Liahona

January 2000

Volume 24 Number 1

Contents

• Report of the 169th Semiannual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

• Saturday Morning Session

  • Welcome to Conference

    President Gordon B. Hinckley

  • Lessons from Laman and Lemuel

    Elder Neal A. Maxwell

  • “Feed My Sheep”

    Elder Ben B. Banks

  • Agency—A Blessing and a Burden

    Sharon G. Larsen

  • One Link Still Holds

    Elder Vaughn J. Featherstone

  • Prophets and Spiritual Mole Crickets

    Elder Neil L. Andersen

  • Becoming Our Best Selves

    President Thomas S. Monson

• Saturday Afternoon Session

  • The Sustaining of Church Officers

    President James E. Faust

  • The Spirit of Revelation

    President Boyd K. Packer

  • “For This Cause Came I into the World”

    Elder Alexander B. Morrison

  • Serving the Lord

    Elder Adhemar Damiani

  • Our Legacy

    Elder Stephen B. Oveson

  • Spiritual Hurricanes

    Elder David R. Stone

  • Do Not Delay

    Elder Henry B. Eyring

  • “An High Priest of Good Things to Come”

    Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

• Priesthood Session

  • Growing into the Priesthood

    Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin

  • “Behold the Man”

    Bishop Richard C. Edgley

  • The Faith of a Sparrow: Faith and Trust in the Lord Jesus Christ

    Elder H. Bruce Stucki

  • Of Seeds and Soils

    President James E. Faust

  • Priesthood Power

    President Thomas S. Monson

  • Why We Do Some of the Things We Do

    President Gordon B. Hinckley

• Sunday Morning Session

  • Hope, an Anchor of the Soul

    President James E. Faust

  • Beware of False Prophets and False Teachers

    Elder M. Russell Ballard

  • Our Destiny

    Elder L. Aldin Porter

  • Peace, Hope, and Direction

    Patricia P. Pinegar

  • A Testimony of the Book of Mormon

    Elder Russell M. Nelson

  • At the Summit of the Ages

    President Gordon B. Hinckley

• Sunday Afternoon Session

  • A Year of Jubilee

    Elder L. Tom Perry

  • Gospel Teaching

    Elder Dallin H. Oaks

  • “No Man Is an Island”

    Elder Richard H. Winkel

  • “The Tongue of Angels”

    Elder Robert S. Wood

  • Righteousness

    Elder William R. Bradford

  • He Lives

    Elder Richard G. Scott

  • Good-bye to This Wonderful Old Tabernacle

    President Gordon B. Hinckley

• General Relief Society Meeting

  • Rejoice, Daughters of Zion

    Mary Ellen Smoot

  • Home, Family, and Personal Enrichment

    Virginia U. Jensen

  • We Are Women of God

    Sheri L. Dew

  • What It Means to Be a Daughter of God

    President James E. Faust

• General Authorities of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

• They Spoke to Us

• News of the Church

Home Teaching and Visiting Teaching: There are no designated Home Teaching or Visiting Teaching Messages printed in the general conference issues of the Liahona. After prayerfully considering the needs of the members they visit, home teachers and visiting teachers are to choose a general conference address as a message.

Cover: “That Ye May Know,” by Gary L. Kapp. Courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. David Larsen.

Photographs of conference were taken by Craig Dimond, John Luke, Welden C. Andersen, Matt Reier, Heather Leary, Tamra Ratieta, Shelli Livingston, Lana Leishman, Don Thorpe, Robert Casey, and Bryant Livingston.

Conference Talks on the Internet: To access general conference talks in many languages on the Internet, visit the Church’s official Web site: www.lds.org.