“Contents,” Ensign, Feb. 2003, 1 Ensign February 2003 Volume 33 Number 2 Contents First Presidency Message: Strengthening the Inner Self President James E. Faust Gospel Classics: Three Parables Elder James E. Talmage Teaching Children Principles of Happiness D. Michael Barrett The Day the Dishwasher Broke Melanie Silvester Divine Love Elder Russell M. Nelson Serving: The Desire That Never Grows Old Sharon Barber Questions and Answers: Struggling with loneliness after the loss of a spouse Our Thorns in the Flesh Elder Ray H. Wood True Community: Latter-day Saints in San Bernardino, 1851–1857 Marilyn Mills Comfort from the Past Sharon Summerhays Hendrickson Words of Jesus: Forgiveness Elder Cecil O. Samuelson Jr. Words of Jesus: Riches Elder William R. Bradford Parables of Jesus: The Parable of the Seed Growing Secretly Elder Wilfredo R. López Slow to Anger Elder Gordon T. Watts On Site: To the Ends of the Earth Latter-day Saint Voices Random Sampler Visiting Teaching Message: Prepare Every Needful Thing News of the Church Making the Most of This Issue Cover: Fishers of Men, by Simon Dewey, courtesy of Altus Fine Art, American Fork, Utah Inside front cover: Growing in Wisdom, by Simon Dewey Inside back cover: Edward Partridge, by Gary Smith. Called on 4 February 1831 in Kirtland, Ohio, Edward Partridge served as the first bishop of the Church. Of him, the Lord said, “His heart is pure before me, for he is like unto Nathanael of old, in whom there is no guile” (D&C 41:11).