“Contents,” Ensign, Sept. 1996, 1 Ensign September 1996 Volume 26 Number 9 Contents First Presidency Message: Four Simple Things to Help Our Families and Our NationsPresident Gordon B. Hinckley Overcoming the WorldElder F. Burton Howard Being Someone’s MissionaryCherie Woodbury Hyde Being Clean AgainName Withheld A Halfpenny and a PearlJerry Borrowman Valuing Our Neighbor’s LaborMaj-Lén Anderson The Gift and the PromisePamela K. Walker Strengthening Young Single Adults Soaring in Alta LomaMichael R. Morris Connecting through a CouncilChristopher K. Bigelow Enhancing InstituteLisa Ann Jackson Gospel Anchors in a Sea of ChangeJudy C. Olsen The Fruit of Her HandsCamille Curtis Anderson What to Do about Eddie?Kathy L. Gingell The Red Tin CanName Withheld I Have a QuestionWhy Jesus Christ refers to the Holy Ghost as “my Spirit” in D&C 36:2Joseph C. LundwallSacrament meeting guidelines regarding departing or returning missionaries Hoyt W. Brewster Jr. Mormon JournalI Was Afraid to Ask JoAnn M. DavisTen Thousand Hatching Chicks Effie S. DavenportThe Little Bottle of Water Chérie KircalliWhat about Abstinence? Robert LaytonGrandpa Ben Olimpia Flores Anaya Rivera Portraits The Visiting Teacher: “Heirs according to the Covenant” Random Sampler News of the Church On the cover: Front: Photo by Jerry Garns. Back: Photo by Jed Clark. Inside front cover: Manti Temple, by Nathan B. Winters, watercolor, 25″ x 35″, 1989. Built on the hill where its limestone was quarried, the Manti Temple, located in Manti, Utah, was dedicated by President Wilford Woodruff on 17 May 1888 and rededicated on 14–16 June 1985 by President Gordon B. Hinckley. Each summer a portion of the temple’s 27-acre site is used for the Manti Temple Pageant, which depicts the story of the Restoration and publication of the Book of Mormon. Inside back cover: Irrigation Turn, Time with Grandpa, by VaLoy Eaton, oil on canvas, 25″ x 26″, 1993. “Grandparents can have a profound influence on their grandchildren. … Children then obtain a perspective of life which is not only rewarding but can bring them security, peace, and strength” (President Ezra Taft Benson, 159th Semiannual General Conference, 30 Sept. 1989).