Comments on: How would you increase home teaching?

By: Donny GillDonny

Donny GillDonny — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 22:59:59 +0000

In reply to Donny GillDonny. Sorry for all the typos.. I am on a i pad.

By: Donny GillDonny

Donny GillDonny — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 22:57:40 +0000

I am a formed baptist preacher and now LDS. As a baptist I visited a number of people as well as a vas number of us n our church as well. Now it is my responsibility to increase home teaching in our ward. Here is what we are going to do.. For starters a lesson on Home teaching is not in the plans. We all know why we do not and all know why we should so we are going to start by giving every one one name. A name they know.. Then we are going to give testomonies how it went. After that we will increase it to two and so forth. It is easy to visit some one we know so that is how we will start. After the first month of doing this we Weill try some one we don’t know well and the to some one we dont. The names will be given on a 3×5 card with some info. I may even put there picture on it if I have the meens. Where I feel we have been going wrong is by making it hard.. We need to make it easy at first. I also feel that we are going after the ones who are not there and we need to but first we must build up they who are. When we build ore core group of elders first then we will have a small army to go after the others… I will let you know how it works but I know it will being I have done this my whole life.

By: RWG

RWG — Sat, 17 Jul 2010 23:33:57 +0000

JM: I like the way you think. Out of the box. This is the only way anything ever gets done. Thanks for your comments.

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 04:55:54 +0000

I donâ€t see how, Hubert. You still have the same number of families, but fewer people to visit them

By: Hubert Smedley

Hubert Smedley — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 04:14:41 +0000

If you merely want percentage to go up, to show a good number to someone, unassign the bad home teachers. Your percentage goes way up.

By: Cameron

Cameron — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:19:20 +0000

JM,

You mentioned in your first comment that you had easy to use reporting methods for your quorum members. I would love to know what those methods were.

You can find my email in my profile.

Thanks.

By: JM

JM — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 06:56:58 +0000

"Steve, re: #51, if youâ€ll open up your Doctrine & Covenants to section 20, youâ€ll find that Home Teaching is neither a creation of President Lee nor an anachronism of correlation. Itâ€s a mandate given by revelation from God." Funny, I don't see any mention of home teaching there. Maybe you have different scriptures than what I have. The only thing I see remotely connected is something regarding "watching over, being with, and strengthining", an aaronic priesthood duty. I imagine there are many ways to accomplish this. The home teaching PROGRAM attempts to do this, but fails. Perhaps we should teach people the correct PRINCIPLE and let them decide how to best accomplish their priesthood duty? (sorry, one last post. I couldn't resist)

By: George

George — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 03:58:07 +0000

Kim Siever said: Has Elder Ballard been reading this thread?

All the GA’s read these threads to receive inspiration for new church programs and doctrines.

By: Kim Siever

Kim Siever — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 03:44:02 +0000

D&C 20 says nothing about home teaching. One could argue that home teaching is based on principles within D&C 20 though.

By: ltbugaf

ltbugaf — Sun, 01 Oct 2006 03:40:18 +0000

Steve, re: #51, if you’ll open up your Doctrine & Covenants to section 20, you’ll find that Home Teaching is neither a creation of President Lee nor an anachronism of correlation. It’s a mandate given by revelation from God.