Ensign

January 2005

Volume 35, Number 1

Contents

• First Presidency Message: Pursue the Steady Course

  President Gordon B. Hinckley

• Allegiance to God

  Elder D. Todd Christofferson

• The First Vision: Searching for the Truth

  Ronald O. Barney

• Doctrine and Covenants Times at a Glance, Chart 1: Sections 1–64

• Gospel Classics: The Book of Mormon and the Doctrine and Covenants

  President Ezra Taft Benson

• Messages from the Doctrine and Covenants: Broken Car, Broken Dreams?

  Elder Clate W. Mask Jr.

• Confidence and Self-Worth

  Elder Glenn L. Pace

• Singular Happiness

  • My Classroom

    Kimberly D. Nelson

  • A Different Path

    Rebecca M. Taylor

• David O. McKay: Ambassador of the Faith

  Wade Murdock

• Gratitude

  S. Michael Wilcox

• Strengthening the Family: Created in the Image of God, Male and Female

• Falling Out of Love … and Climbing Back In

  Name Withheld

• The Deacons Quorum

• Becoming a Deacon

  Laury Livsey

• The Lesson I Remember Best!

• When a Loved One Struggles with Addiction

  Corrie Lynne Player

• Visiting Teaching Message: Rejoice in the Restoration of the Gospel of Jesus Christ

• Latter-day Saint Voices

• Random Sampler

• News of the Church

• Making the Most of This Issue

Cover: If Any of You Lack Wisdom, by Walter Rane

Inside front cover: The Good Samaritan, by Meridene Grant. May not be copied.

Inside back cover: Windows of Heaven, by David Lindsley. May not be copied. Portrayed in a scene likely in fall 1835, the Prophet Joseph Smith (center) assists Joseph and Brigham Young (top) with window installation in the Kirtland Temple, the first of the latter-day temples. Oliver Cowdery (left) and Sidney Rigdon (right) assisted in the temple’s preparations.