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Relief Society - Visiting Teaching Orals Checklist
We recently held our annual Visiting Teaching Orals/interviews. Here are a list of items that we either had or wished we had for the meetings:
Presidency Members Need:
Visiting Teacher Interview Questions:
Here are the questions we asked during our interviews:
- Name
- VT Partner
- Sisters they visit
- How is your family?
- How long have you and your partner been together?
- Do you and your partner go visiting teaching together?
- How often do you go by yourself?
- Do you and your partner pray before you go out?
- Do you and your partner take turns presenting the visit teaching message?
- Do you try to prepare the message according to each sister's needs?
- Do you and your partner take turns setting up appointments?
- Tell me briefly about each sister you visit. What are their talents?
- Do your sisters have any talents that might be shared during Enrichment Activities?
- How long have you been visiting each of these sisters?
- What time is better for you to go Visiting Teaching?
- What time is better for you to be visited?
- Do your visiting teachers visit you?
- How often do your visiting teachers visit you?
- Do you receive the Ensign?
- Is there any thing else you'd like to tell, ask, or discuss with me?
Some other questions you might consider are
- Are there any successful experiences you've had visit teaching that you'd be willing to share with me?
- Are there any sisters that you aren't visiting that you feel you could serve as a visiting teacher? (Explain that the RS President can't always work assignments that match our requests, but that if there's someone you feel you can help we'd like to know about it.)
- How can we as a presidency more fully support you in your work as a visiting teacher?
- Do you need more information on the sisters you visit?
- Welcome sister
- Thank her for her service and time
- Ask sister how she/her family is doing
- Asked sister about those she visits
- Told sister how she'd follow up on concerns noted
These questions are provided for your reference -- use the Spirit and handbook to help you select questions for your interviews.
Sample Visiting Teaching Interview
LDS.org has posted a short video of Sister Parkin performing a Visiting Teaching Interview. You can download the movie here. Click on the little TV in the upper right corner of the screen and choose your download speed.
These are the steps Sister Parkin used in her interview:
The next video shows how Sister Parkin counsels a Visiting Teacher with a difficult sister.
It didn't show it clearly, but Sister Parkin seemed to take notes on the conversation so that she could for sure follow up.
NOTE: I couldn't make these videos work in Firefox, so try Internet Explorer.
LDS Relief Society Resources
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