New Era

November 1995

Volume 25, Number 11

Contents

• The Message: Run Like a Duck
  Elder W. Eugene Hansen
  Want to be better? Do better? Then master this principle.

• Focus On: Faith—A Dream Coming True
  Randall Shirley
  Kiruba is a young convert from India who is determined to make a difference.

• In Tune: Simple Pleasures

  Linda E. Hart

• Playing above the Rim
  Chris Crowe
  If you want to slam-dunk in real life, keep your standards high.

• My Own Bible
  Sonia Bellorin
  I couldn’t afford one until the Lord sent a small miracle to my door.

• Q&A: Questions and Answers
  I know that to stay morally clean I must have clean thoughts. But the dirty jokes I hear in passing seem to stick with me. How can I be in this world and not of it?

• Mormonad: Idle Worship

• Good Seed
  Janet Thomas
  The Young Women worldwide celebration results in a wonderful harvest.

• Measuring Up
  Lloyd Newell
  Those marks on the furnace room wall measured more than height.

• The Middle of Somewhere
  Larry A. Hiller
  Jared Kowalski strikes it rich in an isolated mining town.

• FYI: For Your Info

• Coming Back
  Sara Fitzgerald
  It wasn’t easy, but coming back to church was the best thing I ever did.

• Fiction: Where Have All the Flowers Gone?
  Kathleen “Casey” Null
  An armful of blossoms is nothing to sneeze at.

• Mormonisms

• Not If, but When
  Lee Dalton
  Life is like flying a plane; you’ve got to be prepared if you want to survive.

• Feedback
  Letters to the editors

• Poem: A Child’s World
  Michelle Bastian

• Photo of the Month
  Stuart L. Grigg

Cover: Like thousands of others, Sara Painter, 16, of the Tempe (Arizona) Tenth Ward planted seeds of testimony through scripture study. Cover photography: Janet Thomas (front), Welden Andersen (back).