October 2010 VT Handout

October VT Printout
The visiting teaching message this month was to be taken out of the special issue of October’s Ensign on Temples. So I took a small quote out of it for the handout and printed it on the back of the photo above. (all included in the October VT Printout)

“The late Elder Matthew Cowley, who was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, once recounted the Saturday afternoon experience of a grandfather as hand in hand he took his small granddaughter on a birthday visit—not to the zoo or to the movies but to the temple grounds. With permission of the groundskeeper, the two walked to the large doors of the temple. He suggested that she place her hand on the sturdy wall and then on the massive door. Tenderly he then said to her, “Remember that this day you touched the temple. One day you will go inside.” His gift to the little one was not candy or ice cream but an experience far more significant and everlasting—an appreciation of the house of the Lord. She had touched the temple, and the temple had touched her.”

I thought this was such a cute story so I made a baton out of a pack of Spree candy, wrapped up in tinfoil.
Today, I have a testimony of Visiting Teaching. We were going to just drop these off to our sisters and one of them was having some problems with her computer and we were able to help her and save the day. She had been praying for help and we were her answer. It was, by all rights and purposes, an emergency and we, unknowingly, showed up at her door as angels. It was a very spiritual experience for me as the answers to the problem came swiftly and both of our infants slept peacefully through the whole ordeal. I am so grateful for the opportunity I had to experience that.