Ensign

September 1996

Volume 26 Number 9

Contents

• First Presidency Message: Four Simple Things to Help Our Families and Our Nations
  President Gordon B. Hinckley

• Overcoming the World
  Elder F. Burton Howard

• Being Someone’s Missionary
  Cherie Woodbury Hyde

• Being Clean Again
  Name Withheld

• A Halfpenny and a Pearl
  Jerry Borrowman

• Valuing Our Neighbor’s Labor
  Maj-Lén Anderson

• The Gift and the Promise
  Pamela K. Walker

• Strengthening Young Single Adults

• Soaring in Alta Loma
  Michael R. Morris

• Connecting through a Council
  Christopher K. Bigelow

• Enhancing Institute
  Lisa Ann Jackson

• Gospel Anchors in a Sea of Change
  Judy C. Olsen

• The Fruit of Her Hands
  Camille Curtis Anderson

• What to Do about Eddie?
  Kathy L. Gingell

• The Red Tin Can
  Name Withheld

• I Have a Question
  Why Jesus Christ refers to the Holy Ghost as “my Spirit” in D&C 36:2Joseph C. Lundwall
  Sacrament meeting guidelines regarding departing or returning missionaries Hoyt W. Brewster Jr.

• Mormon Journal
  I Was Afraid to Ask JoAnn M. Davis
  Ten Thousand Hatching Chicks Effie S. Davenport
  The Little Bottle of Water Chérie Kircalli
  What about Abstinence? Robert Layton
  Grandpa Ben Olimpia Flores Anaya Rivera

• Portraits

• The Visiting Teacher: “Heirs according to the Covenant”

• Random Sampler

• News of the Church