“Contents,” Ensign, Dec. 1982, 1 Ensign December 1982 Volume 12 Number 12 Contents Special Features First Presidency Message: Live by the Savior’s TeachingsPresident N. Eldon Tanner Two Mounties and the Christmas SpiritW. LaMar Palmer Giving with JoyHenry B. Eyring Nature’s Lanterns: A Finnish TraditionHelvi Temiseva Our Time, My TimeKelly M. and Karen A. Packer What Are Your Children Learning in Church?Josiah Douglas Background for the TestamentsStephen E. Robinson The Land Jesus Knew, Part 1 The Way to Christlike LoveAllen E. Bergin The Olive PressTruman G. Madsen Regular Features Mormon JournalThe Christmas Cup Wayne G. GeilmanUnexpected Guest Elsie May RockBavarian Memory Margaret O. DaytonThe Most Beautiful Gift Peggy Britton PoetryThe Mother Judith Robinson WaltonTo Mary—Who Sat at Jesus’ Feet Shirley Adwena HarveyShepherd’s Field in Spring Emma Lou Thayne Music: Gentle JesusMabel Jones Gabbott and Michael F. Moody Random Sampler Sharing News of the Church On the cover: No Room in the Inn, by Harry Anderson. Copyright, Pacific Press Publishing Association, used by permission. Inside front cover: Christmas at Eagle Gate, 1929, by Al Rounds, 22″ by 28″, watercolor, 1978. This painting depicts a historic corner in Salt Lake City (President Brigham Young’s Beehive House on the left) during the winter of 1929. Inside back cover: Mansion House, Nauvoo, Illinois, by Al Rounds, 36″ by 42″, watercolor. A contemporary view of the Mansion House, built by Joseph Smith to house visitors to Nauvoo.