“Contents,” Tambuli, Nov. 1994 Tambuli November 1994 Volume 18, Number 11 Contents Features First Presidency Message: “The Great Symbol of Our Membership”President Howard W. Hunter A Dusty PhotographAlma Yanira González A Thankful HeartCarolyn Wright What Every Elder Should Know—and Every Sister As WellPresident Boyd K. Packer Living the Gospel in a Worldwide Church: Third International Art Competition A Foundation in FaithDeAnne Walker Especially for Youth Before and AfterTyler Wilkinson Questions and Answers I Realized That Christ Loved MeJessi Ramsey Departments Comment Visiting Teaching Message: Receiving Special Priesthood Blessings Tambulilit Captain Moroni and the Title of Liberty Exploring: A Century of GenealogyRebecca M. Taylor Fun Page Friend to FriendElder Lino Álvarez Sharing Time: Missionaries Publish PeaceJudy Edwards Fiction: Brother Piper’s PieAlma J. Yates On the cover: “Priesthood is the authority and the power which God has granted to men on earth to act for Him. When we exercise priesthood authority properly, we do what He would do if He were present,” writes President Boyd K. Packer in a primer on principles of priesthood government (see page 14). Cover photograph by Matt Reier. Back cover: In “What Every Elder Should Know—and Every Sister As Well,” President Boyd K. Packer explains that the Melchizedek Priesthood “enables endowed and worthy men to preside over their posterity in time and eternity” (see page 14). Inside back cover: Jeremiah Laments the Devastation of Jerusalem, by Rembrandt Harmenszoom van Rijn (1606–1669). For more than 40 years Jeremiah warned of Jerusalem’s destruction if its people would not repent of idolatry and immorality. His prophecies were fulfilled when the Chaldeans besieged the city and took the people captive. Sadly, Jeremiah wrote of Jerusalem: “Her enemies prosper; for the Lord hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy” (Lam. 1:5). Courtesy of the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.