Liahona

February 2003

Volume 27, Number 2

Contents

• Features

  • Comment

  • First Presidency Message: Strengthening the Inner Self

    President James E. Faust

  • Divine Love

    Elder Russell M. Nelson

  • Visiting Teaching Message: Prepare Every Needful Thing

  • Words of Jesus: Forgiveness

    Elder Cecil O. Samuelson Jr.

  • The Parable of the Seed Growing Secretly

    Elder Wilfredo R. López

  • Gospel Classics: Three Parables—The Unwise Bee, the Owl Express, and Two Lamps

    Elder James E. Talmage

  • Latter-day Saint Voices

    • A Special Witness of Jesus Christ

      Irene Coimbra de Oliveira Cláudio

    • There Was No Question

      Giuseppe Martinengo

    • A Very Special Tablecloth

      Juan Aldo Leone

  • Using the February 2003 Liahona

• Especially for Youth

  • Birthday Temple Trip

    Kristen Winmill Southwick

  • Count on Maurice

    Laury Livsey

  • Questions and Answers: How Can I Help My Friends Understand the Law of Chastity?

  • Poster: Keep Yourself Free

  • Wake-Up Call

    Isaac Kofi Morrison

  • Did You Know?

• The Friend

  • Come Listen to a Prophet’s Voice: We Bear Witness of Him

    President Gordon B. Hinckley

  • Sharing Time: The Gospel Is Restored

    Vicki F. Matsumori

  • Pebble of Forgiveness

    Jane McBride Choate

  • Temple Cards

  • Trying to Be like Jesus: Helping Mom

    Vinny Ken Muramatsu de Oliveira

  • New Testament Stories

    • The First Sacrament

    • Other Teachings at the Last Supper

  • Song: I’ll Follow Him in Faith

    Janice Kapp Perry

On the cover: Photographs by Craig Dimond, Steve Bunderson, and Brian K. Kelly; posed by models.

Inside back cover: Be Not Afraid, by Greg Olsen. (From the Visions of Faith Collection by Mill Pond Press, Inc., Venice, Florida.)