Ensign

June 1997

Volume 27 Number 6

Contents

• First Presidency Message: “The Spirit Giveth Life”
  President Thomas S. Monson

• Temple Blessings: On Earth and in Eternity

• Houses of the Lord
  Brad Westwood

• Paper Drapes That Looked Like Silk
  Carol Cornwall Madsen and Jill Mulvay Derr

• Muskrat Shoes and Grasshopper Bait
  Susan Arrington Madsen

• Pioneering in Russia
  Gary Browning

• The Pioneer Trek: Nauvoo to Winter Quarters
  William G. Hartley

• On the Trail in June

• A Long Road Back
  Name Withheld

• Speaking Today: Do What Is Right
  Elder Richard G. Scott

• Heart to Heart
  Wendell P. Droubay

• Twelve Tips for Parent-Child Interviews
  Steven B. Glade

• I Have a Question
  Proper teacher responses to questionable gospel inquiries Wayne Lynn

• Mormon Journal
  I Chose to Forgive Gretchen Knecht Clark
  Of Dreams and Promises Perla García de Bravo
  The Book of Mormon Changed Our Missions Candace K. Elder
  My Bumper Crop of Faith Coleen Bay

• Portraits

• The Visiting Teacher: Wisdom to Obey

• Random Sampler

• News of the Church