“Contents,” Ensign, Sept. 2002, 1 Ensign September 2002 Volume 32 Number 9 Contents First Presidency Message: Patience, a Heavenly Virtue President Thomas S. Monson Letting Go without Giving Up Name Withheld Hope for Parents of Wayward Children The Book of Mormon: The Heart of Missionary Proselyting Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin For Each Season of My Life Richard F. Taylor Knowing What You Believe, Believing What You Know Elder Dennis B. Neuenschwander Jonah and the Second Chance Elder Juan Uceda Hezekiah’s Tunnel Vision Charles A. Muldowney In a Quiet House Rebecca M. Taylor In Beauty and Holiness: The Cultural Arts in Nauvoo Carma de Jong Anderson Telling Personal Stories Richard Nash Not Just Teaching a Lesson Diane M. Tingey Gospel Classics: Excerpts from The Charted Course of the Church in Education President J. Reuben Clark Jr. Choosing and Being the Right Spouse Thomas B. Holman Latter-day Saint Voices Alone in a Foreign Country Maria Mabilia The Home Teachers Who Wouldn’t Quit David Head Visiting Teaching Message: Loving Lifelong Learning Random Sampler News of the Church Making the Most of This Issue Inside front cover: The Prodigal Son, by Jeffrey Craven. A modern prodigal heeds the call of the Savior’s ancient parable: “And when he came to himself, he said, … I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee. … And he arose, and came to his father” (Luke 15:17–18, 20). Inside back cover: Moroni Buries the Plates, by Clark Kelley Price