New Era

July 1983

Volume 13, Number 6

Contents

• Departments

• Feedback

• The Message: On the Wrong Bus
  Elder Sterling W. Sill

• Mormonisms

• My Family: Summer Bonfires
  Mitzi A. Mollinet

• FYI: For Your Information

• Photo of the Month
  Dan Collier

• Feature Articles

• A Chapter a Day

• Barnard’s Boots
  William G. Hartley

• Improving Your Portraits
  Anna and Michael Keogh

• “Have You Done Everything?”
  E. LaMar Buckner

• Hokkaido Holiday
  Richard M. Romney

• Mine Eyes Have Seen the Glory
  Don Lind

• The Business of Being
  Elder Derek A. Cuthbert

• Fiction and Poetry

• It’s a Sin to Steal a Watermelon
  Walter L. Maughan

• Joy
  Rebecca Lynn Prengel

Cover: Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost island, is home to scruffy vegetation near Abashiri Bay and scrappy sprinters in Sapporo. See story, p. 28. (Photos by Sachiko Hotta and Richard M. Romney.)