Ensign

February 1996

Volume 26 Number 2

Contents

• First Presidency Message: “Be Not Afraid, Only Believe”
  President Gordon B. Hinckley

• Couple Missionaries—“A Wonderful Resource”
  Interview with Elder David B. Haight

• Tommy and the Gumball Machine
  Jean Kitch Ashby

• “O How Great the Plan of Our God!”
  Elder Gary J. Coleman

• Helping Families Grow in the Gospel

• Once Children Grow Up
  Garth A. Hanson

• Temple Square’s Early Warm Welcome
  H. Wallace Goddard

• Puerto Rico’s Joyful Saints
  LaRene Porter Gaunt

• Letting Go and Trusting Heavenly Father
  Sharon Bradley

• On Bended Knee

• Discerning Answers to Our Prayers
  Grant E. Barton

• Watering Our Neighbor’s Lawn
  Marilynne Linford

• Mormon Journal
  I Spoke Out for Faith Nina Bazarskaya, as told to Valerie Parker
  Why Did I Wait? Lorna W. Goodman
  Forty-four Friends in the Temple José Ojeda
  Would I Have the Faith to Sustain This Man? Susan Fairbanks Horne
  The Little Gray Envelope Kim Hofhiens
  The Gate Lee Christensen

• I Have a Question
  Why Nephi was commanded to slay Laban Rodney Turner
  Meaning of the word satyr Stephen Ricks
  Finding accurate information on nutrition Mark J. Rowe

• Under the Afghan
  Jan Murray Smith

• Portraits

• The Visiting Teacher: “A Mighty Power of Healing”

• Random Sampler

• News of the Church

On the cover: Front: photo by Peggy Jellinghausen; back: photo by Jerry Garns.

Inside front cover: Enos Praying, by Robert T. Barrett, oil on canvas, 24″ x 16″, 1981.

Inside back cover: Genesis of Repentance: Realization, by Wilson Jay Ong, oil on canvas, 30″ x 40″, 1992, Courtesy of the Museum of Church History and Art.