Visiting Teaching Helps (handout)

Visiting Teaching Helps (handout)

Subj: RS: VT helps

As I was going through my files last night, I ran across a handout I did a year ago for leadership with a couple of my favorite quotes on VT and some articles and stories on VT that I thought Presidents and VT coordinators might like for their VT segment at homemaking. Hope it can be of some help. Nina

"Visiting teaching is a companion program to home teaching. Whenever I think of visiting teaching, I think of home teachers also, and think that certainly your duties in many ways must be like those of home teachers, which briefly are ... to watch over the church always, not twenty minutes a month, but always." President Kimball

Some of our Bishops and stake presidents report that members are turning down calls to serve claiming they are "too busy" or they "haven't got time". Others, they say, accept such callings, but refuse to magnify those callings. I am concerned that when I hear reports about this kind of attitude. The Lord expects each of us to have a calling in His Church so that others may be blessed by our talents and influence. He expects us to magnify those callings. The way we do that is to do the work which goes with the calling or the office we accept. Is there a priesthood holder who has not time to visit three, four, five families at least once a month? Is there a sister who is so busy she cannot visit teach? If we are "too busy" to hold a Church calling, we had better look at our priorities. President Benson, "Lord, Increase our Faith", Provo Utah Tabernacle Rededication, 21 Sept. 1986.

Other resources for Visiting Teaching:
"Inviting Others to "Come Unto Christ", Elder Gene R. Cook, Nov. 1988 Ensign, pg. 37.
"Witnesses for God," Elder Henry B. Eyring, Nov. 1996 Ensign, pg. 30.
"Learning to Cherish Visiting Teaching", March 1995 Ensign, pg. 28.
"Becoming a better Home Teacher or Visiting Teacher" and "Feeding His Sheep", March 1997 Ensign, pg. 24 and pg. 34.
"Hadn't I Done Enough?" April 1993 Ensign, pg. 60.
"What might a HT or a VT do in a case where a less active member resists overtures of friendship?" June 1993 Ensign, pg. 62.
"Mormon Journal", several stories on VT, March 1992, pgs. 58-63.
"Go Visit these Women Today", June 1990 Ensign, pg. 29,
"Love, Your Visiting Teachers", Feb. 1988 Ensign, pg. 54.
"From Friend to Sister", Aug. 1987 Ensign, pg. 50.

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