Do you know the apostles in order of seniority? Brother Wilcox gave our Book of Mormon class a way to remember:
First I give you a number and a rhyming word--a nemonic device
1-thumb
2-shoe
3-tree
4-door
5-hive
6-sticks
7-heaven
8-gate
9-spine
10-hen
(when we get to 11 we go back to 1, 21 back to 11 (1), etc.)
11-thumb
12-shoe
13-tree
14-door
15-hive
Story Time:
ONE (thumb)
You stick out your thumb and there's a monsoon just swirling around your thumb, just going crazy
Thomas S. Monson
TWO (shoe)
You are in a shoe factory, working at the conveyer belt, your job is to pack the shoes
Boyd K. Packer
THREE (tree)
You reach out to pick fruit from the tree, what is the fruit? Pears!
L. Tom Perry
FOUR (door)
A father and son are building a door, the father turns to his son and says, "I need more nails, son."
Russel M. Nelson
FIVE (hive)
There is a beehive, it is made out of fine wood, oak wood to be exact.
Dallin H. Oaks
SIX (sticks)
You have a couple of sticks and you're preparing to play a game with your friends. You're up to bat and your friend yells out to you, "Hit the ball hard!"
M. Russel Ballard
SEVEN (heaven)
You have passed away and you find yourself before the pearly gates and you are so taken aback that you exclaim, "Great Scott!"
Richard G. Scott
EIGHT (gate)
You are standing outside your house in front of a gate, nothing will make you move, not even if it rains or hales
Robert D. Hales
NINE (spine)
Your spine hurts because you're wearing wooden shoes, but why are you wearing wooden shoes? Because you're in Holland!
Jeffrey R. Holland
TEN (hen)
There is a hen, a very edgy hen, so edgy that she's wearing multiple earrings!
Henry B. Eyring
ELEVEN (thumb)
You have stuck your thumb back out in the monsoon and has begun swirling around it, again and again, it swirls to quickly and swiftly that is takes you right across the ocean--where you bump into an airplane--but you make it all the way across the Atlantic where it hits a dwarf and the dwarf says, "Uch!"
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
TWELVE (shoe)
You have packed your shoes all day and are extraordinarily tired, so you go to bed (nar)
David A. Bednar
THIRTEEN (tree)
You have picked all the pears from the tree dutifully. After plucking all the pears, you must take them to the cook.
Quentin L. Cook
FOURTEEN (door)
"Give me the nails, son," after giving the nails the father replies, "Thank you Christof, my son."
D. Todd Christofferson
FIFTEEN (hive)
You have your lovely oak hive, that you have built by hand, son
Niel L. Anderson
-this one is probably the most stretched-
I recognize that a lot of them are a stretch, but now you won't forget! And you can wow everyone with your ability to know the apostles in order of seniority {PS. they sit in order of seniority. FUN FACT!}
Enjoy Conference this weekend
xoxo
