Ensign

October 2003

Volume 33 Number 10

Contents

• First Presidency Message: Inspirational Thoughts

  President Gordon B. Hinckley

• Joy to the World

  Larry Hiller

• Timing

  Elder Dallin H. Oaks

• The Red Knit Scarf

  Hripsime Zatikyan Wright

• At Home with the Hinckleys

• Your Longing for Family Joy

  Elder Bruce C. Hafen

• In Good Company

  Lisa Ann Jackson

• Mesa Arizona Temple: The Gathering of Israel

• Parables of Jesus: The Unprofitable Servant

  Elder W. Rolfe Kerr

• Words of the Early Apostles: Grace

  Elder Christoffel Golden Jr.

• Questions and Answers: Ways to get more from general conference

• The Doctrine of Temple Work

  Elder David E. Sorensen

• Latter-day Saint Voices

• Mom, Are You There?

  Vickie Mason Randalls

• Visiting Teaching Message: Prepare to Meet God

• Random Sampler

• News of the Church

• Making the Most of This Issue

Cover: Photography by Craig Dimond

Inside front cover: About My Father’s Business, by Harry Anderson

Inside back cover: Necessary for Salvation, by Clark Kelley Price. Latter-day Saint pioneers have chopped a hole in the ice so a Native American woman can be baptized by immersion. Family and friends reverently bow their heads. Though it is not a convenient time or place to be baptized, all realize that this ordinance is necessary for salvation.