Ensign

October 1996

Volume 26 Number 10

Contents

• First Presidency Message: The Doorway of Love
  President Thomas S. Monson

• Chatting over Cherries
  Lisa Ray Turner

• The Power of the Book of Mormon
  Elder F. Melvin Hammond

• A Child’s Faith
  Loa Andersen

• Giving a Texas Welcome
  Judy C. Olsen

• Growing with a Living Church
  Arnold K. Garr

• I Have a Question: Celebrating Halloween while avoiding practices that may grieve the Spirit
  Joyce Kinmont

• In the Service of Our Fellow Beings

• Contentment
  Rachelle Pace Castor

• Mending Our Marriage

• Mormon Journal
  I Couldn’t Read or Write Gunther Steffans, as told to Paul Conners
  Only Three Dollars in the Bank Kathy Horeth
  By the Light of Their Faith Rodney Nelson
  The Job I Needed So Badly Stuart Otto
  “Bill, Stop! Don’t Run!” Jana Squires Flake
  “You Did Not Name Your Son” LaVerd John

• The Sisters of Cheltenham
  Jennifer Middleton Mason

• Speaking Today: Sins and Mistakes
  Elder Dallin H. Oaks

• Portraits

• The Visiting Teacher: “Run with Patience”

• Random Sampler

• Speaking Today: Excerpts from Recent Addresses of President Gordon B. Hinckley

• News of the Church

On the cover: Front: Photo by Steve Bunderson. Back: Photo by Welden Andersen.

Inside front cover: Gentle Healer, by Greg K. Olsen © 1989 Conceptions Unlimited Investments, Inc., oil on canvas, 14″ x 22″, 1989.

Inside back cover: Waipio Chapel, by Al Rounds, watercolor on paper, 53.5″ x 37.5″, 1995. Original art in a private collection. The Waipio Chapel, on the northern end of the island of Hawaii, is depicted here as it would have appeared during the late 1800s. Chapels such as this were built in various valleys to accommodate the Church’s significant growth in the Hawaiian Islands in the 19th century.