Ensign

March 1979

Volume 9 Number 3

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: Sisters, Seek Everything That Is Good
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• Spencer W. Kimball: A Tribute
  Elder S. Dilworth Young

• Serving a Mission Together
  Marvin K. Gardner

• Find Time in Your Marriage
  Lindsay R. Curtis

• Styles of Parenting
  Sharon Elwell

• Studying the Doctrine and Covenants with Children
  Dianne Dibb Forbis

• Makers of Homes
  President Barbara B. Smith

• The First Relief Society: A Diversity of Women
  Maureen Ursenbach Beecher and James L. Kimball, Jr.

• A Matter of Timing
  Virginia M. DeHart

• Why I Need Friends
  Sheryl Condie Kempton

• O Kin Yan Cante
  Yvonne P. Rempp

• Lesson in an Eggshell
  Alberta Lyman O’Brien

• The John Tanner Family
  Leonard J. Arrington

• 1979 Writing Contest Winners

• 1979 All-Church Short Story Contest Winner
  Three in the Morning—A Song for One Still Voice Bruce Jorgensen

• 1979 All-Church Article Contest Winner
  The Church Position I Didn’t Want Karen Petersen Jensen

• 1979 Eliza R. Snow Poetry Contest Winners
  Indian Grandmother Charlotte Teresa Reynolds
  Lydia, Seller of Purple (Acts 16:14–15)Maxine Reeder Jennings
  Sonnet to Mission-bound Sons and Daughters Martha Pettijohn Morrise

• 1979 All-Church Poetry Contest
  New Name and Blessing Dennis Marden Clark

• Regular Features

• Mirthright

• I Have a Question
  Richard Lloyd Anderson
  Robert F. Stahmann

• Discovery
  Mormon Money Glenn N. Rowe

• Insights

• Random Sampler

• Speaking Today
  You—the Leaders in 1988 Elder M. Russell Ballard

• News of the Church

On the cover: Elder Thomas and Sister Mildred Shupe of Liberty, Utah, serving in the Arizona Tempe Mission, enjoy a quiet moment studying the scriptures together. Photography by Eldon K. Linschoten.

Back cover: Elder LaVern Wilcox, a Welfare Services missionary from Huntsville, Utah, with Ben Wood, Sr. Later, Elder Wilcox and his wife, Ina, relax after a busy day pruning grapefruit trees with local members. Photography by Eldon K. Linschoten.[illustration] Inside front cover: Homemade Bread, Judith Mehr, 30″ x 40″, oil on canvas, Church Historical Department Collection.

Inside back cover: Church history rug, designed by Ruben Ouzounian, woven by his wife and daughter, Mary Ouzounian and Josephine Ouzounian Ksajikian, in Allepo, Syria, 1952–53, 9′ x 12′, wool-cotton-cocoon silk, Church Historical Department Collection.