New Era

November 1985

Volume 15, Number 10

Contents

• Departments

• Feedback

• The Message: Thanksgiving Prayer
  Elder Vaughn J. Featherstone

• Missionary Focus: Here, Elder Myers
  Leonard F. Myers

• Q&A: Questions and Answers
  Lindsay R. Curtis
  Larry C. Porter

• My Family: My “Real” Parents
  Cynthia Lou Moray Dalling

• Mormonisms

• FYI: For Your Information

• Photo of the Month
  Matt Schaerrer

• Feature Articles

• “I Don’t Have to Go Home Do I?”
  C. Jack Lemmon and John R. Holbrook

• Turning Straw into Gold
  Deana W. Brossard

• Carolina Seminary Students: They Don’t Rise with the Roosters!
  Kathleen Lubeck

• Books to Palau
  Richard M. Romney

• Up from Down Under
  Isobel B. Riggs

• The Futility of Fear
  Elder Derek A. Cuthbert

• Fiction and Poetry

• Transitions
  Laird Roberts

• My Prayer
  Ellen Fagg

Cover: David Hugie, a Goldsboro, North Carolina, seminary student, basks in the warm light of the gospel at evening seminary classes. See story, p. 20. (Photos by Richard M. Romney.)