Ensign

October 1986

Volume 16 Number 10

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: Do Not Despair
  President Ezra Taft Benson

• Elder James E. Faust: Sharing His Love for the Lord
  Elder Wm. Grant Bangerter

• Nurturing the Less Active
  Elder Carlos E. Asay

• “On His Shoulders, Rejoicing”
  Giles H. Florence, Jr.

• Understanding Scriptural Symbols
  Gerald N. Lund

• Australia Today: And Now the Harvest
  Michael Otterson

• Pioneering the Gospel in Australia
  Marjorie A. Newton

• Community Service: Reaching beyond Our Circle
  Jan Underwood Pinborough

• Overcoming Adversity Together
  Larry K. Langlois

• Learning from the Lord
  Lisa Nicolaysen

• Regular Features

• Poetry: A Braided Rug to Grace an Earthen Floor
  Ora Pate Stewart

• Portraits
  Andy Upton: They Helped Him Build a Testimony
  Margaret Lawson: Kununurra’s Solitary Saint
  Bob Cowan: The Moment That Changed His Life

• Sharing

• Handbook for Families: Extending Family Relationships

• Mormon Journal
  A Matter of Sacrifice Mary K. Leeding
  The Book That Would Not Burn Ervin Lynn
  A Hard-Fought Lesson Sharon Bigelow

• I Have a Question
  The language of the Book of Mormon John A. Tvedtnes
  Private and public schools Stanley A. Peterson

• Random Sampler
  Family Salad
  A Moving Experience
  Encouraging Words

• News of the Church