[Teachldsseminary] CHAT

Tue Feb 5 11:51:51 MST 2008

I find that nearly all and perhaps all of the seminary students in our  
ward know the apostles by sight. I think some of the very simple things  
that I have done have brought that to their memory bank.
*Hanging on the bulletin board, all seminary year is the official  
picture of each apostle in the order of seniority. With that mounted on  
heavy navy paper with a ivory paper is their name, birth date and  
place, and date that they were ordained an apostle.
*Anytime that I read a quote of one of the apostles I encourage them to  
look on their picture so that they can associate the face with the  
quote.
*On occasion I have had them make and present general authority (I  
haven't done this in a number of years, if I am teaching seminary next  
year I will do this since all of these students will not have had the  
honor of doing this.) The great love that the students gained for their  
apostle was tremendous. They presented them close to the day or 1/2  
year day of their birthday. I remember that the year President Uchtdorf  
and Elder Bednar weren't yet called as apostles and my middle daughter  
got a slip of paper that said "New Apostle #1" then the second time she  
drew a slip it said "New Apostle #2". Christi absolutely LOVES these  
two men and I believe that a great part of that comes from making and  
presenting them to us! I included all 15 apostles (First Presidency  
included).

As a side note ... just as a fetish of mine I have a Current Apostle  
Chart on my computer. It is arranged in several ways, longest seniority  
to newest, oldest to youngest, age at becoming an apostle,  
education/career. I think it is five different charts on the same word  
document. I refer to different parts depending on what information I  
want or am curious about. I have a similar one for the Presidents of  
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (I have also a word  
document of all of the temples with the date of announcement,  
groundbreaking, dedication, length of time between groundbreaking and  
dedication, rededication date.)

Each of these charts have evolved through the years. They are a work in  
progress since new Temples are announced and dedicated, new men are  
called, it is part of the living church that we are in! Especially the  
Temple one took a lot of time to do but it is something that I do look  
at often.

If anyone is interested in any of these documents I can send them to  
them privately. PLEASE DO NOT JUST PRESS REPLY AND SAY "ME TOO!" Just  
copy and paste my address in the to line and it will work! I'm not  
really sure that the web site would be interested in this.
Carolyn
wisjeff at merr.com

On Tuesday, February 5, 2008, at 11:00  AM, Marji wrote:

>>  Recently I saw a list of our present apostles with dates of  
>> seniority. I thought I had saved it, but cannot find it.
>
> This picture has the apostles sitting in order of seniority (which
> they always do).
>
> http://www.bookofmormondiscovery.com/ 
> List%20the%20names%20of%20the%20apostles.pdf
>
> No dates, though.
>
> This morning I discovered that my students do NOT know the apostles by
> sight.  Wow, that was a shock.  I'd like to teach them to recognize
> their voices, too.
>
> Marji in GA
>
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