Home Teaching is a good thing.

[thesaint258]

I've gone to one, and my car was broken into and the stereo stolen. I won't make that mistake again.

It's helpful when the world sends you such clear messages.

[Clark Addison]

We got new home teachers last week. We had had the old ones for about 3 months, so I guess it was about time. One of our new ones is a young new member of the bishopric, I would say in his late 20s. Good guy, and very gung-ho, church-wise. He talked to my wife the other night as she was picking up our daughter from youth night. My wife explained that, for the next while, I will be out of town from Sunday afternoon to late Thursday evenings. He suggested that maybe he could come visit on Friday or Saturday night. I can already tell he will not be our favorite home teacher ever.

Our HT went full Hardy Boys on us yesterday. He is inclined to ask us, and our children, many questions each visit, such as the frequency of our family prayer and scripture study, the state of our food storage, the status of our member missionary efforts, and the regularity of our temple attendance. Based on our answers to these questions, he was already suspicious of us. Then, we had the following conversation on our front porch yesterday as he was leaving.

Home Teacher: So... Do you guys have friends over a lot?
Clark Addison: Sometimes. Not that much. (At this point, I thought he was angling for a dinner invite or something. A couple of visits ago, he suggested that he and his wife go to the temple with us, as a way to get us down there more regularly. We have successfully parried that one so far)
HT: Huh. Because there is a cigarette butt here in your plant.
CA: Haha. We had the A/C guys out this week to replace our air conditioner. One of them must have dropped it there. Haha.
HT: OK <looks at CA suspiciously>

I'm thinking this may come up at next week's ward council. I may need to slip something in the EQ president's food to make him sick, making him send Parrot Head in his place, so I have a spy there.

I also think that I will chew very strong mint gum and look guilty whenever I talk to my HT in the future.

[byu71]

Our HT went full Hardy Boys on us yesterday. He is inclined to ask us, and our children, many questions each visit, such as the frequency of our family prayer and scripture study, the state of our food storage, the status of our member missionary efforts, and the regularity of our temple attendance. Based on our answers to these questions, he was already suspicious of us. Then, we had the following conversation on our front porch yesterday as he was leaving.

Home Teacher: So... Do you guys have friends over a lot?
Clark Addison: Sometimes. Not that much. (At this point, I thought he was angling for a dinner invite or something. A couple of visits ago, he suggested that he and his wife go to the temple with us, as a way to get us down there more regularly. We have successfully parried that one so far)
HT: Huh. Because there is a cigarette butt here in your plant.
CA: Haha. We had the A/C guys out this week to replace our air conditioner. One of them must have dropped it there. Haha.
HT: OK <looks at CA suspiciously>

I'm thinking this may come up at next week's ward council. I may need to slip something in the EQ president's food to make him sick, making him send Parrot Head in his place, so I have a spy there.

I also think that I will chew very strong mint gum and look guilty whenever I talk to my HT in the future.

Just don't know what to say. Find myself shaking my head and smiling. I am glad I have never had a home teacher like that, especially now I am really old and seem to blurt out the first thing that comes to my mind.

[SCcoug]

[TripletDaddy]

our home teachers were going to come over to our house yesterday at 130pm. at about 1pm, we decided to call them and reschedule for another time.

[creekster]

our home teachers were going to come over to our house yesterday at 130pm. at about 1pm, we decided to call them and reschedule for another time.

Fascinating. Did you call on a land line or a cellphone? Enquiring minds!

[YOhio]

our home teachers were going to come over to our house yesterday at 130pm. at about 1pm, we decided to call them and reschedule for another time.

OMG! NO WAY!

[TripletDaddy]

Fascinating. Did you call on a land line or a cellphone? Enquiring minds!

OMG! NO WAY!

Guys, I'm being serious. we totally did it.

ps cell phone.

[byu71]

Guys, I'm being serious. we totally did it.

ps cell phone.

So????? What's the big deal?

[Clark Addison]

our home teachers were going to come over to our house yesterday at 130pm. at about 1pm, we decided to call them and reschedule for another time.

I would have done the same thing if I had known they were coming. Evidently, a couple of weeks ago, I had told the junior companion that I would probably have time on the 14th after church, and he took that as a commitment. The first time I remembered the conversation was when I saw them at our front door.

[Bo Diddley]

I would have done the same thing if I had known they were coming. Evidently, a couple of weeks ago, I had told the junior companion that I would probably have time on the 14th after church, and he took that as a commitment. The first time I remembered the conversation was when I saw them at our front door.

Before you had a chance to sanitize your house.

[Clark Addison]

Our HT went full Hardy Boys on us yesterday. He is inclined to ask us, and our children, many questions each visit, such as the frequency of our family prayer and scripture study, the state of our food storage, the status of our member missionary efforts, and the regularity of our temple attendance. Based on our answers to these questions, he was already suspicious of us. Then, we had the following conversation on our front porch yesterday as he was leaving.

Home Teacher: So... Do you guys have friends over a lot?
Clark Addison: Sometimes. Not that much. (At this point, I thought he was angling for a dinner invite or something. A couple of visits ago, he suggested that he and his wife go to the temple with us, as a way to get us down there more regularly. We have successfully parried that one so far)
HT: Huh. Because there is a cigarette butt here in your plant.
CA: Haha. We had the A/C guys out this week to replace our air conditioner. One of them must have dropped it there. Haha.
HT: OK <looks at CA suspiciously>

I'm thinking this may come up at next week's ward council. I may need to slip something in the EQ president's food to make him sick, making him send Parrot Head in his place, so I have a spy there.

I also think that I will chew very strong mint gum and look guilty whenever I talk to my HT in the future.

We continue to enjoy our monthly HT visits, and have had a question that I have been meaning to ask.

Do normal people (well, normal Mormons, at least) use the term "companionship prayer" to describe praying with their spouse? Among the barrage of questions we get monthly (ask the kids if we are having family prayers, ask when the last time we went to the temple was, ask if we are having personal and family scripture study, etc., etc.) is the regular question to me and my wife of whether we are "regularly having companionship prayer?" and I can't help giggling a little each time. But maybe I am just being judgmental and this is a normal term that all sorts of people who are not 19 year old boys in Argentina use all the time.

[creekster]

We continue to enjoy our monthly HT visits, and have had a question that I have been meaning to ask.

Do normal people (well, normal Mormons, at least) use the term "companionship prayer" to describe praying with their spouse? Among the barrage of questions we get monthly (ask the kids if we are having family prayers, ask when the last time we went to the temple was, ask if we are having personal and family scripture study, etc., etc.) is the regular question to me and my wife of whether we are "regularly having companionship prayer?" and I can't help giggling a little each time. But maybe I am just being judgmental and this is a normal term that all sorts of people who are not 19 year old boys in Argentina use all the time.

No. We do not use that term. Our home teacher doesn't use that therm. And I haven't had that experience since I was 21 years old.

[OceanBlue]

I recently received my new list of home teaching assignments. Three families and one single Hispanic. All inactive but two of the families ask for help often though they don't come to church. Here in Eastern N.C. we have had some flooding and one of the families called last night and wanted our ward to put new carpet, walls, etc in her flood damaged apartment. The bishop and I moved her and her elderly husband along with her drug addicted son in a driving rainstorm two summers ago.
She isn't shy about asking for help. If we won't have EQ fix up her damaged apartment we can "help" with expenses for a new apartment. None of that's going to happen but we'll help her move her stuff. Our bishop is a great guy and too kind. I recommended and offered to get the Red Cross involved but she wanted nothing to do with that. Two of these families are only on the books to see how we can help them when they hit some sort of bottom. I love home teaching those who are active. I guess there is some lesson to be learned.

[ByronMarchant]

I recently received my new list of home teaching assignments. Three families and one single Hispanic. All inactive but two of the families ask for help often though they don't come to church. Here in Eastern N.C. we have had some flooding and one of the families called last night and wanted our ward to put new carpet, walls, etc in her flood damaged apartment. The bishop and I moved her and her elderly husband along with her drug addicted son in a driving rainstorm two summers ago.
She isn't shy about asking for help. If we won't have EQ fix up her damaged apartment we can "help" with expenses for a new apartment. None of that's going to happen but we'll help her move her stuff. Our bishop is a great guy and too kind. I recommended and offered to get the Red Cross involved but she wanted nothing to do with that. Two of these families are only on the books to see how we can help them when they hit some sort of bottom. I love home teaching those who are active. I guess there is some lesson to be learned.

Are you suggesting that it's more enjoyable to help active families than inactive families?

I always refused any form of help including help moving furniture when relocating even when I was active. Too many strings attached to Mormon "help."