November 2005 the Friend
Total Page：16
File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb
NOVEMBER•2005 CTR Searcher really enjoy reading the Friend. II also like searching for the hidden CTR ring each month. It’s interesting how differ- ent the ring looks in different languages. Chinchilla Escape Shannon Shepard, age 11 y brother Henry and I were Yerington, Nevada Mtaking care of our neighbors’ pet chinchilla while they were away on vacation. We liked to feed him The Maxi-taxi raisins and banana chips. One day while we were feeding him, he got Hymn out of his cage. We were having a ere in Trinidad, hard time finding him. My brother HWest Indies, I ride a finally found him under the long distance in maxi-taxis couch, but every time we tried to to attend school and grab him he ran away and hid again. church. A maxi-taxi is like a I said a prayer and asked Heavenly minibus that holds twelve Father to help us catch the chinchilla. We people. All kinds of people of all worked together and finally caught him. I am grateful that I can ask Heavenly Father for help when ages ride maxi-taxis, and sometimes I need it. they say and do bad things. Recently I got in a maxi-taxi to go home from school. As I sat down, I found that the Emmett Lytle, age 5, with help from his mom driver was playing very loud music with bad words in it. Middlebury, Connecticut The other passengers were using bad language, and the older boys and girls in the back were doing things they I Love to See shouldn’t. I felt very uncomfortable. I remembered my uncle telling me that when something was bothering the Temple me I should say a prayer or sing a love to see the temple. I enjoy hymn. I started to hum “I Am a I drawing pictures of the tem- Child of God.” That made me ple. When I’m older I’m going to feel a lot better and helped me to be baptized for the dead in the think of good things. I know that temple. And someday I’m going singing a hymn in a bad situation to get married in the temple. I can help us. love the temple! Russell K. Joseph, age 12 Andra Twitchell, age 7 Trinidad, West Indies Carlsbad, New Mexico ILLUSTRATED BY BRAD TEARE Volume 35 Number 11 Stories and Features November 2005 IFC Friends by Mail The First Presidency: Gordon B. Hinckley, 2 Come Listen to a Prophet’s Voice: Courage Counts / President Thomas S. Monson Thomas S. Monson, James E. Faust The Quorum of the Twelve: 4 Getting to Know Nicole Boyd K. Packer, L.Tom Perry, Russell M. Nelson, Dallin H. Oaks, 8 Friend to Friend: The Hour of Conversion / Elder Robert K. Dellenbach M. Russell Ballard, Joseph B.Wirthlin, Richard G. Scott, Robert D. Hales, 10 A Boy’s Prayer Jeffrey R. Holland, Henry B. Eyring, Dieter F. Uchtdorf, David A. Bednar 12 Sharing Time: I Can Share the Gospel Now Editor: Jay E. Jensen 15 Special Witness: Getting to Know Elder David A. Bednar Advisers: Monte J. Brough, Gary J. Coleman 16 Thankful for the Prophet Managing Director: David L. Frischknecht 19 A Missionary Now Planning and Editorial Director: Victor D. Cave 20 Book Reviews Graphics Director: Allan R. Loyborg 22 Friends in the News Magazines Editorial Director: Richard M. Romney 32 Making Friends: Out of the Best Books / Benjamin Ruben of Suva, Fiji Managing Editor: 36 From the Life of President David O. McKay: Visiting with the Queen Vivian Paulsen Editorial Staff: Susan Barrett, 38 Trying to Be Like Jesus Marvin K. Gardner, Jenifer L. Greenwood, Carrie Kasten, Melvin 40 A Wonderful Secret Leavitt, Sally J. Odekirk, Jennifer Rose, Julie Wardell, Kimberly Webb 44 Our Creative Friends Managing Art Director: M. M. Kawasaki 46 Andrew’s Missionary Art Director: Mark W. Robison Senior Designer: Brad Teare IBC Guide to the Friend Production: Kerry Lynn C. Herrin Marketing Manager: Larry Hiller For Little Friends Printing Director: Craig K. Sedgwick 28 Clarissa and the Pass-along Card Distribution Director: Kris T. Christensen 29 Caramel Apple Drizzle © 2005 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. 30 Family Memory Book All rights reserved. The Friend (ISSN 0009-4102) is published monthly by 31 Family Home Evening The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 50 E. North Temple St., Salt Lake City, Utah 84150-3220, United States of America. Periodicals Postage Paid at Salt Verse Lake City, Utah, and at additional mailing offices. 7 Missionary To subscribe: By phone: Call 1-800- 537-5971 to order using Visa, MasterCard, 24 Wonders Discover Card, or American Express. Online: Go to www.ldscatalog.com. By mail: Send $8 U.S. check or money Things to Make and Do order to Distribution Services, P.O. Box 26368, Salt Lake City, UT 84126-0368. 26 Funstuf See the Guide to To change address: Send old and new address information to Distribution 27 Funstuf the Friend (inside back Services at the above address, or change the address by phone at the number listed above. Please allow 60 days for 35 How Can I Gain a Testimony? cover) for family home changes to take effect. evening ideas. Submit manuscripts or art to: 43 Funstuf Friend Editorial, 50 E. North Temple St. Rm. 2430, Salt Lake City, UT 84150-3220, United States of America. Unsolicited material is welcome, but no responsibil- Cover by Julie F. Young ity is assumed. For return, include self- addressed, stamped envelope. E-mail: HIDDEN CTR RING [email protected]. The Friend can be found on the Internet In Fijian, at www.lds.org. Click on Gospel Library. Text and visual material in the Friend Digia na dodonu may be copied for incidental, noncom- mercial Church or home use. Visual means “choose the material may not be copied if restrictions are indicated in the credit line with the right.” artwork. Copyright questions should be addressed to Intellectual Property Office, 50 E. North Temple St., Salt Lake City, UT As you look for the Fijian 84150, United States of America; e-mail: cor-intellectual property@ CTR ring hidden in this ldschurch.org. POSTMASTER: Send address changes to issue, think of ways you can Distribution Services, P.O. Box 26368, Salt Lake City, UT 84126-0368, USA. A children’s magazine published by share the gospel. Canada Post Information: Publication The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Agreement #40017431. Courage CountsBY PRESIDENT THOMAS S. MONSON First Counselor in the First Presidency ife’s journey is not traveled on a It is this sweet assurance that can guide freeway devoid [free] of obstacles, you and me. Of course we will face fear, L pitfalls, and snares. Rather, it is a experience ridicule, and meet opposition. pathway marked by forks and turnings. Let us have the courage to stand for princi- Decisions are constantly before us. To ple [what is right]. Courage, not compro- make them wisely, courage is needed. mise, brings the smile of God’s approval. A The prophet Daniel demonstrated moral coward is one who is afraid to do courage by standing up for what he knew what he thinks is right because others will to be right and by demonstrating the disapprove or laugh. Remember that all courage to pray, though threatened by men have their fears, but those who face President Monson death were he to do so (see Daniel 6). their fears with dignity have courage as well. explains why we need Courage characterized the life of Abinadi, courage and where Entering the United States Navy in the as shown in the Book of Mormon by his we can find it. closing months of World War II was a chal- willingness to offer his life rather than to lenging experience for me. I learned of deny the truth (see Mosiah 11:20; 17:20). brave deeds and examples of courage. One Who can help but be inspired by the best remembered was the quiet courage of lives of the two thousand stripling sons of an eighteen-year-old seaman—not of our Helaman, who taught and faith—who was not too proud to demonstrated the need of pray. Of 250 men in the com- courage to follow the teachings pany, he was the only one who of parents? (see Alma 56). each night knelt down by the All were fortified [strength- side of his bunk, at times amidst ened] by the words of Moses: the jeers of the curious and the “Be strong and of a good jests of unbelievers, and, with courage, fear not, nor be afraid . : for the bowed head, prayed to God. He never Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with wavered. He never faltered. He had courage. thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee” May we muster courage for the conflicts, (Deuteronomy 31:6). He did not fail them. courage to say no, courage to say yes, for He will not fail us. He did not forsake courage counts. ● them. He will not forsake us. From an October 1986 general conference address. 2 ILLUSTRATED BY ROBERT MCKAY FRIEND NOVEMBER 2005 3 4 BY DOCENA MARIA HOLM (Based on a true story) [Remember] without ceasing your work of faith, Over the next few months, Ashlie prayed for Nicole and labour of love, and patience of hope and got to know her better. They played at school and (1 Thessalonians 1:3). on the weekends, and they exchanged treats on holidays. shlie played in the backyard sprinklers with her One Saturday after Christmas, Nicole and Ashlie were new neighbor, Nicole.