Ensign

April 1988

Volume 18 Number 4

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: Seek the Spirit of the Lord
  President Ezra Taft Benson

• Remembering the Savior’s Atonement
  Elder David B. Haight

• The Companionship of the Holy Ghost
  Elder Carlos E. Asay

• Never Comfortless
  Edwin Greenlaw Sapp

• “A Voice of Gladness”
  Leon R. Hartshorn

• Where Love Works Miracles
  Neil K. Newell

• Tornado!
  Eileen F. M. Bell

• Happiness: There’s Not a Single Barrier
  Mayola R. Miltenberger

• When I Couldn’t Answer Their Question
  Christy Williams

• Our Oasis of Faith
  Joseph B. Platt

• The Unconfined Heart
  Janene Wolsey Baadsgaard

• Me—A Biographer?
  Jeanette Germain

• My Husband Always Brings Me Roses
  Carol M. Sieverts

• Computerized Scriptures Now Available

• Regular Features

• Poetry
  Fast Sunday Lisa Bolin Hawkins
  I Saw You Yesterday Bruce Martin Stringham

• Mormon Journal
  “Back to Work, Me Boy-o’s” H. Dyke Walton
  The Patch Debbie Bliss Fordham
  Swiss “Samaritans” Karen L. Brown
  “Calm Down, Robin” Robin Cotton and Afton J. Day

• I Have a Question
  Why Latter-day Saints are a peculiar people John A. Widtsoe
  Priesthood leadership in the family Dennis L. Lythgoe
  Responding to beggars John F. O’Donnal

• Home Evenings: Lesson on the Garage Roof
  Steven K. and Robert S. Patterson

• Handbook for Families: Discovering Fun-Filled Family Projects

• Random Sampler
  The Big Blue Books
  From Moroni to Massasoit
  Family Facts and Fancies
  Button, Button

• Portraits
  Joseph Larsen: Limiting the Limitations Linda Hoffman Kimball
  Deor Jenson: Pedaling the Word of Wisdom Giles H. Florence, Jr.

• The Visiting Teacher: “Charity Doth Not Behave Itself Unseemly”

• News of the Church