Ensign

August 1997

Volume 27 Number 8

Contents

• First Presidency Message: Inspirational Thoughts
  President Gordon B. Hinckley

• The Joseph Smith Translation: “Plain and Precious Things” Restored
  David Rolph Seely

• Poetry

• The Temple Garment: “An Outward Expression of an Inward Commitment”
  Elder Carlos E. Asay

• Uniting Blended Families
  Elder Robert E. Wells

• They Came by Handcart
  Paul H. Peterson

• Remembering the Rescue
  Artwork from the new Mormon Handcart Visitors’ Center at Sun Ranch in Wyoming depicts the rescue of the Willie and Martin Handcart Companies

• On the Trail in August
  William G. Hartley

• Dad’s Lessons
  Scott W. Parker

• The Visiting Teacher: “Thy Faith Hath Made Thee Whole”

• “Faithful, Good, Virtuous, True”: Pioneers in the Philippines
  R. Lanier Britsch

• Mormon Journal
  “That Baby’s Not Yours!” Elder José Teixeira da Silva, as told to Paul Conners
  My Grandchildren’s New Mother Margaret Krebs Midgley
  Touched by Their Faith Tracey Webb Lathrop
  Crows in Place of Seagulls A. Leon Hardcastle
  I Found My Answer Kathryn P. Benfell
  My Best Calling Ever Earl Stowell

• Portraits

• Random Sampler

• News of the Church