Ensign

December 1977

Volume 7 Number 12

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: The Ideal Latter-day Saint Home
  President Marion G. Romney

• Teaching and Leadership in the Home

• Really Getting Somewhere with Father’s Interviews
  Ronald J. Zirker

• Making the Most of Limited Time
  We Found Time for Each Other Carol A. Thomson
  A Precious Half Hour Claudia Black, as told to Arlene L. Bascom
  Scripture Reading Jane C. Babcock
  The Magic of Five-Minute Microlessons Carol Ann Olsen
  Participation: Our Family Home Evening Success Key Glen W. Harper

• Changing Children’s Behavior: How to Help Them Stop Doing What They Shouldn’t
  Dean and Paula Sorensen

• Christmas at Our House
  Laurie J. Wilson

• The Orange and the Tramp
  Kathryn P. Fong

• The Nauvoo Generation: Our First Five Relief Society Presidents
  Jill Mulvay Derr and Susan Oman

• Nephi, Lehi, and Samuel the Lamanite
  Brian Best

• The Church Welfare Services Department Answers … Frequently Asked Questions about Career Development

• The Year in Church History
  Davis Bitton

• The Walker and the Walk
  Emma Lou Thayne

• Regular Features

• I Have a Question
  Laurie Williams Sowby
  Wendell J. Ashton
  Wayne C. Booth

• Fiction: The Year We Discovered
  Tradition Jay A. Parry

• Poetry
  Eldest Daughter (Genesis 29, 30) Kathleen Whitworth
  Qualitative Change Paul Armstrong
  Early Morning Seminary Vernice Wineera Pere
  Resistance Carlene Petree

• Comment

• Speaking Today
  All in Six Years Marvin J. Ashton
  “Maybe Christmas Doesn’t Come from a Store” Jeffrey R. Holland

• News of the Church

• Arizona Temple

On the Cover: The Annunciation, by John Scott (c. 1975–76), 130″ x 85″, oil, Salt Lake Visitors Center

Inside front cover: Jehovah Appears to Moses and the Seventy Elders, Jerry Harston (1977), 16″ x 23″, acrylic on masonite, from series prepared for Jewish-American missionary flipcharts

Inside back cover: Arizona Temple