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THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS I MARCH 2001 LIAHONA THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS I MARCH 2001 LIAHONA FEATURES 2 FIRST PRESIDENCY MESSAGE: “BEHOLD YOUR LITTLE ONES” PRESIDENT GORDON B. HINCKLEY 18 LATTER-DAY SAINT VOICES: “LET THE CONSEQUENCE FOLLOW” SAND TRAP GARY M. JOHNSON IN THE PALM OF HIS HAND EMMA ERNESTINA SÁNCHEZ SÁNCHEZ GIVING UP MY GRAVEN IMAGE MANUEL J. ROSARIO 25 VISITING TEACHING MESSAGE: “THAT I MAY HEAL YOU” ON THE COVER Front: Atsuko Yamashita, Young Women 26 A LATTER-DAY TESTAMENT OF BIBLICAL TRUTH REX C. REEVE JR. president in the Maebaru Ward, Fukuoka Japan Stake. Back: Historic Buddhist 38 JAPAN: GROWING LIGHT IN THE EAST DON L. SEARLE shrine Kinkaku-ji in Kyoto, Japan. LIAHONA (Photography by Don L. Searle.) 48 USING THE MARCH 2001 ESPECIALLY FOR YOUTH 8 ARM OF HONOR GORDON SWENSEN 10 DO WHAT IS RIGHT ELDER RICHARD G. SCOTT 24 POSTER: MAKE YOURSELF USEFUL 34 I NEVER LOOKED BACK CAMERON MCCOY THE FRIEND COVER THE FRIEND President Gordon B. Hinckley as a young boy. 2 SHARING TIME: HEAVENLY FATHER PREPARES THE PROPHET DIANE S. NICHOLS 4 FRIEND TO FRIEND: ELDER DUANE B. GERRARD SEE THE FRIEND, PAGE 4 6 FICTION: ROBBY’S NEW WORDS PATRICIA R. ROPER 9 TRYING TO BE LIKE JESUS: A MEMBER MISSIONARY SEE PAGE 2 MONAHRA L. DE Q. FREITAS 10 NEW TESTAMENT STORIES: THE WOMAN AT THE WELL; THE LEADER’S SON; ANGRY PEOPLE IN NAZARETH 16 FUN PAGE: PROPHETS AND PROPHECIES LOIS T. BARTHOLOMEW SEE PAGE 18 SEE PAGE 34 COMMENT ............................................................................................ March 2001 Vol. 25 No. 3 LIAHONA 21983 Official English International Magazine of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints The First Presidency: Gordon B. Hinckley, Thomas S. Monson, James E. Faust 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, Henry B. Eyring Editor: Dennis B. Neuenschwander Advisers: L. Lionel Kendrick, Yoshihiko Kikuchi, John M. Madsen “AN ATTITUDE OF GRATITUDE” AN EFFECTIVE MISSIONARY TOOL Curriculum Department Administrators: Managing Director: Ronald L. Knighton I appreciate so much the First Presidency While I was serving a mission in Chile, I Editorial Director: Richard M. Romney Message in the May 2000 Liahona (English), observed that the people loved to read the Graphics Director: Allan R. Loyborg “An Attitude of Gratitude” by President Liahona (Spanish). As missionaries, we Editorial Staff: Managing Editor: Marvin K. Gardner Thomas S. Monson, First Counselor in the loved to receive the magazine so we could Assistant Managing Editor: R. Val Johnson Associate Editor: Roger Terry First Presidency. I really came to understand give it to investigators, less-active members, Assistant Editor: Jenifer Greenwood Editorial Associate: Susan Barrett the importance of gratitude. Making this or recent converts. Publications Assistant: Collette Nebeker Aune message a part of me has blessed my life. I When we met with members, we always Design Staff: Magazine Graphics Manager: M. M. Kawasaki will ever try to show gratitude to all who suggested, “Share your copy of the Liahona, Art Director: Scott Van Kampen Senior Designer: Sharri Cook stand as a light and encouragement to me. because it is a great tool for people to learn Designers: Thomas S. Child, Randall J. Pixton Production Manager: Jane Ann Peters I feel an attitude of gratitude to all the about the Church and our values.” Production: Reginald J. Christensen, Kari A. Couch, Church leaders for their inspired messages Denise Kirby, Kelli Pratt, Claudia E. Warner Johnathan Wardle, Digital Prepress: Jeff Martin and testimonies. Edgemont 11th Ward, Printing and Distribution: Printing Director: Kay W. Briggs Ben Lawrence Ekpezu, Provo Utah Edgemont South Stake Distribution Director (Subscriptions): Kris T. Christensen Calabar Second Branch, For subscriptions and prices outside the United States and Canada, contact your local Church distribution Calabar Nigeria District A BETTER WORLD center or ward or branch leader. Since my baptism I have known that this Send manuscripts and queries to Liahona, Floor 24, 50 East North Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84150-3223, SPIRITUAL MANNA is the true Church. Before I felt that a part USA; or e-mail: [email protected] I was baptized into the Church when I of me was lacking. Now I am complete. The Liahona (a Book of Mormon term meaning “compass” or “director”) is published in Albanian, was a young girl, and I received a copy of I am writing to congratulate you on Amharic, Armenian (East), Bulgarian, Cebuano, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, the Liahona (Spanish) the first time I went publishing this marvelous magazine, A Fijian, Finnish, French, German, Haitian, Hiligaynon, Hungarian, Icelandic, Ilokano, Indonesian, Italian, to church. Now I have children of my own, Liahona (Portuguese). The magazine gives Japanese, Kiribati, Korean, Latvian, Lithuanian, Malagasy, Marshallese, Mongolian, Norwegian, Polish, and I’m still enjoying the magazine very us a chance to read the testimonies and Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Samoan, Slovenian, much. My family waits for it each month Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Thai, Tongan, experiences of other members throughout Ukrainian, and Vietnamese. (Frequency varies by the same way the Israelites waited for the world and know that out there millions language.) manna. The Liahona feeds us spiritually of Latter-day Saints are working to make © 2001 by Intellectual Reserve, Inc. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. and strengthens our testimonies, and we’re this a better world. For Readers in the United States and Canada: happy to have the opportunity to become March 2001 Vol. 25 No. 3. LIAHONA (USPS 311-480) Jonnas A. Menezes, English (ISSN 1080-9554) is published monthly by The acquainted with the worldwide member- Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 50 East North Sumaré Ward, Temple, Salt Lake City, UT 84150. USA subscription price ship of the Church. I thank my Heavenly is $10.00 per year; Canada, $15.50 plus applicable Vitória da Conquista Brazil Stake taxes. Periodicals Postage Paid at Salt Lake City, Utah, and Father for this wonderful gift. at additional mailing offices. Sixty days’ notice required for change of address. Include address label from a recent Ingrid de Padrón, issue; old and new address must be included. Send USA and Canadian subscriptions to Salt Lake Distribution San Juan de los Morros Branch, Center at address below. Subscription help line: 1-800-537-5971. Credit card orders (Visa, MasterCard, Maracay Venezuela Stake American Express) may be taken by phone. (Canada Poste Information: Publication Agreement #1604821) POSTMASTER: Send address changes to Salt Lake Distribution Center, Church Magazines, PO Box 26368, Salt Lake City, UT 84126-0368. MARCH 2001 1 FIRST PRESIDENCY MESSAGE “Behold Your Little Ones” By President Gordon B. Hinckley y wife and I once took some of our grandchildren to the circus. I was more interested in watching them and many others of their age than in watching the man on CRAIG DIMOND Y the flying trapeze. I looked at them in wonder as they alternately laughed TION B M USTRA O ILL and stared wide-eyed at the exciting things before them. I thought of the T PHO : miracle of children, for it is children who become the world’s constant RIGHT renewal of life and purpose. Observing them in the intensity of their , INC.; “Except ye be converted, and become as little interest, even in that atmosphere, my mind reverted to the beautiful and children, ye shall not touching scene recorded in the book of 3 Nephi when the resurrected Lord enter into the kingdom TIST AND MILL POND PRESS of heaven.” took little children in His arms and wept as He blessed them and said to TESY OF THE AR the people, “Behold your little ones” (3 Nephi 17:23). , COUR OLSEN It is so obvious that the great good and the terrible evil in the world today . are the sweet and the bitter fruits of the rearing of yesterday’s children. As we © GREG K , train a new generation, so will the world be in a few years. If you are worried IN HIS LIGHT about the future, then look to the upbringing of your children. Wisely did the IL FROM A DET : writer of Proverbs declare, “Train up a child in the way he should go: and LEFT LIAHONA 2 when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6). that the sun would touch the fruit which was to come When I was a boy, we lived in the summer on a fruit with spring and summer. We learned that in February we farm. We grew great quantities of peaches—carloads of could pretty well determine the kind of fruit we would them. Our father took us to tree pruning demonstrations pick in September. put on by the agricultural college. Each Saturday during E. T. Sullivan once wrote these interesting words: January and February we would go out to the farm and “When God wants a great work done in the world or a great prune the trees. We learned that by clipping and sawing wrong righted, he goes about it in a very unusual way. He in the right places, even when snow was on the ground doesn’t stir up his earthquakes or send forth his thunder- and the wood appeared dead, we could shape a tree so bolts. Instead, he has a helpless baby born, perhaps in a simple home of some obscure mother. And then God puts “Bring up your children in the love and fear of the the idea into the mother’s heart, and she puts it into the Lord; .