Ensign

October 1980

Volume 10 Number 10

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message Teaching Children of God
  President N. Eldon Tanner

• An Ordinary Monday Night: Home Evening in Mexico with President Kimball
  Elder F. Burton Howard

• Strengthening the Less Active
  Elder A. Theodore Tuttle

• These People Shall Be My People: On Changing Wards
  Dianne Dibb Forbis

• Thoughts That Need Thinking
  Elder Hugh W. Pinnock

• Winning the Argument or Solving the Problem: Which Do You Want?
  Steve Gilliland

• Job: Parallels with the Savior
  S. Brent Farley

• “Thy Constant Companion”: The Promised Blessings of the Holy Ghost
  Spencer J. Condie

• “Rock Me, Daddy”
  Brent D. Cooper

• Shared Son
  Janice Kapp Perry

• Sustaining, Supporting, and Surviving—As the Wife of a Busy Church Worker
  Diane K. Jennings

• The Temple Slippers I Didn’t Wear
  Kathleen R. Davis

• A Pale Yellow Rose Called “Peace”
  Margaret Toyne

• Books for Latter-day Saints: 1980 Update

• Regular Features

• Poetry

• Mirthright

• Speaking Today: Patience Elder Neal A. Maxwell

• I Have a Question
  Joyce P. Brown
  Clark Swain
  Shirley M. Armstrong

• Mormon Journal
  The Blessing Returned Hans-Wilhelm Kelling
  Tithing—It Works Keith Moore
  The Fifty-Cent Triumph Jean Mitchell

• Sharing

• Random Sampler

• Discovery: Seventeenth-Century Seekers Wait for the Restoration Gary W. Ellsworth

• Keeping Pace

• The Best Thing We’ve Done

• Comment

• News of the Church

On the cover: Autumn Landscape, James Taylor Harwood, 18″ by 32″, oil on canvas, 1926. Located in the Church Historical Department. Used by permission of June Rose Harwood Spring.

Inside front cover: “We have been entrusted with a special message for all the world. We must ever be conscious of that trust & ever be on the alert. There is a tide to be taken now in the affairs of the Church in all the earth which will lift us up & carry us forward as never before. Let us then not weary in well doing.”—President Spencer W. Kimball

Inside back cover: Martin Handcart Company—Bitter Creek, Wyoming, 1856, Clark Kelley Price, 36″ by 48″, oil on canvas, 1980. Located in the Church Administration Building.