Ensign

July 1981

Volume 11 Number 7

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: “If Ye Are Prepared Ye Shall Not Fear”
  President Marion G. Romney

• Increasing Our Effectiveness in Home Teaching
  Elder L. Tom Perry

• Choosing the Good Life: Bob Scabby and Indian Placement
  J. Neil Birch and John A. Forster

• Alcohol Addiction: Hope for Understanding and Recovery
  James R. Goodrich

• Johan and Alma Lindlof: Early Saints in Russia
  Kahlile Mehr

• Between Faith and Charity: Some Thoughts on Hope
  Rebecca Gwynn Stradling

• The Small Acts, the Great Rewards
  Michael Whisler

• “Brethren, Love Your Wives”
  Elder James E. Faust

• The Fine Art of Raising Teenagers
  C. Richard Chidester

• A Lesson From a Blizzard
  Ronald J. Dunn

• What Now? What Then? Some Thoughts on Life-span Planning
  Addie Fuhriman

• Seeking “the Good, the Pure, the Elevating”: A Short History of Mormon Fiction, Part 2
  Richard H. Cracroft

• Opapo: The Power of His Faith
  Carl Fonoimoana

• Regular Features

• Poetry
  John Ormond, Welsh Poet, Speaks (to one of Welsh ancestry) Dawn Baker Brimley
  She Shall Be Praised Elder S. Dilworth Young
  “Of Time and Every Purpose” Dixie Lee Partridge

• I Have a Question
  Janice R. Welker
  Dolores C. Ritchie

• Mormon Journal
  Acres of Fire Genevieve Bowen Williams
  “My Neighbor, Marge” LaDean Morton
  Music Was the Missionary Marjorie P. Hinckley
  The Windows of Heaven Neli A. Rogers

• Sharing

• Random Sampler

• Mirthright: The All-Purpose Discourse
  Lane Johnson

• Speaking Today: An Attitude—The Weightier Matters
  Elder Marion D. Hanks

• Comment

• The Best Thing We’ve Done

• News of the Church