Ensign

October 1999

Volume 29 Number 10

Contents

• First Presidency Message: Building Your Eternal Home

  President Thomas S. Monson

• “Always”

  Elder Henry B. Eyring

• Discovering the Song in Their Hearts

  Michael Clapier

• “Thanks for the Sabbath School”

• My Friend Crawf

  Donald Kranendonk

• A Conversation on Spouse Abuse

• They Came to Hear the Choir

  DeAnne Walker

• A Lesson on Nest Building

  Robin Ruff Van Wagenen

• Preparing for a Worldwide Ministry

  Bruce A. Van Orden

• Images of an Era: Making Ready for a Worldwide Church

• A Look at the Church: 1951–1995

• Blossoming as the Rose in Latin America

  Judy C. Olsen

• Auxiliary Perspectives

• “As Flaming Fire and a Ministering Angel”

  Jonn D. Claybaugh

• I Have a Question

  • How to help children develop a love of learning

    Larry M. Arnoldsen

• Mormon Journal

  • Accepting the Lord’s Answer

    Olive W. Nalder

  • A Collision with Compassionate Service

    Jane Flahive

  • The Priesthood in My Hands

    Fuco Rey

  • Pen-Pal Mission

    Barbara Price Waldrop

• Portraits

• The Visiting Teacher: Seeking Knowledge and a Witness of Truth

• Random Sampler

• News of the Church

On the covers: Front and back: Five of Them Were Wise, by Walter Rane, oil on wood panel, 30″ x 52″, 1999.

Inside front: Eagle Gate Trolley, by Al Rounds, watercolor on paper, 30.5″ x 19.5″, 1993. Courtesy of Mr. and Mrs. Eric Hayes. The Beehive House and Eagle Gate are depicted as they may have appeared around 1900. Electric streetcars like the one passing under Eagle Gate replaced horse-drawn trolleys in 1889.

Inside back: Nephi and Lehi in Prison, by Gary L. Kapp, oil on canvas, 48″ x 60″, 1997. Courtesy of David Larsen.