| Contributed by: Alice Gifford
Here is something I did as an advisor before General
Conferences. I even used this to teach a lesson in R.S. once and
it was a big hit. A great FHE game too.
Go to your ward library and find pictures of the
Quorum of the Twelve and First Presidency. On the back there is information re: their
lives, education, hobbies, etc. I'd show the class a picture and give them
information about that person. You’d be surprised at how
many faces they did not know, but by the end of the hour they could tell me almost all of
them. We had a lot of fun and had some interesting ways of remembering names, like this
man’s name is something we do not drink (Maxwell House Coffee-Neal A. Maxwell). or
“This person was from my home town (the girls knew where I was from), he taught
seminary, he loves birds, he was called to be a general authority at the age of ___ (I
can’t remember the answer here). And so on. Then they’d have to tell me who it
was. (Boyd K. Packer). This person’s name is the
opposite of how Andrea feels about Violin (which he loved too) David B. Haight).
This man kind of looks like a famous popcorn man (Marvin J. Ashton) and this man
will be the next President (at the time it was President Hinckley). (You can tell how long
ago I was an advisor :-} I tried to use things that meant something to the girls so
they’d remember. The next General Conference we’d do it again and
they’d be so excited that they knew who the apostles were and I just keep adding
things to the list of what they could learn about that person.
Here is a site to get more information on the Apostles &
Prophets
http://www.desnews.com/confer/leaders/leaders.htm
Here's a fun game to play before Conference: See how many
"middle" names you know. Bonus-which two have the same middle name??????? And
which apostles share a name? And does anyone share a name of a previous prophet?
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