Ensign

March 1982

Volume 12 Number 3

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: God Will Forgive
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• A Birthday Tribute
  A Haircut with the President Darrel L. Roberts
  Always Teaching … John E. Carr
  Who Was That Good Samaritan? Shawn Bailey
  Kind Words Softly Spoken Jerry H. Houck
  Singing with Elder Kimball Barbara K. Christensen

• She Came to My Rescue
  Janet Peterson

• How the Bible Came to Be: Part 3, A New Word Is Added to the Old
  Lenet H. Read

• Understanding Each Other
  Clyde A. Parker

• A Conversation with the Relief Society General Presidency

• Learning to Love Myself
  Louise Brown

• Two Months of Compassionate Service
  Kathryn Kohler Farnsworth

• The Girl on the Bus
  Terence L. Day

• Mary Alice Powell Lindsay: A Life of Accomplishment
  Kimberly Jensen James

• Children in Church
  Sleepers and Weepers: Helping Infants and Preschoolers Be Happy in Church Joyce Williams
  In the Foyer Again! Linda Alderman
  Helping Children Listen Linda Lee Handy
  We Tried the Front Row Linda Paxton Greer

• Winners of the 1982 Contests

• Article Contest Winner: Dissolving Language Barriers in Hauula
  Marvelee Soon Tahauri

• Short Story Contest Winner: The Times for Whitney
  Lisa Johnson Boswell

• Music Contest Winners
  To Christ Give We Praise Roy A. Bodtcher
  We Follow the Prophet Janice Kapp Perry

• Poetry Contest Winners
  Equally Yoked Nadine F. Neat
  Khirbet Qumran: (Place of the Dead Sea Scrolls) Clara Laster
  New Pioneer Melinda A. Roth
  Jochebed and the Nile Kathryn R. Ashworth

• The Ensign Effect
  Mary Ann Nielson

• Job: The Man and His Message
  L. La Mar Adams

• Regular Features

• I Have a Question
  Rex L. Christensen
  Lindsay R. Curtis

• Mirthright

• Random Sampler

• News of the Church

On the cover: Emma Smith, the Elect Lady, by Theodore Gorka, 7′ by 10′, oil on canvas, 1981. Located on the main floor of the Church Office Building.

Inside front cover: Spring City, by Randall Lake, 12″ by 18″, pastel, 1980. Located in the Church Historical Department.

Inside back cover: Hezekiah Reopens the Temple, by T. C. Ducdale, 28″ by 20″, oil on canvas, early twentieth century. Located in the Church Historical Department.