Hi, everyone -

What is the difference between a home teacher and a visting teacher?

Thanks, Sunny

A pair of walnuts.

Home teacher has the priesthood (aka is man) and is assigned to whole families. Visiting teachers are women assigned to women, presumably because women can't handle teaching the opposite gender </sarcasm>

"Home Teachers" are male, and are there to check up on the whole family.
"Visiting Teachers" are women who come to visit/chek up on the wife and/or mother.
Both are supposed to give 'spiritual messages' and prayers during their visits.

home teachers are men
visiting teachers are women

Visiting teachers only visit-teach other women.

Home teachers visit everyone.

A woman has both home teachers and visiting teachers.

A man only has home teachers.

Home teachers are for the whole family while visiting teachers are for the wife.

Thanks, everyone. Can a man be his wife's home teacher?

Once children reach adulthood, do they get their own teachers (because then they are in singles' wards?) even if they are still living at home?

How often are you "taught" (in theory).

Are the lessons on some sort of calendar? Such as: February 2nd would be on, say, the first vision, for all HT's and VT's, etc.

For that matter, are the lessons in the 3-hour block the same across the entire church (First vision lessons Feb 2 in Utah, Canada, and the Phillipines?)

Thanks again.

You are supposed to be taught once a month. Every adult member is assigned a group that they are supposed to visit. Usually, people don't care about it, but on the last of the month they feel guilty and try and visit everyone. The lessons are dictated by the church and are published in that month's Ensign magazine. Teaching is done in pairs, you get assigned a partner. Sometimes they assign a husband and wife the same home/visiting teaching route and let them go as partners to do both at the same time.

A man doesn't teach his wife. Kids are included with the parent's teachers until they are an adult and start attending a young single adult congregation, which is when they usually get their first 'own' set. Although if a YSA still lives with parents and goes to the parental ward, they might get kids their own age to come teach them, since for that demographic it usully turns into a dating opportunity anyway, with the only teaching getting done being the guys home teaching the cute girls on their route.

Sunday school lessons are set by church HQ and are the same worldwide.

Edit: Outside the US, the home/visiting teaching lessons are in the local version of the Liahona, which is just a localization of the Ensign, same messages though.



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Thanks!! This helps.

And thanks for asking the question, sunnynomo.

I've been coming here as a nevermo for 6 or 7 years and I didn't know that.

Now I do - thanks to you :-)

Tom in Paris

Thank you, good sir!!

One time while in a UVU Student (singles) Ward in Orem, the EQP was railing on all the guys about the HT stats.

He said that for the past few months we'd hovered around 50% in HT visits. We were all feeling pretty bad until one guy piped in and said,

"Well, isn't 50% Home Teaching pretty much like 100% VISITING Teaching?"

Home teachers are those guys who never show up once a month while visiting teachers are those ladies who schedule their visiting teaching and carry it out faithfully on schedule.



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Sometimes (often) a man brings his son (or another young man) along or a missionary ("splits") or two as his companion and often-times just asks the family if there is anything they can do for them... just like the missionaries do with less active members. There is generally a lesson and a prayer but it is not always a given. Some leasthood meetings, once a month, turn into a party with prizes and candy-treats with % is high.