The Twelve Apostles

Needed: THIS printout cut into strips

The key to this lesson is repeating the story over and over so everyone remembers it.

Lesson:
Start by telling this story:

Once upon a time a boy received a package with a golden pear in it. He took the special pear outside and knelt down beside a huge oak tree. A big mallard approached the kneeling boy. The mallard said, "Let me take your pear to Scotland. I can sell it for you there."
      "No", said the boy. I want to keep my golden pear." I t began to rain, harder and harder, then it began to hail. The boy was about to go inside when the mallard said "Let me take it to Holland then. I can even get you more money for it there!". The boy stood up soaking wet.
      "I love my pear. I will not give it to you." He ran into the house and into his room. He hid the pear under his bed. As he walked out into the kitchen he noticed his mother was cooking Christmas dinner. "Mrs. Smith and her son are coming over for Christmas dinner", she said. "I wish we had something special to give them for Christmas, they don't have much this year." The boy decided right them to give them his wonderful golden pear.

Have some of the older children repeat it as best they can, if the miss one of the bold words, prompt them. (The other details are not that important.)

Tell the story again, taping up or laying the printouts on a table. Then hide the printouts and see who can name all of the twelve apostles in order.

Read and talk about Mormon 9:18

Bare your testimony about the importance of the apostles.