Liahona

October 2003

Volume 27, Number 10

Contents

• Features

  • Comment

  • First Presidency Message: Inspirational Thoughts

    President Gordon B. Hinckley

  • Timing

    Elder Dallin H. Oaks

  • The Red Knit Scarf

    Hripsime Zatikyan Wright

  • Visiting Teaching Message: Prepare to Meet God

  • Parables of Jesus: The Unprofitable Servant

    Elder W. Rolfe Kerr

  • At Home with the Hinckleys

  • Latter-day Saint Voices

    • A Song for Ryan

      Luana Lish

    • Not Just Another Business

      Yolanda Zayas

    • Guided to Church

      Yadamsuren Munkhtuya

  • Using the October 2003 Liahona

• Especially for Youth

  • Staying Power

    Elder H. Ross Workman

  • Questions and Answers: How Can I Best Prepare to Receive the Melchizedek Priesthood?

  • That Book

    Suwit Saisam-Ang

  • We Are Daughters of Our Heavenly Father, Who Loves Us

    Susan W. Tanner

  • Did You Know?

• The Friend

  • Come Listen to a Prophet’s Voice: The Little Engine That Could

    President James E. Faust

  • Temple Cards

  • Sharing Time: The Light of Christ

    Vicki F. Matsumori

  • New Testament Stories

    • Paul and Silas in Prison

    • Paul Obeys the Holy Ghost

  • Song: Holding Hands around the World

    Janice Kapp Perry

  • I Want to See the Prophet

    Sara V. Olds

On the cover: Photographs by Craig Dimond.

Inside back cover: Teach Them to Understand, by Walter Rane. Parents are admonished to teach their children (see D&C 68:25). Here a father helps his son with his schoolwork, surrounded also by evidences of scriptural and physical nourishment.