Home Teaching

[AngryMormon]

I have a question about Home Teaching that has been on my mind. Why is it that I get a list from the EQP with 4-5 names on it? The other people in Priesthood seem to get the same number as I do. Shouldn’t we just be getting 1-2 people? Wouldn’t 1-2 people be getting the job done? It just seems a little odd to me.

How do you guys get 4-5 done in the first place! I work 60 plus hours a week and it seems like an impossible task. In addition, listening to 4-5 different individuals problems completely drains me! Am I alone in feeling like this?

[Anonymous]

I’ve been in wards where everyone goes on the lists except those who have asked not to be contacted – and I’ve been in other wards where everyone is given two people/families and asked to make sure they visit or talk with them every month. I’ve been in wards where active members can opt out of being visited in order to allow HTs to focus on inactive members/families.

Tradition says everyone needs to be visited, but, ultimately, the decisions are up to the HPGL, EQP and Bishop.

[Anonymous]

Simple we don’t visit everybody every month. We check who’s available and try and get to folk at least one month in three.

The most we get in one evening is three. My HT companion is great, I really like him, he gets the balance right. He’s a truck driver works early mornings so I think it’s harder on him. I really couldn’t ask for better.

When HT works it’s great, when it doesn’t… it isn’t.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for your responses. I am trying to be more of a team player at church and figuring out how to balance everything is a concern of mine. Instead of beating myself up in regards to the people who I am not able visit, I am going to focus the good I am doing.

[Anonymous]

Good philosophy. Half the contacts on our lists are people who never come and often don’t consider themselves members. Home teaching seems to help only once in multiple blue moons in those cases. Do what you can and let the quorum leaders rant and rave about the salvation you’re endangering (yours or your families). If they think home teaching is not working, it’s their job to try to correct it.

Interesting parallel – I’ve heard of a situation where some local leaders went through a phase of trying to trim the rolls of the ward – i.e., do away with memberships of people who wanted no contact. (One part of the story was that it was a way to raise home teaching numbers.) The hammer was apparently dropped on them.

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