New Era

November 1991

Volume 21, Number 11

Contents

• The Message: All This and the Gospel Too
  President Ezra Taft Benson
  We are richly blessed, and should spend more time thanking the Lord.

• Figure Eights
  Kit Poole
  Sometimes a stuffy old father in a bowler hat and ear muffs can skate rings around us all.

• Scripture Lifeline: A Change of Heart
  Christie Ann Giles
  The Lord was waiting to answer my prayer, as soon as I prayed the right way.

• How I Know: Just Try to Stop Me!
  Ashley Moran
  The missionaries hadn’t had an investigator in months. Now here I was, tracting them!

• Mormonad: Treasures on Earth

• Q&A: Questions and Answers
  Is it morally wrong to be rich in a world where so many are poor?

• On Top of the World
  Larry A. Hiller
  By living the gospel, the Fuller family turned the end of the earth into home sweet home.

• Why Not Beautiful?
  Diane L. Mangum
  I felt quite plain, until a friend named Esther taught me what real beauty means.

• Radio Days
  Margaret Wilding
  Does anyone want to talk to Shauna Richards of Rock Springs, Wyoming? Only people all over the world.

• Storm Warning
  Colleen Conrad Torrie
  We’d been told travel was dangerous, but it took an angel in a cowboy hat to make us understand.

• Mormonisms

• Just One Pamphlet
  Allyson Smith
  It was time for dinner, and nobody was listening anyway. Why bother talking to a lumberjack?

• FYI: For Your Info

• Fiction: The Driving Lesson
  Janet Thomas
  He taught me how to make a left turn. But I helped him learn how to turn around.

• Feedback
  Letters to the editor.

• Photo of the Month
  Melissa Marshall

• Poem: Love of Trees
  Janet Durham Jackson