Ensign

August 1979

Volume 9 Number 8

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: “The Debate Is Over”
  President N. Eldon Tanner

• Leadership at Home and Church
  Jesus: The Perfect Leader President Spencer W. Kimball
  How We Lead Our Family Together Ronald and Sherri Zirker
  Why, How, and How Not to Delegate: Some Hints for Home and Church William G. Dyer
  The Many Voices: How to Balance the Demands on Your Time Robert F. Bohn
  Reproving with Love Spencer J. Condie

• How Am I Doing as a Member-Missionary?
  Marvin K. Gardner

• Jane Manning James: Black Saint, 1847 Pioneer
  Linda King Newell and Valeen Tippetts Avery

• Perth, Australia: It Took Faith, Not Money
  H. Dyke Walton

• The Whitmers: A Family that Nourished the Church
  Richard Lloyd Anderson

• Early Saints and the Millennium
  Glen M. Leonard

• Two More Mormon Trails: The Boonslick Trail; The Mississippi Saints’ Trail
  Stanley B. Kimball

• Why Deck the Halls with Your Follies?
  Anya C. Bateman

• Regular Features

• I Have a Question
  Homer Ellsworth
  Clifford J. Stratton

• Poetry
  Benediction for David’s Father Susan H. Aylworth
  The Call Lucille N. Anderson

• Mirthright

• Fiction: Everncere
  Eileen Gibbons Kump

• Mormon Journal
  In a Vietnam Helicopter William E. Phipps, Jr.
  Fuel Oil, Rebellion, and Warm Bricks Brent D. Cooper
  Those Wasted Postage Stamps Lorna Burnett

• Random Sampler

• Speaking Today: On Dealing with Uncertainty
  Bruce C. Hafen

• The Best Thing We’ve Done

• News of the Church