Ensign

April 1979

Volume 9 Number 4

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: On My Honor
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• Hope
  Arthur R. Bassett

• The Preparatory Priesthood
  Marvin K. Gardner

• Teaching—At Home and Church

• Napa Valley Sisters and Sex Education
  Sharon Elwell

• The Way It Looks Today: A Camera Tour of Church History Sites in Missouri

• Zion’s Camp March from Ohio to Missouri, 1834
  Stanley B. Kimball

• “Like Gold Seven Times Purified”: Early Saints in Missouri
  Lavina Fielding Anderson

• Missouri’s Impact on the Church
  Max H Parkin

• Missouri Myths
  Graham W. Doxey

• Regular Features

• Speaking Today
  The Teacher’s Divine Commission Elder Bruce R. McConkie

• I Have a Question
  Malcolm S. Jeppsen
  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
  Sherry Downing

• Discovery: Translation—with a Little Help from Our Computers

• Random Sampler

• Mirthright

• Keeping Pace

• Comment

• News of the Church