Ensign

December 1995

Volume 25 Number 12

Contents

• First Presidency Message: Christmas Gifts, Christmas Blessings
  President Thomas S. Monson

• Learning to Be like the Lord
  Elder Stephen D. Nadauld

• The Road to Bethlehem
  D. Kelly Ogden

• Tinsel—or Gold?
  Tracy Hogan Barrand

• Inside Prison Walls
  David A. Albrecht

• The Christmas Coat

• Three Months to Live
  Diane Jones

• Apostasy, Restoration, and Lessons in Faith
  Andrew C. Skinner

• Chile’s Fruitful Vineyard
  Michael R. Morris

• Leaving Our Rocking Chairs Behind
  Sally T. Taylor

• Detroit: The Forecast Is Growth
  Don L. Searle

• I Have a Question
  How to have charity for all Mary Ellen Edmunds
  Why Jews believed Jerusalem couldn’t be destroyed Fred E. Woods

• Nurtured in Rocky Ground

• Mormon Journal
  Mom’s Present Was Missing! Gloria Pope
  Prompted to Bring One More Irma de MacKenna
  Alone and Freezing Leness Keller
  The Gift Exchange Isabelle Briner
  Our Christmas Came Back Ronald R. Grimes

• Random Sampler

• The Visiting Teacher: “More Blessed and Holy”

• Speaking Today: Excerpts from Recent Addresses of President Gordon B. Hinckley

• News of the Church

• Annual Index