New Era

October 1988

Volume 18, Number 10

Contents

• Feedback
  Letters to the editor.

• The Message: Where Would I Be?
  Elder Russell C. Taylor
  What would life be like without the gospel to help us through?

• Mormonad: Get Yourself into a Tight Squeeze

• It’s Not Easy
  Greg Stuart
  Wrestling with the choice between satisfaction and glamour.

• Scripture Lifeline: I Will Forgive
  Darla Swanson
  When a friend does you wrong, it’s the best alternative.

• Taking Root
  Anne C. Bradshaw
  Seminary in England is 20 years old and still growing.

• Q&A: Questions and Answers
  Is it possible to be burned out at 15?

• The Discovery
  Richard M. Romney
  Your talents are the key to what you want to be.

• Mormonisms

• Fitting In
  Lisa A. Johnson
  Two brothers prove you can live LDS standards and be accepted.

• Breakaway Father
  Roger J. Land
  You’d never know whose father he was, until the great run.

• Fiction: A Day like No Other
  Jack Weyland
  An elder makes the last great sacrifice of his mission.

• FYI: For Your Information

• My Family: Honey from on High
  Dane Kay
  A bad decision makes for a sticky situation.

• Drunk Again
  Ann Lawrence
  Dealing with an alcoholic parent or a friend who has one.

• Photo of the Month
  Frank Keeney

• Poetry: Warm Autumn Soup
  Laurie Dudley

Cover: What to study? What to be? It’s a question most students ask this time of year. For help in making that decision, see story, p. 20. (Photography by Steve Bunderson and Kenneth A. Croft.)