July 2004 Ensign - The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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Protecting Your
Child from Gang
Influence
How Could This
Happen to Me?
Search
and Rescue
From the
Crossroads
of the West
JULY 2004 • VOLUME 34, NUMBER 7
2 FIRST PRESIDENCY MESSAGE
Miracles of Faith
President Thomas S. Monson
8 Be Strong in the Lord
Elder M. Russell Ballard
16 Protecting Your Child from Gang Influence
Dennis J. Nordfelt
18 Outnumbered
Paolo Martin N. Macariola
19 BOOK OF MORMON PRINCIPLES
Earthly Choices, Eternal Consequences
Elder D. Chad Richardson
22 Book of Mormon Times
at a Glance,
Chart 2: Alma through
Mormon and Moroni
29 Parties, Picnics,
and Potlucks
34 One Million in Mexico
Don L. Searle
43 How Could This
Happen to Me?
Name Withheld
46 Edward Hunter:
Generous Pioneer,
Presiding Bishop
LaRene Porter Gaunt
52 BOOK OF MORMON
PRINCIPLES
Submitting Our Will
to the Father’s
Elder Benjamin
De Hoyos
56 Search and Rescue
Shanna Butler
61 VISITING TEACHING
MESSAGE
Feeling the Love of the Lord
through Prayer
62 LATTER-DAY SAINT VOICES
66 RANDOM SAMPLER
68 From the Crossroads of the West
Lisa Ann Jackson
74 NEWS OF THE CHURCH
AN OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE CHURCH
OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
THE FIRST PRESIDENCY: Gordon B. Hinckley,
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