Liahona

February 2000

Volume 24, Number 2

Contents

• Features

  • Comment

  • First Presidency Message: “Fear Not to Do Good”

    President Gordon B. Hinckley

  • “As If Ye Were Present”

    Byron R. Merrill

  • Latter-day Saint Voices: A Voice from the Dust

    • “My Joy Is Too Much”

      R. Stanley Swain

    • The Most Beautiful Book

      Nancy Marilijn Ruiter

    • My Own Testimony of the Book of Mormon

      Bethzaida Vélez Rivera

    • Hungry for More

      LaChere Bodine Jones

    • “Let Me See That Book!”

      Coke Newell

  • Visiting Teaching Message: “Walk with Me”

  • Joseph F. Smith: Following the Prince of Peace

    Jill Mulvay Derr and Heidi S. Swinton

  • Controlling the Media’s Influence in Your Home

• Especially for Youth

  • All Is Not Well

  • Behind the Scenes

    Peter B. Gardner

  • Mormon Message: Who Moved?

  • Wings

    Anne Yelvington Lynch

  • “Hi, José”

    Todd Dunn

• The Friend

  • Friend to Friend

    Jill Hymas and Elder David E. Sorensen

  • Sharing Time: On the Right Path

    Ann Jamison

  • Book of Mormon Story: Heavenly Father’s Blessings

    Vivian Paulsen

  • Book of Mormon Game

    Lorna Reed and H. J. Noel

  • Fiction: Parable of the Ketchup

    Meghan Decker

  • For Little Friends: A Baptism Book

    Elise Black

  • Fasting for Billy

    Gloria Pope

On the cover: Front: Detail from Liahona, by Arnold Friberg. Back: Lehi and His People Arrive in the New World, by Clark Kelley Price; Liahona, by Lowell Fitt, courtesy of Museum of Church History and Art, photograph by Ron Read.

Inside back cover: Moroni Tutors Joseph, by Clark Kelley Price