Ensign

August 2000

Volume 30 Number 8

Contents

• First Presidency Message: Inspirational Thoughts

  President Gordon B. Hinckley

• Insights from My Life

  Elder Neal A. Maxwell

• A History of the Latter-day Seventy

  Elder L. Aldin Porter

• No Name Tag Needed

  Krista Rogers Mortensen

• Four Principles of a Joyous Marriage

  Carin Lund

• Coming Back for Joey

  Jeanie Eck Smith

• Walking in Pathways of Happiness

  David M. Whitchurch

• The Book of Mormon: A Worldwide View

• A Foundation of Strength in Germany

  Paul VanDenBerghe

• Visiting Teaching Message: Purity in Thought and Deed

• A Latter-day Saint Perspective on Muhammad

  James A. Toronto

• I Longed to Be a Mother

  Tamara A. Ilich

• Being Sensitive to Couples without Children

  Ana Nelson Shaw

• Latter-day Saint Voices

  • A Heartfelt Note

    Carol C. Ingebretsen

  • A Different Answer to Our Prayer

    Kip Densley

  • “You Might Want to Read It”

    Kevin McReynolds

  • Our Little Missionary

    Mary L. Lewis

  • My 16-Year Conversion

    JoAnne Nolen

  • Too Nervous to Speak Up

    Pamela Akinyi Obaro

• Random Sampler

• Perspectives

• News of the Church

On the covers: Front: Farewell, My Stripling Warrior, by Del Parson, oil on canvas, 40″ x 30″, 1999. Back: And Again, What Do We Hear? by Grayline González de Giménez, beaten aluminum over wood, 29″ x 40″, 1999.

Inside front: “Alma, Arise,” by Walter Rane, oil on wood, 56″ x 40″, 1999.

Inside back: Lehi’s Vision, by Hai-yi Yang, oil on canvas, 36″ x 47″, 1999. All cover artwork courtesy of Museum of Church History and Art, Fifth International Art Competition. As Lehi and his family tarried in the wilderness, Lehi had a vision in which the gospel of Jesus Christ was represented as fruit that was exceedingly white and sweet. Lehi saw a rod of iron near a river, a strait and narrow path, mists of darkness into which many strayed, and a great and spacious building. Lehi’s sons Nephi and Sam partook of this fruit, but his sons Laman and Lemuel rejected it (see 1 Ne. 8).