New Era

October 1981

Volume 11, Number 9

Contents

• Departments

• Feedback

• The Message: Write Your Own Blessing
  Elder Carlos E. Asay

• Mormonad

• Missionary Focus: A Mailbox, Indecision, and Prayer
  Leo B. Talbot

• Mormonisms

• FYI: For Your information

• Photo of the Month
  Karen Fraser

• Feature Articles

• View from Above
  Lee Dalton

• The Treasures of Seville
  Melvin Leavitt

• That’s How the Cookie Doesn’t Crumble
  Kathleen Lubeck

• The Bridge
  Guy Masters

• President Kimball Speaks Out on Administration to the Sick
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• Fiction and Poetry

• Nephi
  Marilyn McMeen Miller Brown

• The Quiet War
  Jack Weyland

Cover: Keep your missionary goodies from arriving as a box of crumbs! Tips on what to make and how to get it there safely start on page 30 (Photo by Eldon Linschoten.)