The Home Teaching System
Monitoring Home Teaching Efforts Weekly “There is no substitute to persistence, not even talent.” The weekly monitoring starts on the 2nd Sunday and ends on the 4th Sunday of the month. This is a most crucial portion and one that requires your consistency and endurance. If you stop doing the monitoring, your home teaching organization will either collapse or perform miserably. When is the best time to do this? The HT Weekly Monitor could be passed around quietly for home teachers to check off their visits. But this is a passive procedure. The more active procedure is to involve the whole group. Working smart tip: Just before the time is passed on the quorum instructor, take five minutes to make a roll call of the home teachers and inquire who among their assigned families have been visited already. In your copy of the HT Monthly Planner you can check which families have been planned for visits during the current week. HOME TEACHING WEEKLY MONITOR For the Month of March 2004 Companionship
DAVID Alfredo SANTOS Ruben
Families Bulatao, Herminio Tayag, Orlando Feliciano, Isaias Mataga, Efran Sr. Marcelo, Rey Yumul, Rosalinda Supan, Victoriano Mesina, Rodel
st
1 Week
2 Week
3 Week
4th Week
5th Week
V
V
V
V
V
RENGELL Emiliano AMURAO Avelino
GUTIERREZ Ricardo SAMPANG Rodolfo Sr.
C
C
C
Notes HTL
x x
x
C
V
C
V
C
V
C
V
C
HTL
C
V
C
V
C
V
C
HTL
x
x x x
V
Vergara, Victor Gregorio, Rey Manalac, Armando Caday, Rose Santos, Jonald Rodriguez, Jovita Notorio, Jayson Santos, Ruben Sr.
C
rd
x
V
Villanueva, Fe Villapana, Geraldo Quizon, Rodrigo David, Rodolfo Yusi, Romeo Bulatao, Job Garcia, Mirando David, Alfredo Lising, Jesus
C
nd
C
V
x x
x x
x
Legend: V – Visited C – Church Attendance HTL- Home Teaching Lesson Place [X] on applicable spaces
In my opinion, the usual practice of waiting until the end of the month to receive HT reports is ineffective. It will work with highly committed brethren who are already passionate about their home teaching assignments. But it does not work with majority of the brethren who are new, still struggling in the Church, and need lots of encouragement to exert home teaching efforts. So in harmony with my suggestion of 75% follow-up, 25% direction, here’s what I would do to quickly monitor home teaching visits for the week. Quorum Leader: [holding the HT weekly monitor form with a pen] Brethren, let me now call upon the senior companions to briefly report to me which families have been visited as of the second week of March. Bro. Alfredo David….. [Bro. David responds and I make a follow-up question.] Have you been able to teach a home teaching lesson to any of the families you visited? [If not, I just mark the family as visited. If they have visited and taught a lesson, I mark the two corresponding columns.] Bro. Emiliano Rengell…. [Bro. Rengell responds and I take note.] I would like to commend Brothers David, Rengell and Gutierrez for conducting the visits. May I remind Brothers Cruz and Delgado that you still have two weeks to perform the visits. Thank you everyone for your efforts. [Remember to be brief and concise.] Copyright © 2005 Randy F. Rubio All rights reserved “Being Anxiously Engaged in a Good Cause”
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