“Contents,” Ensign, Mar. 1978, 1
Special Features
First Presidency Message: In the Image of GodPresident Marion G. Romney
How to Be a Full-time FatherOrson Scott Card
Being a Mother-PersonAfton J. Day
The High Cost of InactivityLindsay R. Curtis
Mormon: The Man and the Book, Part 1Jeffrey R. Holland
The Saints in Puerto RicoOrson Scott Card
Nonmember Friends: The Richness of DiversityLinda King Newell
Encounter at the Stamp MachineLee W. Farnsworth
Announcing Winners of the 1978 Writing Contests
1978 All-Church Article Contest Winner: We Outlived Wisconsin’s Ice StormJeanne Noble Randall
1978 All-Church Short Story Contest Winner: DandelionsPenny 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 BaptismCarol Loughmiller
Between Scriptural LinesSteven C. Walker
Regular Features
I Have a QuestionR. 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.)