Ensign

June 1983

Volume 13 Number 6

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: Helping Others Obtain the Promises of the Lord
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• Toward Greater Spirituality: Ten Important Steps
  Joe J. Christensen

• Keeping Our Balance: Recognizing and Resisting Excesses in Our Efforts to Live the Gospel
  O. Don Ostler

• Home Teachers—An Aid to Parents
  John D. Whetten

• A Chapter a Day

• Remembering Joseph F. Smith: Loving Father, Devoted Prophet
  Norman S. Bosworth

• Planning Ahead: The Importance of Wills and Trusts
  Steven J. Dixon

• The Land Jesus Knew, Part 5

• Jeffrey R. Holland: A Style All His Own
  Don Marshall

• The Case of the Bottomless Briefcase
  George J. Downing

• Reaching Out to Divorced Members
  Sandra Bouley

• What Are You Doing, Mommy?
  Sharon EIwell

• Regular Features

• I Have a Question
  Don Norton
  Boyd D. Beagley
  Dallin H. Oaks

• Poetry
  Measuring Johnnie Ratliff Gilliland
  Friends and Strangers Mildred Barthel
  Beloved Helen H. Garrett
  I Conclude LuCene C. Hougaard
  When you live with an ocean Vernice Wineera Pere

• Mormon Journal
  Home Teacher’s Blessing Deris Jan Stokes
  Balm to My Troubled Mind Hugh F. D. Macmillan
  Missionary Bus Stop Brenda Hedin

• Sharing

• Random Sampler

• The Best Thing We’ve Done: More Than a Trophy Case
  Linon Daems

• Speaking Today: Do Things That Make a Difference
  Elder M. Russell Ballard

• News of the Church