“Contents,” Liahona, Sept. 2001 Liahona September 2001 Volume 25, Number 9 Contents Features Comment First Presidency Message: Living with Our Convictions President Gordon B. Hinckley Cradle of the Restoration The Richness of the Restoration Elder Neal A. Maxwell Visiting Teaching Message: Building Family Unity through Temple and Family History Work “And He Gave Some, Apostles” Edward J. Brandt Latter-day Saint Voices: The Price of Discipleship I Needed a Blessing Brandon J. Miller A Break in the Clouds Ana Lima Braxton New Dreams for Old María Patricia Rojas V. A Tough Cowboy Allan L. Noble Using the September 2001 Liahona Especially for Youth One Hundred Questions Lani Ricks Ana Lucrecia Morales: The Gift of a Poet Don L. Searle Scripture Study Suggestions Line upon Line: The Mortal Conflict The Shape of Character: Classic Insights from President David O. Mckay The Friend “Who Is This Prophet?” Jane McBride Choate A Prophet’s Example President Thomas S. Monson Sharing Time: I Can Follow the Prophet Diane S. Nichols Making Friends: Miyako Tashiro of Osaka, Japan Melvin Leavitt New Testament Stories The Man with the Evil Spirits A Woman Touches Jesus’ Clothes Trying to Be Like Jesus Obeying My Parents Gustavo Adolfo Loaiza Vergara Prayer Helps Francisco Javier Loaiza Vergara On the cover: The bedroom of the Prophet Joseph Smith’s parents in their 1820s frame home. See “Cradle of the Restoration,” page 10. (Photograph by Craig Dimond.) Inside back cover: Joseph Smith and Levi Hancock, by Clark Kelley Price. Among the early converts to the Church was Levi W. Hancock, ordained in 1835 as one of the Presidents of the Seventy. A carpenter by trade, Levi helped build temples, served a mission to Missouri, and participated in Zion’s Camp and the Mormon Battalion. He was a loyal friend to the Prophet Joseph Smith.