Ensign

December 2002

Volume 32 Number 12

Contents

• First Presidency Message: A Testimony of the Son of God

  President Gordon B. Hinckley

• Finding Hope in Christ

  Elder Johann A. Wondra

• A Cloud of Witnesses

  Stephen K. Iba

• More Than Lights and Bright Colors

  Patricia Merlos

• Gospel Classics: The Gifts of Christmas

  President Howard W. Hunter

• The Power of Compassion

  Neil K. Newell and Lloyd D. Newell

• Little Boy Lost

  Emmett R. Smith

• When Children Want to Bear Testimony

  Elder Carl B. Cook

• On Site: In Light of His Birth

• The Man in the Leather Coat

  Elder David B. Haight

• Wanted: Modern Nehemiahs

  Elder Modesto M. Amistad Jr.

• Ezra Unfolds the Scriptures

  Brian D. Garner

• Questions and Answers: Using careful judgment in choosing the music we listen to

• Latter-day Saint Voices

  • Wrapped in My Mother’s Love

    Bonnie Danielson

  • The Gift My Father Gave Me

    Ruth M. Anderson

  • A White Christmas in Ecuador

    Carl Grossen

  • She Brought Light

    Muriel Robinson

• Living after the Manner of Happiness

  Elder Marlin K. Jensen

• Visiting Teaching Message: Rejoice in the Blessings of the Temple

• Random Sampler

• News of the Church

• Index for 2002

Inside front cover: The Birth of Jesus, by Del Parson

Inside back cover: Winter Quarters, by Gregory Sievers. After negotiations with Indian tribal leaders, Church leaders established the town of Winter Quarters on the west side of the Missouri River in September 1846. About 4,000 Latter-day Saints lived there, with many others living across the river in hundreds of small camps in Iowa.