Ensign

March 1988

Volume 18 Number 3

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: In Quest of the Abundant Life
  President Thomas S. Monson

• Comparing LDS Beliefs with First-Century Christianity
  Daniel C. Peterson and Stephen D. Ricks

• Messengers from the Prophet
  George D. Durrant

• When a Teenager Uses Drugs or Alcohol: How to Cope …
  Sue Bergin

• Elijah and Elisha: Foreshadowing the Latter-day Work
  Lenet Hadley Read

• I’m Afraid to Talk to My Neighbor about the Church Because …
  Carol Wagner Tuttle

• Ricardo Perez: Making the Most of Gospel Blessings
  Don L. Searle

• With an Eye on Her Family

• Romance and Commitment: The Best Medicine for Marriage
  Shelley Smith Beatty

• Aunt Carrie and the Girls
  Lorraine Henriod

• A Blessing Fulfilled
  Stanton McDonald

• We Couldn’t Preach, but We Could Love
  Annette Stevenson

• Happiness—The Lord’s Way
  Carolyn J. Rasmus

• Blessings by Morning Light
  Sue Peterson

• The Widows’ “Might”
  Evelyn T. Marshall

• “Well Done, Thou Good and Faithful Servant”
  Esnil Acosta

• Regular Features

• I Have a Question
  Church membership and freedom of choice Earl J. Roueche
  Guardian angels Larry E. Dahl

• Poetry
  She Listened Evelyn Dodge Cockrell
  To My Visiting Teachers Emma Lou Thayne

• The Visiting Teacher: “Charity Vaunteth Not Itself, Is Not Puffed Up”

• Mormon Journal
  The Twice-Rescued Lamb Helen Celeste Howlett
  “Only God Gives A’s” Brett G. London
  Burdens Too Long Carried Dennis F. Holdaway
  More than a Job Christine Anderson
  Me? Nursery Leader? Janice P. Doolittle

• Handbook for Families: Concerts, Canvas, and Costumes: Widening a Child’s World through Cultural Arts

• Portraits
  Nanci McGraw: A Voice of Belief John A. Barlow
  Louise Clark: Out of Suffering, Compassion Richard L. Emery
  Donna Lee Turley: Finding Sweet in the Bittersweet Bruce C. Hafen

• Random Sampler
  A Head Full of Scriptures
  Cutting the Costs—along with the Cake

• Speaking Today: An Untroubled Faith
  Elder James E. Faust

• Sharing
  Finding Joy in the Savior’s Plan
  Blessed by My Callings

• News of the Church

• Comment

On the cover: That Summer, by VaLoy Eaton, 36″ by 60″, oil, 1987.

Inside front cover: The Lesson, by Howard Post, 30″ by 40″, oil, 1986.

Inside back cover: Ruth’s Gift to Naomi, by Ardith Oddous, 34″ by 40″, oil, 1985.

All cover paintings were selected for the Churchwide 1987 Fine Arts Competition show.