BYU-Hawaii alumni from Taiwan featured in LDS Church News
Jordan Flake | University Relations | 1 July 2009
Two Taiwanese families and graduates from BYU–Hawaii, Ben and Shirley Tsai (pictured right with their daughter Kelani), along with Eric and Kate Weng, were featured in the Church News along with other couples in the Church in Taiwan who had served missions and were married in the temple.
Each couple had a unique story and shared testimony of the blessings of following the teachings of the Gospel. Shirley attended BYU–Hawaii and left for her mission after deciding to follow some returned-missionary classmates' good examples. Ben met the missionaries shortly after his military service and was baptized six weeks later. Shortly after, he heard a talk from Elder Dallin H. Oaks and decided to serve a mission.
BYU–Hawaii alumnus, Elder Yoon Hwan Choi (pictured right with wife Sister Bon Kyung Koo Choi; photo courtesy of ldschurchnews.com), was sustained to serve in the First Quorum of the Seventy, during the 179th Annual General Conference of the Church, in April. Before Elder Choi’s call to the Seventy, he served as bishop’s counselor, bishop, high councilor, stake mission president, stake president’s counselor, stake president, and served in the Eighth Quorum of the Seventy in the Asia North Area.
During the June 23 devotional, speaker, Martin McDonell (pictured right), Assistant Professor in the Social Work department, shared the three basic principles that "will help each of us 'do' something, to 'act', to enable us to achieve our righteous desire of eternal life with our Father in Heaven."
BYU–Hawaii’s International Business Management (IBM) and Hospitality and Tourism Management (HTM) majors recently underwent revision that has changed the structure and curriculum of both degrees. This refinement has given the International Business Management major a new face and shortened name—Business Management. The newly dubbed Business Management has six ‘tracks’ or areas of focus within the major. And the Hospitality and Tourism Management major also faced changes—two classes have been deleted from the curriculum; also, some of the basic business classes have been combined with the Business Management degree. (Pictured above: international business students of BYU–Hawaii)
The ceremonies scheduled for the Iosepa voyaging canoe's return were to begin at 9:00 a.m. Friday morning, May 29, but 9:00 a.m. rolled around and the canoe was nowhere in sight. (Pictured: a growing crowd awaits the Iosepa's docking)
BYU–Hawaii students and instructors teamed up this year with the Arbinger Institute to develop online, multimedia training 
"You are, in every respect, the Hope of Israel," was Elder David S. Baxter's message to young adults at Brigham Young University–Hawaii's initial summer term devotional this past Tuesday, June 9. While en-route to establish the first Latter-day Saint Stake in the Marshall Islands, Elder Baxter of First Quorum of the Seventy and President of the Pacific Area took time to charge BYU–Hawaii students with the responsibility of the future of families, of nations, and of the church. '…We should be in no doubt that we do live in an age when a battle is raging,' remarked Elder Baxter. 'There is a war between truth and falsehood, right and wrong, good and evil. As today's rising generation the call comes to you, as it has to those who have gone before, "Hope of Israel, rise in might!" ' Elder Tad Callister, Second Counselor in the Pacific Area Presidency, also accompanied Elder Baxter to the Marshall Islands.