Ensign

July 2004

Volume 34, Number 7

Contents

• First Presidency Message: Miracles of Faith

  President Thomas S. Monson

• Be Strong in the Lord

  Elder M. Russell Ballard

• Protecting Your Child from Gang Influence

  Dennis J. Nordfelt

• Outnumbered

  Paolo Martin N. Macariola

• Book of Mormon Principles: Earthly Choices, Eternal Consequences

  Elder D. Chad Richardson

• Book of Mormon Times at a Glance, Chart 2: Alma through Mormon and Moroni

• Parties, Picnics, and Potlucks

• One Million in Mexico

  Don L. Searle

• How Could This Happen to Me?

  Name Withheld

• Edward Hunter: Generous Pioneer, Presiding Bishop

  LaRene Porter Gaunt

• Book of Mormon Principles: Submitting Our Will to the Father’s

  Elder Benjamin De Hoyos

• Search and Rescue

  Shanna Butler

• Visiting Teaching Message: Feeling the Love of the Lord through Prayer

• Latter-day Saint Voices

• Random Sampler

• From the Crossroads of the West

  Lisa Ann Jackson

• News of the Church

• Making the Most of This Issue

Covers: Photography by Don L. Searle

Inside front cover: The Beautiful, by Al Rounds. Today, as in 1846, a temple overlooks Nauvoo, the “City Beautiful.” Built on the site of the destroyed Nauvoo Temple, the Nauvoo Illinois Temple was dedicated in June 2002 by President Gordon B. Hinckley.

Inside back cover: Crossing the Sweetwater, by David Koch. In 1856 J. D. T. McAllister wrote a happy tune for the handcart pioneers: “For some must push and some must pull, / As we go marching up the hill; / So merrily on our way we go / Until we reach the Valleyo” (Children’s Songbook, 220). Here pioneers cross the Sweetwater River. (Courtesy of Walt and Katie Gasser, may not be copied.)