“Contents,” Liahona, Mar. 1996 Liahona March 1996 Volume 20, Number 3 Contents Features First Presidency Message: Happiness—the Universal QuestPresident Thomas S. Monson Same-Gender AttractionElder Dallin H. Oaks Remembering Past SunshineWade J. Hatch Brother Andelin and the Teeter-TotterRobert Shawgo Sisters in Hungary: Serving with LoveMarvin K. Gardner The Blackness and the MoonFrank Outcelt The Love of My SistersJan T. Molloy Especially for Youth God Knows MeKazuko Tamaki Alice SpringsRichard M. Romney Blind SightLaurie W. Thornton The Power of MusicTamara Leatham Bailey and Christie Giles I Love You This MuchLaDawn Risenmay Departments Comment Visiting Teaching Message: “Even As I Am” The Friend Making Friends: Rachel Tan of SingaporeMiles T. Tuason The PriesthoodElder Charles Didier Fiction: Taylor GhostVickie Schillen Nephi Obtains the Plates Sharing Time: The Words of ChristKaren Ashton Fun Page Song: Seek the Lord EarlyJoanne Bushman Doxey Danger on the Snake RiverKelli Einfeldt On the cover: Located in Australia’s isolated outback, the small town of Alice Springs is home for a group of active Latter-day Saint teenagers. Yasmin Webster (left) and Lavinia Archibald, of the Alice Springs Branch, visit together sitting in a gum tree. (Cover photography by Richard M. Romney.) Back cover: Top: Finding joy in the gospel, the happy young women in the branch quickly make friends of any newcomers. Bottom: For Steven Yeckley (left) and Ivan Munn, the outback is a treasure to share with a friend. See “Alice Springs,” page 10. (Cover photography by Richard M. Romney.) Inside back cover: Lehi’s Family Leaving Jerusalem, by Scott Snow. Nephi, depicted here in the foreground, records that the people of Jerusalem wanted to kill his father, Lehi, because he testified of their wickedness. “The Lord commanded my father … that he should take his family and depart into the wilderness. And he did travel in the wilderness with his family, which consisted of my mother, Sariah, and my elder brothers, who were Laman, Lemuel, and Sam” (see 1 Ne. 1:19–20; 1 Ne. 2:2–5).