Ensign

March 2001

Volume 31 Number 3

Contents

• First Presidency Message: Who Do You Think You Are?

  President James E. Faust

• Missionary Work and the Atonement

  Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

• The Principle of Presidency

  Elder Joe J. Christensen

• Don’t Let Negativism Ruin Your Marriage

  Terry Baker

• Things Learned as a Mother

• Capsized!

  Michael R. Johnson

• Increasing Participation in Lessons

  Jonn D. Claybaugh and Amber Barlow Dahl

• “I Love You, Sister Libby”

  Katie A. Libby

• Helping Others, Helping Ourselves

• Latter-day Saint Voices

  • Sand Trap

    Gary M. Johnson

  • In the Palm of His Hand

    Emma Ernestina Sánchez Sánchez

  • Their Service Opened Our Hearts

    Judith A. Wilkinson

  • Giving Up My Graven Image

    Manuel J. Rosario

• Carefully Schooled in the First Principles and Ordinances

  Richard E. Bennett

• Visiting Teaching Message: “That I May Heal You”

• I Have a Question: Avoiding danger on the Internet

  William C. Porter

• The Latter-day Saint Humanitarian Center

• Latter-day Counsel

• Portraits

• Perspectives

• Random Sampler

• News of the Church

• Making the Most of This Issue

On the covers: Front: Photo by Tamra Ratieta. Back: Photo by Craig Dimond.

Inside front: Preparing the Publication of the Danish Book of Mormon, by Scott M. Snow, oil on canvas, 36″ x 48″, 2000. Elder Erastus Snow of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles and Peter O. Hansen put the final proofreading touches on the Book of Mormon in Danish 150 years ago in Copenhagen. Its printing in 1851 was the first publication of the Book of Mormon in a language other than English.

Inside back: Land Bountiful, by Garth Oborn, oil on canvas, 40″ x 60″, 2000. The Bountiful Utah Temple, in its foothill setting north of Salt Lake City, is spotlighted by a setting sun painting the Wasatch Mountain peaks above it in hues of pink and gold on an early autumn evening.