Liahona

August 2002

Volume 26, Number 8

Contents

• Features

  • Comment

  • First Presidency Message: What This Work Is All About

    President Gordon B. Hinckley

  • Visiting Teaching Message: Delight in Service and Good Works

  • Loving My Wayward Child

    Name Withheld

  • The Doctrine of Temple Work

    Elder David E. Sorensen

  • The Choice That Began Mortality

    Elder Jess L. Christensen

  • Latter-day Saint Voices: “The Strength of the Church”

    • The Lord’s Prophet

      Maria Sonia P. Antiqueña

    • “Just Call Me Brother”

      José Bataller Sala

    • A Gift of Eggs—and Love

      Claudia Waite Richards

  • Using the August 2002 Liahona

• Especially for Youth

  • Friend Power in New Zealand

    Shanna Ghaznavi

  • To Acquire Knowledge and the Strength to Use It Wisely

    Elder Richard G. Scott

  • Liahona Classic: Elder, They Will Love You

    Elder LeGrand Richards

  • Questions and Answers: How Can I Help My Friends Understand I Am A Christian?

  • Did You Know?

• The Friend

  • Come Listen to a Prophet’s Voice: Influence of the Temple

    President Thomas S. Monson

  • New Testament Stories

    • The Pharisee and the Publican

    • Jesus Blesses the Children

  • For Little Friends: My Book of Remembrance

    Lori Stevens

  • Fun Page: Red Sea Action Scene

  • Sharing Time: “The Heart of the Children”

    Vicki F. Matsumori

  • Thirst

    Ruthanne G. Bridges

On the cover: Photograph of the baptismal font in the Vernal Utah Temple by Jed A. Clark. Insets: Photograph of President Hinckley by Jed A. Clark; photograph of the Apia Samoa Temple by William Holdman. (Temple photographs © Intellectual Reserve, Inc.; no reproduction authorized or permitted.)

Inside back cover: Ruth and Naomi, by Judith Mehr.