Ensign

December 1982

Volume 12 Number 12

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: Live by the Savior’s Teachings
  President N. Eldon Tanner

• Two Mounties and the Christmas Spirit
  W. LaMar Palmer

• Giving with Joy
  Henry B. Eyring

• Nature’s Lanterns: A Finnish Tradition
  Helvi Temiseva

• Our Time, My Time
  Kelly M. and Karen A. Packer

• What Are Your Children Learning in Church?
  Josiah Douglas

• Background for the Testaments
  Stephen E. Robinson

• The Land Jesus Knew, Part 1

• The Way to Christlike Love
  Allen E. Bergin

• The Olive Press
  Truman G. Madsen

• Regular Features

• Mormon Journal
  The Christmas Cup Wayne G. Geilman
  Unexpected Guest Elsie May Rock
  Bavarian Memory Margaret O. Dayton
  The Most Beautiful Gift Peggy Britton

• Poetry
  The Mother Judith Robinson Walton
  To Mary—Who Sat at Jesus’ Feet Shirley Adwena Harvey
  Shepherd’s Field in Spring Emma Lou Thayne

• Music: Gentle Jesus
  Mabel Jones Gabbott and Michael F. Moody

• Random Sampler

• Sharing

• News of the Church