Visiting Teaching

Yesterday we brought dinner over to someone in our ward. I'm her visiting teacher. Actually, Clark is her home teacher as well, and my companion and his companion are married. It's a funny little circle. Anyway, this woman had some back problems before, and then she fell, had to go have rods put in, quite the ordeal. And now she can't really do anything, even getting up to go to the bathroom is a trial, so we brought her dinner. She happened to have some friends over when we dropped by, and one of them asked, "So, are you from the Relief Society?" Come to find out that these friends are Catholic, and she has been amazed at the programs in place in the LDS church to help people in need. It really got me to thinking how fortunate we are that we have a whole network set up for us if we are in trouble. We have visiting teachers, we have home teachers, we have a whole relief society full of people willing to help. One of the concepts that was hard for the Catholic friend to grasp was the fact that everyone in the church has visiting teachers/home teachers, and almost everyone in the church is a visiting/home teacher. She asked if we got paid to do this, or if we volunteered. And I guess we did volunteer, but we aren't these incredible people who stand out as volunteers to help those in need. We're just like everyone else in the ward. I'm certain that my visiting teacher would do the same for me. It's just such an incredible thing that I take for granted. So there you go, just a thought I had last night.