Liahona

September 2002

Volume 26, Number 9

Contents

• Features

  • Comment

  • First Presidency Message: Patience, a Heavenly Virtue

    President Thomas S. Monson

  • Visiting Teaching Message: Loving Lifelong Learning

  • Latter-day Saint Voices: Loving and Sustaining Others

    • “I Know That My Redeemer Lives”

      Francisca Cristina Villar Rey

    • “Why Are You So Different?”

      Juana Rivero de González

    • A Leap of Faith

      Walfre Ricardo Garrido

    • The Home Teachers Who Wouldn’t Quit

      David Head

  • Putting the Student into Action: How to Increase Participation in Lessons

    Jonn D. Claybaugh and Amber Barlow Dahl

  • Latter-day Prophets Speak about Gospel Teaching

  • Using the September 2002 Liahona

• Especially for Youth

  • Face to Face

    Kristie Masumi King

  • “He Loved Them unto the End”

    Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

  • My Friend and Fellow Servant: The Example of Luan Felix da Silva

    Elder Claudio R. M. Costa

  • “Plain, Simple Truths”: Young Men and Women Apply the Six B’s

  • My Terrible, Horrible Day

    Brenda Williams

  • The Treasure of El Dorado

    Richard M. Romney and Nestor Javier Passe

  • Did You Know?

• The Friend

  • Come Listen to a Prophet’s Voice: Opening the Windows of Heaven

    President James E. Faust

  • Sharing Time: “The Field Is White Already to Harvest”

    Vicki F. Matsumori

  • For Little Friends: What Missionaries Do

  • Sandy’s Missionary Chart

    Craig E. Moore

  • Friend to Friend

    Jan Pinborough and Elder Athos M. Amorim

  • New Testament Stories

    • The Rich Young Man

    • Jesus Brings Lazarus Back to Life

On the cover: Front: Light and Truth, by Simon Dewey. Back: “Hear Ye Him,” by Simon Dewey. Both paintings courtesy of Altus Fine Art, American Fork, Utah.

Inside back cover: The Taking of Jericho, by Frank Adams