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July 2006

Volume 36, Number 7

Contents

• First Presidency Message: In These Three I Believe

  President Gordon B. Hinckley

• My Personal Parable for Peace

  Nancy M. Christensen

• On the Wings of Eagles

  Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf

• A Hole in Her Soul

  Name Withheld

• Finding Ancestors, Uniting a Ward

  Rebecca M. Taylor

• More Than a Name

  Laura Bunker

• Yelled At, Barked At, and Rained On

  Katharina Betz Birch

• Getting Past the Hurt

  Robert F. Williams

• Songs of the Righteous

• Some Must Push and Some Must Pull

• Cambodia—a Land of Developing Peace

  Marissa A. Widdison

• Breaking the Chains of Sin

  Elder H. Ross Workman

• The Fulness of the Gospel: Putting Off the Natural Man

• Families Are Forever—and So Is Parenthood

  Garth Hanson and Steve Hanson

• Lessons from the Old Testament: Following the Holy Ghost

  Cheryl C. Lant

• Visiting Teaching Message: Strengthening Families

• Latter-day Saint Voices

• Random Sampler

• News of the Church

• Making the Most of This Issue

On the cover: John the Baptist Baptizing Jesus, by Greg Olsen, may not be copied.

Inside front cover: The Randolph Tabernacle, by G. A. Garns, may not be copied. During the early part of the twentieth century in the small Utah town of Randolph, this brick tabernacle was the center of activity for the people who lived there. Today the well-maintained tabernacle on the main street looks just as it did more than 100 years ago.

Inside back cover: Into the Storm, by Byron Pixton, may not be copied. On this 150th anniversary of the handcart pioneers, we remember the 10 handcart companies that made their way from Iowa City, Iowa, and Florence, Nebraska, to the Salt Lake Valley between 1856 and 1860. While most of these companies traveled the more than 1,000 miles (1,600 km) with little trouble, two companies became stranded in early snowstorms in Wyoming, where many died.