Ensign

March 2004

Volume 34, Number 3

Contents

• First Presidency Message: Finding Peace

  President Thomas S. Monson

• The Merciful Plan of the Great Creator

  Elder Adhemar Damiani

• Comforted in My Distress

  Colleen M. Pate

• Oh, How We Need Each Other!

  Bonnie D. Parkin

• In the Vineyard

  Robyn Romney Evans

• Improving Our Prayers

  Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin

• With Every Stitch

  Loree Romriell

• Gospel Classics: A Temple-Motivated People

  President Howard W. Hunter

• Letter from the First Presidency

• Getting Over Feeling Underappreciated

  Brad Wilcox

• May I Serve Thee

  Tammy Simister Robinson

• It Wasn’t a Sacrifice

  Cassandra Lin Tsai

• Latter-day Prophets Speak: Sacrifice: Key to the Abundant Life

• Visiting Teaching Message: Feeling the Love of the Lord through Obedience

• Latter-day Saint Voices

• The Wonder of the Creation

  Mark J. Nielsen

• Five Steps to Financial Well-Being

  Lane V. Erickson

• Random Sampler

• News of the Church

• Making the Most of This Issue

Front cover: Photograph by Jerry Garns

Back cover: Photograph of Mesa Arizona Temple by Welden C. Andersen; photograph of Hong Kong China Temple by Craig Dimond; photograph of México City México Temple; photograph of Nuku‘alofa Tonga Temple by Floyd Holdman.

Inside front cover: Labor of Love, by Lynde Mott. Young Jane Snyder Richards of Nauvoo mends a treasured quilt as her daughter, Wealthy, sits nearby. She was the wife of Franklin D. Richards, who would later serve as a member and then President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles.

Inside back cover: Come to the House of the Lord, by Grant Romney Clawson.