THE ENSIGN OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS • JUNE 2004 Teaching from the Heart, p. 6 Seeing beyond “Single,” p. 36 MAY NOT BECOPIED NOT MAY Going as a Lamb, by Liz Lemon Swindle In June 1844 “when Joseph went to Carthage to deliver himself up . two or three days previous to his assassination, he said: ‘I am going like a lamb to the slaughter; but I am calm as a summer’s morning; I have a conscience void of offense towards God, and towards all men’ ” (D&C 135:4). Here he bids farewell to his family. JUNE 2004 • VOLUME 34, NUMBER 6 2 FIRST PRESIDENCY MESSAGE Inspirational Thoughts President Gordon B. Hinckley 6 Teaching from the Heart Elder Richard G. Scott and Elder Charles Didier 12 The Red Starfish Troy L. Love 14 BOOK OF MORMON PRINCIPLES He Knows Our Suffering Elder Flávio A. Cooper Be Ye 18 BOOK OF MORMON PRINCIPLES One A Change of Heart Elder Gerald A. Mead 56 Teaching from the Heart 22 From “Me” to “We” Randal Thatcher 6 25 Bringing Church Home Judy Kay W. Frome 28 Our Son’s Battle with Drugs Name Withheld 34 Julia and Emily: Sisters in Zion Debbie J. Christensen 36 Seeing beyond “Single” Chris Brough 40 Teaching Our Children to Accept Differences Gayle M. Clegg 45 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS How can I overcome feelings of From inadequacy as a new member? 22 “Me” to “We” 48 The Neighbors No One Wanted Marilynn Barnes 53 BOOK OF MORMON PRINCIPLES Obeying the Lord’s Spirit Elder Ross H. McEachran 56 Be Ye One Elder H. Aldridge Gillespie 61 VISITING TEACHING MESSAGE Feeling the Love of the Lord through Exercising Charity 62 Building a Lesson from Teachings of Presidents of the Church Jan Pinborough Seeing 67 LATTER-DAY SAINT VOICES 36 beyond “Single” 72 RANDOM SAMPLER 74 NEWS OF THE CHURCH AN OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE CHURCH Sally J. Odekirk, Adam C. Olson, Judith M. Paller, P.O. Box 26368, Salt Lake City, UT 84126-0368. OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS Rebecca M. 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HINCKLEY A Marvelous and Wonderful Work we believe and leading them in the direc- “What a marvelous and wonderful work tion which we would like to see them go” [this] is . when you think of all the effort (regional conference, North Ogden, Utah, that goes into it and how much is expected 3 May 1998). of you. This is the Church and kingdom of God. This is the work for which the Savior Miracle of Mormonism gave His life. We are serving with Him in the “What a wonderful thing we have in the great work of the Father to bring to pass the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to reform immortality and eternal life of mankind [see people’s lives, to make them better, to lift Moses 1:39]. How important it is and how their reach and look to the stars and make glorious it is to see what is happening, to something good of their lives. Miracles hap- This is the work for see it spread across the earth” (meeting, pen when people accept the gospel. We see which the Savior gave Worcester, Massachusetts, 23 Mar. 2002). people who are dragging along in their sloth- His life. We are serving ful ways. The gospel touches their lives, and with Him in the great The Only True Church they come alive. Something really wonderful work of the Father “The Lord said that this is the only true happens. I call it the miracle of Mormonism, to bring to pass the and living church upon the face of the earth this marvelous transformation that takes immortality and eternal with which He is well pleased [see D&C place in the lives of people” (meeting, life of mankind. 1:30]. I didn’t say that. Those are His words. Boston, Massachusetts, 16 Oct. 1998). The Prophet Joseph was told that the other sects were wrong [see Joseph Smith—History Church Is Moving Forward 1:19]. Those are not my words. Those are “The Church is moving forward. Never has the Lord’s words. But they are hard words there been a day in the history of this Church for those of other faiths. We don’t need to when the Church has moved forward with BY GARY L. KAPP, MAY NOT BE COPIED NOT MAY L. KAPP, GARY BY exploit them. We just need to be kind and greater vitality than today. How fortunate we good and gracious people to others, showing are to be a part of this great movement which THE FIRST VISION, by our example the great truth of that which is going over the earth to change the lives of ENSIGN JUNE 2004 3 ll of us need people, to make them wish to live better, to (Acts 3:19–21). These are the days of restitu- to stand up do better, to give them a knowledge of the tion. These are the days of restoration spo- A and declare plan of salvation, to bring to them recogni- ken of in the Holy Bible plainly and forcefully the truth. Walk tion of the meaning of the great Atonement by Peter the Apostle and by Paul. I repeat, you in faith and faith- of the Savior, to bless their lives wherever and I are a part of prophecy fulfilled, a part fulness. Do good. they may be found” (regional conference, of the divine plan of the God of heaven, that Help others and Houston, Texas, 19 Sept. 1998). there should be a falling away and that there bring glory to the must be a restoration” (meeting, Hamilton, great cause of the Bring Credit and Honor to the Church Ontario, Canada, 8 Aug. 1998). Lord Jesus Christ “Let everything that you do bring credit in these latter days. and honor to the Church, of which you are A Great and Marvelous Family a member, and the Lord will bless you and “You are part of a great and marvelous magnify you. Let there be no animosity family—more than 11 million strong and scat- among you but only love, regardless of tered throughout some 160 nations—who race, regardless of circumstances. Let us carry in your hearts a great and strong convic- love one another as the Lord would have tion of the reality of God our Eternal Father, us do” (meeting, Nadi, Fiji, 21 May 2001). of the reality of the Lord Jesus Christ, of the actuality of the Holy Ghost and its power to These Are the Days of Restoration influence you and affect you, of the fact that “‘Repent ye therefore,’ said Peter, ‘and be God has moved again in this dispensation to converted, that your sins may be blotted out, restore His work and bring to pass His eter- when the times of refreshing shall come from nal purposes in this, the dispensation of the the presence of the Lord; and he shall send fulness of times—this glorious and wonderful Jesus Christ, which before was preached period in the history of the earth when He unto you: whom the heaven must receive has gathered together all of the wonderful until the times of restitution of all things, things of all previous dispensations in this, which God hath spoken by the mouth the great and final and last dispensation— of all his holy prophets since the fulness of times” (meeting, New York, the world began’ New York, 24 Mar.