Ensign

December 1975

Volume 5 Number 12

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: Our Paths Have Met Again
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• Mingled Destinies: The Lamanites and the Latter-day Saints
  Dean L. Larsen

• Who and Where Are the Lamanites?
  Lane Johnson

• The Church in the Lamanite World: Scanning the Special Programs Created to Meet Lamanite Needs
  Attack on Illiteracy Paul James Toscano
  Helping Lamanites Achieve Economic Independence Paul James Toscano
  When Schools Are Few Lane Johnson
  Seminary for Six-Year-Olds Chris L. Jones
  Learning the Best of Both Worlds’ Cultures Harold C. Brown
  Combating the Life-Shorteners Janice Clark
  Toppling the College Barricade Paul James Toscano

• Meet Father Lehi’s Children

• Elder George Lee: “I Owe Every Opportunity to the Lord” Lawrence Cummins

• Agricol Lozano H.: “When Will You Dedicate Your Chapel?”

• Dierdrie Ormsby: “I Feel Kind of Proud”

• Pat Yazzie: “Having a Natural Tan”

• Carlos L. Pedraja: “I Didn’t Go to Russia”

• Larry EchoHawk: Someone’s Concerned about Me

• Tonga Toutai Paletu’a: “I Couldn’t Hold Back the Tears”

• Daniel Afamasaga Betham: “We Paid Our Tithing”

• Ines G. de Trujillo: Mother of Missionaries

• The Christmas I Learned to Love Again
  Lynn Baxter

• Shh! Telling Spoils the Fun

• Long, Long Ago: A Family Carol
  Author unknown, music byJoyce Jensen

• Spiritual Gifts: A Key to Effective Parenthood
  Immo and Helmi Luschin von Ebengreuth

• How to Receive Spiritual Gifts
  Lane Johnson

• How to Get Better as You Get Older
  Harold Glen Clark

• Growing Up Spiritually: The College Years
  Maureen Jensen Ward

• Let’s Start Talking Again: The Conversation Game Every Husband and Wife Can Play
  Susan Tanner Holmes

• A Strange Thing in the Land: The Return of the Book of Enoch, Part 2
  Hugh Nibley

• Regular Features

• I Have a Question
  Joe J. Christensen
  Dr. Victor Brown, Jr.
  Ralph D. Barney
  Richard W. Linford

• Mirthright

• Keeping Pace

• The First Quorum of the Seventy: A Conversation with Elder S. Dilworth Young

• How Priesthood Quorums Sponsor Overseas Missionaries

• Consider String Quartets for Church Music

• Poetry and Other Verse

• Circling Winter Mary L. Bradford

• Teaching Dianne Dibb Forbis

• Prediction Wanda Loveridge

• These Treasured Years Bonnie Lee Wells

• Temple Thought Wanda Loveridge

• Needs Ramona Demery

• Self-Interrogation Hazel M. Thomson

• Random Sampler

• Mormon Media

• Reading Mormon History: There’s Never Been More Davis Bitton

• News of the Church

• Children Ice-Skating