New Era

November 1978

Volume 8, Number 11

Contents

• Departments

• Feedback

• The Message: In Football or in Life
  Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin

• Mormonisms

• FYI: For Your Information

• Participatory Journalism: A Bit of Heaven Granted
  Deanna S. Martin

• Mormonad

• Feature Articles

• Sending My Husband on His Mission in the Dead of Winter
  Rosa Kohler and Robb Russon

• The Gentile Cow
  Rhoda Lewis Behunin

• A Splashing Success
  Richard M. Romney

• A Land Called Chile
  Melvin Leavitt

• Turkey and Pumpkin Pie: A Way of Saying Thank You
  Babzanne Park

• Heard Through the Heart
  Kim R. Burningham

• A Cry for Help
  Steve Larsen

• “Be Not Ashamed”: Facing the Issues
  Terry J. Moyer

• Fiction and Poetry

• A Word So Far Away
  Mark Allen Johnson

Cover: Photos by Jed Clark

“I foresee the day when The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints will be the most powerful influence in this nation”—Elder Bruce R. McConkie, Area Conference, Santiago, Chile, March 1, 1977