Ensign

February 2002

Volume 32 Number 2

Contents

• First Presidency Message: Preparing the Way

  President Thomas S. Monson

• On-Site: We Believe in Him

• Gifts of the Spirit

  Elder Robert D. Hales

• Family Home Evenings That Work

• Gospel Classics: The Origin of Man

  The First Presidency of the Church

• Moses and the Passover

  Randall C. Bird

• The Lord Is among Us!

  Elder David W. Ferrel

• The Unexpected Answer

  Thomas Partridge

• Albin Lotric: Pioneer in Slovenia

  Marvin K. Gardner

• Seeking Solutions

  Mary Ellen W. Smoot

• Latter-day Counsel: Selections from Addresses of President Gordon B. Hinckley

• Tobacco: Quitting for Good

  Janet Brigham

• Seven Tips to Prevent Tobacco Use

  Gordon B. Lindsay

• Powerful Cravings, Powerful Motivations

  Gordon B. Lindsay

• A Reason to Smile

  Elder Joe J. Christensen

• Could I Let My Baby Go?

  Name Withheld

• Adoption and the Unwed Mother

  LDS Family Services

• Hold On!

  Elder James M. Paramore

• Random Sampler

• Latter-day Saint Voices

  • Go to Work Now!

    Nancy G. Love

  • My Friend “Milkshake”

    Robert Lee “Rocky” Crockrell

  • Help from the Other Side

    Val Farmer

• Visiting Teaching Message: Living as Women of Virtue

• Saints in Saskatchewan, Canada

• News of the Church

• Making the Most of This Issue

On the covers: Front and back: The remodeled visitors’ centers on Temple Square in Salt Lake City allow patrons to explore a variety of new exhibits having a unified theme: We believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, and we follow the direction of His prophets.

Inside front cover: Christ with the Doctors in the Temple, by David Lindsley. Based on original Christ in the Temple, by Heinrich Hofmann.

Inside back cover: Christ Teaching the Parable of the Good Samaritan, by Robert Barrett. To the lawyer who tempted Him, Jesus told the story of the good Samaritan that helped the traveler wounded by thieves, the same man a priest and a Levite had passed by. “Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbour unto him that fell among thieves? And he said, He that shewed mercy on him. Then said Jesus unto him, Go, and do thou likewise” (Luke 10:36–37).