Liahona

September 2005

Volume 29, Number 9

Contents

• For Adults

  • Using the Liahona

  • First Presidency Message: The Profound Power of Gratitude

    President Thomas S. Monson

  • Personal Consecration

    Elder Stephen B. Oveson and Dixie Randall Oveson

  • Doctrine and Covenants Times at a Glance, Chart 3: Section 138 and Official Declarations 1 and 2

  • Visiting Teaching Message: Rejoice in the Book of Mormon

  • The Twelve Apostles

    President Boyd K. Packer

  • Strengthening the Family: Happiness in Family Life

  • Latter-day Saint Voices

    • We Rejoiced in Her Healing

      Magdalena Peñate de Guerra

    • I Will Get Rid of Them

      John Jairo Montoya

    • How Could They Forgive Me?

      Angelique Petrick

  • Finding Jobs, Lifting Lives

    Neil K. Newell

  • Comment

  • News of the Church

• For Youth

  • Elders in My English Class

    Anette Malzl Knapp

  • Preaching His Gospel

    Shanna Butler, Adam C. Olson, and Roger Terry

  • Idea List: Seminary Scripture Power

  • Poster: Finish

  • Helping Home Evening Succeed

    Adam C. Olson

  • Did You Know?

• The Friend: For Children

  • Come Listen to a Prophet’s Voice: Avoiding the Devil’s Throat

    President James E. Faust

  • Sharing Time: Choose the Right Way and Be Happy

    Margaret Lifferth

  • From the Life of President David O. McKay: The Girl in the Blue Dress

  • For Little Friends: Where Does Tithing Go?

  • The Windows of Heaven

    Marianne Dahl Johnson

  • Friend to Friend: The Dawning of a Testimony

    Elder Monte J. Brough

  • Ways to Study the Scriptures

On the cover: Photography by Matthew Reier, posed by models.

Inside back cover: A Word of Wisdom Revealed, by Ken Corbett. May not be copied. The Prophet Joseph Smith received D&C 89 during a meeting of the School of the Prophets on February 27, 1833, in Kirtland, Ohio. Known as the Word of Wisdom, this revelation came in response to the Prophet’s inquiry relating to the smoking and chewing of tobacco by the elders and in consideration of Emma Smith, who cleaned up the filthy floor.