Ensign

August 1980

Volume 10 Number 8

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: “We Feel an Urgency”
  President Spencer W. Kimball

• Leadership at Home and Church
  The Image of a Church Leader Elder Mark E. Petersen
  Grandfather’s Goodness Kathleen Lubeck
  Contention—And How to Eliminate It A. LaVar Thornock
  Chicken Coop or Church? Influencing Our Children to Righteousness George Durrant
  How to Move the Kingdom Elder J. Thomas Fyans

• The Church’s Years in Vietnam
  R. Lanier Britsch and Richard C. Holloman, Jr.

• “We Know You’ve Been Curious … But Were Too Polite to Ask”
  Kathleen P. Whitworth

• A Covenant People: Old Testament Light on Modern Covenants
  David J. Whittaker

• Repentance: A Daily Pattern
  Franklin S. Gonzalez

• Let’s Talk about It: Some Suggestions for Family Discussions

• The Hardest Truth I Ever Faced (Name withheld by request)

• The Faithful Young Family: The Parents, Brothers and Sisters of Brigham
  Leonard J. Arrington and JoAnn Jolley

• Suffering and Song: Edna Coray Dyer
  JoAnn Jolley

• Preparing Children for New Situations
  Laurie Williams Sowby

• Regular Features

• I Have a Question
  Sharon and Wayne Dequer
  Clark Swain
  Grant E. Barton

• Poetry
  Temple: A Three-Part Meditation Clifton Holt Jolley
  Poem for Two Voices Wendy J. Allen

• Mormon Journal
  The Warning Whistle Fenton Whitney, as told to Mary Noel Rigby
  “And I Saw I Must Soon Go Down to My Grave” Florence Bowman
  “There Are Prophets Today!” She Told Me Rosalind Jones
  More Than a Machine Jack R. Jenkins

• Random Sampler

• Sharing

• Speaking Today
  The Lord As a Role Model for Men and Women Ida Smith
  Mormon Women: A Convert’s Perspective Carolyn J. Rasmus

• News of the Church

On the cover: Joseph Smith in Liberty Jail, Gary E. Smith, 36″ by 48″, oil on canvas, 1980. In artist’s possession.

Back cover: Restoration of the Melchizedek Priesthood, Gary E. Smith, 36″ by 40″, oil on canvas, 1980. In artist’s possession.

Inside front cover: Whittingham, Vermont, Birthplace of Brigham Young, Al Rounds, 19″ by 29″, watercolor, 1979. Located in the Church Historical Department.

Inside back cover: Seventies Hall, Al Rounds, 22″ by 30″, watercolor, 1979. Located in the Church Historical Department.