Ensign

September 1997

Volume 27 Number 9

Contents

• First Presidency Message: Tears, Trials, Trust, Testimony
  President Thomas S. Monson

• A Book That Transforms Lives
  Brent L. Top

• Serving as Couple Missionaries

• The Journey to Healing

• Pioneers in Ivory Coast
  Robert L. Mercer

• The Visiting Teacher: The Gift of Prophecy

• Mormon Trail Center
  Photographs of the new Mormon Trail Center showing historic Winter Quarters

• On the Trail in September
  William G. Hartley

• Winter Quarters: Church Headquarters, 1846–1848
  Richard E. Bennett

• Returning to the Fold
  Name Withheld

• Mormon Journal
  Angie and the Storm Layne H. Dearden
  “What Church Is That?” Gail S. Halvorsen
  I Caught Myself Singing Betty Jan Murphy
  A Truly Blessed Wife Lola Nicol Warren
  Caught in the Baler! Robert Kicker, as told to Austin Adams

• Understanding Interest on Debt
  Scott Nash

• I Have a Question
  How we can obtain home storage, even with limiting circumstances Gordon K. Bischoff

• Portraits

• Random Sampler

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

• News of the Church