko ia, or fishpond, on Kualoa Ranch, blending Hawaiian heritage and today’s innovation to overcome problems pre-contact Hawaiian farmers did not have to face. The problems include not having enough fish to eat pond algae and a lack of banana and coconut leaves to help grow taro better by keeping down weeds, they said.

Jeralee Galeai wearing a black T-shirt with fireknives on it. She is holding a fireknife while standing on the grass at BYUH campus.

Galeai says her drive, even in the face of setbacks, led her to becoming the first female fireknife soloist at the PCC night show

When Jeralee Galeai was 10 years old, she picked up a stick and wanted to practice fireknife dancing, or siva afi, with her older cousins. She said her father, David Galeai, who was teaching them, saw her potential and started working with her.

Aisa Riongi wearing a long red dress with white polka dots, standing with one hand on her hip on the grass in front of the temple.

Tongan student says doing her late father's temple work brought her peace post pandemic

Going to the temple and serving as a witness to her grandparents’ baptisms linked Vaishali Kilaparthi, a senior from India majoring in accounting, to her deceased relatives, she shared. “I was thinking the whole time, ‘These are literal people I’m holding in my hand.'

A guy in traditional Fijian dress jumps up, with his legs out to the sides and touches them with his hands on a path that leads through a forest of trees.

Telling stories through pixels: Student with a passion for storytelling tells of spending more than 100 hours on a five-minute video

Emilio Valenciano said he prefers making videos over photographs because he likes to tell stories and create an emotional connection with the audience.

Looking up at four people, two women and two men, who have put their arms around one another to form a circle. They are looking at each other and smiling.

BYUH students share dating customs unique to their countries, including who makes the first move and PDA do’s and don’ts

Dating customs from around the world include couple rings, rental dates, sharing a meal and hanging out shared BYU–Hawaii students from Japan, Korea, the Philippines and Nevada.

A family and missionaries take a group photo before a baptism. A man and woman are dressed in white ready to be baptised.

Returned missionaries adjusted to new cultures by losing themselves in the Lord’s work

Three returned missionaries at BYU–Hawaii spoke of the importance of understanding culture in missionary work. They noted respecting and learning a new culture on their missions helped them feel happy and shared stories and gave advice for prospective missionaries at BYUH.

Hawaiian artifacts that are in the BYUH Archive include 1. a feathered kāhili that has a number of feathers, either from chickens or other birds, that were woven or sewn together and put onto a stick to indicate that a chief or chiefess was coming. 2. The pandanus basket, made from the leaves of the pandanus tree, was a common basket used to carry material for everyday use. 3. A nose flute or air instrument made from bamboo that would be held up to the player’s nose. There are also three finger holes that would change the pitch of the note.

Pieces of the Past: BYUH Archives houses many Hawaiian artifacts including a stick made for nobility and a weapon made of shark’s teeth

BYU–Hawaii faculty members said learning about the history of the Hawaiian artifacts housed in the school Archives helps people understand the complexities of Hawaiian culture. They affirmed each artifact has its own unique purpose that contributes to Hawaiian history.

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