Ensign

February 1985

Volume 15 Number 2

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: Strengthening Each Other
  President Gordon B. Hinckley

• Joseph Smith—in His Own Words, Part 3
  Dean C. Jessee

• Preparing Early Revelations for Publication
  Melvin J. Petersen

• Seven Steps to Success with Aaronic Priesthood Youth
  Elder Thomas S. Monson

• The Meeting That Saved Our Home
  Thora B. Watson

• Handbook for Families: Working Together in Family Councils

• Elder F. Enzio Busche: To the Ends of the Earth
  Jan Underwood Pinborough

• Desert, Brush, and Oil: A Portrait of LeConte Stewart
  Robert O. Davis

• Odomville: Its Citizens Are Family, Its Boundary Is Love
  Don L. Searle

• “They of His Own Household”: Living in a Part-member Family
  Barbara Elliott Snedecor

• The Body: A Burden or a Blessing?
  Barbara Lockhart

• Motherhood: Choosing It Every Day
  Fay A. Daley

• Grandad’s Snow Shovel
  William L. Steen

• Regular Features

• Poetry
  And Beginning Erek James Erekson
  My Mother’s Watch Christie Lund Coles
  Memory under Glass Grace Diane Jessen

• I Have a Question
  Truman G. Madsen
  D. Jack Dunn

• Sharing

• Mormon Journal
  “Lo, I Am with You” Cherie B. Warnock
  One of Those Small Miracles Charles W. Watson

• Random Sampler

• Mirthright

• Speaking Today: “Let the Word Go Forth”
  Elder Bruce R. McConkie

• News of the Church