Ensign

September 2006

Volume 36, Number 9

Contents

• 2

  First Presidency Message: The Father Who Cares

  President James E. Faust

• 7

  Latter-day Prophets Speak: The Sacred Role of Fathers

• 8

  Sharing Family Heritage

  Elder L. Tom Perry

• 12

  Learning to Hear the Lord’s Voice

  Aaron L. West

• 16

  “He Took My Shoe!”

  Grace Brasse Pannell

• 18

  For the Divorced Single Parent

  Kaye Terry Hanson

• 24

  Lessons from the Old Testament: Trust in the Lord Forever

  Margaret S. Lifferth

• 27

  Living in the Shadow of Death

  Lois McCune Sewell

• 32

  Fulfilling Our Duty to God: A Window of Opportunity

  Charles W. Dahlquist II

• 38

  She Shall Be Called Woman: Women of the Old Testament

• 44

  Gospel Classics: Commitment to God

  President Howard W. Hunter

• 48

  Nicaragua: Hungering for the “Beautiful Fruit”

  Don L. Searle

• 53

  Visiting Teaching Message: Serving and Supporting Each Sister

• 54

  The Relief Society Building: A Symbol of Service and Sacrifice

  Heidi S. Swinton and LaRene Gaunt

• 58

  I Tossed Your Name Aside

  Name Withheld

• 60

  Unforgettable Family Home Evenings

• 63

  Let’s Try Again!

  Marianne Monson-Burton

• 64

  Lessons from the Old Testament: Watchmen of the Lord

  Elder Gary J. Coleman

• 68

  Latter-day Saint Voices

• 72

  Random Sampler

• 74

  News of the Church

• 80

  Making the Most of This Issue

On the cover: Photographs by Welden C. Andersen, posed by models

Inside front cover: Look to Your Children, by Minerva Teichert. Courtesy of Museum of Church History and Art, may not be copied. The artist gave this oil painting to the Relief Society in 1947 as her donation to the building fund for the Relief Society Building (see story on page 54). This painting shows the moments after Christ had blessed the little children, when angels “encircled those little ones about … with fire; and the angels did minister unto them” (3 Nephi 17:24).

Inside back cover: Father Lehi, by Glen S. Hopkinson. May not be copied.