Ensign

June 1989

Volume 19 Number 6

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: “Finishers Wanted”
  President Thomas S. Monson

• Family History: “In Wisdom and Order”
  Elder Dallin H. Oaks

• Loving Them Back in Lovell
  Don L. Searle

• The New Children’s Songbook
  Ann Edwards Cannon

• No Watch, No Medal, No Plaque
  Elder Marion D. Hanks

• Every Single Member a Missionary
  DeLynn Decker

• A Sparrow in the Tabernacle
  Ronald D. John

• Greed: When Enough Is Not Enough
  Richard Tice

• Common Sense vs. Nonsense, or, “Bishop, how do I fix my lawn mower?”
  Clair F. Rees

• Home Storage: Build on the Basics

• Out of the Tiger’s Den
  Cong Ton Nu Tuong-Vy

• “Be Ye Also Ready”: The Amazing Christian Escape from the A.D. 70 Destruction of Jerusalem
  George A. Horton, Jr.

• The Book on My Closet Shelf
  Clifford E. Coleman

• Pulling Together
  Larry W. Tippetts

• Keys to Developing Effective Families
  William G. Dyer and Phillip R. Kunz

• Regular Features

• I Have a Question
  The Holy Ghost, the Spirit of Christ, and the Light of Christ Brent Bulloch
  Missionary couples Bruce T. Harper

• Poetry
  The Gardener Paul Hunt
  There Is in Children Emma Lou Thayne
  Blessing Barbara Elliott Snedecor

• The Visiting Teacher: Seeking Perfection

• Research and Perspectives: Recent Studies on the Book of Mormon

• Random Sampler
  Sunday Stations
  Good-bye Mr. Nobody
  Get a Peach Instead of a Lemon
  Do Not Open until July 25

• Mormon Journal
  “I Met a Prophet Once” Carla Sansom
  The Camera and the Conscience Warren Johnson
  Seeing Grandma through Her Book Douglas T. Erekson

• Speaking Today
  To Single Adults President Gordon B. Hinckley
  The Church Is for All People President Howard W. Hunter

• News of the Church

• Comment

On the cover: Photography by Steve Bunderson.

Inside front cover: The Lord Greets Mary after the Resurrection, by W. H. Margetson, 27″ by 19″, watercolor and grease pencil, 1984.

Inside back cover: Winter at Liberty Jail, by Al Rounds, 22″ by 32″, watercolor, 1987. Courtesy of Dr. and Mrs. Larry Staker. Even while he and several companions were falsely imprisoned in Liberty Jail, the Prophet Joseph Smith counseled Church members to love and tolerate their persecutors. It was during March of 1839, after nearly four months of captivity, that the Prophet received the revelations that are now D&C 121, D&C 122, and D&C 123.