Ensign

March 1999

Volume 29 Number 3

Contents

• First Presidency Message: Those Who Love Jesus

  President Thomas S. Monson

• The True Bread of Life

  Thomas R. Valletta

• Family History: A Work of Love

  Mary Ellen Smoot

• “Stripped of Envy”

  Pam Wilson Vandenaker

• Activation in Action

  Paul VanDenBerghe

• Helping Teens Stay Strong

  Brent L. Top and Bruce A. Chadwick

• Meadowlarks

  R. Val Johnson

• Teaching by the Spirit

  LaRene Porter Gaunt

• A Class Labeled Impossible

  April Ross

• Helping Children Learn to Give Talks

  Shirley M. Call

• The Growing Season

• Mormon Journal

  • Five Prayers

    Clyde Eggett

  • Immersed in Isaiah

    Julie Cannon Markham

  • Loving, Hoping, and Believing

    Berniece Louise Rabe

  • Discovering Me in Motherhood

    Janet Drake Lanoy

  • “There Will Be No Problem”

    Carlos Cabral

  • A Gift of Pink Tulips

    Lori Anne Ries

• Lesson from a Scouter

  Karen Scalley Maxfield

• Speaking Today: Ten Ideas to Increase Your Spirituality

  Elder Joe J. Christensen

• Random Sampler

• The Visiting Teacher: Live Fully and Prepare for Eternity

• I Have a Question

  • Handling learning disabilities

    Jon B. Fish

  • Meaning of “Say nothing but repentance”

    George F. Hilton

• Portrait

• Harmony on the Highway

  Michael Yates

• Latter-day Counsel: Excerpts from Recent Addresses of President Gordon B. Hinckley

• News of the Church

On the cover: Photography by Steve Bunderson.

Inside front cover: “Whom He Forgave Most,” by Roger Loveless, acrylic on canvas, 20″ x 30″, 1998. Courtesy of Roger Brockbank.

Inside back cover: Saints Settling Missouri, by Glen S. Hopkinson, oil on canvas, 40″ x 30″, 1998. The above artwork, one of several pieces displayed at Missouri’s capitol rotunda during 1998, depicts members’ experiences in Missouri in the 1830s. This painting represents members’ faith in God and trust in family relationships while facing the trials of providing shelter and food in a new place they had just begun to call home.