New Era

September 1984

Volume 14, Number 8

Contents

• Departments

• Feedback

• The Message: Scars
  Elder Angel Abrea

• Mormonad

• Mormonisms

• Talk of the Month: Missions—Only You Can Decide
  Derin G. Durrant

• FYI: For Your Information

• Participatory Journalism: My Father’s Voice
  Steven H. Giles

• Photo of the Month
  Jan Grosser

• Feature Articles

• Who Are Your Friends?
  David C. Campbell

• The Rusty Shot
  Chris Crowe

• Bowl ’Em Over
  Janet Thomas

• Learning to Share
  Richard M. Romney

• Apple Dolls
  Linda Hoffman Kimball

• Ten Steps for Easier Studying
  Agnes Kempton

• The 1985 New Era Writing, Art, Photography, and Music Contest: Kaleidoscope

• Fiction and Poetry

• Letters to Kathy
  Ann W. Moore

• Fall
  Deborah Morrow

Cover: Taiwan’s national flag frames a gateway symbolizing power. In this island nation, LDS high school student Chu Mei Ling also knows the power of the gospel. See story, p. 20. (Photography by Richard M. Romney.)