Friend

December 1999

Volume 29, Number 12

Contents

• Stories and Features

• A Christmas Message from the First Presidency to the Children of the World: Most Wondrous Gift of All

• Fiction: Christmas Lesson
  Kim Howey

• They Spoke to Us (Conference Report)

• Poster Story: Jesus Christ Will Come Again

• Miss Antaloop
  Rebecca Todd

• Matt and Mandy

• Our Creative Friends

• Fiction: Christmas Eve in Bethlehem
  Marianne Wilson McKnight

• Friends in the News

• Sharing Time: When He Comes Again
  Sydney S. Reynolds

• Red Mittens
  Mary Moody

• Trying to Be Like Jesus Christ
  The Man on the Bike Peggy Creager

• Friend Index 1999

• For Little Friends

• The Christmas Story

• Red-Nosed Reindeer Sandwiches
  Julie Wardell

• Good Books for Little Friends

• Orna-Mint
  Ida M. Pardue

• Christmas Family Home Evening
  Robert A. Peterson

• Verse

• First Christmas
  Shirley Adwena Harvey

• Music

• Lullaby, Little One
  Larry A. Allred

• Things to Make and Do

• Family Home Evening Ideas

• Christmas Workshop

• Funstuf

• Advent Calendar: Home at Christmas
  Corliss Clayton

Cover note: The Wise Men did not come to worship Jesus when the shepherds did. This picture simply shows some of the characters in the Christmas Story in Luke 2 and Matthew 2 [Matt. 2]. Photo by Robert Casey, photo styling by Joanne Hatch

Detail from Nephite Children Blessed by Del Parson