“Contents,” Ensign, Dec. 1975, 1 Ensign December 1975 Volume 5 Number 12 Contents Special Features First Presidency Message: Our Paths Have Met AgainPresident Spencer W. Kimball Mingled Destinies: The Lamanites and the Latter-day SaintsDean L. Larsen Who and Where Are the Lamanites?Lane Johnson The Church in the Lamanite World: Scanning the Special Programs Created to Meet Lamanite NeedsAttack on Illiteracy Paul James ToscanoHelping Lamanites Achieve Economic Independence Paul James ToscanoWhen Schools Are Few Lane JohnsonSeminary for Six-Year-Olds Chris L. JonesLearning the Best of Both Worlds’ Cultures Harold C. BrownCombating the Life-Shorteners Janice ClarkToppling the College Barricade Paul James Toscano Meet Father Lehi’s Children Elder George Lee: “I Owe Every Opportunity to the Lord” Lawrence Cummins Agricol Lozano H.: “When Will You Dedicate Your Chapel?” Dierdrie Ormsby: “I Feel Kind of Proud” Pat Yazzie: “Having a Natural Tan” Carlos L. Pedraja: “I Didn’t Go to Russia” Larry EchoHawk: Someone’s Concerned about Me Tonga Toutai Paletu’a: “I Couldn’t Hold Back the Tears” Daniel Afamasaga Betham: “We Paid Our Tithing” Ines G. de Trujillo: Mother of Missionaries The Christmas I Learned to Love AgainLynn Baxter Shh! Telling Spoils the Fun Long, Long Ago: A Family CarolAuthor unknown, music byJoyce Jensen Spiritual Gifts: A Key to Effective ParenthoodImmo and Helmi Luschin von Ebengreuth How to Receive Spiritual GiftsLane Johnson How to Get Better as You Get OlderHarold Glen Clark Growing Up Spiritually: The College YearsMaureen Jensen Ward Let’s Start Talking Again: The Conversation Game Every Husband and Wife Can PlaySusan Tanner Holmes A Strange Thing in the Land: The Return of the Book of Enoch, Part 2Hugh Nibley Regular Features I Have a QuestionJoe J. ChristensenDr. Victor Brown, Jr.Ralph D. BarneyRichard W. Linford Mirthright Keeping Pace The First Quorum of the Seventy: A Conversation with Elder S. Dilworth Young How Priesthood Quorums Sponsor Overseas Missionaries Consider String Quartets for Church Music Poetry and Other Verse Circling Winter Mary L. Bradford Teaching Dianne Dibb Forbis Prediction Wanda Loveridge These Treasured Years Bonnie Lee Wells Temple Thought Wanda Loveridge Needs Ramona Demery Self-Interrogation Hazel M. Thomson Random Sampler Mormon Media Reading Mormon History: There’s Never Been More Davis Bitton News of the Church Children Ice-Skating On the cover: Art symbolizing the Lamanites around the world, by Jerry Thompson Inside back cover: Children Ice-Skating. Painting by Danquart Anthon Weggeland. Winter snows in pioneer times brought their own kind of pleasures. The Saints could rest from their agricultural labors and take time out for fun. Wagon boxes were placed on runners and filled with warmed bricks or hay and quilts to make one of the common pioneer sleighs. These horse-drawn sleighs provided much of the wintertime amusement. Sleigh racing, snowball fighting, belly busting (sledding), and ice-skating added their measure of good times. Dan Weggeland captures this spirit of winter frolic in the painting of pioneer children ice-skating. Bundled against the cold, the children are enjoying each other’s company and the challenge of the ice. Skates consisted of removable blades attached to the soles of the shoes. A spill on the ice often caused the shoe sole to tear loose, and many a pioneer child had to have his shoes resoled a couple of times each winter. Skating was done on frozen ponds or rivers, or sometimes a meadow or field was flooded to make the necessary ice. The painter, Danquart Anthon Weggeland, was born in Norway in 1827. He joined the Church there in 1854 and, after serving a mission, came to Utah in 1863. He was a prolific artist, producing many paintings of Utah scenery and pioneer life until his death at the age of 91. Weggeland has been called the “Father of Utah Art.”