Ensign

September 1986

Volume 16 Number 9

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: Guiding Principles of Personal and Family Welfare
  President Thomas S. Monson

• “Make Us Thy True Undershepherds”
  President Howard W. Hunter

• Elder David B. Haight: Joy in Lifting Others
  Elder Ronald E. Poelman

• A Message to My Granddaughters: Becoming “Great Women”
  Elder James E. Faust

• An Anchor to Family Security
  Giles H. Florence, Jr.

• The LDS “Greeks”: Lambda Delta Sigma and Sigma Gamma Chi
  Laura Lee Smith

• Ancient Israel under Siege
  David H. Garner

• Saints in South Africa: Their Good Hope Is in Christ
  Marjorie E. Woods

• They Twain Shall Be One: Thoughts on Intimacy in Marriage
  Brent A. Barlow

• Nebuchadnezzar or Nabonidus? Mistaken Identities in the Book of Daniel
  John A. Tvedtnes

• Aerobics of the Heart
  Eileen Gibbons Kump

• Regular Features

• Poetry
  The Sacrament Ina Jespersen Hobson
  The Lesson of Lazarus Denise Tucker

• Mormon Journal
  A Special Baby, a Dream Fulfilled Geri Walton
  Prayer and the Parish Register Dawn Jean Dorsett
  Charlie Eileen D. Telford

• I Have a Question
  Answering questions about the Church Steve F. Gilliland
  The use of tobacco James Mason

• Random Sampler
  Homework Time
  Dealing with PMS
  Scrapbook of Family Fun

• Speaking Today: Spiritual Gifts
  Elder Dallin H. Oaks

• Comment

• News of the Church