15 Ways to Touch your sisters

My ward had a Visiting Teaching Conference this past week for a night Relief Society meeting.  I thought I would pass on the idea for anyone who might want a fresh new idea. 

All the Chairs were seated in one huge circle in the Cultural Hall.  The chairs were divided up in sections denoting Visiting teaching Districts.  Each district was assigned a different color and nametags with a cute little colored flower on the nametag of each sister in a specific district.  A balloon of the color of the district was  tied to one of the chairs where the sisters in that particular district were suppose to sit.  The District supervisors were assigned a topic on Visiting teaching that they were to create a skit or presentation on utilizing the talents of those sister in her district. 

On mhy prior post, I listed a link for a Visiting Teaching Skit that I wrote after being asked for help by the woman who was my District Suprevisor, and I also Visit teach her.  (I am glad that she asked, as I am always wanting to do something to help her, and this time I got the chance.)  Our topic was to show the importance of calling in your report to your District supervisor. It was sung to the tune of "My Bonnie lies over the ocean".

That evenining, all the districts got 10 minutes to figure out what they were going to do to present their particular topic.  Some topics were... best and worst excuses given by sisters for not doing their visiting Teaching, and for not wanting to be taught.  There was a cute skit about Sister Hard to teach it showed her avoiding her Visiting teachers at every chance, but also showed some pretty persistant Visiting Teachers who explored various ways to finally get to see Sister Hard to teach.  There were other skits that were pretty entertaining and made for a great evening.  One skit that I wanted to share was given out to us in a hand out after the evening was over.  Sister Robin Rock, who is in our Stake R.S. Presidency and is also a Visiting Teaching District Supervisor presented this skit.  I dont' know if she made it up, or got it from someone else, but I wanted to share.....

The women in the district lined up and gave this to the group to the rythmn of the old song.."15 ways to leave your lover", but this skit was called 15 ways to touch your sister. (Bet you can't tell what this skit was trying to present??!!) Half of the group gave the first part of the sentence in black, leaning forward and snaping to the rythmn.  Then the second half of the group gave the words in blue, snapping their fingers to the rythmn and leaning forward when they spoke.

"Keep up the buzz- cuz you'll set yourself free!"

Call on the telle- Kelly
Pick up the phone - Sloan
Chat in a chair- Claire
Be a service fairy - Mary
Take them to lunch- talk while you munch
Lend a hand - Jan
Send them a letter - it's an attention getter
Send something funny - honey
Write them a card - Barb
Give them a note - that's our vote
Visit in the home - Joan
Have a nice chat - Pat
Gofor a walk - have a little talk
Bake up some cookies - Snookie
Take them a treat - Be sweet
Don'ty forget a thought - with whaever you brought!

This was a cute skit and the ladies showed such personality when they presented it.  Hope you like this idea.  If you have any more ideas, please email them to me at the email listed on this page.  Thanks, Katie G.

P.S.  I think there are some pretty funny and to the point Videos on how not to Visit teach.  I like this one in particular.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p7JXYk2IrjE