“Contents,” Ensign, Aug. 1981 Ensign August 1981 Volume 11 Number 8 Contents Special Features First Presidency Message: Trusting the Lord’s PromisePresident N. Eldon Tanner “We Hope They Call Us on a Mission!”Elder Jacob de Jager Couples to Go Elder Vaughn J. Featherstone The Christ-Centered LifeElder Neal A. Maxwell “No Respecter of Persons”David Hanna and Steven Ostler Keeping the Marriage Covenant Discovering My IcelandersClark T. Thorstenson Family Fun—on a ShoestringMiles Bachman Steinway in the StairwayClayne Robison “I Have Work Enough to Do” (Don’t I?)Karen Lynn Community Service: It Comes NaturallyPatricia Van De Graaff We Adopted Some GrandparentsBrent D. Cooper The Unlikely Daniel Webster Jones: First Spanish Translations from the Book of MormonJack McAllister Season the Questions, Serve Them with StyleDianne Dibb Forbis Meeting My Students … on Their Own GroundMarjorie P. Ericksen Kinderhook Plates Brought to Joseph Smith Appear to Be a Nineteenth-Century HoaxStanley B. Kimball Regular Features PoetryAn Act of Love Evelyn RichwineThe Might-Have-Been Convert Gail ChristensenAt a Roadside Table Alda L. BrownMissionary Donnell Hunter I Have a QuestionGoldie DespainErmel J. MortonNorman E. Wright Sharing Random Sampler Fiction: NeighborsDiane A. Gordon Speaking Today: The Mission of ElijahElder Mark E. Petersen News of the Church On the cover: Photography by Elder Kirk Buttle, David Sharples, Cleve Friedman, and Elder Stanley P. Moyle. See page 6 for more on missionary couples. Front cover: Elder Kenneth and Sister Ronda A. Koch of Sandy, Utah, enjoy their mission in Saint Augustine, Florida. Back cover: top, Elder Frank C. Beal, Jr., and his wife, Vivian, of Santa Monica, California, find visual aids appealing to seminary students in Piapot Branch, Fort Qu’Appelle Saskatchewan District. Lower left, Elder J. Gerald and Sister Lisbeth G. Snow of Lethbridge, Alberta, temple officiators serving in the Washington Temple. Lower right, Elder Glen and Sister Fern H. Murdock of West Jordan, Utah, stroll home from church on a rainy Sunday in their Kentucky Louisville Mission. Inside front cover: Miracle of the Gulls, by Minerva Teichert, 40″ by 46″, oil on canvas. Located in the Church Historical Department. Inside back cover: West Face of Mt. Timpanogos, by Al Rounds, 19″ by 28″, watercolor. Located in the Church Historical Department.