Ensign

January 1977

Volume 7 Number 1

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: The Things of Eternity—Stand We in Jeopardy?
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• Someone Up There Loves You
  Elder Boyd K. Packer

• The Inspiration of a Family Record
  Elder Theodore M. Burton

• Beyond Pen and Ink: 18 Ways to Record Family History
  Jon Webb

• Writing Your History: Some Helpful Ideas
  William G. Hartley

• It’s Child’s Play: How to Help Your Child Begin a Journal
  Dianne Dibb Forbis

• A Father, a Son, and a Campfire: The Tapes They Never Made
  Gary L. Shumway

• The Beginner’s Guide: Tape-recording Memories
  Gary L. Shumway and William G. Hartley

• Six Families Tell How (and Why) They Organized
  Janice Smith

• The New Scope of What We Have Called Genealogy
  Wayne Brickey

• The Spirit World, Our Next Home
  Dale C. Mouritsen

• Will Your Children Marry in the Temple?
  George Durrant

• Turning the Hearts of Preschoolers
  Ginger Hamer

• The Best Day of Their Lives
  Jay A. Parry

• The Kinship of the World
  James E. Smith and Phillip R. Kunz

• Three Kings and a Captain: Nephite Leaders in the Land of Nephi
  Orson Scott Card

• The Saints in Indonesia
  Alison Craig

• Regular Features

• Mormon Journal
  Grandpa’s Gift of Himself Bruce Lyman Bishop
  The Voice Spoke Spanish Luis V. Espinoza
  She Was the Mother I’d Never Known Wanda West Badger

• Discovery: The 15th of Nisan
  William James Adams, Jr.

• Poetry
  Nellie Girl: Nilla Pedersen Christensen, Pioneer Woman Martha Pettijohn Morrise
  Jacob Smith of Somerset Orson Scott Card
  Idaho Falls Temple Donnell Hunter
  Temple Heights Helen Mar Cook

• Keeping Pace: A Billion Names in the Local Branch Library

• I Have a Question
  Henry E. Christiansen
  Jimmy B. Parker
  Val D. Greenwood
  George H. Fudge
  Ann Stoddard Reese

• Insights

• Random Sampler

• Mirthright

• Comment

• News of the Church

On the cover: The Ascension, a new painting by Harry Anderson

Inside front cover: A mural in the celestial room of the Idaho Falls Temple that depicts the joys families will share in the celestial kingdom. Artist was Lee Greene Richards

Inside back cover: Handcart Pioneers was painted by Danquart Anthon Weggeland in 1908 (31″ x 41″, oil on canvas).