.........Visiting Teaching surprise!: August 2011 Visiting Teaching message printable

.........Visiting Teaching surprise!: August 2011 Visiting Teaching message printable

August 2011 Visiting Teaching message printable

Click on the image and you will be able to read it better. This is the handout that I made for Visiting Teaching for August 2011. I just about didn't get one done as I have been busier than a little bee this month and last month. Even if you have already gone out and done your Visiting Teaching, you can still use this for your sisters now, or for another month. It is a door hanger. Make sure to sign add your phone number at the bottom before you leave it hanging on their door nob or you can just hand it to them so that they have your phone number so they can reach you when they need a "Helping Hand".

One thing about this too is that many people won't ask for help, so be proactive and really let your sister know that you would love to be of service to them, so that they won't hesitate to call if they need you.

Enjoy!

Visiting Teaching Message June 2011- Strengthening Families through temporal self reliance

June 2010 Visiting teaching lesson focus on self reliance.  In my Visiting teaching tips, handouts and Ideas blog, I shared some stories about my own family and how they became self reliant in raising their families.  If you would like to read my personal stories, click on the title of this message and you will be whisked away to my other blog, where I will share my stories with you. 

One of my stories included my own experience of learning to bottle, or can fruits with my Mom  and my sisters.  I too passed on this wonderful talent to my own daughters and we get together every year to can.  So I went looking for some cute things that you can use for yourself, or give to your sister you teach to encourage their own self reliance.  I found some darling canning jar lid stickers that you can print out for yourself on sticker paper, or label paper.  Here are the cute things I found and the links to find them on the Internet.

1.  Round jar top labels can be found here:

 http://blog.worldlabel.com/2011/round-labels-in-a-vintage-style-design.html

2.  Cute vintage labels for bottles or whatever can be found here:

http://blog.worldlabel.com/2011/bottle-labels-for-your-apothecary-products.html

More really pretty vintage labels can also be found here and you know how much I love Vintage things...

http://blog.worldlabel.com/2009/free-fillable-suzee-que-vintage-labels.html

And I even located a few more cute labels here:

More really pretty vintage labels can also be found here and you know how much I love Vintage things... http://poppytalk.blogspot.com/2009/03/free-downloadable-stickers.html 

  

And one more cute one made by Poppytalkhandmade is found here:

http://poppytalk.blogspot.com/2009/02/free-downloadable-labels-from-us.html

Any of these can be customized to suit whatever you are canning.   This would be a cute way to encourage self reliance and learning how to can fruit.  Another idea would be to invite your sisters to come can or bottle with you at your house, and use some of these cute labels to adorn your handiwork!  Enjoy!  Katie G.

LDS Bling Quotes

This past week, I helped a friend create a blog that she needed for a book that she is writing.  She needs advice from LDS parents all over the world.  I thought I would just tell you about it in a post on my blog because I have readership from all over the world.  Click on the title of this post and it will take you directly to her blog.   She needs you to send her an email sharing your advice on how to raise righteous children. Make sure you tell her that Katie G sent you. By the way, do you love the header I created?  She wanted it blingy and blingy it is. Now go send your advice to my friend Mary.  Enjoy, Katie G.

New Ward, new ideas "It's the caring that counts!"

My ward was once again divided and this was the 4th time in 4 years.  Yes, this area that I live is definately growing.  With this divisions came changes.  We have a new Relief Society President and she recently attenede General Relief Society training in which she had the opportunity to visit with Sister Julie Beck.  As she listended to Sister Becks admonitions and message, our this new president picked out the message and brought it home to our ward.  With this inspiration from Sister Beck our Relief Society Visiting teaching is making a few changes and these have come via some points made in Sister Becks message to the Presidencies from all over the world. 

So, I am going to post this letter that was sent via our R.S. email list to all the sisters of the ward....I have received permission from our R.S. President to share this new way of reporting our Visiting teaching with you. 

Dear Sisters,

We appreciate everyone who made it to Sunday’s lesson where Juleen introduced “It’s the Caring that Counts” Visiting Teaching Program.  For those of you that were unable to join us, we want to briefly review the program.

Instead of just reporting if the sister’s visit was a phone call, letter or personal visit, we are asking that you answer these three questions on each of the sisters you visit:

A.      Are there any needs or concerns that she has?  If so, how are you helping to resolve the issue(s)?

B.      Have you seen her in Sacrament Meeting?

C.      Is there any good news she has to share?

Attached is the sheet we would like you to complete that addresses these three questions. By completing and returning (via email or handed directly to your supervisor)the attached document, we will be able to better track the needs of each sister and ensure we are giving them the support they need.  If you have problems saving and emailing this document back, you are welcome to answer the questions in the body of your email and send the information that way.  If you feel an issue one of your sisters is dealing with is particularly sensitive, please feel free to contact President Jackson directly. 

The opportunity we have to serve the sisters in our ward through visiting teaching is an important calling and plays a critical role in ensuring that everyone’s spiritual and temporal needs are being met.  As a visiting teacher, you are on the front line, and the Relief Society Presidency depends on your watchful care to identify and meet the needs of each sister. We are confident that as all visiting teachers put forth some additional effort to document and address the needs of the sisters in their stewardship, that our entire ward will be strengthened.  We appreciate your dedication, diligence, and, most importantly, the caring that you provide your sisters.  

  This is the attachment actually it looks better than this as it is on a printed page with g raphics, but I dont' know how to convert a PDF to a JPEG, and this blogger won't accept PDF's so here is the simple version of what is on the attachment  These questions are what Visiting Teachers are to find out about their sisters and then report them to their supervisor each month:

Here is the link that will take you to this sheet:  https://www.dropbox.com/gallery/57771560/1/Caring%20that%20Counts%20Visiting%20Teaching%20report?h=7912d7

How I connect with the sisters I

visit. ..

VISITING TE.ACHERS:

SUPERVISOR: MONTH:

SISTER

# 1:

A) Are there any needs ar concerns that she has? If so, how are you helping to resolve

the issue(s)?

B) Have you seen her in Sacrament Meeting?

C)

Is there any good news she has to share?

SISTER #2

:

A) Are there any needs or concerns that she has? If so, how are you helping to resolve

the issue(s)?

B) Have you seen her in Sacrament Meeting?

C)

Is there any good news she has to share?

SISTER #3

:

A) Are there any needs or concerns that she has? If so, how are you helping to resolve

the issue(s)?

B) Have you seen her in Sacrament Meeting?

C) Is there any good news she has to share?

IT'S THE. CARING THAT COUNTSI

Visiting Teaching Message April 2011

The message can be found on page 7 in your Ensign, or at this link http://lds.org/library/display/0,4945,2044-1-5252-1,00.html

I am pretty late at getting my Visiting teaching done this month, but just in case you are as well, I thought I would share what I just created for the handout. Remember that I can't put everything on the handout, so I just selected certain things that stuck out in my mind the most from this message.  There is certainly plenty of more wonderful things that you could share, so be inspired, and make this message come from your heart and inspiration.  The handout is just an added plus!  

If you are wondering about Rebecca Swain Williams.... whose photo is on the handout, go to page 38 of your Ensign and read about her.  I say all the time that I am grateful that I was not born in the early days of the church or even in an earlier era of history, because I can't imagine that I could survive those times.  I wonder if these early pioneer women of the church, look down on us from their Heavenly state, and say.... " I am glad that I wasn't born in the latter days like ......?"

Enjoy and go out and do your teaching!  Katie G.

ktgauger@gmail.com

 

Cute Easter Ideas

I have been so swamped with so many other things to create my own ideas for Easter, so I have found some cute ones that I wanted to pass on to you.  Darling ideas, and the links to them. 

This is the link to this darling "Carrot" filled template.  Easy to create!  http://emilyburnette.blogspot.com/   How cute would this be to take as a little Easter Visiting Teaching gift?  I think I am going to use this template for my visiting teaching.  My sisters and I are going to lunch at Olive Garden to get to know each other better.  Over lunch I will give the lesson, and then this will be a fun and cute take home for them to enjoy.  I want my sisters to feel loved.  I wrote Emily who is the author of the website that this idea was founded, and I found out she is LDS too.  Isn't it fun to find sisters throughout the world with the same goals, and efforts to serve others.  Thanks Emily!

SMORES IN A JAR can be found at this site: http://rootsandwingsco.blogspot.com/2009/03/smores-in-jar-for-easter.html   At this site, she had many ideas that are great for Easter.  I love the cute marshamallow bunnies that are being made now in different colors anf flavors.  Of course I am a Peep lover, and would probably use peeps.

Now speaking of Peeps, if you go back into my archives you can find all kinds of great ideas to use Peeps with.  Click on this link  http://visitingteachingsurprise.blogspot.com/search/label/Easter  and it brings up all my Easter and Sprintime ideas. 

Now lookie what I found.... Templates to make Easter Baskets.  The first one is created by "Tracy" and she use to design for Digichick, but I can't find a link to her.  The second one can be found at http://kelleighratzlaff.com/headline/the-easter-basket-template-set-and-cutting-files/ She has a template and other darling baskets that she made including a Birthday basket. 

They can be made up so cute with the darling digital or other scrapbook papers that are available now.  I just suggest that you get one that is printed on cardstock so it will be more durable.  Wouldn't it be sad if you went to all that work to make such a cute basket, and it broke because the paper wasn't strong enough.  There is a solution if you find just the right print on paper..... if you use spray glue and glue it to a piece of cardstock, then it would be heavy enough to use for an Easter basket.  Here is one freebie template link http://guidinguk.freeservers.com/Easter-basket.html and another one that is pictured next comes from

http://jannekesmit.blogspot.com/2010/04/free-easter-basket-template.html  Jannie who is the designer at this site, encourages you to make up her template and then take a photo of how it turned out and send it to her.  That would be a nice way of saying Thank-you for using her template design for free.

I could go on and on with Easter ideas to give to the women you Visit Teach or to Friends, neighbors, your own children, parents, or whomever, but my time is gone and I need to clean my house, lest my husband return and say... "Did a tornado go through today?"  Just kidding, he is really patient with me as he knows my love for creating cute things, but I do need to stop now.  Hope you enjoy these ideas and if you have a cute one and would like to share.... please let me know.  My email is listed on the right column of this blog.  Happy Easter!  Katie G.