“Contents,” Ensign, Mar. 1982
Special Features
First Presidency Message: God Will ForgivePresident Spencer W. Kimball
A Birthday Tribute A Haircut with the President Darrel L. Roberts Always Teaching … John E. Carr Who Was That Good Samaritan? Shawn Bailey Kind Words Softly Spoken Jerry H. Houck Singing with Elder Kimball Barbara K. Christensen
She Came to My RescueJanet Peterson
How the Bible Came to Be: Part 3, A New Word Is Added to the OldLenet H. Read
Understanding Each OtherClyde A. Parker
A Conversation with the Relief Society General Presidency
Learning to Love MyselfLouise Brown
Two Months of Compassionate ServiceKathryn Kohler Farnsworth
The Girl on the BusTerence L. Day
Mary Alice Powell Lindsay: A Life of AccomplishmentKimberly Jensen James
Children in Church Sleepers and Weepers: Helping Infants and Preschoolers Be Happy in Church Joyce Williams In the Foyer Again! Linda Alderman Helping Children Listen Linda Lee Handy We Tried the Front Row Linda Paxton Greer
Winners of the 1982 Contests
Article Contest Winner: Dissolving Language Barriers in HauulaMarvelee Soon Tahauri
Short Story Contest Winner: The Times for WhitneyLisa Johnson Boswell
Music Contest Winners To Christ Give We Praise Roy A. Bodtcher We Follow the Prophet Janice Kapp Perry
Poetry Contest Winners Equally Yoked Nadine F. Neat Khirbet Qumran: (Place of the Dead Sea Scrolls) Clara Laster New Pioneer Melinda A. Roth Jochebed and the Nile Kathryn R. Ashworth
The Ensign EffectMary Ann Nielson
Job: The Man and His MessageL. La Mar Adams
Regular Features
I Have a QuestionRex L. Christensen Lindsay R. Curtis
Mirthright
Random Sampler
News of the Church
On the cover: Emma Smith, the Elect Lady, by Theodore Gorka, 7′ by 10′, oil on canvas, 1981. Located on the main floor of the Church Office Building.
Inside front cover: Spring City, by Randall Lake, 12″ by 18″, pastel, 1980. Located in the Church Historical Department.
Inside back cover: Hezekiah Reopens the Temple, by T. C. Ducdale, 28″ by 20″, oil on canvas, early twentieth century. Located in the Church Historical Department.