New Era

December 1979

Volume 9, Number 11

Contents

• Departments

• The Message: The Only Real Treasure
  Elder F. Enzio Busche

• Missionary Focus: I Could Not Forget the Challenge
  Tohru Hotta

• In Tune: Shining Star
  Eleanor P. Madsen and RaeAnn Rasmussen

• FYI: For Your Information

• Mormonisms

• Feedback

• Feature Articles

• “My Friend, My Savior, My Lord, My God”: Latter-day Prophets Bear Testimony of Jesus Christ

• A Joseph Smith Birthday Party
  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

• Land of Constant Contrast
  H. Kent Rappleye

• The Contaminated Chocolates
  Rhoda H. Hampton

• Knit Your Way to the Top
  Peggy P. Ellsworth

• Shirt Tales
  Edwin Adamson and Nancy Adamson French

• Poetry and Fiction

• Shepherds
  Teresa Bateman

• The Coming
  Gail Christensen

• The First Christmas
  David F. Barrus

“I know that Jesus Christ is the Son of the living God and that he was crucified for the sins of the world.
He is my friend, my Savior, my Lord, my God.”—Spencer W. Kimball