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LIAHONA

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FIRST PRESIDENCY MESSAGE: A CHRISTMAS WITH NO PRESENTS

PRESIDENT JAMES E. FAUST

18 WISDOM AND ORDER ELDER NEAL A. MAXWELL 28 LATTER-DAY SAINT VOICES: “GOOD TIDINGS”
CHRISTMAS BELLS THROUGH THE FOG BETH DAYLEY PAPÁ NOEL IN PERÚ JONATHAN PLOWMAN TWELVE DAYS OF CHRISTMAS YASNA SÁNCHEZ MY AWAKENING TO TRUTH PASCAL AUCORDIER

ON THE COVER

The Arrival, by Michael Albrechtsen.

Inset: Detail from The Birth of Jesus,

by Carl Heinrich Bloch, courtesy of the National Historic Museum at Frederiksborg in Hillerød, Denmark.

33 VISITING TEACHING MESSAGE: BLESSINGS OF TEMPLE WORSHIP 36 TEACHING OUR CHILDREN TO PAY TITHING C. ELMER BLACK JR. 38 WALKING BY FAITH IN THE PHILIPPINES ROGER TERRY 48 USING THE DECEMBER 2001 LIAHONA

49 LIAHONA 2001 INDEX

E S P E C I A L LY F O R Y O U T H

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THE ATONING SACRIFICE: LATTER-DAY PROPHETS TESTIFY
24 POSTER: WHAT GIFT WILL I GIVE HIM? 25 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS: HOW CAN I KEEP MY THOUGHTS
CENTERED ON JESUS CHRIST DURING MY DAILY ACTIVITIES?

THE FRIEND COVER

No Room at the Inn, by Robert T. Barrett.

34 SEARCHING FOR THE STAR LINDY TAYLOR

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GIFTS OF THE SAVIOR: A CHRISTMAS MESSAGE FROM THE FIRST PRESIDENCY TO THE CHILDREN OF THE WORLD

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SHARING TIME: WHAT A JOYFUL DAY! DIANE S. NICHOLS A TEMPLE SQUARE CHRISTMAS ROSALYN COLLINGS CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN HILARY HENDRICKS

SEE PAGE 36

10 CHRISTMAS CRAFTS: GIFT BOX KATHY H. STEPHENS 11 NEW TESTAMENT STORIES: JESUS HEALS A DEAF MAN;
APOSTLES’ TESTIMONY OF CHRIST
14 CHRISTMAS EVERY DAY ELDER F. ENZIO BUSCHE 16 CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN CUTOUTS HILARY HENDRICKS

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SHARING TIME POSTER: THE TEMPLE—I’M GOING THERE SOMEDAY

COMMENT

December 2001 Vol. 25 No. 12 LIAHONA 21992

eagerly read the Liahona (Italian). I ad-

Official English International Magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

mire your prophet, President Gordon B. Hinckley, and his counselors. The missionaries brought a cassette tape of your April 1999 general conference into our home, and I listened to the addresses with great interest.

The First Presidency: Gordon B. Hinckley,

Thomas S. Monson, James E. Faust Quorum of the Twelve: Boyd K. Packer, L. Tom Perry, David B. Haight, Neal A. Maxwell, Russell M. Nelson, Dallin H. Oaks, M. Russell Ballard, Joseph B. Wirthlin, Richard G. Scott, Robert D. Hales, Jeffrey R. Holland, Henry B. Eyring

Editor: Dennis B. Neuenschwander Advisers: J. Kent Jolley, W. Rolfe Kerr, Stephen A. West

The true Church promotes unity and acceptance of others. It teaches respect and kindness and love. The missionaries I met demonstrated these attributes.

“THE LEAST OF THESE”

Curriculum Department Administrators:

Managing Director: Ronald L. Knighton Editorial Director: Richard M. Romney Graphics Director: Allan R. Loyborg

When I read “ ‘The Least of These’ ” in the December 2000 issue of A Liahona (Portuguese), I was touched by the project described in the article. I have a similar project, but I am trying to help improve the well-being of children—their self-worth and self-reliance—as Jesus Christ did in His ministry. Reading about the example of other people in A Liahona articles makes me feel even more motivated to help.

Editorial Staff:

Managing Editor: Marvin K. Gardner Associate Editor: Roger Terry Assistant Editor: Jenifer Greenwood Editorial Associate: Susan Barrett Publications Assistant: Collette Nebeker Aune

Angela Bratu, A friend of the Church in Carbonia, Italy

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The Liahona (a Book of Mormon term meaning “compass” or “director”) is published in Albanian, Armenian (East), Bulgarian, Cebuano, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Fijian, Finnish, French, German, Haitian, Hiligaynon, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ilokano, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kiribati, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malagasy, Marshallese, Mongolian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Thai, Tongan, Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. (Frequency varies by language.)

MISSIONARY EFFORTS PRAISED

I want to congratulate you for your church’s devotion to missionary efforts around the world. I had the wonderful opportunity to become friends with two missionaries in Carbonia, Italy. I was very impressed with their positive attitude, even though they were separated from their families.

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FIRST PRESIDENCY MESSAGE

AChristmas with
No Presents

By President James E. Faust

Second Counselor in the First Presidency

have been thinking about what makes Christmas such a great time in our lives. I am old enough to remember many Christmases. They have all been

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glorious. But I have learned that it isn’t just the presents that make them great.

THE HAPPIEST CHRISTMAS OF MY CHILDHOOD

When I was a young boy, our family was terribly poor.
Father had no job because he was going through law school at the University of Utah. He had a wife and three young sons. Grandfather and Grandmother knew that we would have no Christmas if we did not come down to the farm in Millard County. So all of our family took the train from Salt Lake to Leamington, Utah. Where the money came for the tickets, I will never know.

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Grandfather and Uncle Esdras met us at the railroad the “good tidings of great joy” (Luke 2:10). “For unto you crossing in Leamington with a team of big horses to pull is born this day in the city of David a Saviour, which the open sleigh through the deep snow to Oak City. It is Christ the Lord” (Luke 2:11). Grandfather and was so cold that the huge horses had icy chin whiskers, Grandmother then told us how much they loved us.

  • and you could see their breath. I remember how old Jack
  • The next day was Christmas, and we had a glorious

Frost nipped my nose, and the extreme cold made it hard dinner. But before we ate, we all got down on our knees for to breathe. Grandmother had heated some rocks and put family prayer. I was so hungry. Grandfather prayed for the them in the bottom of the sleigh to help keep us warm. longest time. You see, he had much to pray for. He prayed We were wrapped and tucked into some heavy camp for moisture because there was a drought in the land, and quilts with just our noses sticking out. Accompanied by the crops had been meager. The fall grain had been the tinkle of bells on leather straps on the harnesses planted in the dusty ground. What harvest there was of the horses, we musically traveled from Leamington could not be sold for much because of the low prices over the 10 miles (16 kilometers) to Oak City, where our caused by the Great Depression. The taxes on the farm beloved grandfather and grandmother lived. So many dear were delinquent because there was no money to pay them. ones were there that we could hardly wait to arrive. When He also prayed for our large family, his cattle and horses, we got there it was warm and wonderful and exciting.
In the corner of the living room was the Christmas pigs and chickens, turkeys—he prayed over everything.
During Grandfather’s long prayer, my youngest uncle tree, a cedar cut from the hillside pasture. It was already became restless and gave me an irreverent pinch, hoping partially decorated by Mother Nature with little berries that I would shout to make things more exciting.

  • that helped give it a strong smell. Our decorations were
  • For dinner we had a huge tom turkey stuffed with

popcorn strings made by pushing a needle and thread delicious dressing. There was no celery in the dressing through popcorn. The strings had to be handled carefully because we had only the ingredients that could be or they would break and strew popcorn all over the floor. produced on the farm. But the dressing had plenty of
We also had paper chains to put on the tree, made by bread, sage, sausage, and onions. There was an abuncutting up old Sears and Montgomery Ward catalogs, dance of potatoes and gravy and pickles, beets, beans, with the paper links pasted together with flour paste. The and corn. Because Grandfather could trade wheat to sticky flour paste got all over our hands, faces, and the miller for flour, there was always fresh baked bread. clothes. I wonder why they didn’t put sugar in it! With To stretch the food, we were encouraged to take one

  • cream it could also have been served for mush.
  • bite of bread for every bite of other kinds of food. We

I do not remember any presents under the tree. Under had chokecherry jelly and ground-cherry jam. For the tree were popcorn balls made with strong, homemade dessert we had pumpkin and gooseberry pie. It was all molasses. When we bit into the popcorn balls, it felt like delicious. they were biting back.
On Christmas Eve we all gathered around the wood- GIVING AND RECEIVING PRESENTS

  • stove, enjoying the warm comfort of the fire and the
  • As I look back on that special Christmas over a life-

pleasant aroma of the burning cedar wood. One of the time, the most memorable part was that we did not think uncles gave the opening prayer. We sang carols and about presents. There may have been some handmade hymns. One of our aunts read of the birth of Jesus and of mittens or a scarf given, but I do not recall any presents.

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Presents are wonderful, but I found that they are not wonderful little boyhood memories of being held by essential to our happiness. I could not have been happier. strong arms and feeling Grandfather’s whiskers as he There were no presents that could be held and fondled kissed me on the cheek. and played with, but there were many wonderful gifts that could not be seen but could be felt.
Some, like Ebenezer Scrooge in Dickens’s A Christmas
Carol, have a hard time loving anyone, even themselves,
There was the gift of boundless love. We knew God because of their selfishness. Love seeks to give rather loved us. We all loved each other. We did not miss the than to get. Charity towards and compassion for others is presents because we had all these glorious gifts. It made a way to overcome too much self-love.

  • me feel so wonderful and secure to belong and to be part
  • He whose birth we celebrate has told us that all of the

of all that went on. We wanted nothing else. We did not law and the prophets is contained in loving God and our miss the presents at all. I never remember a happier fellowmen. James called this “the royal law” (James 2:8).

  • Christmas in my childhood.
  • The Apostle Paul said, “To know the love of Christ . . .

We all enjoy giving and receiving presents. But there passeth knowledge” (Ephesians 3:19). In the First Epistle is a difference between presents and gifts. The true gifts of John we are told, “Beloved, let us love one another: for may be part of ourselves—giving of the riches of the love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, heart and mind—and therefore more enduring and of far and knoweth God” (1 John 4:7).

  • greater worth than presents bought at the store.
  • Anciently the Wise Men came from afar to bring gifts

Of course, among the greatest of gifts is the gift of to the baby Jesus. Would it not be marvelous this love. When I was called to the holy apostleship, Christmas if we could personally give gifts to the Savior? President Spencer W. Kimball (1895–1985) gave me a I believe this is possible to do. Said Jesus:

  • kiss on the cheek. I felt his whiskers. It caused a flood of
  • “When the Son of man shall come in his glory, and all

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the holy angels with him, then shall he sit upon the throne of his glory. . . .
Many years ago I went to the hospital to give a blessing to a young man named Nick and his sister
“Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Michelle. Nick is a friend of mine and former home
Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom teaching companion, and his young life was threatened

  • prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
  • by a kidney disease. Nick had not been well for a long

“For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was time. Nick’s older sister Michelle had offered to give him thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye a precious gift to preserve his life: she offered one of her

  • took me in:
  • own kidneys.

“Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
The operation was successfully performed, but still in question was whether or not Nick’s body would accept
“Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, this priceless gift from Michelle. You see, Michelle had when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, given the gift not knowing if it would be accepted; fortuand gave thee drink?
“When saw we thee a stranger, and took thee in? or given us so many wonderful gifts not knowing if they naked, and clothed thee? would be accepted. He has offered us His peace, His
“Or when saw we thee sick, or in prison, and came comfort, His love. All we have to do to accept His gifts is nately it was. In like manner, our Heavenly Father has unto thee?
“And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily to be obedient and follow Him.
There are so many problems facing us individually and
I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of collectively. Yet I have the simple faith that many, if not the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me” all, of them can be put into proper perspective by Paul’s

  • (Matthew 25:31, 34–40).
  • sublime message to the Galatians: “Christ liveth in me:

and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself

TRUE GIFTS

So as we help the sick and clothe the naked and attend for me” (Galatians 2:20).

  • to the stranger, we personally give gifts to our Savior.
  • The message of this season that is applicable

Among these true gifts are some our family shared on throughout the year lies not in the receiving of earthly that boyhood Christmas I told you about: the gift of presents and treasures but in the forsaking of selfishness peace, the gift of love, the gift of service, the gift of self, and greed and in going forward, seeking and enjoying the

  • and the gift of faith.
  • gifts of the Spirit, which Paul said are “love, joy, peace,

All of us enjoy wonderful gifts from God which, if longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, developed, can be enjoyed by others. At this Christmas temperance: against such there is no law” (Galatians season, so many of us have enjoyed the musical and 5:22–23). literary gifts of Handel, Dickens, and many others. The sharing of these natural gifts blesses both the giver and as I did that wonderful Christmas so long ago when we the receiver. had no presents to hold and play with. I would not have
With gifts such as these, I am sure everyone could feel
This Christmas and every Christmas will be richer wanted to trade places with any prince of the world with by sharing and enjoying gifts that cannot be held but his room full of toys. The gifts of love, peace, service, self,

  • only felt.
  • and faith so generously given made me feel so fulfilled. It

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made me feel that I must be somebody special to be part of so much love. I wanted nothing besides more of these wonderful gifts that couldn’t be handled nor touched but only felt.
Two days before Christmas we also honor the birthday of the Prophet Joseph Smith, who is singular in importance in our faith (see D&C 135:3). To Joseph we owe the knowledge of the appearance of God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ; the Book of Mormon; the Doctrine and Covenants; the Pearl of Great Price; the priesthood; and the keys of the Restoration in its IDEAS FOR HOME TEACHERS fulness.
As one of the special witnesses of Jesus and of the True gifts may be part of ourselves, coming from the gospel restored to earth by God working through the riches of the heart and mind.
1. There is a difference between presents and gifts.

  • Prophet Joseph Smith, I testify that the greatest gift of this
  • 2. Our Heavenly Father can give us so many won-

or any other Christmas is the Atonement of Jesus as the derful gifts—the gift of peace, the gift of love, the gift of Redeemer, the Son of God. Paul said this was a “free gift” service, the gift of self, the gift of faith. (Romans 5:15). It is a gift we cannot handle or touch, but we can feel the immeasurable love of the Giver.
3. Above all, He has given us the gift of His Son. 4. The message of the Christmas season that is applic-
Through this gift we can all find the pathway to eternal able throughout the year lies not in the receiving of life. My testimony of this is sure, real, and absolute, as is earthly presents and treasures but in the forsaking of selfmy sacred testimony of Him. I invoke the blessings of God ishness and greed and in going forward, seeking and

  • upon us all at this special Christmastime. អ
  • enjoying the gifts of the Spirit in our lives.

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THE
ATONING SACRIFICE

Latter-day Prophets T e stify

here would be no Christmas if there had not been Easter,” explains President Gordon B. Hinckley. are begotten sons and daughters unto God” (D&C 76:22–24).

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    ÉGLISE DE JÉSUS-CHRIST DES SAINTS DES DERNIERS JOURS • NOVEMBRE 2007 Discours de la Conférence générale Le Collège des douze apôtres Assis (de gauche à droite) : Boyd K. Packer, président suppléant, L. Tom Perry, Russell M. Nelson, Dallin H. Oaks, M. Russell Ballard et Joseph B. Wirthlin. Debout (de gauche à droite) : Richard G. Scott, Robert D. Hales, Jeffrey R. Holland, Dieter F. Uchtdorf, David A. Bednar et Quentin L. Cook. ÉGLISE DE JÉSUS-CHRIST DES SAINTS DES DERNIERS JOURS • NOVEMBRE 2007 Le Liahona SESSION DU SAMEDI MATIN 51 Bénis sont tous ceux qui ont le 98 Après tout ce que nous 4 Soutien des officiers de l’Église cœur pur pouvons faire Gordon B. Hinckley, président L. Whitney Clayton Claudio D. Zivic de l’Église 53 C’est aujourd’hui ! 100 Sachant que nous savons 6 Les faibles et les simples de l’Église Walter F. González Douglas L. Callister Boyd K. Packer 55 Dieu aide les détenteurs de la 102 Le service 9 Persévérer ensemble prêtrise fidèles Steven E. Snow Richard C. Edgley Henry B. Eyring 104 Bon, mieux, encore mieux 11 Fortifier le foyer et la famille 59 Un sacerdoce royal Dallin H. Oaks Mary N. Cook Thomas S. Monson 108 Discours de clôture 14 Pourquoi sommes-nous membres 62 Lents à la colère Gordon B. Hinckley, président de la seule Église vraie ? Gordon B. Hinckley, président de de l’Église Enrique R. Falabella l’Église 16 Obtenir la réalisation des plus RÉUNION GÉNÉRALE DE LA SOCIÉTÉ DE grandes et des plus précieuses SESSION DU DIMANCHE MATIN SECOURS promesses 66 Oh ! souvenez-vous, souvenez-vous 109 Ce que les saintes des derniers Spencer J.
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