As you know, the suggested Seminary assignments for home study Seminary students is not an easy schedule to keep. Each day students are expected to read vastly different amounts of material, which can lead students to be frustrated that they can not allocate a given amount of time to... read more ...
Visiting Teaching Workshops are held annually to help sisters recommit themselves to visiting teaching. Here are some online resources that will help you plan a fabulous visiting teaching workshop:
Skits, Clipart, Handouts, and Ideas for the Visiting Teaching Workshop
Following is a list of items in our database relating to visiting teaching:
UPDATE 4/8/13: The Portuguese version is now ready! It's just below the English version. And I have also included a larger version for those that need larger print or if you would like to use it as a poster/sign. :)
Sorry for the lack of ideas recently. For Spring Break my family and I drove down to Texas to visit my family.I thought I would have time to sit and relax and share some ideas, but we have been going, going, going. We are so tired, but we have had so much fun.
Ruth G. shared this activity idea her girls did in November: "We did this for a Beehive activity the month of November for the girls...they were asked to prayerfully think of someone they could give their bags to. Just print out these tags, layer or mix all of the ingredients into a cellophane bag and tie with a ribbon and tag."
This would make a cute Visiting Teaching handout, too.
This light-hearted skit was performed by our stake leaders as part of a Stake Leadership Training. The author, Mary C.,...This light-hearted skit was performed by our stake leaders as part of a Stake Leadership Training. The author, Mary C., gave our Relief Society president a copy, who then gave it to me.
Basically, 3 sisters act out short parts as Telestial, Terrestrial, and Celestial Visiting Teachers. Hilarious! Can be done with as few as 3 people, up to as many as you want. Requires very few props and no costumes (unless you want to have some adults dress up in children's clothing).
This light-hearted skit was performed by our stake leaders as part of a Stake Leadership Training. The author, Mary C., gave our Relief Society president a copy, who then gave it to me. Basically, 3 sisters act out short parts as Telestial, Terrestrial, and Celestial Visiting Teachers. Hilarious! Can be done with as few as 3 people, up to as many as you want. Requires very few props and no costumes (unless you want to have some adults dress up in children's clothing). The Telestial Visiting Teacher might also be in her pajamas.
I made this little bag tag for a less active sister I visit teach who was ill. I attached this verse, which reads "Chicken soup and something sweet.... soon you will have this illness beat!" and tied it to a gift bag with a piece of ribbon. Inside I put a can of chicken soup, some of those dried apple crisps, pretzels, and a Jello fruit cup.
This tag has space at the top for a ribbon or bow, and space at the bottom for names.
This poem can be used with a star-shaped ornament, cookies, or any other star gift for the hoidays.
Christmas Star
A diamond shines no brighter
than that lovely Christmas star.
It shines in all its brilliance;
it's seen from near or far.
A symbol of the Christ child
as He lay upon the hay,
It tells to all the waiting world
a King was born that day.
This poem can be used with a star-shaped ornament, cookies, or any other star gift for the hoidays.
Christmas Star
A diamond shines no brighter
than that lovely Christmas star.
It shines in all its brilliance;
it's seen from near or far.
A symbol of the Christ child
as He lay upon the hay,
It tells to all the waiting world
a King was born that day.
This poem can be used with a star-shaped ornament, cookies, or any other star gift for the hoidays.
Christmas Star
A diamond shines no brighter
than that lovely Christmas star.
It shines in all its brilliance;
it's seen from near or far.
A symbol of the Christ child
as He lay upon the hay,
It tells to all the waiting world
a King was born that day.
This Advent Calendar first appeared in the December 1989 New Era. I have resurrected it, so to speak, and created a new document that could be used by Home/Visit Teachers, families, youth leaders, Priesthood, Relief Society or Seminary instructors.
For the May Visit Teaching Printable I decided to do something a little different.I was going to do a printable with several different quotes from Conference, but then I saw this wonderful idea from Mish Mash Momcalled ‘Conference Preserves’.
Paula F. compartilhou deste invitation visitando do treinamento de professor.
10 por a página, 8.5 x 11 avançam, cor.
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Querida Irmã,
Gostaríamos de convida-la para uma Convenção de Pofessoras Visitantes, que se realizará no sábado, 18 de Novembro 06, às 15:00h. na capela da Póvoa Sta. Iria.
A sua presença é fundamental para o sucesso desta convenção. Contamos consigo!
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Paula F. shared this visiting teacher training invitation.
Sally DeFord has a crazy huge list of totally free LDS sheet music for use in your Christmas or Easter choir presentation, Young Women's activity, Enrichment meeting, or virtually any other type of LDS activity. You can search by topic (including "easy for choirs"), and many of the songs have MP3s you can download to hear or practice.
Sally has my personal favorite-of-all-time arrangement of "Come, Thou Font of Every Blessing" on her website. Sally's talent for music blesses the lives of so many!
Print out the pages, cut out the strips, and place them in a jar or small box. When you're in need of a quick Family Home Evening lesson, pull one out, and voila!
I think FHE-in-a-jar would make a great visit-teaching or home teaching gift, or even an LDS Young Women or LDS Primary activity (have the children cut out the strips and decorate the jar or box). - Jenny
This handout would make a good Visiting Teaching Halloween handout. This is the poem on the card:
Since this is the time for goblins and bats,
Halloween spirits and ghosts and cats,
Weird happenings and witches brew,
These are the thing we wish for you:
May the only ghost that comes to stay,
Be the Holy Ghost to guide your way.
May the only spirits you chance to meet,
Be the spirits of love and warm friendship sweet.
Below is a list of very inexpensive gift ideas perfect for Visiting Teachers,
Leaders, and Friends who would like to let others know how much they are loved.
Have you been enjoying my Visiting Teaching Printables?I hope so, because I have been having fun creating them for you. Here is what June’s Visiting Teaching Printable looks like:I went with a ‘family tree’ theme since this month’s message is on Family History.
Older website, but still has great ideas with the purpose of motivating you toward being an effective Home or Visiting Teacher. Includes the "Return and Report" home teaching program.
This is the Chris Gunn image, Bear with Heart, with a quote that reads:
"When you are sad.....I will dry your tears.
When you are scared.....I will comfort your fears.
When you are worried.....I will give you hope.
When you are confused.....I will help you cope.
And when you are lost....And can't see the light,
I shall be your beacon.....Shining ever so bright.
This is my oath.....I pledge till the end.
Why you may ask?.....Because you're my friend. "
I am looking for the score to a song called "Catch the Vision". It is a visiting teaching song by Raquel Williams Lonas. It was apparently created for a visiting teaching conference or program.
UPDATE {3/3/13}: Alright, I think I have fixed all my mistakes. Sorry about that!
It's March! I'm actually excited that January and February flew by...because that means Spring/Summer is that much closer, yah!
I have been wanting to create my own Visiting Teaching printables for awhile now, but never had enough time to sit down and do it. But last night I had a little time {while the Hubby was playing basketball} so I got to work.
This song would be beautiful music for the Relief Society Birthday Celebration, or for a visiting teaching workshop. Free MP3s and sheet music available.
I made this cute Visiting Teaching treat to take to my sisters this month. I thought I would share it here so other sisters can use it if they want to.
"I've had this on my mind since the conference talk. Here's a PDF with 3 labels to print and tape onto a jar of Pickles. I am giving them out to the sisters I visit teach and just gave one to a less active Young Woman ....
"It's a great tool for teaching about the Atonement and being born again through Repentance. I am also attaching the PDF with just one label for anyone that may want to print only one and not use up so much ink.
"I've had this on my mind since the conference talk. Here's a PDF with 3 labels to print and tape onto a jar of Pickles. I am giving them out to the sisters I visit teach and just gave one to a less active Young Woman ....
"It's a great tool for teaching about the Atonement and being born again through Repentance. I am also attaching the PDF with just one label for anyone that may want to print only one and not use up so much ink.
Main Page for Relief Society Meeting ideas and leadership tips. Find help on Relief Society Meetings, Welfare, Sunday Lessons, Education, Visiting Teaching, and activity ideas.
This humorous skit has been performed in units all over the Salt Lake Valley in recent years. According to LDSTeach.com this skit was written by Laurel Hart and was orginially presented at a Stake Visiting Teaching Workshop, in Provo, UT, USA, 1984. This skit is sometimes also called the Shoe Skit because it has so many shoe-related puns in it.
This is the FIRST EVER editable pdf form handout for LDS visiting teachers!!!! Actually, it's the first fill-in-the-blank LDS handout I've ever seen for any purpose!
This page has two handouts, one in blue and one in pink that read "Please ring us any time". You type in your own contact information, attach a Ring Pop, and you've got a super easy handout!
This temple box makes a great handout or visual aid for many different lessons.
Print the image on cardstock (If you use your printer's "best" ink setting, the moisture in the ink will cause the paper to soften where the ink is heaviest, making it EASY to fold straight lines.)
Fold the flaps, and fold along the walls, floor, and ceiling to form a box.
These cards were submitted by Daisy T, who gives them to Visiting Teachers so they can introduce themselves to the sisters on a new route, and so sisters will have the contact information of their visiting teachers.
(The submitters of this poem wish to remain anonymous.) Cut out the poems and glue them to a sheet of pretty paper. Add ribbons and embellishments for a nice handout.
2 per 8.5 x 11 inch page, black and white.
As Sisters in the Gospel
We go and sit a spell
And occasionally dwell
On things not going swell
We see the gloom
At the sight of the broom
And that room...
We do not preach
But talk and teach
And listen to the children screech
UPDATE {3/6/2013}: I have updated all the links for the printables, so you shouldn’t have any problems printing them. But if you do please contact me at [email protected]. Enjoy!
This handout was created by Heidi N. for a special Fast Sunday lesson on Visiting Teaching. She used the handout as her lesson plan and gave each member of the class a copy.
Has lots of great thought-provoking quotes about Visiting Teaching in a Q&A style format.
Shay and Pam C. get a lot of requests for this document. It's a letter for Visiting Teachers that contains all the information needed for their routes.
Shay and Pam C. get a lot of requests for this document.
Shay says, "Shay says, "We love this template because it helps us as coordinators to keep track of who is being visit taught. [T]he letter goes out to all the ladies who visit and are visited and they can keep track, too, so if we miss a month of calling we can ask if you taught in Feb even though its April and you kept track.""
Use these labels to go with a chick-shaped Peep marshmallow candy to give as an Easter or Spring gift to those in your Young Women class or to those you visit teach.
Could also use with a Cadbury egg.
*** Also available: 'You're one of OUR favorite chicks" version, attached below. ***
Sing My
Sister's Hands by Sally DeFord. Free MP3s and sheet music available.
This would make a beautiful number for a unit with women of different
ages or ethnicities. The lyrics are especially appropriate for a VT Conference.
Sally ROCKS!
Off site Resources
LDSTeach.com is the biggest website online dealing with Visiting Teaching and Home Teaching. The preceding link will take you to the VT conference section with tons of ideas for Visiting Teaching Workshops.
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