The April visiting teaching message is titled Oath and Covenant of the Priesthood. What we are really focusing on this month is temple covenants and the blessings that come with those covenants. My first printable for this month simply highlighted a scripture about the power of the temple endowment (see that printable here: April Visiting…
The April 2017 visiting teaching message is about the Oath and Covenant of the Priesthood. The message includes several wonderful quotes, but I admit I was having a hard time choosing which direction to go with my main printable for this month. After reading the quotes several times, I realized that I wanted to focus…
This post is written in partnership with mormon.org as part of the Easter 2017 #PrinceofPeace campaign. To find more peace in your own life, click here to learn more. A few days ago I opened Facebook and the first thing on my feed was a post that tagged my dear friend Marianne. Her sister had…
I especially loved the quote by President Uchtdorf in the March 2017 Visiting Teaching Message: “Though we all have weaknesses, we can overcome them. Indeed it is by the grace of God that, if we humble ourselves and have faith, weak things can become strong.” I get fixated on my weaknesses sometimes. Because sometimes it…
The visiting teaching message for March 2017 is “The Enabling Power of Jesus Christ and His Atonement.” At first, I didn’t know how it was different from February’s message, but after reading it, I recognize that we are talking about different things that the Atonement does for us. In February we talked about how the…
The longer I make printables for visiting teachers, the more I realize that many of you would rather have smaller handouts to give out. The printables I generally make are intended to be framed in order for your sisters to display them, but I know that it often makes more sense to give your sisters…
Last month I made the guess that we might perhaps be talking about the Relief Society for the entire year of visiting teaching. I suppose I guessed that because the last few years have been pretty thematic with Attributes of Christ and The Proclamation on the Family. But, when I opened my February Ensign and…
The last month of the year is here! I’m always amazed at how quickly it seems to fly by—and this year was no exception. The December visiting teaching message focuses on joy, which is such a perfect message for the month in which we sing Joy to the World as we celebrate our Savior’s birth….
It’s November, which means that the month’s visiting teaching message comes from October 2016 General Conference. Obviously, it’s much harder for me to choose a quote from 38 full talks than it is to choose from a couple paragraphs of the monthly visiting teaching message. This year, since we are on sabbatical in Utah, we…
October’s visiting teaching message is The Family is Ordained of God. Really, it is just a culmination of many of the earlier messages this year. It’s all about family and family is important because family is ordained of God. That’s it. That’s the big plan. God put us in family units for an important reason—many…
September’s visiting teaching message (Parenthood is a Sacred Duty) couldn’t have come at a more opportune time for me. We have been on sabbatical for a month now, and my sacred duties to my children as their mother are front and center as I help them navigate living in a new place. Not only did…
I’ve been thinking a lot about love lately, so this month’s visiting teaching message on Nurturing Families was perfect for me. The idea that the Lamanites were more righteous than the Nephites simply because they loved their families really hit me hard. (Jacob 3:7) Sometimes it’s hard to love our families—and sometimes it’s just hard…