LDSTeach.com is the largest collection of Home Teaching and Visiting Teaching resources for Latter-day Saints on the Internet.

The mission of LDSTeach.com is to encourage and inspire every Latter-day Saint to discharge their duty of representing the Lord Jesus Christ in looking after the welfare of each Church member. As Priesthood holders we are commanded to “watch over the church always and be with them and strengthen them” (D&C 20:53). As sisters in the church we are encouraged to “build caring relationships with each sister and to offer support, comfort and friendship” (Church Handbook of Instructions, Pg. 202)

At LDSTeach.com we are dedicated to encourage our visitors to build upon their desire as home teachers and visiting teachers.

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New VoIP service sends out automated reminder calls on last Sunday of the month to all Elders/High Priests and Relief Society sisters reminding them to get out and complete their visits. If visits are completed, home teachers or visiting teachers then can press 1 on their phone or 2 to leave a message on when they plan to get out. System generates a detailed PDF report that can be given to bishop at PEC meeting.

We belong to a busy church. A typical Ward makes hundreds of phone calls per month (see below). This service is designed to simplify your life and help you become more effective in your church calling by removing the burden of making phone calls to remind ward members of meetings, activities and assignments. Let our system do all the calling for you. All you do is record your message, and we call all the people you select and play your recorded message to them.

www.LDSReminderCalls.com

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The LDSTeach website has been on the Internet in one form or another since 1997. At one time, LDSTeach was one of the largest LDS web sites on the Internet. It has always been the largest collection of home and visiting teaching resources anywhere to be found. Our newsletter Shepherds, had close to 10,000 subscribers at one time and featured some of the best ideas and tips for home and visiting teachers.

The time has come to make some changes. I have decided to end the publication of the newsletter Shepherds and create a new LDSTeach website where everyone can participate. I searched for volunteers to take over Shepherds and I received quite a few inquiries. But after further reflection I decided to combine the newsletter and website into an easy to manage format utilizing guest writers.

LDSTeach.com is now a collaborative web site designed to provide fresh ideas by way of individual participants willing to share their experiences and knowledge.

To become a writer for LDSTeach.com first review the tutorial here. Then contact me using the contact form and let me know of your interest. I will get you set up as an author.

Here are some ideas for articles that you could submit to LDSTeach:

• Visiting teaching conference ideas
• Ideas to motivate home and visiting teachers
• Resources for home and visiting teaching leaders
• Poems, stories, and humor relating to home and visiting teaching
• Experiences as a home or visiting teacher or experience with your home or visiting teachers

These are just some of the ideas for future submissions.

We invite you to register and begin submitting today.

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I try, but I’m not always successful on doing a monthly handout that I give out on Homemaking night. I have a handout for each sister who is a Visiting Teacher. I have a label program on my computer that prints each sister’s name and district number on a sheet of labels. I apply the labels to the handouts. This way, I know that I have one for each Visiting Teacher and can make sure that each sister gets one, either by seeing her in church or by giving them to my supervisors to distribute to their flock.

Here are some ideas for handouts:

• I found a picture on the computer of a fisherman. I made a handout saying “Catch the spirit of Visiting Teaching.” I applied a Swedish fish to the handout at the end of the fishing line.
• I put a birthday candle on a handout with the saying, “Let your light shine! Visit Teach!”
• A sparkler with the words, “Sparkle when you do your Visiting Teaching.”
• A Gummy Bear with “It’s Beary important that you do your Visiting Teaching.”
• A picture of a Clown with a fireball candy glued to the nose with “No clowning around, get your Visiting Teaching done.”
• A Now & Later candy with “It’s better to get your Visiting Teaching done Now than Later!”
• Picture of helping hands with “Be a pair of helping hands to the sisters that you visit.”
• A Life Saver candy with “You can be a life saver when you do your Visiting Teaching.”
• A tape measure with “By the yard it’s hard, by the inch it’s a cinch.”

Marvelous Mom

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