Ensign

April 2003

Volume 33 Number 4

Contents

• First Presidency Message: He Is Risen

  President Thomas S. Monson

• Finding Faith in Christ

• These Shepherds

  Sharon Price Anderson

• Jerusalem

  D. Kelly Ogden

• Words of Jesus: Death and Resurrection

  Elder Walter F. González

• New Testament Times at a Glance, Chart 2: The Savior’s Final Week

• The Wondrous Restoration

  Elder Neal A. Maxwell

• Easter in the Valley of the Sun

• “Draw Near unto Me”

  Elder Lindon J. Robison

• Parables of Jesus: The Great Supper

  Elder F. Melvin Hammond

• God Had His Own Plans for Me

  Rochelle Welty and Jan Pinborough

• Could We Let Our Children Choose?

  Denise Fitzpatrick

• The Impact of Couple Missionaries

• Stand and Be Judged for What We Really Are

  Elder Robert C. Oaks

• Latter-day Saint Voices

• Random Sampler

• Visiting Teaching Message: Prepare for Temple Worship

• Saints in Burgos Philippines Stake

• News of the Church

• Making the Most of This Issue

Front cover: Photography by Mark Mabry Jr.

Back cover: Clockwise from top: A minaret, a traditional feature of a mosque; a view of the city from Brigham Young University’s Jerusalem Center; possibly Golgotha, or the place of the skull; at Jerusalem’s Western Wall. (Clockwise from top: Photographs by Floyd Holdman, LaRene Gaunt, © 2002 John Telford, and © ASAP Ltd/Index Stock)

Inside front cover: Golgotha, by Linda Curley Christensen

Inside back cover: For She Loved Much, by Jeffrey Hein