New Era

January 1990

Volume 20, Number 1

Contents

• Feedback
  Letters to the editor.

• The Message: SOS
  Elder Alexander B. Morrison
  Those letters signal a way to save life and your soul.

• Starting a New Year
  Debi Robertson Rinker
  An abandoned ski lodge, fun, and family combine in a great tradition.

• Scripture Lifeline: Baptized Again?
  Leonido Saavedra Fernandez
  I thought once would be enough.

• Everyday Heroes: Toys Bring Joys
  Joyce Findlay
  Young women help an emergency shelter by building toys.

• Q&A: Questions and Answers
  Sometimes I feel so hopeless. Why go on living?

• Mormonad: Don’t Be Two-Faced

• Snowed Under
  Lisa A. Johnson
  Scouts and dogs to the rescue!

• Small Miracles of Friendship
  Patricia Christensen
  Some caring friends helped me back into the Church to stay.

• The Magic of Frost Valley
  Kendra Kasl Phair
  Fun and excellence keep this winter youth conference warm.

• Good Jellyroll, Fauna
  Larry Hiller and B. Kent Harrison
  An-cay ou-yay alk-tay ath-may?

• Mormonisms

• FYI: For Your Information

• Fiction: The 10 Percent Solution
  Douglas M. Brown
  How tithing helped my dad become active again.

• Blind Spots
  David J. Mills
  Sometimes we can’t see something even when we look right at it.

• Photo of the Month
  Eric Gillett

• Poetry: Immortality
  Val Camenish Wilcox

Cover: Daniel Kaelberer and fellow Scouts find it can take rescue dogs and a lot more to survive an avalanche. See p. 20. Photography by Laird Roberts (front), Jed Clark (back)