Ensign

January 1979

Volume 9 Number 1

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: The Power of Testimony
  President N. Eldon Tanner

• Getting and Keeping the Missionary Spirit
  Elder Jacob de Jager

• Cold Gravy or Cherry Pie: Keeping the Romance in Marriage
  Marvin K. Gardner

• I Was Flunking as a Father
  J. Stephen Larsen

• To Prepare a People
  William O. Nelson

• Kirtland: The Crucial Years
  Milton V. Backman, Jr.

• The First Road West: From New York to Kirtland, 1831
  Stanley B. Kimball

• The Way It Looks Today: A Camera Tour of Church History Sites in the Kirtland Neighborhood

• Kirtland’s Resolute Saints
  Lavina Fielding Anderson

• The Best New Year’s Resolution I Ever Made

• Regular Features

• I Have a Question
  Richard Lloyd Anderson
  Mary James
  Paul and Marie Bergeson
  Elder Hugh W. Pinnock

• Random Sampler

• Speaking Today
  Our Sisters from the Beginning Elder Bruce R. McConkie

• Fiction: The Movie
  John Cook

• Mormon Journal
  Compassion of a President Ferren L. Christensen
  The Dedicated Daniel Choc Kirt Harmon

• Keeping Pace

• News of the Church