Liahona

August 1999

Volume 23, Number 8

Contents

• Features

• Comment

• First Presidency Message: Lost Horizons
  President James E. Faust

• Words of the Living Prophet

• The Higher Law
  Larry E. Dahl

• Visiting Teaching Message: With a Grateful Heart

• Islands of Light
  R. Val Johnson

• Home Evening Doesn’t Have to Be Perfect
  Paul J. Rands

• Especially for Youth

• Mormon Message: Take It Personally

• Stand as a Witness
  Shannon D. Jensen

• Cactus Cleanup
  Shanna Ghaznavi

• Latter-day Saint Voices: Called to Serve
  My Name Tag Augusto Sánchez
  Obedience and Charity Choi Chung Lap
  Be Faithful and Keep the Commandments Juan Carlos Porcel
  “Adversity Can Make You Strong” Marco Antonio Panés Spano
  How Many Apples from a Seed? Julio Cesar Sonoda

• Go the Extra Mile
  Lisa M. G. Crockett

• The Friend

• Friend to Friend
  Janet Peterson and Elder Claudio R. M. Costa

• Trying to Be Like Jesus
  A Missionary to My Family Elaine Cristina Padilha Sluzarski

• Fiction: Interview
  Lisa H. Fernelius

• Temple Preparation Game
  Marlene Thomas

• For Little Friends: “You Choose!”
  Carmen de Hernández

• Sharing Time: I Can Keep My Covenant
  Sydney S. Reynolds

• Nobody to Baptize Michael
  Ellen Johnson