Ensign

July 1997

Volume 27 Number 7

Contents

• First Presidency Message: Go Bring Them In from the Plains
  President James E. Faust

• Following in Their Footsteps
  Elder Vaughn J Featherstone

• Gathering the Dispersed Nauvoo Saints, 1847–1852
  William G. Hartley

• Voyage of the “Brooklyn”
  Joan S. Hamblin

• On the Trail in July

• To Them of the Last Wagon
  President J. Reuben Clark Jr. (1871–1961)

• “Camp of Israel! All Is Well”
  Poetry and artwork commemorating the Latter-day Saint pioneer journey

• Los Primeros: Mexico’s Pioneer Saints
  F. LaMond Tullis

• My Guide to Jesus Christ
  Ali K. Choucair

• Mormon Journal
  Grandpa and the Marshmallows Randi D. Rigby
  I Learned to Lead LeVon Berg
  Two Precious Books R. Stanley Swain
  Taming My Little Tempest Stephen P. Westfall
  Would Rain Ruin Our Hay? Laurie Snyder

• Family Home Evening for One
  Bette J. Theriot

• Random Sampler

• The Visiting Teacher: “The Word of Knowledge”

• Portraits

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

• News of the Church