Suzanne Tuttle

Elder Ruel M. Barker’s Devotional entitled, “Perfecting the Saints- Purifying Our Souls” focused on how everyone needs to focus on becoming the pure in heart. Elder Barker, Adjunct Professor of Exercise Science at BYU–Hawaii, spoke in the McKay Auditorium on June 21, 2011.

Even though there are many words to describe faith, Devotional speaker Sanoma Goodwill said that she had lacked a complete understanding of what faith meant. Sanoma Goodwill, Assistant Professor in the English Department of BYU-Hawaii, searched Joseph Smith’s lectures on Faith and other sources to explore the subject of faith further. She recalled the life and example of her Grandfather Richard Fredrick Harvey Warren who was known as commonly as ‘Fred.’

"Faith is in fact the antidote to doubt, the answer to skepticism, and the solution to cynicism," said Robert L. Millet, Abraham O. Smoot University Professor & BYU Professor of Ancient Scripture, at the Brigham Young University–Hawaii devotional on Tuesday, April 27, 2010, at the Cannon Activities Center.

BYU–Hawaii President Steven C. Wheelwright and his wife, First Lady Margaret Wheelwright, took turns sharing their personal insights about the importance of family at devotional on Tuesday, April 20.