Ensign Feb 2007: What’s in the Cart?

Posted on February 10, 2007
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It was a cold, sunny winter day in war-devastated Germany. Though it was nearly 60 years ago, I remember it like it was yesterday.

My mother, grandmother, brother, and I worried about the welfare of my father, who was in a Russian prisoner-of-war camp. Other families in our small Latter-day Saint branch also prayed for their missing and imprisoned men. Widespread poverty and the resultant lack of provisions compelled our family to carefully maintain a garden and raise animals for our use. Despite our best efforts at self-reliance, our economic situation at war’s end left us in need of basic food supplies. I didn’t know until that winter day that Church members halfway across the world would help answer our fervent prayers.

By Alfred W. Koch, Ensign Feb 2007: What’s in the Cart?

Ensign Feb 2007: Sacred Spires

Posted on February 9, 2007
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“The main object was to build unto the Lord a house whereby He could reveal unto His people the ordinances of His house and the glories of His kingdom, and teach the people the way of salvation; for there are certain ordinances and principles that, when they are taught and practiced, must be done in a place or house built for that purpose” (History of the Church, 5:423).

Ensign Feb 2007: Sacred Spires

Ensign Feb 2007: Sweet Is the Peace the Temple Brings

Posted on February 8, 2007
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Since childhood, we both have had a desire to be married in the temple. We had prepared and kept ourselves worthy to enter into a holy temple one day. When we decided to get married, a great blessing came: another couple made it possible for us to go to the Hong Kong China Temple, so far away from our home in Indonesia, and we were sealed there on February 17, 2004.

We felt a great joy as we kneeled before the altar and had a surety that our love was eternal and that we would be a couple for time and eternity. We are grateful for experiencing the blessings of the temple. We are grateful for being able to be baptized in behalf of our ancestors and making it so that they can receive the endowment and be sealed as eternal families. There is no other happiness that can replace the joy of performing temple ordinances.
Edi and Lisa Rochadi, Indonesia

Ensign Feb 2007: Sweet Is the Peace the Temple Brings