Visiting Teaching Handout- January 2015

I'm addicted to making a handout for each visiting teaching message. The thoughts expressed are so relevant and moving I just have to add a photo and a few embellishments.  I hope you use and enjoy this months message! 

Love you lots and hope your New Year is filled with faith, family, friends, and  LOVE!

For the full visiting teach message click here

I was not available to create a November bookmark...in the hospital.  I'm much better now and here is the bookmark for December.

Here is the message from the website.

                                                                                                                           A Savior Is Born, by Joseph Brickey

“The Savior is the source of true peace,” said Elder Quentin L. Cook of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. “Even with the trials of life, because of the Savior’s Atonement and His grace, righteous living will be rewarded with personal peace.”¹ Understanding that Jesus Christ is the Prince of Peace can help us find inner peace and increase our faith in Him.

Jesus Christ said: “These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world” (John 16:33). Bearing testimony of that truth, Linda S. Reeves, second counselor in the Relief Society general presidency, said: “The Lord has been merciful to me and has helped make my burdens light. He has helped me to feel great peace.”²

Elder Richard G. Scott of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles taught: “The ideal place for … peace is within the walls of our own homes, where we have done all we can to make the Lord Jesus Christ the centerpiece.”³

Additional Scriptures

Isaiah 9:6; Luke 2:14; John 14:27; 1 Nephi 13:37; Doctrine and Covenants 59:23

From the Scriptures

Consider This

In what ways does the Savior bring peace to your life?

Isaiah prophesied of the birth of Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace (seeIsaiah 9:6). In the Americas, Samuel the Lamanite told of signs that would accompany Christ’s birth five years later (see Helaman 14:3, 5). As the prophesied day approached, unbelievers threatened to execute all the Christians if these signs did not occur. The prophet Nephi “cried mightily unto the Lord all that day; and behold, the voice of the Lord came unto him, saying: … On the morrow come I into the world” (3 Nephi 1:12–13). The signs appeared, and with the birth of Christ, “the people began again to have peace in the land” (verse 23).

In Bethlehem, Mary “brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger” (Luke 2:7).

October 2014 Visiting Teaching Bookmark

Can you answer this question:

When we come unto Christ, 
how does he nourish us?

View Jeffery R. Holland's message about Christ filling the hungry with all good things.

Here is this months bookmark. I hope you enjoy visiting you sisters this month. I know I will enjoy mine coming.

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September 2104 Visiting Teaching Bookmark

The message for September's Visiting Teaching is:

 The Divine Mission of Jesus Christ: Comforter.

President Thomas S. Monson said: "Our knowledge of the gospel and our love of our Heavenly Father and of our Savior will comfort and sustain us and bring joy to our hearts as we walk uprightly and keep the commandments. THERE WILL BE NOTHING IN THIS WORLD THAT CAN DEFEAT US."

Listen to President Henry B. Ering's talk on "A Promise of Comfort." It takes only one minute and will really give you hope when you feel alone or in need of peace and comfort.

The Divine Mission of Jesus Christ: Messiah

I am thankful for the Messiah. I love to sing of Him, pray to Him, rely on Him and be forgiven, loved, and strengthen by Him. 

My hope is that I may improve each day and become more like Him and return to Him with fewer regrets as I employ the atonement in my life.

Why is it important to understand the Savior's role as the Messiah?

Click this link for the Visiting Teaching Message or view the video 

" The Only True God and Jesus Christ Whom He Hath Sent" 

to help you with your thoughts.

Advocate - July Visiting Teaching Handout

From the lesson:
"Listen to (Jesus Christ) who is the advocate with the Father, who is pleading your cause before him-
"Saying: Father, behold the suffering and death of him who did no sin, in whom thou wast well pleased; behold the blood of thy Son which was shed, the blood of him whom thou gavest that thyself might be glorified;
"Wherefore, Father, spare these my brethren that believe on my name, that they may come unto me and have everlasting life." (D&C 45:3-5)

Here is a link to D. Todd Christofferson 1st talk as an Apostle of the Lord in 1993. Listen carefully to how he feels about our Advocate, Jesus Christ.  His words convey my meaning as well.

Now, here is a new Visiting Teaching bookmark for July:  The Divine Mission of Jesus Christ: Advocate.  
I pray for you and your loved ones to take advantage of God's love and extend mercy and forgiveness to each other. Love, Pat

June 2014 Visiting Teaching Handout

I hope June is a beautiful spring month for you and that you find time to minister to others!

 May 2013 Ensign Magazine: "Your Sacred Duty to Minister" by David L. Beck 

Do you know what it means to minister?

As you love His children, Heavenly Father will guide you, and angels will assist you. You will be given power to bless lives and rescue souls. Jesus Christ is your example. He “came not to be ministered unto, but to minister.” Matthew 20:27-28

To minister means to love and care for others. It means to attend to their physical and spiritual needs. Put simply, it means to do what the Savior would do if He were here.