Liahona

May 2001

Volume 25, Number 5

Contents

• Features

  • Comment

  • First Presidency Message: The Lighthouse of the Lord: A Message to the Youth of the Church

    President Thomas S. Monson

  • Words of the Living Prophet

  • The Spirit of Christ: A Light amid Darkness

    Daniel K. Judd

  • Visiting Teaching Message: Living within Our Means

  • Latter-day Saint Voices: “Look to Him for Every Gift”

    • The Will to Soar

      Jorge Flores

    • “Go Check on Wendi”

      Darlene Joy Nichols

    • Strong for the Sake of My Children

      Eliza M. Torres

    • The Lost Pamphlet

      Wenceslao Salguero

  • Making Family Home Evening Even Better

  • Lessons Learned in the Journey of Life

    Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin

  • Using the May 2001 Liahona

• Especially for Youth

  • Too Old to Pass the Sacrament?

    Wayne B. Lynn

  • Reaching Out in Rio

    Barbara Jean Jones

  • A Note from Michael

    Camielle Call-Tarbet

  • Poster: Don’t Live on the Edge

  • Pulling Together

    Dane M. Mullen

  • Always My Friend

    Becky Prescott

• The Friend

  • Sharing Time: Obedience Brings Blessings

    Diane S. Nichols

  • Fiction: Let’s Make a Deal

    T. S. Hettinger

  • Trying to Be Like Jesus: “You Can’t Give Up”

    Charlene Germaine Meyer

  • Poster: Renew Your Baptismal Covenants

  • Friend to Friend

    Kellene Ricks Adams and Elder Lynn G. Robbins

  • New Testament Stories

    • The Man Who Could Not Walk

    • The Sermon on the Mount

On the cover: Front: Sabrina Reis (left) of Rio de Janeiro reaches out to youth at a homeless shelter. Back: Young women of the Botafogo Ward, Rio de Janeiro Brazil Andarai Stake. (Photography by Barbara Jean Jones.)

Inside back cover: Joseph’s First Vision, by David Lindsley. “When the light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air” (JS—H 1:17).