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Visiting Teaching & Home Teaching - Page 18

Actually, where the companion's name would be, it says "none."

Still have to find a time to call -- tonight is Enrighment Night and I missed half already so am staying home.
Roz

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I spoke to the VT leader and she gave me some info on my assigned sisters. They were assigned at random -- apparently there have been a lot of move ins and move outs in the ward and some shuffling has been going on.

So I've made the calls to see if I can visit this weekend. I never thought I would have so much trouble reaching the sisters to visit? I've always made sure to return calls from my VT and arrange a time to meet. Ah, well. This new ward is very different...

Roz

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Keep trying Roz, you never know how much your sisters need you. Right now I'm visiting another sister who has also cancer, I visited another sister in the past who had the same dicease and she passed away.

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I find it amazing how many really active sisters make it difficult to be visited. Not only do we have a responsibility to visit our sisters, we have a responsibility to try and accomodate our VT when they want to come see us. It is not always convenient for me to make time for my own VT, but I recognize how important this program is and so I try to help them be successful in it too.

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Tena, that is actually a very good point. Knowing how hard it is to get a dedicated home teacher one would think that if yours does call you would be fighting to get them to come. I know because members often complain about not being visited. I was recently saying that besides being a Church related visit people in general should be courteous (this has nothing do with spirituality, but manners), for instance, you call, make an appointment, and then when you get there the person is not there and later they give you an excuse that is so lame it is not even worth repeating. Now, if you are not interested, just say so, or cancel the appointment, that is manners... after all it is big people coming to your home, people with their own families to see about, not girl scouts selling brownies.

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I totally agree with you JB, maybe some less active members as it happen often do not want to offend anybody and they rather to not say they don't want to be visited. But they are wasting the time of the HT and VT. It is a matter of manners as you well said rather than how long have you been in the Church.

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Manners, indeed. When I called the sisters to let them know I was sick and could not visit yesterday, two of the three were surprised -- like they did not realize we had an appointment. Huh? We just spoke last week...? How could they forget already? I wonder if they had planned on being home at the appointed time? Ah well.... another day.

Roz

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I am not surprised, I'm pretty blessed the sisters that I make appointments with they always do the best effort to be there, I have no problem expect for one who is less actives, lives in an unsafe are and far from where I live, but I plan to take a couple of Home Teachers with me next time.