Priesthood Line of Authority Bookmark

I posted the other day that we started the 12 days of Priesthood at our house, since Jared will be turning 12 very soon.

As a quick review, when Jared turns 12, and after he has a worthiness interview with our bishop, Nathan will have the opportunity to confer the Aaronic Priesthood on Jared.

We've been preparing him for this responsibility for his whole life really, but we've stepped up the preparation over the last couple of months.  We've had special family home evening lessons and we've started a 12 day countdown to his ordination.

The other day, he received 3 books that will help him now that he is going into the Young Men's program. The books he received were For the Strength of Youth, Fulfilling Our Duty to God, and True to the Faith.  I know that if he will take the time to study and ponder the words in these books, he will know his responsibilities, gain a greater testimony of the gospel and have a desire to live the way Heavenly Father wants us to live.

For one of his gifts leading up to the big day, I wanted to give him a bookmark that he could keep in his scriptures with his Priesthood Line of Authority.  We talked about the restoration of the priesthood in our last Family Home Evening lesson and also about Nathan's priesthood line of  authority.  

I looked online and couldn't really find anything that I was in love with, so I made my own.  It's not fancy, but I think it will be great.

If it were for a girl, I would have punched a hole in the top and put some ribbon through, but it's for my son and the more simple the better.  I laminated the bookmarks so they would be a little more durable. 

I uploaded my document to Scribd in case anyone else wants to save themselves some trouble.  Just download it as a .docx file and you will be able to open it in Word and edit the names and dates.

Priesthood Line of Authority by Wendy H

You'll see that I made two different sets.  One is in blue and one is red of course, but I also couldn't decide which of Nathan's Priesthood Lines of Authority to use.  One is from him being conferred the Melchizedek Priesthood and being ordained to the office of Elder, and the other is from his ordination to the office of High Priest in the Melchizedek Priesthood.  Since Nathan's paternal grandfather didn't ordain Nathan's dad to either office, and each ordination was done by a different man, the lines are different.

I did find it interesting though that there is a commonality in both lines (besides the originations) - on 11 June 1961, two men Milton Reed Hunter and Seymour Dilworth Young were both ordained to the office of High Priest.  These were performed by different men, but on the same day.  I don't know that there is any significance to it, but I thought it was interesting.