Ensign

September 1973

Volume 3 Number 9

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: Joy and Happiness
  President Marion G. Romney

• Learning Together: A Preview of the Year Ahead

• The Family Home Evening Manual: Starting Point for “Forever Families”
  Elder James A. Cullimore

• Judge Not
  Kenneth L. Higbee

• The Telephone Number
  June Jeppson

• The Saints in Southeast Asia
  G. Carlos Smith

• Ten Ways to Make Studying the Scriptures a Happy Family Activity
  Dianne Dibb Forbis

• What Every Freshman Should Know
  Elder Boyd K. Packer

• A Village Photographer’s Dream
  Nelson Wadsworth

• How to Get Started with Home Storage
  Becky Worthen Kagel

• Wheat Can Be a Treat
  Loraine T. Pace

• Notes on a Calendar Found in an Empty House after the Death of Viola Pratt
  Donald R. Marshall

• Eliza R. Snow: First Lady of the Pioneers
  Jaynann Morgan Payne

• “Welfare Is the Church”: A Conversation with Junior Wright Child

• Agricultural and Health Services Missionaries: A New Way to Serve the Whole Man
  David Mitchell

• Regular Features

• I Have a Question

• Searching the Scriptures: Managing Money and Earthly Treasures
  Robert J. Matthews

• Comment

• Discovery (Survey on Youth Attitudes, Mulek’s Voyage)

• Books

• News of the Church

• After All

• Poetry
  Planting the Sweet Peas
  Elaine V. Emans
  Sam Speaks; The Waters of Mormon; The Title of Liberty; and Moroni, My Son
  Mildred T. Hunt
  To My Newborn Child
  Emma Lou Thayne

On the cover: The outside front cover shows the Sacred Grove as photographed in 1908 by George Edward Anderson, early Mormon photographer. The back cover shows Brother Anderson’s pictures of the Manti Temple as it neared completion and of Ether Blanchard and his family enjoying a break at harvest time. (For the story of these and other photographs taken by George Edward Anderson, see page 40, “A Village Photographer’s Dream.”)