Ensign

August 2001

Volume 31 Number 8

Contents

• First Presidency Message: “Who Shall Ascend into the Hill of the Lord?”
  President James E. Faust

• Identity, Priority, and Blessings
  Elder Russell M. Nelson

• A Disposition to Do Good Continually
  Elder Spencer J. Condie

• Ordinances and Covenants
  Elder Dennis B. Neuenschwander

• Seeking the Son
  Jeannie Lancaster

• Happiness, Health, and Marriage
  Elizabeth VanDenBerghe

• Guatemala: Building toward the Future
  Don L. Searle

• “Lift Up Your Voice and Sing”

• Tangled in the Web
  Name Withheld

• From New York to Utah: Seven Church Headquarters
  Keith W. Perkins

• Pink and White Pages
  Pamela J. Reid

• Latter-day Saint Voices
  Thirsting for the Living Water Victor Manuel Cabrera
  The Very Experience I Needed Ruth Harris Swaner
  A Wrong Turn at the Right Place Sandra S. Kaup

• On-Site: Unraveling Records of the Past

• Random Sampler

• Visiting Teaching Message: Strengthening Our Families through Family Home Evening

• News of the Church

• Making the Most of This Issue

[photos] On the covers: Front and back: Photography by Craig Dimond.

[illustration] Inside front: A Thousand Dollars an Ear, by Glen S. Hopkinson, oil on canvas, 36″ x 60″, 1998. Courtesy of Glenn and Mary Potter. Explorer and mountain man Jim Bridger, center, who met with the advance party of Latter-day Saint pioneers headed for the Salt Lake Valley, “considered it imprudent to bring a large population into the Great Basin,” President Brigham Young recorded. The explorer offered $1,000 for proof that corn could be grown there. Replied President Young: “Wait a little, and we will show you” (B. H. Roberts, A Comprehensive History of the Church, 3:201).

[illustration] Inside back: Time to Laugh, by Liz Lemon Swindle, oil on canvas, 30″ x 40″, 1998. Courtesy of Repartee Gallery. During a time of peace in Nauvoo, Emma Smith enjoys a moment in play with her children: Julia Murdock Smith, right; Joseph Smith III, top; Frederick Granger Williams Smith, left; and Alexander Hale Smith.