“Contents,” Liahona, Aug. 2003 Liahona August 2003 Volume 27, Number 8 Contents Features Comment First Presidency Message: The Fatherless and the Widows: Beloved of God President Thomas S. Monson Your Family History: Getting Started President Boyd K. Packer Visiting Teaching Message: Prepare to Be Strong through Trials My First Church Assignment Elder John A. Harris Parables of Jesus: The Parable of the Talents Elder Ronald A. Rasband Words of Jesus: Resurrection to Ascension Elder D. Lee Tobler Latter-day Saint Voices Because Sally Smiled Jennifer L. McQuade Forsake Wrath Wanda Jo Cooke “My Heavenly Father Loves Me” Ricardo Lopes de Mendonça Lock the Back Door! Kelli Allen-Pratt Blessed by Seminary Juan Miguel Aguirre Encarnación Using the August 2003 Liahona Especially for Youth Open the Circle Jan Pinborough It’s Just Hair Juli Housholder Questions and Answers: Why Doesn’t the Church Make a List Telling Me Exactly What I Can and Can’t Do? Talk All You Want Don Carlos Vidal Web of Friendship Elder Richard H. Winkel Did You Know? The Friend Come Listen to a Prophet’s Voice: Faith Lights the Way President Gordon B. Hinckley Sharing Time: Example of the Believers Vicki F. Matsumori Temple Cards Making Friends: Tam Hoi Hoon of Hong Kong Emily Chien and Tiffany E. Lewis New Testament Stories Simon and the Priesthood Peter Brings Tabitha Back to Life Primary Then and Now Christine Rappleye On the cover: Photographs by Robert Casey, posed by models. Inside back cover: The Five Prepared, by J. Kirk Richards