SEPTEMBER•2005 Lost Shoes hen I was eight, I was getting Wready for school one day and I couldn’t find my shoes. My mom was out of town, so my dad and I looked and looked, but we couldn’t find them. My dad suggested that we say a prayer. A few minutes after our prayer, we found my shoes behind the kitchen door. My dad and I said another prayer to thank Heavenly Father for helping us find the shoes so I could get to school on time. Cameron Smith, age 11 Tempe, Arizona A Blessing of Courage y doctor told me I have dia- Mbetes and that I would need to take shots of insulin before every meal. I was really sad because the disease would be with me the rest of my life. I asked my dad to give me a priesthood bless- ing. During the blessing he told me that I would have Thankful for courage and be tough enough to take the injections. My Fasting mom and I went to the hospital to spend the night. I practiced using a needle to inject water into oranges here is a boy in my ward who because oranges are kind of like human skin. At dinner- Thas hemophilia (a disease that time, the nurse asked me if I wanted to do my own makes people bleed too easily). He injection. I said, “Yes, I will try.” I did it! The nurses were is three years old. One day he fell amazed that I was brave enough to do my own shot the off his bike and had a terrible seizure. He was in the first time. I have done all my own injections and blood hospital for three days. My whole ward fasted for him, sugar tests since the very first day. I know that my priest- and after the fast he got well enough to go home. I am hood blessing helped me to be brave. I know that so happy that he is home. I am thankful for fasting. I Heavenly Father will always be there to help me. know that when we fast, wonderful things can happen. Christopher Hall, age 10 Jamie Robbins, age 10 Mountain Home, Idaho Crestline, California ILLUSTRATED BY DANI JONES Volume 35 Number 9 Stories and Features September 2005 IFC Friends by Mail The First Presidency: Gordon B. Hinckley, 2 Come Listen to a Prophet’s Voice: Avoiding the Devil’s Throat / President Thomas S. Monson, James E. Faust The Quorum of the Twelve: James E. Faust Boyd K. Packer, L.Tom Perry, Russell M. Nelson, Dallin H. Oaks, 4 Ethan the Brave M. Russell Ballard, Joseph B.Wirthlin, Richard G. Scott, Robert D. Hales, 8 Friend to Friend: The Dawning of a Testimony / Elder Monte J. Brough Jeffrey R. Holland, Henry B. Eyring, Dieter F. Uchtdorf, David A. Bednar 10 The Windows of Heaven Editor: Jay E. Jensen 18 Heavenly Father Hears Me Advisers: Monte J. Brough, Gary J. Coleman 20 Sharing Time: Choose the Right Way and Be Happy Managing Director: David L. 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It was a marvelous devil’s side of the line one inch, you are in A experience. One of the wonders the tempter’s power, and if he is successful, of the world in that great country is Iguaçu you will not be able to think or even reason Falls. In the flood season, the volume of properly, because you will have lost the water spilling over the brink is the largest spirit of the Lord” (Sharing the Gospel with in the world. One part of the falls, where Others, sel. Preston Nibley [1948], 43). the deluge—the overflow of water—is the Some of Satan’s most appealing mes- President Faust heaviest, is called the Devil’s Throat. sages are: everyone does it; if it doesn’t teaches us to be Years ago, reckless boatmen would take hurt anybody else, it’s all right; if you feel cautious and stay passengers in canoes to stand on rocks and there is no harm in it, it’s OK; it’s the “cool” as far away from look down into the Devil’s Throat. The thing to do. Satan is the master deceiver. temptation as water above the falls is usually calm and His disguise is so perfect that it is hard to we can. slow moving and the atmosphere tranquil. recognize him or his methods. Only the roar of the water below forewarns You young people will need to become of the danger lurking just a few feet away. stronger spiritually and morally in order to A sudden, unexpected current could take withstand the temptations and snares of a canoe into the rushing waters, over the the world. Perhaps this is why such special cliff, and down into the Devil’s Throat. spirits have been reserved for this time. Those foolish enough to leave the canoes We are living in a challenging time, and it to stand on these treacherous wet rocks is a time for us to stand firm. We should go could so easily lose their footing and be forward in a spirit of faith and not be fearful swept away into the swirling currents of anything except being too close to the below. Devil’s Throat. We will be strengthened Some of you think of yourselves as dare- and preserved if we follow the counsel and devils, ready to take on almost any chal- direction of President Gordon B. Hinckley, lenge. But some activities will take you our prophet, seer, and revelator. ● down into the Devil’s Throat. The only safe From an April 2003 general conference address. 2 LEFT: PHOTOGRAPH BY BUSATH PHOTOGRAPHY; RIGHT: ILLUSTRATED BY LEON PARSON APPROVED BY THE CHOOSE THE Sept. RIGHT No. 9 AUTHORITY BY SHEILA KINDRED (Based on experiences of the author’s friend) 4 Keep the commandments! In this there is safety; in this Later that day Ethan discovered some army men there is peace (Children’s Songbook, 146).