Ensign

August 1983

Volume 13 Number 8

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: “Praise to the Man”
  President Gordon B. Hinckley

• Missionary Couples—Sharing the Gospel through Service
  Richard Millett

• Activities That Change Lives
  Kathleen Lubeck

• Genealogy and Temple Work: “You Can’t Have One without the Other”
  George D. Durrant

• Observing the Word of Wisdom—Politely
  Elder Robert E. Wells

• Let’s Help This Marriage Grow!
  James M. Harper

• A Lesson in Love: My Change of Heart toward My Wayward Son
  Virginia R. Scott

• The Coming Forth of the LDS Editions of Scripture
  Wm. James Mortimer

• The Value of New Textual Sources to the King James Bible
  John M. Lundquist

• Faith and a Loving Heart: The Story of Elva Taylor Cowley
  Brent and Sarah Hinze

• “So Near and Yet So Far”: Living with Autism
  Carmen B. Pingree

• A Year’s Supply of Humor
  Eileen Gibbons Kump

• Regular Features

• Poetry
  My Sacred Place Ranae Pearson
  The Hummingbird and I Angela Witzke Andersen

• I Have a Question
  Jeanene Rowe Flake

• Mormon Journal
  Life in the Bishop’s Home Susan Arrington Hill
  “Please Do My Work” Terry Lynn Fisher

• Random Sampler

• Sharing

• Speaking Today: “Come, All Ye Sons of God”
  Elder Boyd K. Packer

• News of the Church