Ensign

September 1993

Volume 23 Number 9

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: The Thing of Most Worth
  President Gordon B. Hinckley

• Personal Communication with God
  Jonathan Stephenson

• Grandpapa Joseph F. Smith
  Amelia Smith McConkie

• Marriage and the Less-active Spouse
  Elizabeth VanDenBerghe

• Eternity to Gain
  Meralee Stallings

• “I Just Need to Cry”

• Climate for Change
  Don L. Brugger

• Money Wise
  Shirley G. Finlinson

• A Tour of the Joseph Smith Memorial Building

• 1993 Writing and Music Contest Winners

• 1993 Contest Poetry
  Jacob: Firstborn in the Wilderness Martha P. Morrise
  For Emma Anita Tanner
  Stones Donna Hilton Gardner
  Patchwork Allene W. Heiner
  Replenishing Lesly Chamberlain

• 1993 Life-Style Article Contest Winner: Where Lilacs Bloom
  Janice Porter Hayes

• Regular Features

• Mormon Journal
  More Than Eye Can See Angela B. Haight
  Stranded in a Strange Town Steven A. Dame
  Patience and Light Barbara L. Mannewitz

• I Have a Question: Reasons behind the conflicts in the Holy Land
  D. Kelly Ogden and David B. Galbraith

• The Visiting Teacher: Using Earth’s Resources Well

• Random Sampler
  A Hymn a Day
  Stranger Danger
  Three-part Harmony

• Speaking Today
  “I Will Arise and Go to My Father” Elder Neal A. Maxwell
  Honoring the Priesthood Eddie Gene Gonzales, Jr.
  Preparation Precedes Performance President Thomas S. Monson

• News of the Church