Friend

December 1997

Volume 27, Number 12

Contents

• Stories and Features

• A Christmas Message from the First Presidency to the Children of the World: “Good Tidings of Great Joy”

• Fiction: B. J.’s Secret
  Clare Mishica

• They Spoke to Us (Conference Report)

• “Christmas Family”
  Karla C. Erickson

• Sharing Time: The Prophets Testify of Jesus Christ’s Birth
  Karen Ashton

• Trying to Be Like Jesus Christ
  Kindness Begins with Me Jessica Edwards and Brooke Jesse
  Loving Care Jacob Nicholas Watson

• Friends in the News

• Fiction: Miguel’s Gift
  Angela B. Haight

• Our Creative Friends

• Childviews—Your Pioneer Art: Ahuac Group Pioneers
  Daniela Charise Cairampoma Capcha

• Fiction: Pioneer Christmas
  Susan Billings Mitchell

• Boss’s Christmas Gift
  Melissa Sedrick and Sarah Leone Christensen

• The Martyrdom of Joseph and Hyrum Smith

• For Little Friends

• His Little Lamb
  Tracy Bodily

• Grandpa’s Christmas Tree
  Clare Mishica

• Christmas Ornament Dot-to-Dot

• Paper Chains
  Ruth R. Harmon

• Gift Book
  Lori Julson

• Good Books for Little Friends

• Music

• That Night in the Stable
  Val C. Wilcox

• Verse

• Looking at Christmas
  Therese Aurich

• Things to Make and Do

• Christmas Workshop
  Robin B. Lambert

• Funstuf

• Like a Star Shining Brightly
  Robin B. Lambert

• Like a Star Shining Brightly Cutouts

• Pioneer Christmas Workshop

Cover by Dick Brown