Ensign

March 1995

Volume 25 Number 3

Contents

• First Presidency Message: And Peter Went Out and Wept Bitterly
  President Gordon B. Hinckley

• Poetry
  The Savior’s Art Susan D. Anderson
  A Prayer Sandra Ailey Petree
  Choice Jean Liebenthal

• He Shall Know of the Doctrine
  Elder Kenneth Johnson

• Popularity and Principle
  Elder Neal A. Maxwell

• Ammon Helped Me Reach My Neighbors
  S. Michael Wilcox

• It’s Great to Be a Latter-day Saint!
  Keith W. Wilcox

• Trust That Deepens through the Years
  Judy Abbott

• I Was Overwhelmed by Their Love
  DiAnn Cook

• Learning to Cherish Visiting Teaching
  Jane McBride Choate

• Loaves, Fishes, and Compassion
  Karen Rose Merkley

• “A Joyful Mother of Children”

• His Image in Her Countenance

• A Blooming in France
  LaRene Porter Gaunt

• Mormon Journal
  The Hand of a Prophet Patricia L. Brower
  The Burning Bus Carol Grieshop
  The Answer Came Immediately Martin Fairbanks
  The Fruits of My Labors Lora N. McAllister

• Speaking Today: Fireside Honoring President Howard W. Hunter and the Genealogical Society of Utah
  Birthdays Bright Elder Russell M. Nelson
  Happy Birthday President Thomas S. Monson
  A Century of Family History Service President Gordon B. Hinckley
  We Have a Work to Do President Howard W. Hunter

• I Have a Question: Covenants renewed by partaking of the sacrament
  John E. MacKay

• Portraits

• The Visiting Teacher: “More Faith in My Savior”

• Random Sampler

• News of the Church

On the cover: Front cover: Amelia with Mary, by Nancy Seamons Crookston, oil on board, 20″ x 24″, 1994. Back cover: The Mother Refuge, by Dilleen Marsh, pastel pencil, 9″ x 12″, 1989.

Inside front cover: “Bringing Them Back to the Fold,” by Nathan Andrew Pinnock, oil on paper, 15″ x 25″, 1994. Used with permission of owner.

Inside back cover: Invocation, by A. D. Shaw, oil on canvas, 16″ x 12″, 1994. Courtesy of Richard and Pamela Oman.