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THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS • FEBRUARY 2006 LiahonaLiahona COVER STORY: Young Adults—Temple Blessings Even before You Enter, p. 10 More Than a Temple Marriage, p. 16 The Plan for My Life, p. F4 February 2006 Vol. 30 No. 2 LIAHONA 26982 LIAHONA, FEBRUARY 2006 Official international magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints The First Presidency: Gordon B. Hinckley, Thomas S. Monson, James E. Faust FOR ADULTS Quorum of the Twelve: Boyd K. Packer, L. Tom Perry, 2 First Presidency Message: Refined in Our Trials Russell M. Nelson, Dallin H. Oaks, M. Russell Ballard, President James E. Faust Joseph B. Wirthlin, Richard G. Scott, Robert D. Hales, Jeffrey R. Holland, Henry B. Eyring, Dieter F. Uchtdorf, 10 Young Adults and the Temple Elder Russell M. Nelson David A. Bednar 20 Confidence to Marry Melissa Howell Editor: Jay E. Jensen Advisers: Monte J. Brough, Gary J. Coleman, 25 Visiting Teaching Message: Building Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ Yoshihiko Kikuchi 30 The Fulness of the Gospel: Life before Birth Managing Director: David L. Frischknecht Editorial Director: Victor D. Cave 39 Lessons from the Old Testament: In the World but Not of the World Senior Editors: Larry Hiller, Richard M. Romney Graphics Director: Allan R. Loyborg Elder Quentin L. Cook Managing Editor: Victor D. Cave 42 Teaching with Church Magazines Don L. Searle Assistant Managing Editor: Jenifer L. Greenwood 44 Latter-day Saint Voices Associate Editors: Ryan Carr, Adam C. Olson Assistant Editor: Susan Barrett Led to a Sandwich Shop Editorial Staff: Shanna Butler, Linda Stahle Cooper, LaRene Porter Gaunt, R. Val Johnson, Carrie Kasten, Melvin Chris L. Cooper Leavitt, Sally J. Odekirk, Judith M. Paller, Vivian Paulsen, I Chose Sunday School Sara R. Porter, Jennifer Rose, Don L. Searle, Rebecca M. Taylor, Roger Terry, Janet Thomas, Paul VanDenBerghe, Helen Walker Jones Julie Wardell, Kimberly Webb Your Wife Is in the Senior Secretary: Monica L. Dickinson Editorial Interns: Brittany Jones Beahm, Nicole Seymour Hospital! Marketing Manager: Larry Hiller Liu Kuan Feng Managing Art Director: M. M. Kawasaki 48 Comment Art Director: Scott Van Kampen Production Manager: Jane Ann Peters Design and Production Staff: Cali R. Arroyo, Collette Nebeker Aune, Howard G. Brown, Julie Burdett, Thomas S. Child, Reginald J. Christensen, Kathleen Howard, Denise Kirby, Tadd R. Peterson, Randall J. Pixton Printing Director: Craig K. Sedgwick Distribution Director: Kris T Christensen For subscriptions and prices outside the United States and Canada, contact your local Church distribution center or ward or branch leader. Send manuscripts and queries to Liahona, Room 2420, 50 East North Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150- 3220, USA; or e-mail: liahona@ldschurch.org. The Liahona (a Book of Mormon term meaning “compass” or “director”) is published in Albanian, Armenian (East), Bulgarian, Cambodian, Cebuano, Chinese, Croatian, 2 Refined in Our Trials Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Fijian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Haitian, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kiribati, Korean, FAMILY HOME EVENING IDEAS Latvian, Lithuanian, Malagasy, Marshallese, Mongolian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Sinhala, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tongan, Ukrainian, Urdu, This page can help you use the “Preparing for a Heavenly and Vietnamese. (Frequency varies by language.) Liahona to enhance your Marriage,” p. 16: Place a picture © 2006 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. 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LIAHONA (USPS 311-480) Use the article to review the activity to Elder Robert D. Hales’s English (ISSN 1080-9554) is published monthly by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 50 East North history, purpose, and blessings of advice on setting your eternal Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150. USA subscription price is $10.00 per year; Canada, $14.00 plus applicable the temple. Read aloud the last sec- course and striving to find an eter- taxes. Periodicals Postage Paid at Salt Lake City, Utah, and at additional mailing offices. Sixty days’ notice required for tion of the article, and plan how nal companion. change of address. Include address label from a recent issue; old and new address must be included. Send USA you can reach your goals relative “Twice Rescued,” p. 32: Read and Canadian subscriptions to Salt Lake Distribution Center at address below. Subscription help line: 1-800-537-5971. to temple attendance and family aloud how Elder W. Rolfe Kerr’s Credit card orders (Visa, MasterCard, American Express) may be taken by phone. (Canada Poste Information: history work. father saved him from both Publication Agreement #40017431) POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Salt Lake Distribution Center, Church Magazines, PO Box 26368, Salt Lake City, UT 84126-0368. FOR YOUTH 8 Ricardo Walked Alone Paul VanDenBerghe 16 Preparing for a Heavenly Marriage Elder Robert D. Hales 26 Seminary Makes Me Happy Janet Thomas 32 Twice Rescued Elder W. Rolfe Kerr 35 Poster: Living Water 36 Questions and Answers: My Friend Doesn’t Feel That She Fits In. What Can I Do to Make Her Feel Welcome at Church? F12 The Happy Book THE FRIEND: FOR CHILDREN F2 Come Listen to a Prophet’s Voice: The Lighthouse President Thomas S. Monson F4 Sharing Time: My Life Has a Plan Linda Magleby F6 From the Life of President Wilford Woodruff: Catching Fish and Saying Prayers 26 Seminary F8 I Can Live with My Father in Heaven Again Makes Pat Graham Me Happy F10 Special Witness: Guess Who? F11 Fun Page: Scripture Figure F12 For Little Friends: The Happy Book Laura Lundy F14 My Friend Linda Heidi Renouf Brisco ON THE COVER Front: Photograph by Matthew Reier, posed by model. Back: Angel Moroni, by Avard T. Fairbanks, courtesy of Museum of Church History and Art. THE FRIEND COVER Illustrated by Beth M. Whittaker. TOPICS IN THIS ISSUE F=The Friend Joy, 26, F12 physical and spiritual danger. Invite commitment to the gospel. Help Adversity, 2, 44 Marriage, 16, 20 family members to share times them plan how they will handle Apostles, F10 Missionary work, 32 when they were saved physically or these and similar situations in the Church attendance, 8, 36 Old Testament, 39 Courage, 20, 39 Pioneers, 2 spiritually. Relate these stories to future. Covenants, 10, 16 Plan of salvation, 30, F4, F8 the Atonement and how the Savior “The Lighthouse,” p. F2: Show a Disabilities, F14 Prayer, F6 rescues us from physical and spiri- picture of a lighthouse, and discuss Endurance, 2 Premortality, 30 Example, 8 Primary, F4 tual dangers. why lighthouses are so important Faith, 2, 25, F2 Protection, 32, F2 “In the World but Not of the to those at sea. Read each para- Family history, 10 Relief Society, 25 World,” p. 39: Review the story of graph of the article aloud. After Family home evening, 1 Sabbath, 32, 44 Sodom and Gomorrah by using the each paragraph discuss how having Fellowship, 36 Scripture study, F11 Friendship, 36, F14 Seminary, 26 first portion of the article, and dis- access to the lighthouse of the Healing, 44 Sunday School, 42, 44 cuss the stake president’s concern Lord can help guide you back to Home teaching, 7 Teaching, 1, 42 about worldly conditions. Role-play your heavenly home. Inspiration, 44 Temples and temple work, Integrity, 39 10, 16 scenarios family members could Jesus Christ, 2, 25, 35, Visiting teaching, 25 encounter that would test their F2, F4 Young adults, 10 LIAHONA FEBRUARY 2006 1 2 FIRST PRESIDENCY MESSAGE Refined inOurTrials BY PRESIDENT JAMES E. FAUST Second Counselor in the First Presidency his message is to all, but especially to with no more supplies or protection than a those who feel they have had more handcart caravan afforded. T trials, sorrows, pricks, and thorns “An old man in the corner . sat silent than they can bear and in their adversity are and listened as long as he could stand it, then almost drowned in the waters of bitterness. he arose and said things that no person who It is intended as one of hope, strength, and heard him will ever forget. His face was white deliverance. with emotion, yet he spoke calmly, deliber- Some years ago President David O. ately, but with great earnestness and sincerity. McKay (1873–1970) told of the experience “In substance [he] said, ‘I ask you to stop of some of those in the Martin handcart this criticism. You are discussing a matter you company. Many of these early converts know nothing about. Cold historic facts mean In the agonies of life, had emigrated from Europe and were too nothing here, for they give no proper inter- we seem to listen poor to buy oxen or horses and a wagon. pretation of the questions involved. Mistake better to the faint, They were forced by their poverty to pull to send the Handcart Company out so late godly whisperings of handcarts containing all of their belongings in the season? Yes.

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