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Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy Volume 8 Number 2 Article 8 4-1-1982 AMCAP Journal Volume 8 Issue 2 1982 Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/irp Recommended Citation Psychotherapy, Issues in Religion and (1982) "AMCAP Journal Volume 8 Issue 2 1982," Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy: Vol. 8 : No. 2 , Article 8. Available at: https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/irp/vol8/iss2/8 This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the Journals at BYU ScholarsArchive. It has been accepted for inclusion in Issues in Religion and Psychotherapy by an authorized editor of BYU ScholarsArchive. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected]. We are pleased to be able in this issue to bring you EDITORIAL Elder Yoshihiko Kikuchi's address presented at our April, 1981 AMCAP Convention. If you'weren't able to hear it personally. we hope as you read it you will experience the great feeling and spirit of love that he radiated to us. We trust you will enjoy and find profitable the rather wide variety of articles presented in this issue. If you desire articles on specific topics or special issues devoted to Kiven topics. please communicate your desires. In addit'on to the other articles in this issue. we believe you will enl0Y and find stimulation in the related articles of brtlthers Warner and Brower and find f00d for careful th,'uKht in the sl'mewhal wntrasting philosophical CORRECTION: assumption on the genesis of feelings in the Burnout artide by Brothers Willis and Fondren. An apology is extended to Brother Victor Brown. Jr. AKain. \Ve enCouraKe you to write and submit articles and readers who may have been confused due to a and tl' encourage others that you believe have a message printing error in Brother Brown's article. "Sexual f,'r AMCAP memb"rs to do likew,se. We thank all of you Intimacy: Thoughts for lDS Helping Professionals." in who have submitted articles for this and other issues. If the January 1982 issue. On page 12. the next to the lut vou have an idea tha t you would like to share. but believe paragraph. it should have read "Then. in almost ih.,t you cann"t helpfully expand on it for a full arlicle. mundane terms. I have nol found ordinary muital please s"nd It in as a research note. a practltioner's idea. a therapy calling for primary focus on technique. Whether th",'r"tical notion. We wlluld be pleased to c0ns,der It was premature ejaculation or vaginismus. progress publishing briefer comments. and healing depended most upon trust and respect As al\Vays. please submit Jny suggestions you have for suffiCIent for the couple to nurture each other while the Improvement of the "'urnal Thank Y0U appropriately applying technical knowledge." BCK. Ed. Unfortunately. the "not" was omitted when published. TABLE OF CONTENTS THE POWER Of LOVE by Elder '\ oshlh,!-" Ki!-uchl 5 A SELf-CONCEPT COMPARISON OF LOS AND NON-LOS HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS by Elaine S. Robbins and R Wayne Shute . 8 AN APPROACH TO DRUG CLASSIfICATION IN PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY by Bruce H. Woolley 13 BURNOUT IN THE HOME by David C. Willis and Harold Fondren " 19 fEELINGS, SELf-DECEPTION, AND CHANGE by C. Terry Warner 21 TESTING THEORIES Of BEHAVIOR WITH SCRIPTURE by Stephen l. Brower " 32 AMCAP JOURNAl/APRIL 1982 THE POWER Of LOVE Elder Yoshihiko Kikuchi of the First Quorum of the Seventy Presented at the AMCAP Convention 3 April, 1981 I am indeed grateful for the opportunity to stand of age, couldn't stop his tears. Later he said, "In the before you this day. It is an honor and privilege to do so. Celestial world, is it like that? Is our Heavenly Father English is not my native tongue, so I pray that the Spirit like that? When President Kimball kissed me and hugged of the lord will guide me. Iam also, as yet, a "green bean" me, I felt so strongly that the Spirit testified to me that as a "G.A." so I am still frightened to serve the lord in our Heavenly Father is just like he is." And he said, "Oh, I this capacity. I won't try to preach to you today--I am not was almost going to miss the glorious opportunity to qualified to do so. However, Iwould like to share some of stay in the Church! And I wouldn't have stopped the most spiritual experiences that I have encountered wandering. I almost missed the total picture. the over the last few months. I would like to relate them to panorama, the beauty of the gospe!." This young man is our Japanese society, showing how the Japanese now saving his money to go on a mission. He felt members are affected by the gospel. strongly that the Spirit testified to him that he could About five months ago I had the privilege of traveling help his parents and that he could share the gospel with with President and Sister Kimball to attend area them. conferences in the Philippines, Taiwan, Hong Kong, I want to share another beautiful story with you. Korea, and also Japan for the dedication of the Tokyo Right before I left Tokyo. a young boy walked into my Temple and area conferences in Tokyo and Osaka. This room. Could I just give the touching testimony of this covered almost a three-week period, and so I had the young man? privilege to become well acquainted with President and My family consists of three members now, and we are living Sister Kimball. Today Iwould like to share an experience in our grandparents' home because my parents were divorced I had with them in the hope that it will help your work. two years ago. Since that time. my grandfather and mother As we were staying at hotels as a whole group during started working. Sometime in October of 19791 met the young the series of area conferences, the local members were missionaries at Shibuya Station. I studied and was baptized asked to supply priesthood leaders to watch over the within three weeks. Although I received baptism, I bKame hallways of the hotel. We would block out one section totally inactive for about seven months. Since my family was for security purposes so that we could protect President not stable, I wasn't happy. I had been wondering about my life Kimball and other general authorities and their wives. and the future. even about my life hereafter.' wandered around Every morning--and this is something I learned in a every day and didn't go to school because I had lost sight of my objectives. With a feeling of depression and emptiness, I walked touching way--President Kimball would come out of his to church one day without consciously thinking ofgoing there. I room, usually about 6:45 or 7:00 in the morning, met with the missionaries again and with the members. I without his tie or shoes and socks. He would come out attended a beautiful baptismal service which impressed me and express his love to the security people and to the greatly; in fact I was inspired. I decided to attend church after local members. He would kiss and hug and embrace that and learned the importance of the gospel teachings and the them. At 86 years of age he is tireless in his service and in importance of missionary work. I was called as a branch expressing himself to other people. He is unbelievable. mission,uy and assisted the full-time missionaries almost every He hugged and kissed them. day. I went to street meetings with them and contacted many. When we stayed at the Keio Plaza Hotel in Tokyo, many people. The lord helped me. Within two months I brought many people to the full-time missionaries and J. myself, 6:45 President Kimball came out of his room at about taught seven people and had the privilege to baptize them. a.m. as usual, with bare feet and without a tie. He One day as I was praying, I r""eived a strong feeling that I hugged a young man. This young man had completely should proselyte my own family. I prayed and prayed and then lost his direction in life. His family situation was introduced the missionaries to my mother first. I felt that it was unstable, and he was insecure. Although he had been very important to convert my family in order for us to obtain baptized when he was 17 years of age, he was uncertain eternal life as a family. My mother was attending another about what he wanted from life. Just a week prior to the Christian church and had ma"y friends. Because she was afraid area conference he walked into church, and expressing of losing these friends, at first she refused to be baptized. himself to the branch preiident said, "I want to be a good However, with the help of the missionaries and through the member. What can I do?" The branch president told him coopention of the members, within about a month she was baptized. The members came to her baptismal servin. and it to come to Priesthood Meeting and Sunday School. was a beautiful testimony to m. that I could baptize her. Then he told him that this week they needed to supply Everyone at the service cried and cried because of the Spirit we one young brother to assist with the night security for felt in that room.