“Contents,” Ensign, June 1998, 1
Ensign
June 1998
Volume 28 Number 6
On the cover: Photography by Craig Dimond and courtesy of Latter-day Saint Charities. Through Latter-day Saint Charities and other relief organizations, more than 2,300 service projects have gone forward since 1985. Front cover: Woman runs ballet slipper business at home in Guatemala. Back cover, clockwise, above: Woman and child at a food processing plant in Ghana; young boy at Pathway Orphanage for mentally handicapped in India; Cambodian doctor examines surgical patient with equipment donated by the Church; center: young girl in Appalachian America receives clothing donated through Deseret Industries.
Inside front cover: Downham, England, by Frank Magleby, oil on gesso panel, 30″ x 40″, 1995. The village of Downham, some 16 miles upriver from Preston, England, is pictured here much as it would have appeared in 1838, when Elder Heber C. Kimball of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and Joseph Fielding successfully preached the gospel. They baptized people they had been told were hardened against religion. Upon leaving the area, the two were met by many people who crowded their doorways in calling out farewell.
Inside back cover: Latter-day Journal Keeping, by Anne Marie Oborn, oil on canvas, 30″ x 40″, 1996. Courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Clark. President Spencer W. Kimball emphasized the importance of journal keeping. “I urge all of the people of this church to give serious attention to their family histories, to encourage their parents and grandparents to write their journals, and let no family go into eternity without having left their memoirs for their children, their grandchildren, and their posterity” (“The True Way of Life and Salvation,” Ensign, May 1978, 4).