Visiting Teaching
Our prophet, President Thomas S. Monson, has encouraged us to “reach out to rescue those who need our help and lift them to the higher road and the better way. … It is the Lord’s work, and when we are on the Lord’s errand, … we are entitled to the Lord’s help.”
Visiting Teaching
Our prophet, President Thomas S. Monson, has encouraged us to “reach out to rescue those who need our help and lift them to the higher road and the better way. … It is the Lord’s work, and when we are on the Lord’s errand, … we are entitled to the Lord’s help.”
Visiting Teaching
New sisters of the Church—including Young Women entering
Relief Society, sisters returning to activity, and new converts—need the
support and friendship of visiting teachers. “Member involvement is vital to
convert retention and in bringing less-active members back into full activity,”
said Elder M. Russell
Ballard of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. “Capture the vision
that the Relief Society … can become [one of] the most powerful friendshipping
resource[s] we have in the Church. Reach out early to those being taught and
reactivated, and love them into the Church through your organization.”
Honoring Our Covenants
Visiting teaching is an expression of our discipleship and a
way to honor our covenants as we serve and strengthen one another.“When we
realize that we are children of the covenant, we know who we are and what God
expects of us, His law is written in our hearts. He is our God and we are His
people.” Elder Russell M.
Nelson
As visiting teachers we can strengthen those we visit in
their efforts to keep their sacred covenants. By doing so, we help them prepare
for the blessings of eternal life. “Every sister in this Church who has made
covenants with the Lord has a divine mandate to help save souls, to lead the
women of the world, to strengthen the homes of Zion, and to build the kingdom
of God.” Elder M. Russell
Ballard As we make and keep sacred covenants, we become instruments
in the hands of God. We will be able to articulate our beliefs and strengthen
each other’s faith in Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ.
About Visiting Teaching
“Visiting teaching is the heart and soul of Relief Society. The
purposes of visiting teaching are to build caring relationships with
each sister and to offer support, comfort, and friendship. In visiting
teaching, both the giver and the receiver are blessed and strengthened
in their Church activity by their caring concern for one another.”
This caring concern is described in Moroni 6:4 “And after they had
been received unto baptism, . . . they were numbered among the people of
the church of Christ; and their names were taken, that they might be
remembered and nourished by the good word of God, to keep them in the
right way.”
To be named and numbered has special significance for those in need.
Elder Henry B. Eyring describes it beautifully:
“You
are called to represent the Savior. Your voice to testify becomes the
same as His voice, your hands to lift the same as His hands. . . . Your
calling is to bless lives. That will be true even in the most ordinary
tasks you are assigned. . . . You see, there are no small callings to
represent the Lord” (“Rise to Your Call,” Ensign, Nov. 2002, 76 or view it here.