“Contents,” Ensign, Oct. 1996, 1
First Presidency Message: The Doorway of LovePresident Thomas S. Monson
Chatting over CherriesLisa Ray Turner
The Power of the Book of MormonElder F. Melvin Hammond
A Child’s FaithLoa Andersen
Giving a Texas WelcomeJudy C. Olsen
Growing with a Living ChurchArnold K. Garr
I Have a Question: Celebrating Halloween while avoiding practices that may grieve the SpiritJoyce Kinmont
In the Service of Our Fellow Beings
ContentmentRachelle 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 CheltenhamJennifer Middleton Mason
Speaking Today: Sins and MistakesElder 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.