April 1980
Contents
What the Lord Has Said to Us about Our Dispensation
What Joseph Smith Has Said about Our Dispensation
Poetry
“This Do in Remembrance of Me”
Elouise Bell
150-Year Drama: A Personal View of Our History
Gordon B. Hinckley
A Statistical Profile: What Numbers Tell Us about Ourselves
This Final Glorious Gospel Dispensation
Bruce R. McConkie
Belonging: A View of Membership
Jeffrey R. Holland
The Church of 1980: A Photo Essay
The Church’s Cross-Cultural Encounters
Lavina Fielding Anderson
Brothers and Sisters: A 1980 Sampling
Through the Veil
Ray J. Snelson
Peace
Jeannie Takahashi
His Hands on My Head
Anna-Greta Malm
Water from My Well
Irma de MacKenna
The Best of All Good News: The Gospel Is Restored
W. Grant Bangerter
I Have a Question
What should I teach my children about bearing their testimonies?
Susan Zmolek
How can we obtain good art for our homes without spending a fortune for it?
Brent Laycock
Putting First Things First—Together
Lorin and Lina Hatch
Random Sampler
Sleepytime Is Songtime
Paula Connell Kvarfordt
Round and Round They Grow
Marie Call Webb
Every Member a Convert
Grace Jorgensen
What My Daughters Taught Me
Sharon Elwell
Sharing
Talkety Girl
Penny Allen
“I’m Going to Be Happy”
Anya Bateman
Learning, Teaching
Mildred Barthel
Her Children Felt Secure
Caroline Eyring Miner
A Time and a Season
Geri Brinley
News of the Church
Presidency of the First Quorum of the Seventy Reorganized
Church Members Look to New Meeting Schedule
The Nursery—a Time to Learn
But When Can the Choir Practice?
BYU Women’s Conference Draws Thousands
Young Women, Relief Society Schedule Annual General Meetings
LDS Scene
“Poetry,” Ensign, Apr. 1980, 9