Liahona

July 2004

Volume 28, Number 7

Contents

• For Adults

  • Using the Liahona

  • First Presidency Message: Miracles of Faith

    President Thomas S. Monson

  • Book of Mormon Times at a Glance: Chart 2—Alma through Mormon and Moroni

  • Visiting Teaching Message: Feeling the Love of the Lord through Prayer

  • Protecting Your Child from Gang Influence

    Dennis J. Nordfelt

  • Book of Mormon Principles: Submitting Our Will to the Father’s

    Elder Benjamin De Hoyos

  • One Million in Mexico

    Don L. Searle

  • Latter-day Saint Voices

    • My Child Is Drowning!

      Hirofumi Nakatsuka

    • Two-of-a-Kind Table

      Son Quang Le and Beth Ellis Le

    • She Was My Answer

      Dori Wright

  • Comment

• For Youth

  • Poster: Make Waves

  • All Is Well

    Elder David B. Haight

  • A Message from Moldova

    Karl and Sandra Finch

  • Outnumbered

    Paolo Martin N. Macariola

  • Did You Know?

• The Friend: For Children

  • Come Listen to a Prophet’s Voice: Knowing Who You Are

    President James E. Faust

  • Sharing Time: A Special Day

    Sheila E. Wilson

  • From the Life of President Heber J. Grant: Learning to Sing

  • Poster Article: Temples Bless Families

  • Courage and a Kind Word

    Patricia Reece Roper

  • Making Friends: Medgine Atus of Miramar, Florida

    Tiffany E. Lewis

On the cover: Front: A Primary child in Guadalajara, Mexico, participates in an activity about prayer. Back: Top left: The González family of Monterrey. Top right: The historic San Pedro Mártir meetinghouse in Mexico City. Above: The visitors’ center (foreground) and México City México Temple. Right: The new Madero meetinghouse, Mérida México Centro Stake. See “One Million in Mexico,” p. 34. (Photography by Don L. Searle.)

Inside back cover: Crossing the Sweetwater, by David Koch. In 1856 J. D. T. McAllister wrote a happy tune for the handcart pioneers: “For some must push and some must pull, / As we go marching up the hill; / So merrily on our way we go / Until we reach the Valleyo” (Children’s Songbook, 220). Here pioneers cross the Sweetwater River.