Ensign

March 2000

Volume 30 Number 3

Contents

• First Presidency Message: The Need for Balance in Our Lives

  President James E. Faust

• “Cast Not Away Therefore Your Confidence”

  Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

• Taking Temples to the People

  LaRene Porter Gaunt

• Putting Our Hearts in Tune

  Molly Zimmerman Larson

• Lesson from a Cereal Bowl

  Kara Hunt

• The Pitfalls of Parallel Marriage

  Charles B. Beckert

• If We Can Laugh at It, We Can Live with It

  Brad Wilcox

• Islands of Light

  R. Val Johnson

• Making Priesthood and Relief Society Lessons Part of Our Lives

  Christopher K. Bigelow

• The Value of Every Calling

  Jan U. Pinborough

• Christ’s Church in Ancient America

  Rodney Turner

• Building Good In-Law Relationships

  Patricia Russell

• Latter-day Saint Voices

  • Fisherman in a Storm

    Royston Gershom Parry

  • Words of Faith

    Andra MacDonald

  • The Prophet Prayed with Us

    Ferren L. Christensen

  • It Took a Tragedy

    Dixie D. Rowley

• Escaping My Valley of Sorrow

  G. G. Vandagriff

• Random Sampler

• The Visiting Teacher: Welcoming Young Women into Relief Society

• Auxiliary Perspectives

• News of the Church

On the covers: Front: Photography by Craig Dimond. Electronic composition by Scott Welty.

Inside front: Sons of Helaman, by Abe Day, oil on panel, 2′ x 4′, 1999.

Inside back: Time, Talents, and All That Thou Hast, by Garth Oborn, oil on canvas, 24″ x 20″, 1996. Courtesy of Brad and Rachelle Kofford. This depiction of the Kirtland Temple shows workers applying stuccoed plaster over the sandstone structure. In the dedicatory prayer on 27 March 1836, the Prophet Joseph Smith spoke of the Saints’ sacrifice: “For thou knowest that we have done this work through great tribulation; and out of our poverty we have given of our substance to build a house to thy name” (D&C 109:5).