Ensign

December 1984

Volume 14 Number 12

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: Jesus of Nazareth
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• Early Signs of the Apostasy
  Kent P. Jackson

• Prepared for the Restoration
  David F. Boone

• Joseph Smith Jr.—in His Own Words, Part 1

  Dean C. Jessee

• The Story of the Doctrine and Covenants
  Robert J. Woodford

• Elder Yoshihiko Kikuchi: Steadfast amid Change
  Larry E. Morris

• The Christmas Dad Would Have Wanted
  Connie Sherwood

• “Stay Here All the Time”
  Carol Lynn Pearson

• Love and Letters—Gifts That Last
  Karen Thomas Arnesen

• A Christmas Made at Home
  Elder Gene R. Cook

• Regular Features

• I Have a Question
  William S. Evans
  Robert G. Crawford
  Bill Applegarth

• Mormon Journal
  The Year of the Flexible Flyers Aney B. Chatterton
  One More Car J. K. “Trapper” Hatch and Jo Ann Hatch

• Random Sampler

• News of the Church