New Era

January 1988

Volume 18, Number 1

Contents

• Feedback
  Letters to the editor.

• The Message: The Law of Chastity
  President Ezra Taft Benson
  The Lord delights in chastity, which is “most dear and precious above all things.”

• First Person: When the Pressure Is On
  Stephanie Christensen
  A young woman stands up to her classmates.

• In Tune: Just One Little Light
  Janice Kapp Perry
  From the October 1987 Young Women fireside.

• Missionary Focus: Assorted Assyrians
  Betty Curry
  How I learned my mission call to Alaska was inspired.

• Mormonad: Write away to missionaries.

• Leaving Paradise
  Gail Andersen Newbold
  Moving from Hawaii to Minnesota was actually good for me.

• Giving up the Ball
  Janet Thomas and Lisa A. Johnson
  Returned missionaries can play basketball.

• Mormonisms

• There’s No Place like the Rock
  Laird Roberts
  Young Latter-day Saints in Newfoundland.

• A Wing and a Prayer
  David C. Campbell
  Flying through clouds with his father, a young man learns about faith.

• Squirrels and Tennis Balls
  Brian C. Heckert
  Some jobs have to be done well—over and over again.

• FYI: For Your Information
  Youth read the Book of Mormon in 100 days, earn gold medals in wrestling, play the organ after seminary … and more.

• Fiction: Crawford P. Jones Is More than Okay
  Don Smurthwaite
  Can a stumbling, awkward guy gain the social skills to survive?

• Photo of the Month
  Carolyn S. Allen

• Poetry: Mystic Encounter
  John M. Freckleton