“Contents,” Ensign, Jan. 1984, 1 Ensign January 1984 Volume 14 Number 1 Contents Special Features First Presidency Message: Ocean Currents and Family InfluencesPresident Spencer W. Kimball Using the New Family Home Evening Resource BookSherrie Johnson A Decade of Growth We are Christians Because … Elder Robert E. Wells Rexburg and Ricks College: Minding Each Other’s BusinessJoAnn Jolley A Clear Poetic VoicePaul Cracroft From the Prophet’s Life: A Photo EssayBuddy Youngreen They Said It Couldn’t Be DonePat Braegger and Marie Fuhriman Olsen Anne Perry: LDS British Novelist with “a Commitment to Morality”Richard R. Robertson What Our Family Learned about Facing DeathBetty Jan Murphy We Can Learn to Live within Our MeansMargaret Farnsworth Richards Comparatively SpeakingAnya Bateman Regular Features I Have a QuestionRichard Lloyd AndersonRobert J. Matthews Mormon JournalWe Fasted So He Could Eat Janet PetersonThe Chocolate Cake Esther Moore BrownAs He Is Now Yvette TracyBlessings in Time of Need Ione J. Simonson Random Sampler Speaking TodayAn Apostle’s Witness of Christ Elder Howard W. HunterThree Questions Elder Carlos E. Asay News of the Church On the cover: Photography by Michael Schoenfeldt. See pages 20–27 for article on Ricks College. Inside front cover: Browning House, by Al Rounds, 15″ by 22″, watercolor, 1982 Owned by Lowell Benson. The Nauvoo home of early Church member Jonathan Browning, with its attached blacksmith and gunsmith shops. The Nauvoo Temple is seen in the distance. Inside back cover: Grey Day at Paris, by Harrison Groutage, 30″ by 40″, acrylic, 1983. Paris, Idaho, depicted here in early winter, is a small farming community founded in 1864 by Elder Charles C. Rich of the Quorum of The Twelve. It is noted for its European-influenced architecture.