New Era

September 1998

Volume 28, Number 9

Contents

• The Message: Start Making Chips
  Elder Neal A. Maxwell
  Wonderful things happen when testimony and creativity combine.

• Contest Winners: All Things Bright and Beautiful
  Introducing the 1998 New Era contest winners.

• Somewhere There’s Somebody Waiting
  Margo Faraoni Edgeworth
  First-Place Song

• Out of Power
  Melissa Draper
  First-Place Article: I was supposed to be charged up, but I felt spiritually drained. Then I had a spark of an idea.

• Q&A: Questions and Answers
  I am quiet and shy at school, but at home I can’t stop talking. I can make my family smile and laugh, but I need more of a social life. How do I develop good friendships?

• Mormonad: Your Home Away from Home

• All Things Bright and Beautiful
  Selected winning photography, art, and poetry entries.

• Fiddle, Harp, and Bones
  Eric D. Snider
  The Bigney brothers are gaining new fans for an old kind of music and having a lot of fun at the same time.

• Know Way
  Colleen Atwood Riley
  Can you really “know” without seeing? Here’s how my skepticism turned to testimony.

• The Bulletin Board

• The Offer
  Andrea Nixon
  First-Place Fiction: It seems coaches aren’t the only ones who wear suits and recruit for winning teams.

• Mormonisms

• Idea List: Unearthing Your Talents

  Marissa D. Thompson

• Everyday Heroes: A Different Drummer
  Lisa Prall
  Band member Brad Ross changed a life with a march—the march he made into a special education class one day.

• Morning Prayer
  Rachel Bastian
  First-Place Hymn

• Scripture Lifeline: Never Fear
  Tamara L. Johnson
  New in college, I felt fearful until I discovered I didn’t have to face things alone.

Cover photo illustration by Patric Gerber