Visiting Teaching Conference
Mar 26th, 2007 by Bethany
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Once a year the ward Relief Society has a Visiting Teaching Conference, when they get the men to cover all the women's teaching and leadership assignments so that all the women can be in Relief Society. The RS lesson is on Visiting Teaching and why it's important and the RS President teaches it. It seems like every VT Conference I've been to uses the "feed my sheep" story from the scriptures to explain that we need to take care of each other to show Jesus that we love him.
Yesterday was no exception. It was so nice to be in Relief Society again, since I don't get to go to the Sunday meeting because I teach in Young Women. My RS Pres. called me the night before and asked me to tell a 2-minute story about how having Visiting Teachers has blessed my life. After the announcements, Pres. got up and told the story from Exodus about Moses learning to delegate from his father-in-law Jethro, and she said that that's what Visiting Teaching is for her. It helps her to know about all the women in the ward and be able to help the ones who need it without her having to visit all of us all the time herself.
Then I was up. I told the story about my Visiting Teacher who came to visit me spontaneously once when I was sick and miserable. It took me more than two minutes because I cried through the whole thing–it was a really touching experience for me even if I wasn't able to explain it well. Maggie cried through the whole thing, too. She really needed a nap and refused to go to sleep with so many interesting people around.
Then a couple of other ladies got up and talked about their experiences. Then the Relief Society President got up and talked about how we can help each other and told the "feed my sheep" story.
My Visiting Teachers came over last night. :-) And I called the one sister of the three we haven't VTaught this month yesterday.
One of the cool things that they did for the conference and for enrichment earlier this month was have the Visiting Teachers tell the presidency three good adjectives about each of the people they Visit Teach. Then they typed the words up on little slips of paper and wrapped the papers in cute little gift boxes and gave them to the person the adjectives were about. Everyone got a box. Mine said that I'm cheerful and bubbly, talented, and kind. I think that's four adjectives, but I didn't mind having an extra. They handed out the boxes at the RS Birthday Party Enrichment meeting, but the ones that hadn't been taken there they handed out yesterday at the conference. It sounded like it was a lot of work, but it got us all thinking good things about each other and ourselves.
