Ensign

March 1980

Volume 10 Number 3

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: Give the Lord Your Loyalty
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• Every Family Needs a Great Home Teacher
  John D. Whetten

• “Let Everybody Win!”
  Elder Hartman Rector, Jr.

• From Burundi to Zaire: Taking the Gospel to Africa
  William Lye

• The Voyage of the Amazon: A Close View of One Immigrant Company
  Richard L. Jensen and Gordon Irving

• Relief Society Today: A Conversation with Barbara B. Smith

• Treasuring Up Scriptures in My Mind
  Kathleen Pulsipher

• What I Learned about Compassion
  JoAnn Jolley

• Our Pioneer Foremothers: Their Temporal Needs, Their Spiritual Goals
  Maureen Ursenbach Beecher

• Handle with Prayer
  Jennie L. Hansen

• Nauvoo Today: Building Again the City Beautiful
  Janet Brigham

• A Word from the Whys: Listening to My Teenager
  Emma Lou Thayne

• “Please, Father, Bless Us with Children”
  Larry Cragun

• What to Do When the Water Runs Out
  Florence Bringhurst Nielsen

• Winners of the 1980 Writing Contests

• First Place All-Church Article Contest
  The Miracle Mile Sara Brown Neilson

• First Place All-Church Poetry Contest
  At My Daughter’s Baptism Kathryn R. Ashworth
  First Place Eliza R. Snow Poetry Contest
  Sesquicentennial Barbara A. Elliott

• Second Place All-Church Poetry Contest
  Journey into Morning Kathy Evans

• Third Place Eliza R. Snow Poetry Contest
  Pale Woman, Lean Woman Kathy Evans

• Second Place Eliza R. Snow Poetry Contest
  Here Janice Buroker Hess

• First Place All-Church Short Story Contest
  The Call Joel D. Chaston

• First Place All-Church Hymn Contest
  Turn to Us Thy Loving Eyes Steve Jones

• First Place All-Church Song Contest
  What Builds Temples Joanne Parker and Madelyn Larsen

• Regular Features

• Sharing

• Speaking Today: Married or Single: Look beyond Yourself Elder James E. Faust

• I Have a Question
  Robert J. Matthews
  Larry Bastian
  Keith L. Sellers

• Mirthright: Those Were the Good Old Goals
  Evalyn D. Bennett

• Mormon Journal
  Bridge Out of Darkness Derek Dixon
  I Knew There Had to Be a Record Judith Tannery Roiz
  Out of Adversity—Blessings! Violet M. Tate

• Insights

• News of the Church

• The Church and the Proposed Equal Rights Amendment: A Moral Issue [Insert]
  Summary Questions and Answers
  Frequently Asked Questions about the Proposed Equal Rights Amendment: A Closer Look
  The Latter-day Perspective

On the cover: Kirtland Temple, Al Rounds, 14″ by 21″, watercolor, 1979. Located in LDS Church Historical Department.

Inside front cover: Jordan River in Winter, Lawrence Squires, 21″ by 29″, oil on canvas, 1924. Located in LDS Church Historical Department.

Inside back cover: Panorama #20 The Miracle of the Quail, and Panorama #21 Winter Quarters by C. C. A. Christensen.