Ensign

December 2004

Volume 34, Number 12

Contents

• First Presidency Message: The Power of Peace

  President James E. Faust

• He Lives

• The Living Christ: The Testimony of the Apostles, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

• Book of Mormon Principles: How Could I Testify?

  Elder Hans H. Mattsson

• Book of Mormon Principles: Come unto Christ

  Elder Robert R. Steuer

• The Faith I Tried to Avoid

  Robert Marsh

• I Knew Joseph

• Let Us Ask of God

  S. Michael Wilcox

• Making Weak Things Become Strong

  Anne C. Pingree

• “Was I Always This Happy?”

  Aimee H. Hansen

• Strong Hands and Loving Hearts

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

• Questions and Answers: How can elderly parents and their adult children adjust to living with each other?

• Family Home Evening for Two

  Janene Wolsey Baadsgaard

• Strengthening the Family: The Family Is Central to the Creator’s Plan

• A Christmas Cross-Stitch

  David Toy

• Christmas Came Anyway

  Lorraine F. Day

• My Daughter’s Choice

  Name Withheld

• Latter-day Saint Voices

• Random Sampler

• News of the Church

• Annual Index

• Making the Most of This Issue

Cover: Pondering Mary, by Jeffrey Hein, courtesy Williams Fine Art, Salt Lake City, may not be copied

Inside front cover: Mary, by James C. Christensen. May not be copied.

Inside back cover: Holiday Glow, by Rebecca W. Hartvigsen. From the snow-covered trees surrounding the Salt Lake Temple to the Christmas tree in the window of the Hotel Utah on the corner of South Temple and Main Streets, this winter holiday scene captures the seasonal feel of Christmas in Salt Lake City in the early 1900s. May not be copied.