Ensign

August 1981

Volume 11 Number 8

Contents

• Special Features

• First Presidency Message: Trusting the Lord’s Promise
  President N. Eldon Tanner

• “We Hope They Call Us on a Mission!”
  Elder Jacob de Jager

• Couples to Go

  Elder Vaughn J. Featherstone

• The Christ-Centered Life
  Elder Neal A. Maxwell

• “No Respecter of Persons”
  David Hanna and Steven Ostler

• Keeping the Marriage Covenant

• Discovering My Icelanders
  Clark T. Thorstenson

• Family Fun—on a Shoestring
  Miles Bachman

• Steinway in the Stairway
  Clayne Robison

• “I Have Work Enough to Do” (Don’t I?)
  Karen Lynn

• Community Service: It Comes Naturally
  Patricia Van De Graaff

• We Adopted Some Grandparents
  Brent D. Cooper

• The Unlikely Daniel Webster Jones: First Spanish Translations from the Book of Mormon
  Jack McAllister

• Season the Questions, Serve Them with Style
  Dianne Dibb Forbis

• Meeting My Students … on Their Own Ground
  Marjorie P. Ericksen

• Kinderhook Plates Brought to Joseph Smith Appear to Be a Nineteenth-Century Hoax
  Stanley B. Kimball

• Regular Features

• Poetry
  An Act of Love Evelyn Richwine
  The Might-Have-Been Convert Gail Christensen
  At a Roadside Table Alda L. Brown
  Missionary Donnell Hunter

• I Have a Question
  Goldie Despain
  Ermel J. Morton
  Norman E. Wright

• Sharing

• Random Sampler

• Fiction: Neighbors
  Diane A. Gordon

• Speaking Today: The Mission of Elijah
  Elder Mark E. Petersen

• News of the Church