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THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS ■ JANUARY 2003 Liahona Teaching as the Savior Taught, p. 12 New Testament Times at a Glance, p. 8 THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS ■ JANUARY 2003 Liahona FEATURES 2First Presidency Message: The Way of the Master President Thomas S. Monson 8New Testament Times at a Glance: The Life of Jesus Christ—Birth to the Final Week 12 Teaching, Preaching, Healing Elder Jeffrey R. Holland 25 Visiting Teaching Message: If Ye Are Prepared Ye Shall Not Fear ON THE COVER Front: Pool of Bethesda, 34 John Taylor: Defender of Truth Karla C. Erickson by Carl Heinrich Bloch, © courtesy of Brigham Young 42 Latter-day Saint Voices University Museum of Art, all A Real Treasure Sofia Corina Rimondi de Agreda rights reserved. Back: Living My Niece’s Testimony Irma de Mackenna Water, by Simon Dewey, courtesy of Altus Fine Art, I Relied on the Lord Gnel Tamazyan American Fork, Utah. 48 Using the January 2003 Liahona ESPECIALLY FOR YOUTH 24 Idea List: Teens Leading Teens Charlotte Cachapero 26 To the Ends of the Earth Richard M. Romney 32 Called to Serve Loralee Bassett Leavitt 47 Did You Know? THE FRIEND THE FRIEND COVER 2 Come Listen to a Prophet’s Voice: Covenants Painting by Brian Call. President James E. Faust See “Temple Cards,” p. 6. 4 Sharing Time: I Belong to the Church of Jesus Christ Vicki F. Matsumori 6Temple Cards SEE THE FRIEND, P. 1 6 7To Do His Best ViAnn Prestwich 10 New Testament Stories: The Ten Virgins; The Talents RESIDENTS TEACHINGS OF P H OF THE CHURC 16 Special Witness: Baptism JOHN TAYLOR Elder Robert D. Hales INSERT Sharing Time Poster: I Belong to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints SEE P. 34 COMMENT January 2003 Vol. 27 No. 1 Disappointed by the false teachings that LIAHONA 23981 Official international magazine of met me everywhere I turned in life, I had The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints decided never to enter a church of any kind The First Presidency: Gordon B. Hinckley, Thomas S. Monson, James E. Faust until Jesus Christ Himself returned and Quorum of the Twelve: Boyd K. Packer, L. Tom Perry, announced His gospel in person. The pres- David B. Haight, Neal A. Maxwell, Russell M. Nelson, Dallin H. Oaks, M. Russell Ballard, Joseph B. Wirthlin, entation and contents of the articles in the Richard G. Scott, Robert D. Hales, Jeffrey R. Holland, Henry B. Eyring magazine, however, led me to the truth as Editor: Dennis B. Neuenschwander restored through the Prophet Joseph Smith. Advisers: J. Kent Jolley, W. Rolfe Kerr, Stephen A. West I am again attending church, this time the Curriculum Department Administrators: APPROVAL OF OUR CONSCIENCES Managing Director: Ronald L. Knighton true Church of Jesus Christ. Editorial Director: Richard M. Romney Our family has been collecting issues of Graphics Director: Allan R. Loyborg the Liahona (Spanish) for more than 20 Fidele Kituma-wa-Talanzambi, Editorial Staff: Managing Editor: Marvin K. Gardner years, and they have been a real comfort to Mbuji Mayi Branch, Assistant Managing Editor: Jenifer L. Greenwood Democratic Republic of Congo Associate Editor: Roger Terry us when we have needed the Spirit of God. Assistant Editor: Lisa Ann Jackson Kinshasa Mission Editorial Associate: Susan Barrett The observations by President David O. Publications Assistant: Collette Nebeker Aune McKay printed in the September 2001 issue Design Staff: ENJOYS NEWS OF THE CHURCH Magazine Graphics Manager: M. M. Kawasaki contained great messages for our lives. 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Nilo Wulff Ward, Send manuscripts and queries to Liahona, Floor 24, Hernán Toledo Martínez, 50 East North Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150- Porto Alegre Brazil South Stake 3223, USA; or e-mail: [email protected] El Mirador Ward, The Liahona (a Book of Mormon term meaning “compass” Angol Chile Stake or “director”) is published in Albanian, Armenian (East), Bulgarian, Cambodian, Cebuano, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Fijian, Finnish, French, German, Haitian, Hiligaynon, Hungarian, LE LIAHONA HELPED IN CONVERSION Icelandic, Ilokano, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kiribati, I am very happy to express my joy and Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malagasy, Marshallese, Mongolian, Norwegian, Pangasinan, Polish, Portuguese, gratitude for the fact that the last issue of Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Sinhala, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tongan, L’Étoile (the former name of the Church’s Ukrainian, Vietnamese, and Waray. (Frequency varies by language.) French magazine) and the first issue of Le © 2003 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. Liahona (the current name of the Church’s Printed in the United States of America. French magazine) helped put me on the For Readers in the United States and Canada: January 2003 Vol. 27 No. 1. LIAHONA (USPS 311-480) path of the restored gospel, which I had English (ISSN 1080-9554) is published monthly by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 50 East North been seeking for many years. Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150. USA subscription price is $10.00 per year; Canada, $15.50 plus applicable taxes. Periodicals Postage Paid at Salt Lake City, Utah, and at additional mailing offices. Sixty days’ notice required for change of address. Include address label from a recent issue; old and new address must be included. Send USA and Canadian subscriptions to Salt Lake Distribution Center at address below. Subscription help line: 1-800-537-5971. Credit card orders (Visa, MasterCard, American Express) may be taken by phone. (Canada Poste Information: Publication Agreement #40017431) POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Salt Lake Distribution Center, Church Magazines, PO Box 26368, Salt Lake City, UT 84126-0368. LIAHONA JANUARY 2003 1 FIRST PRESIDENCY MESSAGE The Way of the Master BY PRESIDENT THOMAS S. MONSON “And likewise a Levite, when he was at the First Counselor in the First Presidency place, came and looked on him, and passed by on the other side. The Divine Commandment to Love “But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, uring the later Judean ministry of the came where he was: and when he saw him, Lord, “a certain lawyer stood up, and he had compassion on him, Dtempted him, saying, Master, what “And went to him, and bound up his shall I do to inherit eternal life? wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him “He said unto him, What is written in the on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, law? how readest thou? and took care of him. “And he answering said, Thou shalt love “And on the morrow when he departed, he Master’s the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with he took out two pence, and gave them to the counsel to all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with host, and said unto him, Take care of him; T the lawyer PHOTOGRAPH BY DON BUSATH BY PHOTOGRAPH all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself. and whatsoever thou spendest more, when applies to you and RIGHT: “And he said unto him, Thou hast an- I come again, I will repay thee. to me just as surely swered right: this do, and thou shalt live. “Which now of these three, thinkest thou, as though we “But he, willing to justify himself, said unto was neighbour unto him that fell among the heard His voice , BY JAMES J. TISSOT; TISSOT; JAMES J. , BY Jesus, And who is my neighbour? thieves? speaking directly “And Jesus answering said, A certain man “And he said, He that shewed mercy on to us. went down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do fell among thieves, which stripped him of his thou likewise.”1 raiment, and wounded him, and departed, Times change, the years roll by, circum- leaving him half dead. stances vary—but the Master’s counsel to “And by chance there came down a certain the lawyer applies to you and to me just as priest that way: and when he saw him, he surely as though we heard His voice speaking LEFT: THE LAWYER STANDING UP AND TEMPTING JESUS STANDING THE LAWYER LEFT: passed by on the other side. directly to us. LIAHONA JANUARY 2003 3 How to Fulfill the Commandment remembered His mother in that eloquent sermon of love As we study the New Testament this year, we might ask personified: “When Jesus therefore saw his mother, and ourselves, “How might we fulfill today the divine com- the disciple standing by, whom he loved, he saith unto his mandment to love the Lord our God?” mother, Woman, behold thy son! Then saith he to the dis- The Lord declared: “He that hath my commandments, ciple, Behold thy mother! And from that hour that disciple and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me”; “Come, follow took her unto his own home.”9 He died—the Great me”; “I have set an example for you”; “I am the light which Redeemer died! ye shall hold up—that which ye have seen me do.”2 What, indeed, did He do? Becoming like the Savior Born in a stable, cradled in a manger, He brought to ful- Two questions, spoken at an earlier time, roll as thunder fillment the prophecies of the ages.