“Contents,” Ensign, Sept. 1993, 1 Ensign September 1993 Volume 23 Number 9 Contents Special Features First Presidency Message: The Thing of Most WorthPresident Gordon B. Hinckley Personal Communication with GodJonathan Stephenson Grandpapa Joseph F. SmithAmelia Smith McConkie Marriage and the Less-active SpouseElizabeth VanDenBerghe Eternity to GainMeralee Stallings “I Just Need to Cry” Climate for ChangeDon L. Brugger Money WiseShirley G. Finlinson A Tour of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building 1993 Writing and Music Contest Winners 1993 Contest PoetryJacob: Firstborn in the Wilderness Martha P. MorriseFor Emma Anita TannerStones Donna Hilton GardnerPatchwork Allene W. HeinerReplenishing Lesly Chamberlain 1993 Life-Style Article Contest Winner: Where Lilacs BloomJanice Porter Hayes Regular Features Mormon JournalMore Than Eye Can See Angela B. HaightStranded in a Strange Town Steven A. DamePatience and Light Barbara L. Mannewitz I Have a Question: Reasons behind the conflicts in the Holy LandD. Kelly Ogden and David B. Galbraith The Visiting Teacher: Using Earth’s Resources Well Random SamplerA Hymn a DayStranger DangerThree-part Harmony Speaking Today“I Will Arise and Go to My Father” Elder Neal A. MaxwellHonoring the Priesthood Eddie Gene Gonzales, Jr.Preparation Precedes Performance President Thomas S. Monson News of the Church On the cover: Front photo by John Luke; back photo by Mark Philbrick. Inside front cover: Sunday Best, by Clark Kelley Price, oil on canvas, 18″ x 24″, 1987. Courtesy of Carolyn Price. Now used as a museum, the chapel in the small town of Auburn, Wyoming, was built in 1889. It is shown here as it may have appeared on a Sunday morning at the turn of the century with faithful Saints arriving to attend meetings. Inside back cover: The Hawaii Temple, photographer unknown. Photo taken circa 1919. Courtesy of LDS Church Archives. The Hawaii Temple, dedicated on Thanksgiving Day, 27 November 1919, was completed only twenty-six years after the dedication of the Salt Lake Temple and was the first temple of the latter-day dispensation located outside the North American continent. Located on the northeast side of the island of Oahu, the temple was built on an 11.4-acre portion of a large plantation purchased by the Church in 1865. In mid-1976 the temple was closed for extensive remodeling; it was rededicated 13–15 June 1978.