New Era

January 1998

Volume 28, Number 1

Contents

• The Message: I Resolve
  Elder Joe J. Christensen
  Want your resolutions to make a real difference in your life? Start with these.

• Called to Serve

• In Tune: A Light That’s Pure
  Dan Carter

• In Black and White
  Lisa M. Grover
  When Sharla Marrott goes through bad times, her journal helps her remember the good.

• Simply Stated
  Lynn Black
  It started as a recommend interview and became a two-person testimony meeting.

• Q&A: Questions and Answers
  There’s such an age difference between me and my brothers and sisters that we don’t have a lot in common. I’d rather spend my time with my friends. Is there anything wrong with that?

• Mormonad: Make Your Own Fortune

• Drawing Together
  Janna Nielsen and Lisa M. Grover
  Three families share their secrets for happier home life.

• Clean Conscience
  Carolyn Smith
  I was doing my job the way Laman or Lemuel would have done it. So I cleaned up my act.

• Sweet Home Alabama
  Richard M. Romney
  LDS teens in Huntsville, Alabama, respect the past, enjoy the present, and build a great future.

• The Good List
  Jack Weyland
  You can feel lots better about yourself by following these simple tips.

• Fiction: Stepping Up
  Kay Lynn Mangum
  Aerobics for the conscience? My brother was the instructor.

• Mormonisms

• The Bulletin Board

• Paid in Full
  April Anderson Gohier
  It was a choice between tithing and tuition. Tithing won and so did I.

• Feedback
  Letters to the editors

• Poem: Snow Day
  Teresa Bateman

• Photo of the Month
  Lane V. Erickson

Cover: Sara Williams, 16, of the Byrd Springs Ward, is one of many Huntsville, Alabama, teens who are finding harmony in the gospel. See “Sweet Home Alabama,” p. 28. Cover photography: Richard M. Romney (front); Tamra Hamblin (back).