By Dave Ellis
I’m a terrible procrastinator. In the unfinished halls of the world’s greatest procrastinators I rank among the worst of the best. If I made procrastination a goal, I probably wouldn’t do it. Which actually would be accomplishing the goal,
I think, or maybe not. I’ll have to get back to you on that.

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by Annette Lyon
Our family visited grandparents the first weekend of January. At least, that’s my excuse for not knowing about our bishop’s “Book of Mormon Iron Man.” By the time we heard he’d challenged the ward to read the entire Book of Mormon before spring general conference, I figured we’d lost too much daylight to make it happen for our family.

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By Gawain and Gayle Wells
Excerpted from “Courtship: Labor of Love,” Ensign, Dec. 1979.
Courtship is a wonderful period,” said President David O. McKay. “It should be a sacred one. That is the time in which you choose your mate.” (True to the Faith, Bookcraft, 1966, p. 317.)

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By Nettie H. Francis
I have a New Year’s Resolution: This year we will buy a van. Not just any van – a twelve passenger, all wheel drive, five door, three bench vehicle; in other words, a Family Van. When I called the car dealer and gave him my dream van description, he was incredulous.

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By Tina Scott
One of my fondest Christmas memories takes me back to chilly nights with my father driving my brother and me around town to look at the lights. Our town had a yearly contest, and some of the houses were adorned with so many lights they took my breath away.

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