Liahona

May 1996

Volume 20, Number 5

Contents

• Features

• First Presidency Message: “Be Not Afraid, Only Believe”
  President Gordon B. Hinckley

• Of Dreams and Promises
  Perla García de Bravo

• A Journal of Letters
  Laura S. Shortbridge

• “Feast upon the Words of Christ”
  Elder Spencer J. Condie

• France
  LaRene Gaunt

• A Burden Made Lighter
  Lito B. Legaspi

• Not This Cowboy
  Thomas Hancock

• Especially for Youth

• You Are Needed
  Elder David B. Haight

• Calm Down
  Darrin Lythgoe

• Slow But Sure
  Santiago Márquez Pérez

• I Know the Feeling
  Aaron Lee Shill

• Because of You
  Lawrence Heywood

• Departments

• Comment

• Visiting Teaching Message: “A Mighty Power of Healing”

• The Friend

• President Gordon B. Hinckley
  Janet Peterson

• Getting to Know the Prophet

• Fiction: Calendar for Yesterdays
  Debbie Davidson

• My Family Tree

• Sharing Time: Remembering Jesus
  Karen Ashton

• Fiction: Best Day for Presents
  Margaret Shauers

• Making Friends: Iris JoAnn Alvarado of Ponce, Puerto Rico
  Corliss Clayton