Ensign

June 1972

Volume 2 Number 6

Contents

• Regular Features

• First Presidency Message: “Seek Ye Earnestly the Best Gifts”
  President Joseph Fielding Smith

• News of the Church

• Policies and Programs

• Our Readers Write

• Books

• After All

• Contemporary Topics

• A Youth Speaks to Parents
  Perry Datwyler

• Family Work Projects for Fun and Profit
  Elwood R. Peterson

• Will the Real Ox in the Mire Please Stand Up
  Franklyn W. Dunford and Phillip R. Kunz

• Faith/Doctrine/History

• The Thirty-three Saints of Tin Can Island
  William H. Dame

• The Book of Mormon and My Conversion
  Edna K. Bush

• Classics in Mormon Thought: Freely Ye Have Received: Freely Give
  George Albert Smith (1870–1951)

• The Iowa Trek of 1846: The Brigham Young Route from Nauvoo to Winter Quarters
  Stanley B. Kimball

• Buddhism
  Spencer J. Palmer

• Home/Family

• Our Children: Love Them and Listen to Them
  Daryl V. Hoole

• Our First Home Was a Schoolhouse
  Aileen Kilgore Henderson

• Eating on the Road
  Mary L. Bradford

• Let’s Make Dried Fruit Leather
  Dora D. Flack

• My Loves
  Verda F. Welch

• Human Relations/Teaching

• Stop That Sputtering
  Genevieve Van Wagenen

• Letterwriting Tips for the Genealogist

• Three Simple Rules to Help You Make Decisions
  Irwin Ross

• Fiction/Poetry

• The Kingdom Someday (A Modern Fable)
  James Waldrop

• Poetry
  Rosemary Roberts Petty
  Lindsay R. Curtis
  Dale Partridge
  Evalyn M. Sandberg
  Donna Dickey Guyer
  Lola S. Morgan
  Henry Watson
  Annie C. Esplin
  Anne Barlow