Liahona

October 1999

Volume 23, Number 10

Contents

• Features

• Comment

• First Presidency Message: Building Your Eternal Home
  President Thomas S. Monson

• The Gospel Changed Our Family
  Alfiero Morallos

• The Incomparable Gifts
  Elder John B. Dickson

• Visiting Teaching Message: The Spirit Bore Witness

• What Prophets Teach about Chastity and Fidelity

• Truths of Moral Purity
  Terrance D. Olson

• Latter-day Saint Voices: Joy in Following the Lord
  Forgiveness United Us Aurora Rojas de Álvarez
  Improving My Finances and My Health Evelin Korndörfer
  Blessed for Fasting Brigada Acosta de Pérez
  A Debt for Half a Bicycle Alfredo P. Blanc

• Especially for Youth

• Soaring
  Richard M. Romney

• The Trial of My Faith
  Taylor Hartley

• Having a Bad Day?
  Shane R. Barker

• The Friend

• Friend to Friend
  Elder Charles Didier

• Fiction: “My Teacher Was Right”
  Carmen de Hernández

• Sharing Time: Let Your Light Shine
  Sydney S. Reynolds

• Making Friends: Masha Zemskova of Pushkin, Russia
  Marvin K. Gardner

• New Testament Scripture-Story Grab Bag
  Corliss Clayton

• Trying to Be Like Jesus
  Living Close to the Lord Matteo Duca
  Honoring My Parents Germán Andrés Tovar Contreras
  Nine-year-old Member Missionary Ashley Callister

• Song: I Like My Birthdays
  Wallace F. Bennett and Tracy Y. Cannon

On the cover: Front: Photograph by Eldon K. Linschoten. Back: Photograph by Michael McRae. See “What Prophets Teach about Chastity and Fidelity,” page 26, and “Truths of Moral Purity,” page 30.

Inside back cover: The Lord’s Prayer, by James Jacques Joseph Tissot (1840–1920)