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		<title>An Experience with My Visiting Teacher</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 13:33:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>MormonWomen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[~by Becca Several years ago, when my children were all very small, it was a very busy morning.  I was trying to get my four little ones dressed and ready to be out the door so we wouldn’t be late dropping one off for pre-school.  I was bent over in the closet trying to find [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ex-Mormon Adam Lowe Continues To Attest To The Effectiveness Of The LDS Home Teaching Program When Implemented As Designed</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 22:37:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jack Mormon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, I certainly got a bit of a surprise today when the Mormon Times printed a submission from an ex-Mormon. Although the Mormon Times is not an official website of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, it does tend to restrict itself to pu...]]></description>
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		<title>Visiting Teaching Conference</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Sep 2009 15:04:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday at church, the women gathered together for our Visiting Teaching Conference.  All of us are given the opportunity to be visiting teachers, which is when we are assigned a partner and women to teach in our ward (congregation) and uplift.  This conference is to teach us about the importance of this program. Our visiting teaching coordinator who taught the lesson did so very well, making great points and adding some humor, including some funny videos about how not to visit teach. A friend of mine raised her hand at one point to bring up something I mentioned years ago about why I thought visiting teaching is so important.  When my husband worked for a minor home repair program that&#8217;s meant to assist low income people and the elderly, he went to fix something for an elderly woman one day.  As he was in the middle of this repair, the woman pulled a kitchen chair in front of her oven, opened the door, and turned the heat on.  She started to fall asleep and when she started nodding off towards the heating element, my husband had to go wake her up before her blanket caught fire. He asked her why she was sleeping like that and it turned out her furnace had been broken for months.  That&#8217;s how she had been sleeping every night to keep warm.  I was heartbroken when I heard this story and I thought, &#8220;If she were Mormon, she would have visiting teachers.  If she had visiting teachers, this never would have happened.  Someone would have been alerted to the problem and found help for her.&#8221; Often my husband was the first person to discover an elderly person in severe need and sometimes they were neglected by their children who had taken control over their finances.  They [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Visiting Teaching Blesses Me Again</title>
		<link>http://www.mormonbloggers.com/27673/visiting-teaching-blesses-me-again</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 May 2009 16:26:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve talked before about Visiting Teaching, one of the programs in the Mormon Church for looking after each other (this is when the women visit each other, see to each others&#8217; needs, and bring them a spiritual message for the month). After stressing all week to the point of feeling sick over our medical benefits problem, I woke up at 4am yesterday morning and started working again on everything we need to do to qualify for help.  I was completely overwhelmed and not long after that, my youngest son woke up.  He rarely wakes up early and it just so happened to be that morning, when I was working my hardest to get things done before the kids woke up. Needless to say, I was discouraged.  Not long after that, my baby woke up and she is at a very active stage and requires a lot of attention.  I didn&#8217;t know how I would accomplish even half of what I needed to do yesterday.  I had so many phone calls to make that would most likely require being on hold, many documents to locate and copy, forms to print and fill out, and I had one of those rare moments where I needed help, both emotionally and physically.  I have a new visiting teacher and I thought back to months ago when she asked if she could come over sometime and hold my baby.  I know she was hoping to hold a newborn baby, but I decided to ask anyway.  I e-mailed her and explained my dilemma and she was able to work in a visit into her day.  I was so grateful and she has no idea how much it helped just to come over and hold my baby, play with her, and keep an eye on her.  I didn&#8217;t have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Blessing of Friendship</title>
		<link>http://www.mormonbloggers.com/5016/the-blessing-of-friendship</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 04:02:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my greatest friends (who I got to know when I was made her visiting teacher) comes over every Wednesday night and it is a blessing to both of us.  My husband is always gone until late, I don&#8217;t get very many opportunities to spend time with friends, she lives alone, and we both love to cook together. Sometimes we&#8217;ll take turns cooking and when it&#8217;s her night, I take advantage of the fact that I don&#8217;t have to plan dinner by getting some chores done around the house.  Usually I buy the ingredients and send her home with leftovers too.  She was out of work for a long time, being laid-off immediately after returning from medical leave.  As she still searches for a full-time job, it&#8217;s a blessing to her that she gets two meals a week she doesn&#8217;t have to pay for.  I am thrilled that I have a night where I don&#8217;t have to cook or to have a better meal than we normally do.  It&#8217;s hard to make anything wonderful with three rowdy boys and a baby girl. Most of all, it is just fun.  We watch movies, we play games, we share our hopes for the future, we give each other encouragement, and laugh our heads off. I don&#8217;t think she understands how much she blesses my life.  I went through a really hard time a couple years ago &#8211; not something I can share with most people and she had no idea how difficult Wednesday nights are for me.  With her here, I find myself thinking less about the trial I went through and this night has become a positive instead of a negative.  We started this tradition almost two years ago when she offered to come cook me dinner for my birthday.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of Oxygen Masks and Omelettes</title>
		<link>http://www.mormonbloggers.com/4052/of-oxygen-masks-and-omelettes</link>
		<comments>http://www.mormonbloggers.com/4052/of-oxygen-masks-and-omelettes#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 22:55:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Years ago when I made my first trip on an airplane, as the flight attendants instructed us on what to do in case of an emergency, I found myself feeling upset about one of the directions given.  They said if we lost pressure in the cabin, that these oxygen masks would drop down and we should attach our own first and then put the masks on our children. Back then I wasn&#8217;t a mother yet, but I thought, &#8220;What?  How could I possibly allow my child to be deprived of oxygen even for a moment?&#8221;  Then it was explained that if we put it on the children first, we might pass out before we are able to get them on ourselves.  Logically I know that makes complete sense, but being a mother now, I can only picture myself frantically getting the masks on my children because I imagine I would feel selfish putting mine on first. This scenario has played through my mind through the years as I realized it applies to so many things.  It is hard to mother if you haven&#8217;t eaten, showered, given yourself some quiet time to pray, meditate, study the scriptures, or continue to develop and maintain our skills and talents.  As my visiting teacher talked to me today, the lesson she shared was somewhat related and we talked about how hard it is to take care of ourselves when we have babies. We agreed that we are better mothers when we have what we need and it isn&#8217;t doing our children any favors to neglect ourselves until our patience wears thin.  We need to teach by example.  If we take no time to have prayer and scripture study, how will our children learn to make that a priority in their lives?  How will they learn [...]]]></description>
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