Posted by:
Elder Berry
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Date: April 02, 2018 11:46AM
Last night's pillow talk was about what happened to VT, HT. I took the initiative and asked my very believing wife if she was okay with the changes to Visiting Teaching. I knew she was a devoted V-teacher but didn't really like it that much.
She told me that she was okay. She seemed a bit perplexed. It was like she hadn't had enough time to process such a change. She also seemed reticent to talk about it.
Once I got her talking she said that not reporting meaningless numbers will be nice. She thought that the numbers meant nothing to no one. They were just checking off a list of names and nothing really meaningful was happening in the people's lives she visited. She tried to really ask about the people she visited and never dropped stuff off or mailed stuff. She wanted to get to know her people. If they didn't want her to visit that was fine. She wanted honesty over checking off a list of names.
And about Home Teaching, she could have cared less. She said that we were rarely taught and whenever we had a friendly, caring person they were only our teacher for a few months and then on to the next pair who didn't care.
And ironically, our neighbors are Mormon and we used to be closer to them. They have started giving us the cold shoulder and rarely accepting invites as well as never inviting us to do anything. It might be because our kids are going to school and their eldest is married sitting in an apartment "bored." I don't know but our relationship has become strained.
So a couple of months ago the neighbor woman gave a RS lesson on VT. My wife said she went on and on and at one point pointed out that my wife was her neighbor and had just that day been assigned to her as a Visiting Teacher. She told the room of women how my wife and her were so close that they would use shopping trips and get together as VT opportunities. Then 2 months later the VT is dropped.
We both knew that our neighbor was speaking for the benefit of the other women - not my wife.
So, in conclusion, at least one Mormon will miss the social opportunities but not the BS.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 04/02/2018 11:48AM by Elder Berry.