February 1977
Contents
“Choose Ye This Day”
Marion G. Romney
Alma the Elder
Arthur R. Bassett
Reverence in the Church: A New Long-range Emphasis
Area Conferences from Monterrey to Santiago
It’s a Young Church in … Mexico
Orson Scott Card
Unconventional Convention
Gordon Irving
Central America: Saints in Six Nations Grow in the Gospel
Colombia
Ecuador
Peru
Bolivia
Chile
Steven J. Iverson
Great-Grandfather’s Family
Davis Bitton
I Have a Question
Should I vote to sustain someone to an office in the Church if I think that he would not make a good leader?
H. Dean Garrett
What can my wife and I do to change our quarreling?
G. Hugh Allred
How is it humanly possible to keep on top of the daily duties?
Carma Cutler
Ruth Hale: High Drama and a Great Sense of Humor
Laurie J. Wilson
Poetry
A Trilogy Companionship
Vernice Wineera Pere
Random Sampler
Eat a Story for Lunch
Sharon Dequer
A Sticky Situation
C. Russell Nickel
Sprout It Out
John M. Hill
Make Washables More Wearable
Rehee Thackeray
Looseleaf Quiet Book
Gayla Myers
“A Strange Thing in the Land”: The Return of the Book of Enoch, Part 9
Hugh Nibley
I Had a Mother Who Read to Me
Ann Moulton Johnson
Discovery
“Had You Stood in the Presence of Peter”: A Letter from Oliver Cowdery to Phineas Young, 1846
Ronald G. Watt
The Macks of Marlow
A. Gary Anderson
Mirthright
Insights
Dangerous Times
Arturo Palmieri
We Came to Win
Hartman Rector
Father Is Head of the Family
Richard G. Scott
Are You Buying a 1947 Chevrolet?
Loren C. Dunn
To Know God and Jesus Christ
Bernard P. Brockbank
Strengthen the Spirit
John H. Vandenberg
Proxy Baptism
John A. Tvedtnes
The Greatest Experience
H. Burke Peterson
“Trusted with Great Knowledge”
Chauncey C. Riddle
I Should Have Changed the Subject
Sharan Elwell
Keeping the Ox Mired
Richard G. Ellsworth
Comment
Five Ways to Bear Testimony
Kenneth L. Higbee
News of the Church
General Conferences to Be Two-day Conferences
Elder Robert E. Wells Assigned to Chile as Area Supervisor
Genealogy Brings Duke of Argyll to Church Headquarters
Church Television Special Brings 90,000 Responses
Pageants on Church Themes Set for 1977
LDS Scene
“Poetry,” Ensign, Feb. 1977, 63