Volume 34, Number 7
Ensign, July 2004
[photos] Covers: Photography by Don L. Searle
[illustration] Inside front cover: The Beautiful, by Al Rounds. Today, as in 1846, a temple overlooks Nauvoo, the "City Beautiful." Built on the site of the destroyed Nauvoo Temple, the Nauvoo Illinois Temple was dedicated in June 2002 by President Gordon B. Hinckley.
[illustration] Inside back cover: Crossing the Sweetwater, by David Koch. In 1856 J. D. T. McAllister wrote a happy tune for the handcart pioneers: "For some must push and some must pull, / As we go marching up the hill; / So merrily on our way we go / Until we reach the Valleyo" (Children's Songbook, 220). Here pioneers cross the Sweetwater River. (Courtesy of Walt and Katie Gasser, may not be copied.)
First Presidency Message: Miracles of Faith
President Thomas S. Monson
Be Strong in the Lord
Elder M. Russell Ballard
Protecting Your Child from Gang Influence
Dennis J. Nordfelt
Outnumbered
Paolo Martin N. Macariola
Book of Mormon Principles: Earthly Choices, Eternal Consequences
Elder D. Chad Richardson
Book of Mormon Times at a Glance, Chart 2: Alma through Mormon and Moroni
Parties, Picnics, and Potlucks
One Million in Mexico
Don L. Searle
How Could This Happen to Me?
Name Withheld
Edward Hunter: Generous Pioneer, Presiding Bishop
LaRene Porter Gaunt
Book of Mormon Principles: Submitting Our Will to the Father's
Elder Benjamin De Hoyos
Search and Rescue
Shanna Butler
Visiting Teaching Message: Feeling the Love of the Lord through Prayer
From the Crossroads of the West
Lisa Ann Jackson