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You know you’ve been guilty of it – picking out a talk that stuck in your mind and teaching it to all of your families. But just because it resonated with you doesn’t mean it was what the folks you teach needed to hear. Since the May home and visiting teaching messages come from April General Conference talks, how can you best select and teach the lesson suited to your families? If you are really on the ball, you were able to attend all four (or five) sessions of Conference. You may even have been able to hear them all! … Continue reading →

Are You a Good Visiting Teachee?

The Relief Society has instituted the wonderful program of visiting teaching to help the sisters in the ward. Usually when you read about visiting teaching, you read about ways to become a better visiting teacher, but have you ever thought about how to become a better visiting teachee? There is one sister who I visit who I absolutely love to visit. She has a large family with children several years older than mine. Each time I visit I feel that she imparts knowledge to me about to help my children and how I can be a better mother. She does … Continue reading →

Five Tips for Successful Visiting Teaching

You may have made a New Year’s Resolution to be one hundred percent for visiting teaching this year. This is a great goal, and it is important that you plan well in order to achieve it. Here are five things you can do to help make your visiting teaching successful this year. 1) Take the time to get to know the sisters you visit. It would be great if you could be friends with all the sisters you visit. Go out of your way to say hello to them at church. You can call to chat during the month, just … Continue reading →

The Errand of Angels is Given to Women

From the day I joined the church, I have been a huge fan of visiting teaching. My very first companion was a ‘hundred percenter’ (or fairly close); she took the time to sit down with me and discuss the responsibilities and need for visiting teachers, and it has been a lesson I never forgot (thanks, Jada!). I know that visiting teaching can be difficult, especially once you add children to the mix, but I strongly believe that it, along with home teaching, is a vital part of the church. As with children, I have wondered if the women I visit … Continue reading →