Ensign

August 1982

Volume 12 Number 8

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: “Whosoever Will Save His Life”
  President Gordon B. Hinckley

• Keeping the Door Open and the Stew Hot: Loving and Helping a Wayward Child
  Marvin K. Gardner

• The Compassionate Marriage Partner
  Terrance D. Olson

• Russell M. Nelson: A Study in Obedience
  Lane Johnson

• Wind River Mission
  Geneva Ensign Wright

• Early Missionary Work in Italy and Switzerland
  James R. Christianson

• How the Bible Came to Be: Part 7, The Sweet and Ripened Fruit
  Lenet H. Read

• The Unforgettable Summer
  Alma J. Yates

• Mary Isabella Hales Horn: Faithful Sister and Leader
  Lyneve Wilson Kramer and Eva Durrant Wilson

• Just to the End of the Day
  Charlynn Parker Anderson

• Regular Features

• Poetry
  Interstitial Dennis Drake
  Growing Denise Tucker
  Simple Communion John M. Freckleton

• I Have a Question
  John A. Tvedtnes
  Tamera Smith Allred

• Mormon Journal: The Trouble with Maria
  Kathryn Malmfeldt

• Random Sampler

• Comment

• Fiction: The Survivors
  Myrna Marler

• News of the Church