Ensign

November 1979

Volume 9 Number 11

Contents

• Report of the 149th Semiannual General Conference of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

• Saturday Morning Session

• “We Need a Listening Ear”
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• “An Angel from on High, the Long, Long Silence Broke”
  Elder Gordon B. Hinckley

• The Voice of the Lord Is unto All People
  Elder W. Grant Bangerter

• O America, America
  Elder Mark E. Petersen

• Maintaining Spirituality
  President Marion G. Romney

• Saturday Afternoon Session

• The Sustaining of Church Officers
  President N. Eldon Tanner

• Prayers and Answers
  Elder Boyd K. Packer

• Joseph Smith the Prophet
  Elder David B. Haight

• Language: A Divine Way of Communicating
  Elder Charles Didier

• Therefore I Was Taught
  Elder A. Theodore Tuttle

• Send Missionaries from Every Nation
  Elder Yoshihiko Kikuchi

• A Witness and a Warning
  President Ezra Taft Benson

• Priesthood Session

• Making the Right Decisions
  Elder L. Tom Perry

• The Governing Ones
  Elder William R. Bradford

• Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ
  President Marion G. Romney

• The Administration of the Church
  President N. Eldon Tanner

• Our Sisters in the Church
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• Sunday Morning Session

• The Contributions of the Prophet Joseph Smith
  President N. Eldon Tanner

• The Mystery of Mormonism
  Elder Bruce R. McConkie

• Prayer to Our Heavenly Father
  Elder Bernard P. Brockbank

• Progress through Change
  Elder Marvin J. Ashton

• Reading the Scriptures
  Elder Howard W. Hunter

• Sunday Afternoon Session

• Pornography—the Deadly Carrier
  Elder Thomas S. Monson

• “After Much Tribulation Come the Blessings”
  Elder Adney Y. Komatsu

• Happiness Now and Forever
  Elder Richard G. Scott

• Commandments to Live By
  Elder O. Leslie Stone

• “We Will Go with Our Young and with Our Old”
  Elder Hugh W. Pinnock

• The Gift of the Holy Ghost
  Elder LeGrand Richards

• “Give Me This Mountain”
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• Welfare Session

• Constancy Amid Change
  President N. Eldon Tanner

• The Relief Society Role in Priesthood Councils
  President Barbara B. Smith

• Priesthood Administration of Welfare Services
  Elder J. Thomas Fyans

• Blessing the One
  Bishop Victor L. Brown

• Establishing the Church: Welfare Services Missionaries Are an Important Resource
  Elder James E. Faust

• The Role of a Bishop in the Church Welfare Program
  President Marion G. Romney

• General Conference Music

• Women’s Fireside Addresses

• The Role of Righteous Women
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• Teaching Our Little Women
  Sister Naomi M. Shumway

• Our Mighty Errand
  Sister Elaine Cannon

• Women for the Latter Day
  Sister Barbara B. Smith

• News of the Church

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On the cover: Laie, Hawaii, site of the Hawaii Temple, by Torleif Knaphus (oil on canvas, 23″ by 32″, c. 1920, located in the Lion House).

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Inside front cover: Seagull Monument on Temple Square in Salt Lake City.

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Inside back cover: C. C. A. Christensen’s Panorama #12, Joseph Preaches to the Lamanites, (above).

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C. C. A. Christensen’s Panorama #13, Joseph Reviews the Nauvoo Legion, (below).

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Photography in this issue: Photographs of First Presidencies of the Church are from the Historical Department Archives, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Other photography is by Public Communications Photo Services: Eldon K. Linschoten, chief photographer; Jed A. Clark, Marilyn L. Erd, and Eric W. White.