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Subj: Visiting Teaching "Rules"
From: Heidi

The Duties of Visiting Teachers:

1. Attend visiting teaching workshops and conventions.

2. Prepare for visits by studying the message and adapting it to each individual sister.  Also, by praying with their companions
    before their visits.

3. Make regular monthly visits, and other contacts as needed, to each sister in their assigned district, conveying messages as
    directed by the Relief Society President

4. Encourage sisters to attend weekly Relief Society meetings.

5. Develop helpful, friendly, trusting relationships with sisters.  Any personal matters learned by the visiting teachers should be
    kept confidential.

6. Report to the Relief Society President immediately any matter of urgent need.

7. Render emergency compassionate service when needed at the time of a visit.  They should also promptly report both the
    service and the need to the Relief Society President.

8. Notify district supervisor, or board member, when they are unable to make a monthly visit.

9. Report monthly visits to their district supervisor or to the board member assigned visiting teaching.

10. Report changes in their district since their last visit.

11. Meet with the ward Relief Society presidency at least four times a year, as requested, for a personal oral report.

12. Attend the baptism of a convert sister when assigned her as a visiting teachers.

13. Fellowship inactive and newly baptized sisters.
 

The Visits:

1. All visits should be made as early in the month as possible.

2. Visits should be prearranged by appointment.

3. Visiting teaching is to be done at a time that best suits a sister’s needs.  However, because of possible dangers, visiting
    teachers should not go out alone after dark.

4. Visits should be brief (approximately 15 minutes in length) except where there is a special need.

5. A meaningful visit is one in which the teachers and the sisters visited have an opportunity for a private conversation and
    where the visited sister can feel the love and concern that her visiting teachers have for her.