Perhaps some of these ideas work for you. Enjoy!!
CREATIVE CARING BY THE MONTH FOR VISITING TEACHERS
Jan: Give your sisters a new calendar
Feb: Red carnation tied w/ ribbon, cloth heart filled w/ candy, a heart pin cushion or a valentine w/ a note expressing your appreciation for your sis
Mar: Basket of “Irish” potatoes or bowl of potato salad
Apr: Give an April Fool’s Day gift (something out of season) or an Easter basket
June: Yellow cake mix, strawberries & whipping cream to make their own short cake
July: Cake decorated like a flag
Aug: Pitcher full of whole lemons & recipe for lemonade
Sept: Corn husk doll dressed from scraps of material
Oct: A tootsie roll pop ghost
Nov: A pumpkin w/ recipe for a treat
Dec: Christmas ornament
The following is a list of more ideas for creative caring that should be helpful in communicating love as a visiting teacher & friend:
- Give each sis a folder w/ a ward directory in it. On the folder put the phone #s of the Bishop, visiting teachers & home teachers
- Take your inactive sis a RS lesson manual
- When traveling, bring your sisters something from the places you visit or send a picture postcard
- Take your sisters out to lunch, one at a time or all together
- Check w/ the husband first & then kidnap your sis & take her to your house for a special breakfast
- Have your sis & her family over to your home for a special FHE
- Send a card or thought to your sis or give them a phone call just to see how they are & say hello
- Do something to f/u on the visiting lesson for the month
- Find out info about your sis: fav flowers, color, music, books & foods. Find out where they were born & raised, places they have lived, etc. Use this info to help you get ideas for things to give & do for your sis
- Do something special for your sis’ b’day or anniversary
- If she gave a good lesson in church, talk or something else that was great, compliment them
- Invite your sis & their fam to your home for dinner or ice cream treat
- If you know of a good sale or something special, call & let your sis know about it also
- If a sis isn’t at church, call to see if everything is ok. Let them know what the announcements were & anything special that happened
- Have a big Un-Birthday party for your sis
- Teach a mini course, if you know a sis is interested in one of your talents
- If you have an ill or elderly sis to visit, tape record the RS lesson for her to listen to
- If you have a new mom or one that doesn’t get out often, offer to baby sit one afternoon while she does what she desires
- Help a mom have a b’day party for a child
- You could take some nice homemade bread or one of your fav goodies w/ you (be sure to include the recipe)
- If there is a sick child, take something for him/her to do
- Take an inexpensive craft to the mom to use when she needs something to entertain the kids when she is busy
- In the summer, take popsicles over for the children or take them to the park to play
- Loan an inspirational book that might uplift your sis in some way, then you can pick it up the next month
- Take a casserole or a dish that she can freeze for a day when your sis is too busy to cook take cookies (undecorated) & the frosting w/ goodies such as sprinkles for the kids to finish the job
- Give them plants w/ a note saying, “Let’s grow together”
- Share some of your best recipes
- Take her some chilled cookie dough w/ the recipe & baking instructions
- Make some special place mats or sew an apron
- Share some veges or fruit from your garden or some you have just canned
- Give your sis a pic of Jesus, a book mark, novelty pens or scrolls
- Share your testimony in written form w/ your sis or a note expressing your appreciation & love for them
- Give them the feeling that you do love them
- Help them set a goal & then print it nicely on a 3x5 card for them to keep on their mirror or fridge
Written by: Cathy Oyler
Kearns, UT
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