Ensign

June 1991

Volume 21 Number 6

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: “Of You It Is Required to Forgive”
  President Gordon B. Hinckley

• Floods, Winds, and the Gates of Hell
  Arthur R. Bassett

• Enthusiastake Missionaries
  Giles H. Florence, Jr.

• With Love—from the Prodigal’s Sister

• “Does The Book of Mormon Count?”
  LaRene Gaunt

• Six Ways to Help Your Children Learn to Love the Scriptures
  Kenneth W. Anderson

• For Better, for Worse, for Always
  S. Brent Scharman

• Debt Addiction: You Can Break the Habit
  Jerry Mason

• The Wall Comes Down: The Church in Eastern Germany (Part 2: 1989–1990)
  Garold and Norma Davis

• Paintings from the Church’s Second International Arts Competition
  Glen M. Leonard

• “Enjoy It!”
  Geraldine Hamblin Bangerter

• Home from a Mission
  Bruce L. Olsen

• Win or Win?
  Linda Horsley Cook

• If Your Talents Come Incognito
  Anya Bateman

• Regular Features

• I Have a Question
  Justification by faith S. Michael Wilcox
  Teaching children the importance of the temple Eula Denny

• Mormon Journal
  Annabelle’s Bowl Norma Jean Elber
  Prayer in the Cockpit Loretta Dunn Healey
  A Blessing in the Mud C. William Langdorf
  Hurricane Hugo and High-Rise Helpers Laurel Macdonald
  Sisters—Again Olive Whitmer Nalder

• The Visiting Teacher: Extend, Exemplify, Teach

• Random Sampler
  Do You Know Beans about Beans?
  “Introducing …”
  Scripture Sketches

• Portraits
  On the Move in Milano: Tullio De Ruvo Don L. Searle
  The Curtain Call Isn’t All: Joyce Smith Sandra Dawn Brimhall
  Super: Una Kathleen Hillier Robert J. McCue
  First-Down Conversion: Burgess Owens Jessie Embry
  Wheeler the Clown: Dave Kelley

• Research and Perspectives: Tobacco Is Not for the Body Larry A. Tucker

• News of the Church

On the cover: Photography by Peggy Jellinghausen (Berlin Wall background and Hans Jürgen Bartsch) and Rolf Günther (Heller family). Design facilitated through electronic composition.

Inside front cover: “Shall We Not Go On in So Great a Cause?” by Clark Kelley Price, oil on canvas, 30″ x 40″, 1990. Pioneers struggle west, from the Second International Art Competition, Museum of Church History and Art.

Inside back cover: “Down into the Water,” by A. D. Shaw, oil on canvas, 36″ x 52″, 1990. Early Utah Latter-day Saints being baptized, from the Second International Arts Competition, Museum of Church History and Art.