This past Saturday we had a Relief Society mini-conference. The focus of the conference was mostly visiting teaching. The visiting teaching coordinator (and also a counselor in the R.S. Presidency) is a very talented pianist. She came up with a brilliant idea to illustrate "good" and "bad" examples of visiting teaching. I was only able to get one complete video, and it is of the "bad" version (you're in luck, since that's the funny one).
Chris mentioned once that Charlie Chaplin is still pretty popular here--people love the silent films. I guess it may have been that familiarity with that genre of films that helped create this presentation. I am going to see if we can do the performance again after church on Sunday so that I can have Chris record it. I love how appropriate the music is for the action, and it seems to me it works better than words ever could.
It was a lot of fun to be in this and the best part about it: No verbal language. It was nice to really participate!
In case you aren't familiar with visiting teaching: It is a program for the women in our church, wherein we are assigned a companion and together with our companion we have sisters from church that we "visit teach". The goal is to visit each sister at least once a month in her home and share a spiritual message. It is a way of establishing friendships as well as making sure the spiritual and temporal needs of that sister and her family are being met. Because we are women and we like to talk, sometimes it is easy to be side-tracked while visiting and spend time talking about things of lesser importance and not actually helping our sister. I'm not sure it's completely clear, but in the video we don't bring a spiritual message, we bring a magazine similar to that produced by Avon (with beauty products galore) and we spend our time talking about beauty, makeup, hair, etc.
It was a lot of fun to be in this and the best part about it: No verbal language. It was nice to really participate!
In case you aren't familiar with visiting teaching: It is a program for the women in our church, wherein we are assigned a companion and together with our companion we have sisters from church that we "visit teach". The goal is to visit each sister at least once a month in her home and share a spiritual message. It is a way of establishing friendships as well as making sure the spiritual and temporal needs of that sister and her family are being met. Because we are women and we like to talk, sometimes it is easy to be side-tracked while visiting and spend time talking about things of lesser importance and not actually helping our sister. I'm not sure it's completely clear, but in the video we don't bring a spiritual message, we bring a magazine similar to that produced by Avon (with beauty products galore) and we spend our time talking about beauty, makeup, hair, etc.
Nice.
ReplyDeleteAll too often I've experienced visits with no spiritual message... and worse (perhaps?) visits during which my companions are visiting with each other and not even really speaking to me. I mean, COME ON! I'm alone all day with my little ones, I need some ADULT convo! I think that's why I read blogs and write them so much! Among a few reasons, that is definitely one.
oops. I didn't realize Jess was still signed in. How annoying.
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I also wanted to say it was lovely to see my Sis!! ^_^
Terrific! I love the succinct mssg and it was a delight seeing Evelyn. Can you say who is playing your companion? could that be Anya?
ReplyDeleteMom... you are right, my companion is Anya... in real-life too. ;D
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