Ensign

December 1993

Volume 23 Number 12

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: Keeping Christ in Christmas
  President Ezra Taft Benson

• The Restored Doctrine of the Atonement
  Bruce C. Hafen

• Our Pickle-Jar Christmas
  Wilma M. Rich

• A Couple of Hours on Monday
  Sharol Larsen Bench

• Something about Daniel
  Deborah Ainscough

• Spencer Kimball and Recharging the Battery
  Edward L. Kimball

• “This I Know”
  Emerson R. West

• Can a Daughter of God Have a Messy Room?
  Wendy Udy

• Love and Faith in St. Petersburg
  Jenifer Larson-Hall

• 1989–90: The Curtain Opens
  Kahlile Mehr

• Through Children’s Eyes

• Closed Doors and Open Windows
  Brad Wilcox

• Christmas Peace
  Philip J. Smith

• Regular Features

• Mormon Journal
  Father and the Revolutionaries Anson Bowen Call, Jr., as told to Thaya E. Gilmore
  Alycia’s Angel Brenda Tanner Peterson
  Finding the Christmas Spirit Sandi Schureman
  “He’s Yours Today” Anne Frazier

• Speaking Today: Steadfast in Christ
  Elder M. Russell Ballard

• The Visiting Teacher: Women of Covenant

• Portraits
  Skip and Ski
  Sculpting Souls
  Winning Ways
  Community Volunteer
  From Pastor to Temple Worker
  Cultivating a Future
  Time for the Temple
  All of a Kind Family
  In the Spotlight

• I Have a Question
  Helping others with personal problems J. Brad Burton
  Priesthood lineage in D&C 84:16; D&C 107:42 Richard O. Cowan

• Random Sampler
  Ten Tips for Terrific Talks
  The Compliment Board
  Blending a Family
  The Book of Christmas Past

• News of the Church