JULY 2002 Candy Machine y grandmother and I went to a pizza place Mto get a pizza for us and my brother and my grand- father. There was a candy machine there, so I asked for a quarter so I could get some candy. My grandmother said no. We went to fill the car with gas on the way home, and I saw a quarter in her car. I took it and put it in my pocket. Then I had a bad feeling, so I put it back. I had promised to choose the right when I was baptized, and I’m glad I did. Repentance Crystal Moffat, age 8 ne day, I was playing Fresno, California at a friend’s house. OHe took me to the next-door neighbor’s, and we destroyed some of his flowers. Teaching My Friend The next day, my mom found out from the neighbor, About the Church an elderly man who lives y friend kept asking alone after his wife died, what me about the Church. we had done. She told us that it was very wrong MI phoned her and told to do that. She told me that I had to make things her more. Then I taught her better. She called it repentance. how to pray. She said she’s She helped me write a letter to the man, apolo- been doing it. I’m trying to gizing for destroying his flowers. We also made invite her to church, but she him some banana bread. Then she told me that is busy. I had to take it to him. I was very scared, so my Then one day, I decided that mom came with me. she learned so much that I would give her a CTR When the man answered the door, I said that necklace and a copy of the Book of Mormon. I was sorry and gave him the letter and banana She has been reading the Book of Mormon, bread. He was very surprised and happy that I had and I hope she joins the Church. come. I felt very good after that. Kennedy McLeod, age 10 My mom taught me a good lesson about how Phoenix, Arizona I must repent, no matter how hard it is, when I do something wrong. Kye Heimonen, age 5 Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario, Canada ILLUSTRATED BY BRAD TEARE Volume 32 Number 7 July 2002 The First Presidency Gordon B. Hinckley A children’s magazine published by Thomas S. Monson The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints James E. Faust The Council of the Twelve Boyd K. Packer L. Tom Perry David B. Haight Neal A. Maxwell Russell M. Nelson Stories and Features Dallin H. Oaks M. Russell Ballard Joseph B. Wirthlin IFC Childviews Richard G. Scott Robert D. Hales Jeffrey R. Holland 2 Come Listen to a Prophet’s Voice: Inspirational Thoughts / President Henry B. Eyring Editor Gordon B. Hinckley Dennis B. Neuenschwander Advisers 4Laying the Cornerstone J. Kent Jolley W. R olfe Kerr Stephen A. West 7 Special Witness: Pioneer Sacrifices / Elder M. Russell Ballard Curriculum Department Administrators 8Friend to Friend: Courage / Elder Richard J. Maynes Managing Director Ronald L. Knighton 10 Eugene’s Quiet Place Planning and Editorial Director Richard M. Romney 14 From the Life of President Harold B. Lee: Musical Missionary Graphics Director Allan R. Loyborg Magazine Staff 16 Trying to Be Like Jesus Christ Managing Editor Vivian Paulsen 18 Exploring: A Star Out of Stone Assistant Managing Editor Julie Wardell 20 Sacrifice Associate Editors Carol J. Mullan Melvin Leavitt 27 Making Friends: Karissa Winterton of Charleston, Utah Design Staff Magazine Graphics Manager 34 Friends in the News M.M. Kawasaki Art Director 36 Temples Throughout the World (poster article) Mark W. Robison Senior Designer 38 Whoa, Blaze! Brad Teare Production 42 Our Creative Friends Kerry Lynn C. Herrin Printing and Distribution Printing Director 46 Sharing Time: Pioneers and Temples Kay W. Briggs Distribution Director (Subscriptions) IBC Guide to the Friend Kris T. Christensen © 2002 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights For Little Friends reserved. The Friend (ISSN 0009-4102) is published monthly by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 50 East North 30 Nathan’s Prayer Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150-3226. 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All materials may be copied for and Heavenly Father’s plan for incidental, noncommercial church or home use unless identified with a Cover by Bradley Clark His children. This term is © and the copyright holder’s name. Other uses require permission of the found in Exploring in this copyright owner. issue. See if you can find it. Come Listen to a Prophet’s Voice Inspirational He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces (Isaiah 25:8). Thoughts President Gordon B. Hinckley gives many talks each year to Saints all might have the opportunity of repenting and around the world. Below are parts of expecting forgiveness. six of those talks. In them, President Hinckley testifies of Christ’s Atone- Immortality ment, the Resurrection, priesthood power, life This life is part of eternity. This is one stage of after death, and the role of temples. He explains our eternal lives. When we die, we will go on to how you can help give everyone who ever lived a purposeful, active, challenging living. The life on chance to receive all the blessings of the gospel. the other side of the veil will be somewhat like the life here. If we have been clean and decent and The Savior, Jesus Christ good here, we will go on in that same spirit. If The miracle of [the Savior’s] life is beyond we have been rascals, we will go in that same spir- description. He gave that life for each of us on it. I believe in the eternity of life . , that this is Calvary’s hill in an act of Atonement greater than not the end, that there will be another life, that we we can ever really understand. He alone shed His will be accountable to God our Father and to our blood for the sins of which we are guilty, that we Lord Jesus Christ, that we will have work to do, 2 THE FRIEND and that sometime we will all participate in the res- Importance of Temples urrection. That is my hope, my faith, my testimony. Every temple that this Church has built has . stood as a monument to our belief in the immor- Baptism for the Dead tality of the human soul, that this . mortal life When you are twelve years of age, you may go through which we pass is part of a continuous to the Lord’s house and there stand as a living upward climb, so to speak, and that as certain as proxy (a person with authority to act for another) there is life here, there will be life there. That is in behalf of someone who our firm belief. It comes through the Atonement is dead. What a mar- of the Savior, and the temple becomes . the velous thing that is bridge from this life to the next. The temple is con- that you, an ordi- cerned with things of immortality. We wouldn’t nary boy or girl, have to build a temple for marriages if we didn’t can stand in believe in the eternity of the family. We build it so the place of family may be eternal. All of the ordinances some great which take place in the house of the Lord be- man or come expressions of our belief in that . basic woman who at doctrine. The temple therefore becomes the ulti- one time lived up- mate in our system of worship. on the earth but who is now powerless to move forward without the Live Worthy of a Temple Recommend blessing that you can give to him or her.