Don H. Staheli received a history degree from Brigham Young University and then earned master’s degrees from both Thunderbird School of International Management and BYU. Don has been an LDS Church employee for over 40 years, with assignments in various departments. Don is the author of five books, including the best-selling children’s book The Story of the Walnut Tree. Don and his wife, Cyndy, have five children and twenty grandchildren.
Lloyd D. Newell is the author of more than a dozen books, including his two most recent: The Gospel of Second Chances and Celebrating Music and the Spoken Word. He holds a master’s degree in communications and a PhD in marriage, family, and human development from Brigham Young University, where he is a professor of Religious Education. Since 1990, Newell has been the voice and principal writer for the Mormon Tabernacle Choir’s weekly inspirational broadcast, Music and the Spoken Word. Brother Newell and his wife, Karmel, are the parents of four children.
