New Era

March 1986

Volume 16, Number 3

Contents

• Departments

• Feedback

• The Message: You Never Know
  Elder John H. Groberg

• Mormonad

• Mormonisms

• My Family: Gentle Conversation
  Karen F. Reeder

• FYI: For Your Information

• Photo of the Month
  Laird Roberts

• Feature Articles

• Walk beside Me
  Janet Thomas

• The Last Quarter Mile
  Melvin Leavitt

• The Bubble Gum Battle: A Perspective on Repentance
  Phillip A. Snyder

• Two Towns in Tennessee
  Richard M. Romney

• No Cards, No Cars, No Errors
  Paul G. Farmer

• Doing His Own Fling
  Sandra Stallings

• 25 Terrific Ideas for Family History Fun
  Marilyn Deputy and Maren Jeppsen

• Blocks
  Lee Dalton

• Fiction and Poetry

• A Good Place to Start
  Nancy Lynne Hill

• Pebbles
  Heather Ohern

Cover: It was beans, beans, beans at the welfare cannery, but Melissa McKennon of Columbia, Tennessee, learned that service can be fun. See p. 20. (Photo by Richard M. Romney.)