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jay santos · 11-28-2007, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by ute4ever

When I prepare lessons and visit, I don't dump my personal concerns on anyone. I feel that I am there to address their needs.

Well I have two more visits tonight. La dee dah.

Seems I'm not alone at being alone
A hundred billion casatways
Looking for a home

creekster · 11-28-2007, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by jay santos

Seems I'm not alone at being alone
A hundred billion casatways
Looking for a home

Not Sting. You're not really trying to motivate somoen to serve by quoting Sting, are you?

jay santos · 11-28-2007, 04:37 PM

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Originally Posted by creekster

Not Sting. You're not really trying to motivate somoen to serve by quoting Sting, are you?

No just teaching a very important human lesson Sting illustrated in one of the greatest songs of all time.

Clark Addison · 11-28-2007, 04:42 PM

Yes, home teaching feels meaningless a lot of the time. Frankly, I would prefer most months that my home teachers didn't come, and that's not a reflection on them, just the business of our Sundays.

Having said that, I think it's important as a program, and important for me to go regularly, so that all of my families know that if they need help, they have somewhere to go. That help is usually something minor, like giving a blessing, watching a dog, or giving a ride to church, but sometimes it is more major. If I'm not over there most every month, they don't feel good about calling me for those things. If they don't call me, they will either call a friend, which would be fine, or call the Bishop, which would take up more of the Bishop's time and not allow him to play tennis with me, or ask no one at all.

So I try to make every visit meaningful, usually fail, but still try to visit.

RC Vikings · 11-28-2007, 04:44 PM

Along with the two hour block I keep waiting for SLC to change the number of visits to "as many as need be" be it twice a year or twice a week.

Jeff Lebowski · 11-28-2007, 04:44 PM

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Originally Posted by jay santos

....in one of the greatest songs of all time.

Argh.....

K-dog · 11-28-2007, 04:48 PM

Personally, I have no interest in being home taught. I don't like the disruption to my life. I don't like the HTs that never leave. I don't like having someone "assigned to care about me." I don't enjoy being home taught. Perhaps partly because of that I have very little interest in home teaching. I don't want to home teach because I feel like I am bothering them. Furthermore, my wife and I are called to teach together. It is very difficult to home teach with an infant child. I'm not sure the program was intended to be so invasive.

SoCalCoug · 11-28-2007, 04:48 PM

I'm going home teaching tonight - my companion set the two appointments for 7:00 and 8:30. ????

That's my biggest complaint - my last two companions just talk way too long - it's all I can do to get us out of there in less than an hour - especially if he's doing the lesson (which rarely takes less than 30 minutes, itself).

He's in the elder's quorum presidency, so it's not like I can really complain to them.

il Padrino Ute · 11-28-2007, 04:50 PM

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Originally Posted by SoCalCoug

He's in the elder's quorum presidency, so it's not like I can really complain to them.

Sure you can. He's not going to fire you as his home teaching comp, is he?

Clark Addison · 11-28-2007, 04:54 PM

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Originally Posted by SoCalCoug

I'm going home teaching tonight - my companion set the two appointments for 7:00 and 8:30. ????

I would far prefer home teachers that never came to ones that stayed over an hour each visit. I'm a talker, but we schedule visits 45 minutes apart, 30 minutes for the visit, and 15 minutes for travel time.

11-28-2007, 04:48 PM	#17
K-dog Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Salt Lake City Posts: 699	Personally, I have no interest in being home taught. I don't like the disruption to my life. I don't like the HTs that never leave. I don't like having someone "assigned to care about me." I don't enjoy being home taught. Perhaps partly because of that I have very little interest in home teaching. I don't want to home teach because I feel like I am bothering them. Furthermore, my wife and I are called to teach together. It is very difficult to home teach with an infant child. I'm not sure the program was intended to be so invasive. __________________ He's down by the creek, walkin' on water. K-dog P.S. Grrrrrrrrr

11-28-2007, 04:48 PM	#18
SoCalCoug Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Orange County, California Posts: 3,059	I'm going home teaching tonight - my companion set the two appointments for 7:00 and 8:30. ???? That's my biggest complaint - my last two companions just talk way too long - it's all I can do to get us out of there in less than an hour - especially if he's doing the lesson (which rarely takes less than 30 minutes, itself). He's in the elder's quorum presidency, so it's not like I can really complain to them. __________________ Get your stinking paws off me, you damned, dirty Yewt! "Now perhaps as I spanked myself screaming out "Kozlowski, say it like you mean it bitch!" might have been out of line, but such was the mood." - Goatnapper "If you want to fatten a pig up to make the pig MORE delicious, you can feed it almost anything. Seriously. The pig is like the car on Back to the Future. You put in garbage, and out comes something magical!" - Cali Coug

11-28-2007, 04:42 PM	#14
Clark Addison Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: North Carolina Posts: 638	Yes, home teaching feels meaningless a lot of the time. Frankly, I would prefer most months that my home teachers didn't come, and that's not a reflection on them, just the business of our Sundays. Having said that, I think it's important as a program, and important for me to go regularly, so that all of my families know that if they need help, they have somewhere to go. That help is usually something minor, like giving a blessing, watching a dog, or giving a ride to church, but sometimes it is more major. If I'm not over there most every month, they don't feel good about calling me for those things. If they don't call me, they will either call a friend, which would be fine, or call the Bishop, which would take up more of the Bishop's time and not allow him to play tennis with me, or ask no one at all. So I try to make every visit meaningful, usually fail, but still try to visit.

11-28-2007, 04:44 PM	#15
RC Vikings Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Rexburg, Idaho Posts: 2,236	Along with the two hour block I keep waiting for SLC to change the number of visits to "as many as need be" be it twice a year or twice a week.