What should we teach our sisters about Visiting Teaching?

Teach them that this isn't about visiting once a month and sharing the lesson in the Ensign (though that may be really important in some cases, and the only opportunity a sister has to feel the spirit). Tell them it is about loving and getting to know a sister well enough so that she will think to call you in her time of need, and you will be able to recognize when she might need you even if she doesn't call you.

Teach them that when lots of people do a little, the heavy burdens of caring for everyone are lighter. Teach them that sometimes the things they think of as burdens are really blessings that they haven't recognized yet as such. Many times our burdens are made lighter by a relationship with a companion, or by something we learn from our VTEES in the course of meeting their needs.

Teach them we should make some kind of contact once a month. This can be a letter, phone call, email, etc. We should make a personal visit at least once a quarter. The second tip was that we can get together as a "group" to do lunch or go somewhere. For example, the visiting teaching companions can get all their sisters together to do something all together. It is a great way to have fun! Let's make it our goal this year to get more contacts made with our sisters! Let's all try to feel like visiting teaching is an opportunity to make friends and enlarge our social circles as well as uplift one another. It is not just an "obligation", but a great experience if we will let it be!