“Contents,” Ensign, July 1981 Ensign July 1981 Volume 11 Number 7 Contents Special Features First Presidency Message: “If Ye Are Prepared Ye Shall Not Fear”President Marion G. Romney Increasing Our Effectiveness in Home TeachingElder L. Tom Perry Choosing the Good Life: Bob Scabby and Indian PlacementJ. Neil Birch and John A. Forster Alcohol Addiction: Hope for Understanding and RecoveryJames R. Goodrich Johan and Alma Lindlof: Early Saints in RussiaKahlile Mehr Between Faith and Charity: Some Thoughts on HopeRebecca Gwynn Stradling The Small Acts, the Great RewardsMichael Whisler “Brethren, Love Your Wives”Elder James E. Faust The Fine Art of Raising TeenagersC. Richard Chidester A Lesson From a BlizzardRonald J. Dunn What Now? What Then? Some Thoughts on Life-span PlanningAddie Fuhriman Seeking “the Good, the Pure, the Elevating”: A Short History of Mormon Fiction, Part 2Richard H. Cracroft Opapo: The Power of His FaithCarl Fonoimoana Regular Features PoetryJohn Ormond, Welsh Poet, Speaks (to one of Welsh ancestry) Dawn Baker BrimleyShe Shall Be Praised Elder S. Dilworth Young“Of Time and Every Purpose” Dixie Lee Partridge I Have a QuestionJanice R. WelkerDolores C. Ritchie Mormon JournalAcres of Fire Genevieve Bowen Williams“My Neighbor, Marge” LaDean MortonMusic Was the Missionary Marjorie P. HinckleyThe Windows of Heaven Neli A. Rogers Sharing Random Sampler Mirthright: The All-Purpose DiscourseLane Johnson Speaking Today: An Attitude—The Weightier MattersElder Marion D. Hanks Comment The Best Thing We’ve Done News of the Church On the cover: Photography by Jed A. Clark. See page 6 for a special article on home teaching by Elder L. Tom Perry of the Quorum of the Twelve. Inside front cover: First Plowing, by Minerva Teichert, 45″ by 63″, oil on canvas. Located in the Church Historical Department. Inside back cover: Samuel Instructing Saul, by Ted Henninger, 24″ by 36″, oil on canvas, 1980. Located in the Church Office Building.