New Era

May 1987

Volume 17, Number 5

Contents

• Departments

• Feedback

• The Message: Prayer
  Elder John Sonnenberg

• Mormonad

• First Person: Hold On
  Janene Wolsey Baadsgaard

• Mormonisms

• FYI: For Your Information

• Scripture Lifeline: “Choose You This Day”
  Barbara Jacob

• Photo of the Month
  Gary Olsen

• Feature Articles

• Seek Not after Your Own Heart
  Peter M. Hansen

• Freely Given: Walter Stover—A Legend of Generosity
  Melvin Leavitt

• “Oh, They Have Never Been Active”
  Ruth Heiner

• Wind River Legacy
  Janet Thomas

• Dooleyalawalagus
  Lori Stephenson

• Setting a President
  Lisa A. Johnson

• Calling Time Out
  Spencer Garvey

• Cliff Walking
  S. Olani Durrant

• Fiction and Poetry

• The Girl with the All-American Teeth
  Ann Edwards Cannon

• Bedtime Story
  Ellen Fagg

Cover: Ann Abeita from Fort Washakie, Wyoming, is involved in preserving the heritage of her Shoshone nation, a legacy left by her great-great-grandfather (see story, p. 20). (Photography by Laird Roberts.)