Ensign

February 1990

Volume 20 Number 2

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: Pray Always President Ezra Taft Benson

• So Many Kinds of Missions
  Giles H. Florence, Jr.

• Are You Honest To The Core?
  John C. Baldwin

• When Mom Can’t Be Home—Making the Best of Second Choice
  President Barbara W. Winder, Joy F. Evans, and Joanne B. Doxey

• “We Prophesy of Christ”: The Law of Witnesses in 2 Nephi
  Bruce A. Van Orden

• Lift Up Your Voice—and Sing!
  Camille G. West

• Carol Bird: Teacher and Friend
  Elder Marion D. Hanks

• Coping Financially after My Husband’s Death
  Sheila Sorensen Olsen

• Coming Back
  Don L. Searle

• Soldiers Were My Missionaries
  Kenneth D. Newman

• The Abrahamic Covenant: A Blessing for All People
  Kent P. Jackson

• The Exodus: Seeing It As a Test, a Testimony, and a Type
  S. Kent Brown

• Bernard Lefrandt: Dutch-Indonesian Pioneer
  Alice Brewer Saily

• A Hard Look at Myself
  Lyn Austin

• Regular Features

• Handbook for Families: Dealing with Stress and Discouragement

• The Visiting Teacher: Remember Him through Keeping Covenants

• I Have a Question
  Joseph Smith and skepticism Richard Bushman
  Church reading programs Josiah W. Douglas

• Mormon Journal
  Tot Zeins—Till We Meet Eileen D. Telford
  In a Class by Herself Karen A. Anderson
  “Listen, Listen” Deborah Smoot
  Rummage-Sale Book of Mormon Janet Kruckenberg

• Portraits
  Marvin Ezra Clark: His Many Hundreds Bruce B. Clark
  Hortense Beers: Waving Us On Kathleen F. Klomp
  Wilford E. Thatcher: Leaving His Mark

• Random Sampler
  Chapter-a-Week Home Evening
  Now Hear This!
  Spice Up Your Rice
  Are You Financially Fit?

• News of the Church

On the cover: Front—Couple missionaries Melvin and Jeneal Petersen with Ramiro Medina, president of the Amatitlan Branch in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Back—Melvin and Dorothy Burton recently returned from serving a one-year mission in Boston, Massachusetts.

Inside front cover: Abraham and Isaac, by William Whitaker, acrylic, 1986.

Inside back cover: Esau and Jacob Embracing, by Robert T. Barrett, 18″ x 24″, oil, 1986.