My friend and I have had three of our four visiting teaching appointments this week. This is an assignment I do because I know I should, I recognize the need for it, but I really don't have a tremendous love for it. Luckily at the moment, I do enjoy the ladies we visit. That hasn't always been the case.
And maybe it is because we are busy on Sundays and dont' have the chance for any social interaction, really, during the block of church meetings, but our appointments this week seemed excessive to me.
We had three visits and it took us three and a half hours to do them.
When my visiting teachers come by I'm lucky to have them in my home for 20 minutes. They are heavy on the teaching and slim on the visiting. We seems to be the opposite extreme.
I do enjoy catching up with these ladies who are also my friends--in the church sense of the word. But an hour or more is too long to be at their homes. Am I wrong here?
I know that I have only a few things wherein I can be perfectly obedient at this stage of my life. And I try to be that with this assignment. But when I am tired and my family has to make their own dinner because I am still out long after I thought I'd be home, I have guilt and it makes me less apt to be as perfectly obedient.
Maybe next month will be better. But I worry it won't. This is (sadly) becoming a pattern, I was hoping we could avoid.
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