Hands of Heaven on Earth

VT Conference

by: Julia Baldwin in TX

We had our visiting teaching convention on Sunday.  It went really well.  Thought I'd give you the run down:  First, we had the support of the Bishop in getting the priesthood to cover primary and young women's so the teachers could attend Relief Society.  We also had the Stake Primary Presidency come to help run primary.  Our theme was "Hands of Heaven on Earth."  The program went as follows: 

The meeting started with the Relief Society president giving a few thoughts about the importance of VT.  She gave specific examples of the many wonderful things the "hands" of the sisters had done for one another in our ward. 

Following her remarks, we had a musical number called "My Hands."  It is a Lex DeAzevado song from the Animated Scriptures.  Then we had three sisters give 2-3 minute testimonies/examples of how a visiting teacher touched (or changed in some cases) her life. 

The bishop then spoke for a few minutes and we concluded with a slide show.  For the slide show, I went around a few weeks before the event and took pictures of the sisters' hands doing different acts of service.  I made a slide show of these pictures interspersed with pictures of the Savior's hands.  I used the Jenny Frogley arrangement of Kenneth Cope's "His Hands", to correspond to the slides!  It was beautiful.

The whole program was great.  Everyone in attendance was touched.  Usually, we tend to dread the VT convention, but I know everyone there was glad that they came!