Ensign

August 1977

Volume 7 Number 8

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: Speak Kind Words
  President Marion G. Romney

• Love: More Than a Feeling
  Rex A. Skidmore

• Who’s Minding the Children?
  Orson Scott Card

• Hey, Mom! Thanks!
  Susan Arrington Hill

• When Your Children Lie to You
  Terry Olson

• The Most Frequently Asked Questions about Home Production and Storage

• A Lively Institute in Manhattan, Kansas
  Orson Scott Card

• Brigham Young: Man of the Spirit
  D. Michael Quinn

• The Relief in Relief Society
  Athelia Tanner Woolley

• Lydia Knight: “God Rules” Was Her Motto
  Jan Jansak Williams and LaRea Gibbons Strebe

• King Lamoni
  Lenet H. Read

• A Strange Thing in the Land: The Return of the Book of Enoch, Part 13
  Hugh Nibley

• Program Changes Highlight 1977 Regional Meetings
  Lane Johnson

• Regular Features

• Poetry
  The Farm Boy Rides a Yamaha Vernice Wineera Pere
  Would I Have Known Ellen Hyde Jensen
  Abish Donnell Hunter

• I Have a Question
  Elder Dean L. Larsen
  Janath R. Cannon
  Ruth Hardy Funk
  Wayne B. Lynn

• Fiction: Leaving Home
  R. Lee Robinson

• Random Sampler

• Mormon Journal
  Call an Inactive Priest on a Mission? Yes, the Spirit Whispered Richard Bigelow
  When Julie Died Avril Marie Campbell
  As a Doctor, I Doubted James O. Mason
  When Did You Talk to the Composer? Karen Krisel

• Keeping Pace: Two New General Committees Organized

• News of the Church

On the cover: Threshing Wheat, LeConte Stewart, 1948, 22″ x 30″, oil, Springville Museum of Art

Back cover: Hollyhocks, John Hafen, 1909, 36″ x 42″, oil, Springville Museum of Art

Inside front cover: Plowing, Salt Lake, Mahonri M. Young, c. 1925, 13″ x 25″, watercolor, Brigham Young University Permanent Collection

Inside back cover: Seattle Temple