Ensign

January 1984

Volume 14 Number 1

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: Ocean Currents and Family Influences
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• Using the New Family Home Evening Resource Book
  Sherrie Johnson

• A Decade of Growth

• We are Christians Because …
  Elder Robert E. Wells

• Rexburg and Ricks College: Minding Each Other’s Business
  JoAnn Jolley

• A Clear Poetic Voice
  Paul Cracroft

• From the Prophet’s Life: A Photo Essay
  Buddy Youngreen

• They Said It Couldn’t Be Done
  Pat Braegger and Marie Fuhriman Olsen

• Anne Perry: LDS British Novelist with “a Commitment to Morality”
  Richard R. Robertson

• What Our Family Learned about Facing Death
  Betty Jan Murphy

• We Can Learn to Live within Our Means
  Margaret Farnsworth Richards

• Comparatively Speaking
  Anya Bateman

• Regular Features

• I Have a Question
  Richard Lloyd Anderson
  Robert J. Matthews

• Mormon Journal
  We Fasted So He Could Eat Janet Peterson
  The Chocolate Cake Esther Moore Brown
  As He Is Now Yvette Tracy
  Blessings in Time of Need Ione J. Simonson

• Random Sampler

• Speaking Today
  An Apostle’s Witness of Christ Elder Howard W. Hunter
  Three Questions Elder Carlos E. Asay

• News of the Church