Liahona

June 1996

Volume 20, Number 6

Contents

• Features

• First Presidency Message: Four Simple Things to Help Our Families and Our Nations
  President Gordon B Hinckley

• The Family: A Proclamation to the World
  The First Presidency and Council of the Twelve Apostles

• Florence Chukwurah: The Miracle of Change
  Jan U. Pinborough and Barbara J. Clarke

• Stumbling Blocks, Faith, and Miracles
  President Thomas S. Monson

• India: A Season of Sowing
  Michael R. Morris

• Proving the Prophet’s Promise
  James R. Prince

• True or False
  Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

• Especially for Youth

• Questions and Answers

• Not for the Body
  Elder Harold G. Hillam

• Getting the Most Out of Sacrament Meeting
  Darrin Lythgoe

• Opposite Reaction
  Stephanie Radford

• Departments

• Comment

• Visiting Teaching Message: His Image in Our Countenances

• The Friend

• Sad Birthday
  Robert A. Miller

• Song: I’ll Walk with You
  Carol Lynn Pearson and Reid N. Nibley

• Friend to Friend
  Janet Peterson and Elder John B. Dickson

• Sharing Time: Love at Home
  Karen Ashton

• Fiction: Finders, Keepers
  Marie Helen Turner

• Fun Page

• Samuel the Lamanite Tells about Jesus Christ

On the cover: Hema Gutty of India’s Hyderabad Second Branch deftly puts the finishing touches on Indian folk art known as rongoli, or sand painting. (Cover photography by Michael R. Morris.)

Back cover: The 350-year-old Taj Mahal (top) is considered one of India’s cultural treasures. Members of today’s generation of Indians are discovering the spiritual treasure of the gospel of Jesus Christ. Young women (below) draw a chalk pattern for a rongoli. From left: Karuna Nelapudi, Prardhana Veerabathula, and Deepa Nelapudi. See “India: A Season of Sowing,” page 34. (Cover photography by Michael R. Morris.)

Inside back cover: The Resurrected Christ Blesses the Nephite Children, by Robert T. Barrett. After teaching the people at the Nephite city of Bountiful, the resurrected Savior blessed and prayed for the children, then said, “Behold your little ones.” The multitude saw angels descending out of heaven and encircling “those little ones … ; and the angels did minister unto them” (see 3 Ne. 17).