Ensign

October 1996

Volume 26 Number 10

Contents

• First Presidency Message: The Doorway of Love
  President Thomas S. Monson

• Chatting over Cherries
  Lisa Ray Turner

• The Power of the Book of Mormon
  Elder F. Melvin Hammond

• A Child’s Faith
  Loa Andersen

• Giving a Texas Welcome
  Judy C. Olsen

• Growing with a Living Church
  Arnold K. Garr

• I Have a Question: Celebrating Halloween while avoiding practices that may grieve the Spirit
  Joyce Kinmont

• In the Service of Our Fellow Beings

• Contentment
  Rachelle Pace Castor

• Mending Our Marriage

• Mormon Journal
  I Couldn’t Read or Write Gunther Steffans, as told to Paul Conners
  Only Three Dollars in the Bank Kathy Horeth
  By the Light of Their Faith Rodney Nelson
  The Job I Needed So Badly Stuart Otto
  “Bill, Stop! Don’t Run!” Jana Squires Flake
  “You Did Not Name Your Son” LaVerd John

• The Sisters of Cheltenham
  Jennifer Middleton Mason

• Speaking Today: Sins and Mistakes
  Elder Dallin H. Oaks

• Portraits

• The Visiting Teacher: “Run with Patience”

• Random Sampler

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

• News of the Church