Ensign

February 1977

Volume 7 Number 2

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: “Choose Ye This Day”
  President Marion G. Romney

• Alma the Elder
  Arthur R. Bassett

• Reverence in the Church: A New Long-range Emphasis

• Area Conferences from Monterrey to Santiago

• It’s a Young Church in … Mexico
  Orson Scott Card

• Unconventional Convention
  Gordon Irving

• Central America: Saints in Six Nations Grow in the Gospel

• Colombia

• Venezuela
  Mario G. Echeverri

• Ecuador

• Peru

• Bolivia

• Chile
  Steven J. Iverson

• Great-Grandfather’s Family
  Davis Bitton

• A Prophet Touched My Life
  Andrew Worden

• Ruth Hale: High Drama and a Great Sense of Humor
  Laurie J. Wilson

• “A Strange Thing in the Land”: The Return of the Book of Enoch, Part 9
  Hugh Nibley

• “I Had a Mother Who Read to Me
  Ann Moulton Johnson

• They Collected Legends
  Franklin S. Harris III

• Regular Features

• I Have a Question
  H. Dean Garrett
  G. Hugh AlIred
  Carma Cutler

• Mormon Journal
  “2,000 People Are Praying for You” Lyn Niemeyer
  Prodigal Parents Jo Castleton

• Poetry
  Without Benefit of Roses D. J. Harper
  A Trilogy Companionship Vernice Wineera Pere
  The Daisies Kathleen Spillman

• Random Sampler

• Discovery
  “Had You Stood in the Presence of Peter”: A Letter from Oliver Cowdery to Phineas Young, 1846 Ronald G. Watt
  The Macks of Marlow A. Gary Anderson

• Mirthright

• Insights

• Comment

• Five Ways to Bear Testimony
  Kenneth L. Higbee

• News of the Church