I gave a lesson last Sunday to my quorum on home teaching and I thought I would share some of the lesson material with those that might be interested.

I cut out 27 silhouettes which represented the 27 families that did not get home taught last month. This is an idea I got from this list [LDS Teach mailing list]. I hung the silhouettes up on the walls around the classroom so that when the Elders came into the classroom they were already hung up on the wall.

My counselors and I started off the lesson with a skit which was taken from the first chapter of the book “Home Teaching with Purpose and Power”.

After the skit I handed out a 8 page booklet that I created which again was taken from the book mentioned above. The booklet contained the mission of the church, a mission statement for home teachers, lots of lists of do’s and don’ts for home teachers, scriptures and quotes about home teaching.

One of the scriptures in the booklet was the one on learning our duty. As we discussed this scripture I had an Elder get up who had been a marine and talk about what duty means to a marine. I called him the night before so he would have some time to prepare. He did a great job in describing what the word duty means to a marine and what happens when a marine fails in his/her duty. I then tied this into home teaching and our priesthood duty to visit and serve our families and how we too are fighting a war just like the marines do except our war is with Satan. When a marine doesn’t do his duty lives are lost. The same with Elders. When we don’t do our duty souls can be lost. I then pointed out the many silhouettes of our ward family members who were not visited last month and asked if we might be losing any of them in this war.

I then ended the lesson with my testimony that when we pass into the next life we will have a PPI with the Savior and He will ask us if we did our home teaching and I said that I hoped and prayed that they would not have to explain to the Savior that they lost one of their families to Satan and they weren’t there to help in the battle.

I felt it was a special lesson, the Spirit was very evident and I received quite a bit of good feedback from the brethren. I know that some of you will ask for the booklet that I gave to the quorum and because the information is copyrighted I cannot [post it on this site]. If you email me privately I will send it to you. It is in Word format so you must have MS Word.

John Hesch
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