“Contents,” Ensign, Feb. 2000, 1 Ensign February 2000 Volume 30 Number 2 Contents First Presidency Message: An Attitude of Gratitude President Thomas S. Monson The Goal I Thought I’d Never Reach JoLyn Cornelsen Teach the Children President Boyd K. Packer On Being a Father From Lecturing to Loving Randy J. Gibbs “Daddy, What if I Do My Best?” Bill Schlofman Repairing the Relationship with My Son Max K. Kennedy Climbing Back Cindy Newell One Family’s Testimony of Christ Kent P. Jackson An Eye Single: Blessings of the Temple Wendy L. Watson Hyrum Smith: The Mildness of a Lamb, the Integrity of Job Ronald K. Esplin Dispelling the Darkness of Abuse Name Withheld Uniting Generations Keeping the Sabbath Day Holy Elder Earl C. Tingey The Power of One Jan U. Pinborough and Marvin K. Gardner Priesthood Perspectives I Have a Question: Why some physical infirmities persist despite faith, prayers, and priesthood power Richard R. Hart Latter-day Saint Voices “Do This Each Year?” Norma Chapin A Debt for Half a Bicycle Alfredo P. Blanc “Was That Really Us Singing?” Sandra H. Fitzgerald The Promised Blessing Suzanne H. Hill “I Cannot Do Much the Way I Am” Thomas Henry Porter Portraits The Visiting Teacher: Nurturing a Love That Lasts Random Sampler News of the Church On the covers: Front and back: Joseph and Hyrum, by Kenneth A. Corbett, oil on canvas, 24″ x 30″, 1996. Courtesy of Robert Corbett. The Prophet Joseph Smith, left, and his brother Hyrum, five years older, were known by all to be close and loyal to each other. “In life they were not divided, and in death they were not separated,” Elder John Taylor wrote of the Prophet Joseph and Hyrum, Assistant President and Patriarch to the Church (D&C 135:3). This year marks 200 years since Hyrum Smith’s birth on 9 February 1800. Inside front: Upper City Creek Mill, by Al Rounds, watercolor on paper, 18″ x 31″, 1993. A view from northeast of the Salt Lake Temple as it would have appeared in 1893. City Creek, shown in foreground, was used to power various mills along its banks. One of these mills furnished power to operate a blacksmith shop in which tools were made and sharpened for use in building the temple. Inside back: King Benjamin Confers the Kingdom on Mosiah, by Robert T. Barrett, oil on canvas, 33″ x 26″, 1999. After delivering a great address on following the ways of God to his people in Zarahemla, King Benjamin “consecrated his son Mosiah to be a ruler and a king over his people, and [gave] him all the charges concerning the kingdom” (Mosiah 6:3).