Ensign

September 2000

Volume 30 Number 9

Contents

• First Presidency Message: Labels

  President Thomas S. Monson

• Instead of Yelling

  Debbie Pettey

• Members Are the Key

  Elder M. Russell Ballard

• “No More Strangers”

  Elder Alexander B. Morrison

• A Second Chance at Life

  Judy C. Olsen

• For the Strengthening of Youth

  Kaye T. Hanson

• Strengthening Our Children

  Lowell M. Snow

• The Testaments of One Fold and One Shepherd

• Japan: Growing Light in the East

  Don L. Searle

• Visiting Teaching Message: Receiving Personal Revelation

• Blessings of the Basic Music Course

  Rebecca M. Taylor

• From Zion to Destruction: The Lessons of 4 Nephi

  Andrew C. Skinner

• Latter-day Saint Voices

  • Trapped inside My Car

    Mazie Cundick

  • Was I Addicted?

    Evelin Korndörfer

  • Clinging to Faith in Intensive Care

    Paula T. Weed

  • I Had to Speak Up

    Berniece Rabe

  • Bread, Milk, and Truth

    D. H. Viljoen

  • It Came to Be Called “Mormon Street”

    Ronal Navarro Gutiérrez

• Random Sampler

• Perspectives

• News of the Church

• Making the Most of This Issue

On the covers: Front and back: Photography by Welden C. Andersen and Craig Dimond.

Inside front: Add to Faith, Virtue; to Virtue, Knowledge, by Walter Rane, oil on board, 48″ x 36″, 2000. The Young Women values—Faith, Divine Nature, Individual Worth, Knowledge, Choice and Accountability, Good Works, and Integrity—are symbolized in this painting. Faith leads us to a virtuous life, making us capable of gaining spiritual knowledge as well as secular knowledge (see 2 Pet. 1:5, 8).

Inside back: Lehi Exhorts His Posterity to Righteousness, by Philip M. Leaning, oil on canvas, 26″ x 72″, 1999. Inside cover artwork courtesy of Museum of Church History and Art, Fifth International Art Competition. In this depiction, the prophet Lehi stands before the tree of life, inviting and exhorting his posterity to come and partake of the fruit that was “most sweet” and exceedingly white. Of his experience, Lehi wrote, “And as I partook of the fruit thereof it filled my soul with exceedingly great joy; wherefore, I began to be desirous that my family should partake of it also; for I knew that it was desirable above all other fruit” (1 Ne. 8:12).