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Mormon Media Observer: Relief Society visiting teaching makes the news
When Gov. Mitt Romney last ran for president, I studied, as part of one of those boring doctoral dissertations, the way in which his faith — my faith — was covered by the national press from 2006-2008. I studied more than 200 articles in depth, categorizing each across more than 20 dimensions. I...
SPONSORED: Visiting and home teaching made easy with new Web site 'LDSplan'
No more forgetting home or visiting teaching or pushing it off to the last day of the month.LDSplan (ldsplan.com) is a free online tool for home and visiting teaching. It schedules and reports on your appointments so that you don’t need to make any phone calls. Here's how it works: All you do...
Vai's View: Reunion with Kleins triggers others' accounts
Seems I wasn't the only one interested in a reunion with Marty and Mary Ellen Klein. Marty, if you remember, was my boyhood home teaching companion whom I wrote about reuniting with after 35 years in last week's column. Three interesting emails found their way to me this week, one of them this...
Vai's View: A home-teaching companion reunion rekindles a testimony
Editor's note: This is the first in an occasional series that follows and explores Vai Sikahema's quest to find and thank the people in his life who assisted him in his youth. It took me a little more than a year to find Marty Klein. Three months of that time was spent just trying to come up...
April 2012 Home Teaching Message: "He Is Risen" - a Prophet's Testimony
Mormon Life says: This aid comes with links to the First Presidency message for April, as well as supplemental ideas for discussing the resurrection of Jesus Christ.
April First Presidency Message for home teaching:“He Is Risen”“The clarion call of Christendom,” President Thomas S. Monson has declared, is that Jesus of Nazareth rose from the dead. “The reality...
{Poll} What's Your Home or Visiting Teaching Style?
Mormon Life says: Home and visiting teaching are invaluable programs for reaching out to all the members in our ranks, but they take on a different appearance for each person. How often do you go? When do you try to complete it? And what constitutes a visit? We'd love to know.
We've become curious about how home and visiting teaching play out in real life. For me, I call it good when my visiting teachers come over and sit at the kitchen counter while I cook Sunday dinner...
Young Men Lesson 46: Effective Home Teaching
Mormon Life says: "A feeling of responsibility for others is at the heart of faithful priesthood service." -Henry B. Eyring
Discussion Questions • What are your responsibilities as a home teacher? • As an Aaronic Priesthood holder, how can you strengthen the families you...
Therapy dog goes visiting, home teaching
I was home for the weekend to visit with my parents and sisters in September 2007. This particular Saturday, my sister, Joyce, was helping to do a dog transport for rescued dogs from two counties' dog pounds to go to a rescue shelter in Canada. When my sister had been asked to help with this...
The church needs you
Editor's note: Clayton Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and a member of the Deseret News' Editorial Advisory Board. The Deseret News recently asked Christensen, a Salt Lake City native and member of The Church of Jesus...
Home teaching: 'Sacred calling' is an opportunity to nurture and inspire others
Mormon Life says:
For faithful Mormon priesthood holders, the New Year's resolution to become a more effective, caring home teacher likely fits somewhere on their list between dropping a few pounds, spending more...
Young Men Lesson 45: Effective Home Teaching
Mormon Life says: In our families and in our stakes and districts, let us seek to build up Zion through unity, godliness, and charity.
In much of the world, we are entering upon unsettled economic times. Let us look after one another the very best we can. I remember the story of a Vietnamese family that fled Saigon in 1975 and...
Young Men Lesson 44: Becoming a Better Home Teacher
Mormon Life says: The priesthood is not really so much a gift as it is a commission to serve, a privilege to lift, and an opportunity to bless the lives of others.
Brethren of the priesthood, assembled here in the Conference Center and worldwide, I am humbled by the responsibility which is mine to address a few remarks to you. I pray for the Spirit of the Lord...
The Gift to Teach (Heber J. Grant Lesson 1)
Mormon Life says: Read the following excerpt from Elder Boyd K. Packer's book, Teach Ye Diligently, for further insight into the first Heber J. Grant lesson of the new year, Learning and Teaching the Gospel.
If you have come to the conclusion that you are going to be teaching at home and in the Church, you have made a good start. The next step is to want to be a successful teacher. You can become...
