Ensign

August 1988

Volume 18 Number 8

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: “With All Thy Getting Get Understanding”
  President Gordon B. Hinckley

• The Meaning of Repentance
  Elder Theodore M. Burton

• Freely Given
  Isaac C. Ferguson

• The First Presidency of the Early Church: Their Lives and Epistles
  Richard Lloyd Anderson

• The Greatest Test a Marriage Can Have
  Name Withheld

• Singing a New Song
  Judy Jewkes DalPonte

• Active Again
  Giles H. Florence, Jr.

• Ricks College Centennial

• Getting Older, Getting Better
  Rex A. Skidmore

• Finding My Choctaw Ancestors
  Linda S. Stokes

• Don’t Call Me Sister Schiess!
  Jeanette Schiess and Karen Fisher

• The Tame and Wild Olive Trees—An Allegory of Our Savior’s Love
  Ralph E. Swiss

• The “Perfect Day” Challenge
  Brenda Bloxham Hunt

• Hello, You’re Our New Home Teachers
  Shirley Haycock

• Thoughts of a Grasshopper
  Louise Plummer

• Regular Features

• I Have a Question
  Jesus Christ as Jehovah Michael D. Rhodes
  Past, present, and future in prophecy Stephen D. Ricks
  The Book of Mormon: “The most correct book” Donald B. Doty

• Poetry
  Coins Jean Chapin Seifert
  Eternal Units of Measure Iris W. Schow
  Seasons LaRene Gaunt
  Orchestrated Emotion Denise Tucker

• Research and Perspectives: The LDS Legacy in Southwestern Iowa
  Gail Geo. Holmes

• Handbook for Families: Preparing Children for Their Community Roles

• The Visiting Teacher: “Charity Thinketh No Evil”

• Mormon Journal
  The Missing Book Anna Margrethe Krogh Thomsen
  “You’re under Arrest” Walter M. Horne
  Never Again Elaine Vaughn
  I Felt Their Prayers Diana Hudson

• Random Sampler
  What’s in the Safe?
  “Grandpa, Tell Me about the Olden Days”
  Anniversaries—Home Style
  Soap in a Sock

• News of the Church