New Era

June 1989

Volume 19, Number 6

Contents

• Feedback
  Letters to the editor.

• The Message: Of the Most Worth
  President Ezra Taft Benson
  We must take missionary work seriously.

• Mormonad: Fight Hunger—Serve a Mission

• Why Missionaries Serve
  A. Lynn Scoresby
  Successful missionaries share similar motivation.

• Love Lasts
  Lisa A. Johnson
  What if your friends don’t accept the gospel?

• Q&A: Questions and Answers
  I’m shy. How can I be a missionary?

• Minnesota’s Marvelous Missionaries
  Richard M. Romney
  How to send a magazine on a mission.

• No Contest
  Elder Russell C. Taylor
  A girl learns that people, not numbers, really count.

• Mormonisms

• Never Too Young
  Kathy Kleekamp
  A Cambodian-American boy shows amazing missionary enthusiasm.

• Each One by Name
  Cynthia Pennell
  Eerie scarecrows introduced us to an intriguing shepherd.

• What to Take
  A list of things missionaries wish they’d brought along.

• A Little like Angels
  Spencer Garvey
  California girls give suggestions for gospel-sharing success.

• My Family: Hang In There
  Lori S. Dawson
  A few short words helped this missionary battle the blues.

• FYI: For Your Information
  How many, how much, how to—missionary tips.

• Miss(ionary) Manners
  Barbara Barrington Jones
  How to be more able at the table.

• What to Send
  Care packages missionaries are guaranteed to love.

• Get Ready, Get Set …
  Melvin C. Green
  What missionaries should know before they go.

• Fiction: Sing We Now at Parting
  Jack Weyland
  She’d had a thousand chances to introduce him to the gospel.

• Photo of the Month
  Steve Bunderson

• Poetry: Missionary Work
  A. Bryan Sherrill