Ensign

March 1978

Volume 8 Number 3

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: In the Image of God
  President Marion G. Romney

• How to Be a Full-time Father
  Orson Scott Card

• Being a Mother-Person
  Afton J. Day

• The High Cost of Inactivity
  Lindsay R. Curtis

• Mormon: The Man and the Book, Part 1
  Jeffrey R. Holland

• The Saints in Puerto Rico
  Orson Scott Card

• Nonmember Friends: The Richness of Diversity
  Linda King Newell

• Encounter at the Stamp Machine
  Lee W. Farnsworth

• Announcing Winners of the 1978 Writing Contests

• 1978 All-Church Article Contest Winner: We Outlived Wisconsin’s Ice Storm
  Jeanne Noble Randall

• 1978 All-Church Short Story Contest Winner: Dandelions
  Penny Allen

• 1978 All-Church Poetry Contest Winners
  Lucy Mack Smith Linda Madsen Sheffield
  Journey of a Blind Grandmother, Ending Marilyn McMeen Miller Brown
  Water from a Basin Randall T. Hall

• 1978 Eliza R. Snow Poetry Contest Winners
  Legacy Carolyn G. Depp
  A Mother’s Testament, Helen Mar Cook
  Costly Harvest Penny Allen

• What Makes a Family? (song)
  Carol Lynn Pearson and Newell Dayley

• Mormon Media: Books on LDS Family Life

• How Can We Make the Best Decisions?
  Neil J. Flinders

• Preparing Our Daughter for Baptism
  Carol Loughmiller

• Between Scriptural Lines
  Steven C. Walker

• Regular Features

• I Have a Question
  R. Quinn Gardner
  Clarissa Whitney
  Marvin R. VanDam
  James B. Allen

• Mirthright

• Random Sampler

• Discovery
  Joseph Smith’s Surgeon Le Roy S. Wirthlin
  Can You Read Deseret? Glenn N. Rowe

• Mormon Journal
  Jane’s Barrels Nelle S. Allen
  The Kite Linda A. Steele
  A Simple Thank-You Audrey L. Sitton
  Home Teachers in an Earthquake H. Bruce Bowman

• News of the Church

On the cover: Winter Quarters, by C. C. A. Christensen (c. 1860s), oil on canvas, 13 3/4″ x 22″, private collection, used courtesy of Mrs. Norma Taggart.

Inside front cover: King David, Jerry Harston (1977), 16″ x 23″, acrylic on masonite, from series prepared for Jewish-American missionary flipcharts.

Inside back cover: Manti Temple. (Photography by Jed Clark.)