VT Guidelines

With updated routes coming out, now would be a great time to revisit some Visiting Teaching guidelines.

• Do your best to visit in pairs. If your partner cannot go, you can ask your supervisor or the president (I will go with you!). Please don't go alone into dicey neighborhoods.
• Pray about your visits, your sisters, and with your companion before you go out.
• Be respectful of everyone's time, make visits brief (15 min -30 min). Sometimes rules can be broken, go by the Spirit.
• The optimum is to visit each month, with more contact as needed or inspired. The minimum is to contact each sister--phone is preferred. The important part is that they feel you care about them. 
• Bring the Spirit into your sister's home by bringing a message each month. And a prayer if possible.
• If you have a letter route, please write personal notes as well as send a lesson each month. There is a real person on the other side, and she needs to know there is a real person on your side.
• At the end of the month, it is your responsibility to contact your supervisor whether you have made visits or not.
• If you learn something critical about a sister or family call the supervisor or president right away, not at the end of the month. Remember everything is CONFIDENTIAL.
• As a teachee, please let your visiting teachers come. If you don't know who they are, contact the visiting teaching coordinator (Myrna Parker) or the president (Mimi Saunders).
• If you have any problems or concerns contact the President.
• Remember visiting teaching is about PEOPLE not percentages and should not be a task, but rather a way of life.
• THANK YOU for all you do. We, the presidency, cannot visit every sister each month, even though we would love to. You are our hands, and we together, are the Lord's.