Ensign

August 2002

Volume 32 Number 8

Contents

• First Presidency Message: What This Work Is All About

  President Gordon B. Hinckley

• Accept the Challenge

  Elder L. Tom Perry

• Me, a Pioneer?

  Mei Hsiang Moyer

• Pushing on to Zion: Kanesville, Iowa, 1846–1853

  William G. Hartley

• The Mantle of Elijah

  Bruce L. Andreason

• Naaman and Gehazi: A Contrast in Obedience

  Elder Ralph W. Hardy Jr.

• The Prophet Joseph Smith’s Use of the Old Testament

  Grant Underwood

• Children of Divorce

  Elaine Walton

• Taking the Higher Road

  Elder W. Craig Zwick

• My Battle with Same-Sex Attraction

  Name Withheld

• Prayer: The Soul’s Sincere Desire

• Enriching Our Prayers

  Dan B. Skoubye

• Prayer in a Practical Vein

  Kayleen Silver

• A Testimony of Prayer

• Fitly Framed to Keep Out Rain

  Dianne Dibb Forbis

• Visiting Teaching Message: Delighting in Service and Good Works

• Visiting Teaching: Getting to the Heart

• Latter-day Saint Voices

  • Don’t Go through the Alley!

    Polly Daw

  • Mom, You’re Singing!

    Bernadene G. Gardiner

  • The Music of Peace—in Prison

    Name Withheld

  • A Gift of Eggs and Love

    Claudia Waite Richards

• Random Sampler

• News of the Church

• Making the Most of This Issue

Inside front cover: Brigham Young, by James C. Christensen. President Brigham Young served as second President of the Church, from 27 December 1847 until his death on 29 August 1877. President Young’s practical, forthright, and decisive character contributed to his success as a leader and as one of the great colonizers of the American West.

Inside back cover: An Angel Touched Him, by Walter Rane.