Ensign

July 1996

Volume 26 Number 7

Contents

• First Presidency Message: Strength through Obedience
  President Thomas S. Monson

• What I Would Do Differently As a Parent

• Filling the World with Goodness and Truth
  Elder M. Russell Ballard

• Daddy’s Magic
  Terry Chapman

• Pride: A Challenge from Within
  Elder Stephen D. Nadauld

• On Being a Missionary’s Mother
  Shirley Farnsworth Berlin

• An Oasis of Activation
  Christopher K. Bigelow

• Poetry

• Hearing the Still, Small Voice
  Diana Dunkley

• Our Seven-Generation Celebration
  Mary Ellen Romney MacArthur

• The Business of Honesty
  Alan V. Funk

• Charting a New Course in Micronesia
  R. Val Johnson

• The Refining Fire
  Kellene Ricks Adams

• The Eternal Gospel
  Robert L. Millet

• “Meet You at the Top!”
  Gwendolyn Peterson Crank

• I Have a Question
  Book of Mormon pronouncing guide Donald W. Parry
  Obedience as protection from sin Thomas Tyler

• Mormon Journal
  “Help Zeca Know the Truth” Rachel Ann Nunes
  “Get Up and Move Your Bed!” Aaron Larson
  Could He Run Again? Melvin J. Patterson
  Our French-Bread Friends Vicki H. Budge
  “I Will, Dad, I Will!” Malcolm Dearden
  My Lesson in Mechanics—and Faith Margaret d’Aquin

• Portraits

• The Visiting Teacher: I Can Do All Things through Christ

• Random Sampler

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

• News of the Church