Ensign

July 1998

Volume 28 Number 7

Contents

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

• Adversity
  Elder Dallin H. Oaks

• Sharing Life Histories
  Glen S. Player

• Marriage in the Lord’s Way, Part Two
  Elder Cree-L Kofford

• Doing Dishes with Daddy
  E. Jeffrey Hill

• “You Can’t Save a Statistic”
  Rebecca M. Taylor

• Solace through Sacred Music
  Karen R. Merkley

• Old Deseret Village

• I Have a Question
  How many pioneers died on the migration west? Susan Easton Black and others

• Poetry

• Walk in the Wilderness
  Valerie Holladay

• Harmony among Grown Children
  Dianne Dibb Forbis

• Gathering Scattered Israel: Then and Now
  Paul K. Browning

• Mormon Journal
  Our Son Was Blessed Kazuko Tamaki
  The Mormon Boy’s Gift Chad Richardson
  Discovering Dad E. Glen Gibb
  All I Had to Give Heidi A. Haueter
  From Zaire to the Lord’s House Kuteka Kamulete

• Portraits

• The Visiting Teacher: “That I May Heal You”

• Random Sampler

• News of the Church