Ensign

March 1987

Volume 17 Number 3

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: Giving Ourselves to the Service of the Lord
  President Gordon B. Hinckley

• Sustaining—and Being Sustained by—the Priesthood
  Marie K. Hafen

• “Gifts of Bright”: Relief Society Strengthens My Family
  Dianne Dibb Forbis

• A Sanctuary of Friends: Sisterhood and Testimony
  Elaine Reiser Alder

• Flora Amussen Benson: Handmaiden of the Lord, Helpmeet of a Prophet, Mother in Zion
  Derin Head Rodriguez

• Relief Society Midweek Activities: An Opportunity for Friendship and Growth
  Joan H. Child

• A View of the Eighties: What It Means to Be a Latter-day Saint Woman Today
  Mary Alice Campbell

• An Ageless Evening
  Caroline Bruce

• Among Family and Friends: John Taylor—Mission to the British Isles
  Paul Thomas Smith

• Marriage without Manipulation
  Larry K. Langlois

• The Brothers of Jesus: Loving the Unbelieving Relative
  Carlfred B. Broderick

• Winners of the 1987 Writing and Music Contests

• Rules for the 1988 Contests

• Personal Essay Winner: The Uses of Suffering
  Sandra Ferrin Strange

• Feature Article Winner: The Mulekites
  Garth A. Wilson

• The Eliza R. Snow Poetry Contest
  For Those Who Never Know Lynette K. Allen
  Manna Karma K. Wasden
  regret Irene Allen

• Short Story Winner: Chicken Feathers
  Kathleen Woodcook Hanna

• Regular Features

• The Visiting Teacher: “A Time to Every Purpose under the Heaven”

• Mormon Journal
  The Apple Pie Visit Ruth Harris Swaner
  A Second Chance Lois L. Saunders
  We Can’t All Play the Organ Brent D. Frogley
  A Mormon in Moscow Clark H. Caras

• I Have a Question
  Changes in the Book of Mormon Robert J. Matthews

• Random Sampler
  Ancestor Holidays
  Finding Time for Mother
  Tools for Teaching Tots

• Mirthright: A Run for Our Money
  Terry Bohle Montague

• Comment

• News of the Church

On the cover: Photography by Michael Schoenfeldt.

Inside front cover: A Woman of Samaria, by Harry Anderson; © Pacific Press Publishing Association, used by permission.

Inside back cover: First Child, by Anne Marie Oborn, 20″ by 24″, oil, 1986. Courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Timothy Zikratch.