Ensign

May 1982

Volume 12 Number 5

Contents

• Report of the 152nd Annual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

• Saturday Morning Session

• Remember the Mission of the Church
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• The Resurrection of Jesus
  President Marion G. Romney

• “This Is No Harm”
  Elder Marvin J. Ashton

• Beginning Again
  Elder Hugh W. Pinnock

• “We Believe in Being Honest”
  Elder Mark E. Petersen

• Saturday Afternoon Session

• Church Audit Committee Report
  Presented by Willford G. Edling

• Statistical Report 1982
  Presented by Francis M. Gibbons

• True Greatness
  Elder Howard W. Hunter

• A Lasting Marriage
  Elder Robert L. Simpson

• Pondering Strengthens the Spiritual Life
  Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin

• Spiritual Guides for Teachers of Righteousness
  Elder Gene R. Cook

• God’s Love for Us Transcends Our Transgressions
  Elder Ronald E. Poelman

• What the Gospel Teaches
  Elder LeGrand Richards

• Priesthood Session

• The Doctrine of the Priesthood
  Elder Bruce R. McConkie

• Priesthood Activation
  Bishop Victor L. Brown

• “A Brother Offended”
  Elder Neal A. Maxwell

• Tithing: An Opportunity to Prove Our Faithfulness
  President Gordon B. Hinckley

• Priesthood
  President Marion G. Romney

• Sunday Morning Session

• Five Million Members—A Milestone and Not a Summit
  President Gordon B. Hinckley

• Integrity, the Mother of Many Virtues
  Elder James E. Faust

• The Power of Family Prayer
  Elder John H. Groberg

• Let Us Go Up to the House of God
  Elder L. Tom Perry

• Sailing Safely the Seas of Life
  Elder Thomas S. Monson

• Sunday Afternoon Session

• Sustaining of Church Officers
  President Gordon B. Hinckley

• Valiant in the Testimony of Jesus

  President Ezra Taft Benson

• The First and the Last Words
  Elder A. Theodore Tuttle

• The Future History of the Church
  Elder G. Homer Durham

• Love Is the Power That Will Cure the Family
  Elder F. Enzio Busche

• What Temples Are For
  Elder W. Grant Bangerter

• Jesus Is Our Savior
  Elder David B. Haight

• Let Us Improve Ourselves
  President N. Eldon Tanner

• The Lord Is at the Helm
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• Welfare Session

• The Value of Work
  Bishop J. Richard Clarke

• “Her Children Arise Up, and Call Her Blessed”
  Barbara B. Smith

• Employment Challenges in the 1980s
  Elder J. Thomas Fyans

• The Gospel—The Foundation for Our Career
  Elder Boyd K. Packer

• Work and Welfare: A Historical Perspective
  President Marion G. Romney

• General Women’s Meeting

• An Invitation to Grow
  Dwan J. Young

• Reach for Joy
  Elaine Cannon

• Hearts So Similar
  Barbara B. Smith

• “Even As I Am”
  Elder Mark E. Petersen

• General Conference Music

• News of the Church

On the cover: Day of Pentecost, by Sidney King, 59″ x 93″, oil on canvas, 1967. Located in the Salt Lake Temple.

Inside front cover: Jerusalem, from the Mount of Olives, by David Roberts, R.A., lithograph “from drawings made on the spot” and printed in 1855.

Inside back cover: Jesus Institutes the Sacrament, by Gary Smith, 36″ by 40″, oil on canvas, 1981.

Photography in this issue: Photography is by Public Communications Photo Services: Eldon K. Linschoten, chief photographer; Jed A. Clark; Jon T. Lockwood; and Michael M. McConkie. Photographs in this issue feature a wide range of welfare activities in the areas of personal and family preparedness, as well as scenes of conference.