“Contents,” Liahona, Oct. 1999 Liahona October 1999 Volume 23, Number 10 Contents Features Comment First Presidency Message: Building Your Eternal HomePresident Thomas S. Monson The Gospel Changed Our FamilyAlfiero Morallos The Incomparable GiftsElder John B. Dickson Visiting Teaching Message: The Spirit Bore Witness What Prophets Teach about Chastity and Fidelity Truths of Moral PurityTerrance D. Olson Latter-day Saint Voices: Joy in Following the LordForgiveness United Us Aurora Rojas de ÁlvarezImproving My Finances and My Health Evelin KorndörferBlessed for Fasting Brigada Acosta de PérezA Debt for Half a Bicycle Alfredo P. Blanc Especially for Youth SoaringRichard M. Romney The Trial of My FaithTaylor Hartley Having a Bad Day?Shane R. Barker The Friend Friend to FriendElder Charles Didier Fiction: “My Teacher Was Right”Carmen de Hernández Sharing Time: Let Your Light ShineSydney S. Reynolds Making Friends: Masha Zemskova of Pushkin, RussiaMarvin K. Gardner New Testament Scripture-Story Grab BagCorliss Clayton Trying to Be Like JesusLiving Close to the Lord Matteo DucaHonoring My Parents Germán Andrés Tovar ContrerasNine-year-old Member Missionary Ashley Callister Song: I Like My BirthdaysWallace F. Bennett and Tracy Y. Cannon