Liahona

February 1999

Volume 23, Number 2

Contents

• Features

• Comment

• First Presidency Message: That We Might Know Thee, the Only True God, and Jesus Christ
  President James E. Faust

• Sunbeam Love
  Sharon Montgomery Meyers

• “Every Convert Is Precious”
  President Gordon B. Hinckley

• My Friend Larry
  Don Watson

• Visiting Teaching Message: The Gift Only He Could Give

• “Charity Never Faileth”
  Jeanie McAllister

• Loaves, Fishes, and Compassion
  Karen Rose Merkley

• Guided by His Exemplary Life
  Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin

• Peace from the Scriptures
  Pamela Akinyi Obaro

• Especially for Youth

• Focus on Others: Fun with a Purpose
  Janet Thomas

• Mormon Message: Make Room for Everyone

• Popular
  Anne Billings

• Primary Purpose
  Brian Lewis

• Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy
  Elder Earl C. Tingey

• The Friend

• Friend to Friend
  Rebecca M. Taylor and Elder Russell M. Nelson

• Fiction: My Hero
  Ronda Gibb Hinrichsen

• Intents of Your Heart
  Elder Neal A. Maxwell

• Where in the Scriptures Is … ?
  Ann Woodbury Moore

• Trying to Be Like Jesus
  Best Day Ever McKay Meyer
  A Gift for My Brother Diana Leaney López Ruano
  “No, Thank You” Jeremy Driggs
  A Prayer for Help Irina Mishell López Ruano

• Sharing Time: Faith in Jesus Christ
  Sydney S. Reynolds

• Leap of Faith
  Linda Bjork

On the cover: Front: Jesus Kneeling in Prayer and Meditation, by Michael J. Nelson. Back, from top: “Go Ye into All the World,” by Harry Anderson; Christ Healing the Blind Man, by Carl Heinrich Bloch, original at the Chapel of Frederiksborg Castle, Denmark, used by permission of the Frederiksborgmuseum; The Pool of Bethesda, by Carl Heinrich Bloch, Bethesda Dansk Indre Mission, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Inside back cover: Photographic composition by Charles Baird