Ensign

June 1978

Volume 8 Number 6

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: Happiness Is Home Centered
  President N. Eldon Tanner

• What I’ve Learned from Mothering
  Louise O. Baird

• How I “Discovered” My Wife
  Thomas W. Ladanye

• Family Finances
  Orson Scott Card

• “Accept Fully This Gift from the Lord”: A Conversation with the Relief Society General Presidency

• A Vision of Visiting Teaching
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• Relief Society Presidents Prove … The Second Mile Is Paved With Innovation, Part 1
  Lavina Fielding Anderson

• Our Five-Generation Love Affair with Relief Society
  Athelia T. Woolley, with Athelia S. Tanner

• When a Woman Is Alone
  Cherry Silver

• “Fit” Is More Than “Not Fat”
  Phyllis C. Jacobson and Barbara Vance

• A Pioneer Is Not a Woman Who Makes Her Own Soap
  Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

• Moroni
  W. Cole Durham, Jr.

• New Directions in Work for the Dead

• A Respectful Meeting of the Minds
  Lavina Fielding Anderson

• Regular Features

• Poetry

• Mirthright

• Mormon Journal
  Linda Miller: Quiet Lady in the Limelight Sharon Elwell
  Mary Wright: Why We Need Grandmothers Lavina Fielding Anderson

• Insights

• News of the Church

On the cover: Nursery Corner, Rose Hartwell (probably before 1930), oil, 24″ x 29″, Brigham Young University permanent collection. Back cover poetry by Jay A. Parry.

Inside front cover: Adam and Eve, Dennis Smith (1970), lifesize, plaster, Visitors Center North, Temple Square.

Inside back cover: The Swiss Temple.