Social Hierarchy

I've read in several different places that boys' relationships are built largely around hierarchy; when a group of boys first gets together, they quickly establish a pecking order. I don't completely understand it, mainly because I have trouble wrapping my head around how you can have a true friendship if you are always aware that one of you has a higher standing than the other. But I figure I don't really need to understand it. That's not the way I see my friends so I don't have to be able to reconcile it.

But I do wonder: when I was in elementary school, playing sports with the boys at recess or being the only girl at Randal's birthday party, did I have a position in the social hierarchy that was understood by everybody but me?

Heavenly Nicknames

Potenial spoiler alert: I briefly discuss something major that happens at the end of the season one finale of Once Upon a Time.

That They May Have Rest

A while back in our fifth Sunday combined Priesthood/Relief Society meeting (must have been March) this verse from the Book of Mormon came up:

And then shall it come to pass, that the spirits of those who are righteous are received into a state of happiness, which is called paradise, a state of rest, a state of peace, where they shall rest from all their troubles and from all care, and sorrow.

This led to a discussion because spirits in paradise are busy - we know this from people who have had contact with the spirit world. How is that rest?

One idea that came up that I liked is that maybe the state of rest isn't that they are resting, but that they are well rested - they have energy enough for all they need to do.