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THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS • JULY 2004 Liahona One Million Milestone in Mexico, p. 34 Pioneering in Moldova, p. 20 Knowing Who You Are, p. F2 THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS • JULY 2004 Liahona FOR ADULTS 2 First Presidency Message: Miracles of Faith President Thomas S. Monson 8 Book of Mormon Times at a Glance: Chart 2—Alma through Mormon and Moroni 25 Visiting Teaching Message: Feeling the Love of the Lord through Prayer ON THE COVER 26 Protecting Your Child from Gang Influence Dennis J. Nordfelt Photography by Don L. Searle. 30 Book of Mormon Principles: Submitting Our Will to the Father’s Elder Benjamin De Hoyos 34 One Million in Mexico Don L. Searle 44 Latter-day Saint Voices My Child Is Drowning! Hirofumi Nakatsuka Two-of-a-Kind Table Son Quang Le and Beth Ellis Le She Was My Answer Dori Wright 48 Comment FOR YOUTH 15 Poster: Make Waves THE FRIEND COVER 16 All Is Well Elder David B. Haight Illustrated by Steve Kropp. 20 A Message from Moldova Karl and Sandra Finch 29 Outnumbered Paolo Martin N. Macariola 47 Did You Know? THE FRIEND: FOR CHILDREN F2 Come Listen to a Prophet’s Voice: Knowing Who You Are President James E. Faust F4 Sharing Time: A Special Day Sheila E. Wilson F6 From the Life of President Heber J. Grant: Learning to Sing F8 Poster Article: Temples Bless Families F10 Courage and a Kind Word Patricia Reece Roper F14 Making Friends: Medgine Atus of Miramar, Florida Tiffany E. Lewis SEE “KNOWING WHO YOU ARE,” P. F2 July 2004 Vol. 28 No. 7 USING THE LIAHONA LIAHONA 24987 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 Family Home Evening 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, Ideas Henry B. Eyring Editor: Dennis B. Neuenschwander Advisers: E. Ray Bateman, Monte J. Brough, Jay E. Jensen, Stephen A. West Managing Director: David Frischknecht “Submitting Our Will to the “Knowing Who You Are,” Planning and Editorial Director: Victor D. Cave Graphics Director: Allan R. Loyborg Father’s,” p. 30: Discuss the p. F2: President James E. Faust Magazines Editorial Director: Richard M. Romney concept that in our natural, points out that talents and Managing Editor: Marvin K. Gardner Editorial Staff: Collette Nebeker Aune, Susan Barrett, Shanna Butler, Ryan Carr, Linda Stahle Cooper, LaRene fallen state we have desires and ten- accomplishments don’t necessarily Porter Gaunt, Jenifer L. Greenwood, R. Val Johnson, Carrie Kasten, Melvin Leavitt, Sally J. Odekirk, Adam C. Olson, dencies to do things that are not make us feel good about ourselves, Judith M. Paller, Vivian Paulsen, Don L. Searle, Rebecca M. Taylor, Roger Terry, Janet Thomas, Paul VanDenBerghe, pleasing to God. Ask how we can but deeds of kindness do. Ask family Julie Wardell, Kimberly Webb, Monica Weeks overcome these temptations. Help members how they feel when they Managing Art Director: M. M. Kawasaki Art Director: Scott Van Kampen family members understand that we serve others. Discuss kind deeds they Production Manager: Jane Ann Peters Design and Production Staff: Kelli Allen-Pratt, Howard G. cannot win this battle alone. In order might perform for others. Brown, Thomas S. Child, Reginald J. Christensen, Kathleen Howard, Denise Kirby, Tadd R. Peterson, Randall J. Pixton, Kari A. Todd, Claudia E. Warner to “have no more disposition to do “Courage and a Kind Word,” Marketing Manager: Larry Hiller evil,” we must repent and invite the p. F10: Read with your family the story Printing Director: Craig K. Sedgwick Distribution Director: Kris T Christensen Savior to change our hearts through of Evan Stephens. Talk about the dif- For subscriptions and prices outside the United States and Canada, contact your local Church distribution center or the power of His Atonement (see ference President Brigham Young’s ward or branch leader. Mosiah 5:2). kind words made in Evan’s life. If you Send manuscripts and queries to Liahona, Room 2420, 50 East North Temple Street, Salt Lake City, UT 84150-3220, “Protecting Your Child from have a Latter-day Saint hymnbook, USA; or e-mail: [email protected]. The Liahona (a Book of Mormon term meaning “compass” Gang Influence,” p. 26, and have the children see if they can find or “director”) is published in Albanian, Armenian (East), Bulgarian, Cambodian, Cebuano, Chinese, Croatian, “Outnumbered,” p. 29: As parents, hymns by Evan Stephens. 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SClark Jr. (1871–1961), a counselor in That was a day in my life never to be the First Presidency of the Church, a states- forgotten. man of towering stature, and a scholar of President Clark asked me to read aloud international renown. My profession then the account found in Luke concerning the was in the field of printing and publishing. man filled with leprosy. I proceeded to read: President Clark made me welcome in his “And it came to pass, when he was in a office and then produced from his old roll- certain city, behold a man full of leprosy: who My heart fills with top desk a large sheaf of handwritten notes, seeing Jesus fell on his face, and besought gratitude to the Lord for many of them made when he was a law him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst His divine intervention BY FRANK ADAMS BY student long years before. He proceeded make me clean. to relieve the suffering, O JESUS, to outline for me his goal of producing a “And he put forth his hand, and touched heal the sick, and raise harmony of the Gospels. This goal was him, saying, I will: be thou clean. And im- the dead. I grieve for achieved with his monumental work Our mediately the leprosy departed from him” the many, similarly Lord of the Gospels. (Luke 5:12–13).