Visiting Teaching Schedules

Simplified Weekly & Complex Monthly Visiting Teaching Schedule

Annette Nay, MS

Visiting Teaching Modes of Contact

Type A:

A physical visit or an activity with the sister. If a visit takes place the monthly lesson should be given unless the Spirit says otherwise.

Type B:

Is a letter, card, or E-mail. These types of contact can send greetings, celebrate special days, and should always enclose your thoughts about the monthly lesson unless the Spirit says otherwise.
If this is a inactive or semi-inactive sister this should also include invitations, activities, Relief Society Newsletter, a reminder of Homemaking along with the offered classes, and any changes in meeting schedules such as: General and Stake Conference, Daylight Savings Time, or yearly change of meeting schedules.
If this is an active sister this should include reminders of invitations, activities, Relief Society Newsletter, a reminder of Homemaking along with the offered classes, and any changes in meeting schedules such as: General and Stake Conference, Daylight Savings Time, or yearly change of meeting schedules.

Type C:

Is a phone call. This mode of contact could be used to cover all the items listed under the Type B contact.

Simplified Weekly Visiting Teaching Schedule

The following table suggest an easy progressive way to get visiting teaching

done in a timely manner with consistent contact with the sisters.

Week 1	Type A contact.
Week 2	Type B contact.
Week 3	Type C contact. Do this just before Homemaking as a reminder.
Week 4	Make-up missed sisters from weeks 1-3. Report to your supervisor as soon as possible.

You will want all your Visiting Teachers on this plan,

except for the ones that you choose to put on the Complex Quarterly Visiting Schedule.

Complex Quarterly Visiting Teaching Schedule

VISITING TEACHING BY THE MONTH

Often Relief Society Presidents find that they have more women to be put on Visiting Teaching Routes than they have Visiting Teachers. It is usually difficult for a pair of Visiting Teachers to visit more than three of four sisters each month so what do you so with all the other sisters that are in need of visits/ contact. Make your routes with more people on them but use an augmented visiting system.

According to the guidelines for visiting teaching, each sister must be physically visited at least once a quarter (ever three months). According to this plan, each month the visiting teaching partners contact their sisters in the Type A, B, or C modes of contact, but they are assigned to physically see three of four sisters. different way.

The type of visit may be assigned by the President, but perhaps more practical way to do this type of visiting teaching is to remember that each sister is to receive at least one A-type contact per quarter. The visiting teaching partners would receive a visiting teaching route with the mode of contact blank. They would prayerfully consider the mode of contact for each sister making sure each receive at least one A-type contact/quarter. In this way they could contact 9-12 sisters each month, easily.

During the fourth quarter under the direction of the Spirit the visiting teaching partners decide the type of visit each sister should receive. One way to do this is to prayerfully choose the three sisters that need an A-type contact the worst and see them. The visiting teaching partners then prayerfully consider three additional sisters that could use a C-type contact and calls them. The remaining three sisters are given either a C or B-type contact as the Spirit guides

You will want only your best Visiting Teachers to be on the Complex Quarterly Visiting Teaching Schedule. These are the sisters that get do their Visiting Teaching 100% of the time or most of the time.

Complex Quarterly Visiting Teaching Schedule

Names
1st Month
2nd Month
3rd Month

Ruth
A
B/C
B/C

Delilah
A
B/C
B/C

Ester
A
B/C
B/C

Joan of Arc
A
B/C
B/C

Rebekah
B/C
A
B/C

Sara
B/C
A
B/C

Mary
B/C
A
B/C

Martha
B/C
A
B/C

Dorcus
B/C
B/C
A

Elizabeth
B/C
B/C
A

Sariah
B/C
B/C
A

Miriam
B/C
B/C
A

The following table suggest an easy progressive way to get visiting teaching done in a timely manner with consistent contact with the sisters.

Week 1	Do all Type A contacts.
Week 2	Do all Type B contact.
Week 3	Do all Type C contact. Do this just before Homemaking as a reminder.
Week 4	Make-up missed sisters from weeks 1-3. Report to your supervisor as soon as possible.

Below is a list of the four quarters of the year.

Quarters	Months of the Year
1	January, February, and March
2	April, May, and June
3	July, August, and September
4	October, November, and December

Both the Simplified Weekly and the Complex Quarterly Visiting Teaching Schedules are a step up from the way Visiting Teaching is normally done today. I highly suggest you implement them as needed as soon as possible.

Annette Nay, MS

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Names	1st Month	2nd Month	3rd Month
Ruth	A	B/C	B/C
Delilah	A	B/C	B/C
Ester	A	B/C	B/C
Joan of Arc	A	B/C	B/C
Rebekah	B/C	A	B/C
Sara	B/C	A	B/C
Mary	B/C	A	B/C
Martha	B/C	A	B/C
Dorcus	B/C	B/C	A
Elizabeth	B/C	B/C	A
Sariah	B/C	B/C	A
Miriam	B/C	B/C	A