Ensign

January 2000

Volume 30 Number 1

Contents

• First Presidency Message: “Fear Not to Do Good”
  President Gordon B. Hinckley

• “I’ll Call You Again Next Sunday”
  Sara Brown Neilson

• The Book of Mormon on Christ’s Role as Redeemer
  Richard D. Draper

• They Wrote to Us As If We Were Present
  Byron R. Merrill

• Mounting Evidence for the Book of Mormon
  Daniel C. Peterson

• The Golden Plates and the Feast of Trumpets
  Lenet Hadley Read

• “I Saw Another Angel Fly”
  J. Michael Hunter

• Joseph F. Smith: Following the Prince of Peace
  Jill Mulvay Derr and Heidi S. Swinton

• “Out of Obscurity and Out of Darkness”
  Bruce L. Olsen

• New Tools to Help Us Teach Better

• The Marriage Balancing Act
  Gary and Joy Lundberg

• “I Know It’s Hard, Mom”
  Chris Geilman

• Latter-day Saint Voices
  Comfort from My Mother’s Journal Laura Mackay
  Forgiveness United Us Aurora Rojas de Álvarez
  “Please Clear the Way for Me” Angela B. Haight
  “And What Have You Learned?” Lael J. Woodbury
  I Had Shut Out the World Robert H. Dunne

• Portraits

• The Visiting Teacher: “Walk with Me”

• Random Sampler

• News of the Church

[illustrations] On the covers: Front: Words That Cannot Be Written, by Gary L. Kapp, oil on canvas, 30″ x 40″, 1999. Courtesy of David Larsen. Back: Christ Appearing in the Western Hemisphere, by Arnold Friberg, oil on canvas, 43″ x 61″, ca. 1951.

[illustration] Inside front: Abinadi: Because He Would Not Deny the Commandments of God, by Kenneth A. Corbett, oil on canvas, 18″ x 24″, 1990. Now Abinadi said unto King Noah, “I will not recall the words which I have spoken unto you concerning this people, for they are true.” And after testifying of the Lord Jesus Christ and crying repentance, Abinadi was bound, scourged, and suffered “death by fire; yea, having been put to death because he would not deny the commandments of God, having sealed the truth of his words by his death” (Mosiah 17:9, 20).

[illustration] Inside back: Mount Timpanogos Utah Temple, by Larry C. Winborg, oil on linen, 30″ x 40″, 1998. Located at the foot of the Wasatch Mountain Range, the Mount Timpanogos Utah Temple in American Fork, Utah, became the 49th operating temple when it was dedicated on 13 October 1996 by President Gordon B. Hinckley.