Liahona

August 2004

Volume 28, Number 8

Contents

• For Adults

  • Using the Liahona

  • First Presidency Message: Fathers, Mothers, Marriage

    President James E. Faust

  • Worshiping at Sacrament Meeting

    Elder Russell M. Nelson

  • Improving Our Prayers

    Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin

  • Visiting Teaching Message: Feeling the Love of the Lord through Self-Mastery

  • Welcome to Relief Society

    LaRene Porter Gaunt

  • Latter-day Saint Voices

    • Drifting to Starboard

      Archie D. Smith

    • Overcoming the Pain Made Us Better

      Washington Zambrano

    • Just the Help I Needed

      Margaret Kay Christensen

  • Comment

• For Youth

  • The Sign on the Wall

    Jeremy Robertson

  • My Inspired Mission Call

    Lincoln Pimentel Martins

  • I Didn’t Want to Die

    Marged A. Kirkpatrick

  • Your Next Step

    Shanna Butler

  • Someone to Listen

    Ngozi F. Okoro

  • A Voice for Values

    Jeanette N. Oakes

  • Poster: Clean Up Your Act

  • The Heavens Rained

    Elder Ronald T. Halverson

  • Questions and Answers: My Friend Says He Wants to Be Baptized, but I Think He Might Be More Interested in Me Than in the Gospel. What Should I Do?

  • Did You Know?

• The Friend: For Children

  • Come Listen to a Prophet’s Voice: Following the Crowd

    President Gordon B. Hinckley

  • Sharing Time: Build upon My Rock

    Sheila E. Wilson

  • From the Life of President Heber J. Grant: Testimony of an Apostle

  • David’s Prayer

    Patricia Reece Roper

  • Poster Article: A Shield of Faith

  • Friend to Friend: Family Traditions

    Elder Christoffel Golden Jr. and Barbara Jean Jones

  • Watching Over Wasel

    Julia Oldroyd

On the cover: Front: Photograph by Matthew Reier, posed by model. Back: Photograph by Steve Bunderson, may not be copied.

Inside back cover: The First Vision, by Jacinta R. Freire Rosales Zumaeta. “I saw a pillar of light. … When the light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description,” wrote the Prophet Joseph Smith (JS—H 1:16–17). This moment is captured in a Chilean crewel embroidery, based on a painting by Greg K. Olsen. (Original painting © Greg K. Olsen; stitchery © Jacinta R. Freire Rosales Zumaeta; may not be copied.)