New Era

March 1987

Volume 17, Number 3

Contents

• Departments

• Feedback

• The Message: True Sentinels
  Elder Vaughn J. Featherstone

• My Family: My Worst Mess Ever
  Michelle Linford

• In Tune: Thou Shalt Love the Lord Thy God
  Angie Shutt, Sharee Judkins, Judy Moss, Kendra Booher, Shannon Sampson, and Diane Andersen Beck

• Mormonisms

• FYI: For Your Information

• Photo of the Month
  William W. Dean

• Feature Articles

• The Wood Run
  Lori Stephenson

• Saved by Seminary
  Jon B. Fish

• Rising Hopes
  Janet Thomas

• Creative Birthday Cakes
  Dian Thomas

• Pennington Mountain
  Richard M. Romney

• Choice and the Bubble Gum Baron
  Lisa A. Johnson

• Fiction and Poetry

• Apple Pie and Chocolate Corners
  Anne Bradshaw

• On Motes and Beams
  Susan Arrington Hill

Cover: Hopes and spirits rose along with balloons when young women in the Church worldwide sent messages of love and fellowship aloft. See story, p. 20. (Photography by Janet Thomas.)