Ensign

February 1982

Volume 12 Number 2

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: Temples and Temple Work
  President Gordon B. Hinckley

• Elder Neal A. Maxwell: An Understanding Heart
  Bruce C. Hafen

• Free to Believe: Prisoners Welcome the Gospel into Their Lives
  Terry J. Moyer

• The Most Important Job in the Church?
  Roger L. Rice

• Giving Priesthood Blessings
  Dennis L. Lythgoe

• Saints in the Military: Conversion and Reconversion
  Lucile Johnson

• The Smiths of Rural Alaska: Lessons from an Outpost
  Betty Oba

• How the Bible Came to Be: Part 2, The Word Is Preserved
  Lenet H. Read

• Lingering at Church
  John S. Tanner

• The Ten-Generation Phone Call
  L. Michael Barney

• Love That Lasts
  Kathy England

• “Support Your Local Family Council”
  Rex W. Allred

• Speaking As a Mother …
  Nancy Raybould

• “And It Will Surprise You”: Some Thoughts on Counting Our Blessings
  Shirley W. Thomas

• The Cast of the Net
  Derek Dixon

• Regular Features

• Poetry
  From One about to Be Baptized Kathy Gailey Stephens
  Rebirth Clara D. Perry
  Granddaughter Marylou C. Leavitt
  “And They Shall Love You” Karen Marguerite Moloney
  A Suitable Place John M. Freckleton

• I Have a Question
  Hoyt W. Brewster, Jr.
  Gerald N. Lund

• Random Sampler

• Mormon Journal
  My Father and the Blind Man Dennis K. Allen
  “Lovest Thou Me More Than These?” Celestia Whitehead

• Speaking Today: Stand Up and Be Counted
  Elder James E. Faust

• Mirthright: Locked in the Pipes
  Richard M. Romney

• News of the Church