Ensign

July 1999

Volume 29 Number 7

Contents

• First Presidency Message: Sailing Safely the Seas of Life
  President Thomas S. Monson

• The Exodus Repeated
  Elder Russell M. Nelson

• “And He Gave Some, Apostles” (Eph. 4:11)
  Edward J. Brandt

• Learning to Be a Latter-day Saint
  Andrew Mordy

• Looking for a Family Home Evening Lesson?

• “Are You a Mommy?”
  Kandy Martin

• “My Lord May Have Need of Me”
  Eva Lue Burrows Hassell

• The Ministry of the Prophet Joseph Smith
  Richard Neitzel Holzapfel

• Images of an Era: Restoration of the Church of Jesus Christ

• A Look at the Church: 1805–1844

• “It Is the Truth, I Can Feel It”
  Don L. Searle

• While My Father Was Dying
  Paul R. Bergaust

• The Visiting Teacher: Clothed in Charity

• Mormon Journal
  A Prayer in the Parking Lot K. Lloyd Hess
  Blueberry Stains on the Doctor’s Hands Linda Orvis
  “You Were My Anchor” Myron F. Andrews
  Tears of Joy Chris A. Newbold
  Seeing Beyond Myself Elizabeth Benac Ashurst

• But What Was Best for the Baby?
  Name Withheld

• I Have a Question
  The title Elias and the Mount of Transfiguration Keith W. Perkins
  Clearing names using TempleReady™ Paul E. Koelliker

• Portraits

• Random Sampler

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

• News of the Church

[illustrations] On the covers: Front: Brother Joseph, by David Lindsley, oil on canvas, 60″ x 84″, 1997. Back: The Sacred Grove, by Greg K. Olsen, oil on canvas, 24″ x 48″, 1991. Courtesy of Mill Pond Press Inc.

[illustration] Inside front: The Dream, the Struggle, the Victory, by Glen S. Hopkinson, oil on canvas, 4′ x 6′, 1998. Courtesy of Lennon and Suzanne Ledbetter. Dark, ominous clouds shower a steady rain as pioneers struggle to ford swift waters in this scene depicting the journey west in 1847. Yet the pioneers went on with hope, not giving up on the dream to settle in Zion.

[illustration] Inside back: Joseph in Liberty Jail, by Liz Lemon Swindle, oil on canvas, 27″ x 36″, 1998. Languishing in the cold confines of the Liberty Jail in Missouri, the Prophet Joseph Smith called out in anguished prayer, “O God, where art thou?” (D&C 121:1). In response came these comforting words: “All these things shall give thee experience, and shall be for thy good. … Fear not what man can do, for God shall be with you forever and ever” (D&C 122:7, 9).