Visiting Teaching

So we have a program set up for the women of our church that can be pretty amazing or pretty stupid, it's called visiting teaching. Pretty much it's forced friendship. Every girl (or in our case as a Student Ward, every companionship) is assigned a girl or two to visit once a month and deliver a message. That is the basic thing. It's just a way that we can keep in contact with everyone in the ward and make sure that everyone is doing OK. Sometimes the visits are no more than 10 minutes of chatting and a prayer, and sometimes they are two hour long extravaganzas which was my experience today.

Whitney and I went to visit our teachee and we went and chatted and shared a little spiritual thought. We found out that she was being hit really hard with the trials at this point. The first one is that the management is moving her and her roommates to different apartments so that they can make theirs the "show" apartment. We looked through our contracts and found that yes, this is legal and they only have to give 7 days notice and $40 for all the inconvenience. This move would put her on the first floor and most likely in a different ward. Oh, and I forgot to mention that she has no hands and one of her roommates has spinal bifida and wears braces on her legs. Really Alpine village - let's move the handicapped girls cuz it's really easy for them.

The other major trial is a technology explosion. She bought a MacBook Pro about two months ago, and had finished all her papers for this week (one of them being a 10 page monster) just before the hard drive exploded. She took it to the Mac store here in Provo, but it isn't an official Apple store and she bought it at Best Buy. They told her that no info could be recovered and there was nothing else they could do. We took it to Best Buy and they said that it was past the 30 days and so they couldn't do anything. So we called the official apple store in SLC and they said they could help, so tomorrow evening, the two of us are driving out to SLC to get it fixed.

This is what this program is all about. Yes, her friends could help, but we can too. I am so glad that we were there to help her when she needed it. She is such a sweet soul and I am glad to have this opportunity to get to know her.