Liahona

November 1999

Volume 23, Number 11

Contents

• Features

• Comment

• First Presidency Message: Sailing Safely the Seas of Life
  President Thomas S. Monson

• Latter-day Saint Voices: A God of Miracles
  A Witness of the Truth Joel Coronado Muñoz
  Enduring Our Trials Vitalicio Gonzales
  “Leonard Has Drowned!” Kerstin Saffer, as told to Birgitta Strandberg
  Trust in the Lord Esterlita H. Ponce
  A Prayer for Benita Joseph A. Martineau

• Words of the Living Prophet

• Little Children and the Gospel
  Elder Jay E. Jensen

• Visiting Teaching Message: Clothed in Charity

• Argentina’s Bright and Joyous Day
  Judy C. Olsen

• What about Abstinence?
  Robert Layton

• Especially for Youth

• Questions and Answers: How Do I Know if I Have Been Forgiven?

• The More Important Lesson
  Erika DeHart

• “I Promise You”
  Lanna J. Carter

• First to Aid
  Richard M. Romney

• The Rewards of Learning
  Darrin Lythgoe

• The Friend

• Friend to Friend
  Rebecca M. Taylor and President James E. Faust

• Sharing Time: Count Your Blessings
  Sydney S. Reynolds

• Fiction: Who Needs My Prayer?
  Janene Dykstra

• For Little Friends: We Can Pray to Heavenly Father
  Jeanne Ellerbeck

• Never Alone
  Ann Michelle Nielsen

• Saying Thank You
  Elder Hugh W. Pinnock

• Treasures
  Vivian Paulsen

• Trying to Be Like Jesus
  “Stop!” Barbara Jean Jones

[photos, illustration] On the cover: Front: “Children come into this world whole, innocent, and pure,” writes Elder Jay E. Jensen of the Seventy. “We are commanded to become like them.” See “Little Children and the Gospel,” page 14. Back: Christ and the Book of Mormon Children, by Del Parson.

Inside back cover: Christ Raising the Daughter of Jairus, by Greg K. Olsen