The Crayon Messages: A Visiting Teaching Adventure

By Christine Thackeray

Author: ?+ Christine Thackeray Description: Cath Reed has been feeling desperately lonely. With a husband alway traveling, a daughter on the brink and still adjusting to her new ward, she hopes her new visiting teaching route will bring some much-needed companionship. Then she finds out she has been given the hardest visiting teaching route ever with the surly inactive Bishop's wife at the top of the list. At least her companion Gwen seemed nice, an older woman in a nursing home who said no one had visited her in years.

Using this to her advantage, Cath calls her new sisters and convinces them to cheer Gwen up. Surprisingly most agree but when Cath arrives at the Pleasant Valley Home for the Elderly she is disappointed to find Gwen fast asleep. Apparently Gwen has a sleeping disorder called KSL and no one knows when she will wake up- it could be weeks. Armed with a bucket of crayons and a handful of paper, Cath convinces the sisters to write Gwen notes so when she does wake up, she'll know some cares. What no one guessed is that Gwen would write back and change all of these women's lives forever.

?+Product Details:

Format: Paperback Print: Black & White Size: 5.5x8.5 Page Count: 120 ISBN: 9781599551487 Imprint: CFI Books Office Use: 1Q232

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1599551489
• ISBN13: 9781599551487
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Cedar Fort
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

Realistic Visiting Teaching

Great book! Tells the story of how Cath, her husband and four children move to a new community and ward due to her husband's job transfer. The new ward isn't as welcoming as Cath had hoped. With the Relief Society president out of town for an extended period of time, Cath encounters Hillary, the nasty, power hungry RS secretary. Without a calling, no friends and her husband traveling constantly on business, Cath is determined to make the most of her visiting teaching. Even though, Hillary told her to just "send letters". A realistic, entertaining look at what happens to one woman on her journey into a new ward and what comes from an interesting visiting teaching route.