Bishop (name),
It is always good to visit our ward. Brother (name)’s talk on the Plan of Salvation was an especially timely and well prepared pre-Easter message. Great job!
I appreciate you allowing my grandsons to assist with the sacrament during their visit this past weekend. Sadly, they reported later that they attended Sunday School class but a teacher never showed up and no one apparently looked in. I think the boys said the class members (14-15 year olds) decided to play “spiritual hangman.” (I don’t know if they were being sarcastic.)
I don’t bring this to your attention to criticize you or our ward SS presidency. I know these things happen (and, of course, Murphy’s Law says they’re going to always happen with the stake president’s family visits :)
But, if that’s really what happened, you may want to work with (name) and his counselors and remind them that one of the most important tasks they have is to look in on all classes—especially the youth classes—every Sunday to make sure a teacher is in place.
I also realize this is every SS presidency’s most difficult challenge and fear that a teacher won’t show and won’t even alert the presidency. It really puts leaders in a bind when they do that. Good SS presidencies will quickly fill in, which may be what happened yesterday...that they were all last-minute substituting and couldn’t check on the other classes.
If this hasn’t been done already, can I suggest that a SS presidency identify the members of each class, especially the youth classes, and create a list of potential on-the-spot substitutes for each class, preferably parents of the youth in each class. Then ask the parents who would be willing to be called on to teach their child’s class last minute should a teacher not show up. So those times when the stake president’s family visits :) and a teacher doesn’t show the SS presidency can quickly turn to parents or other adult members, who have agreed to pinch-hit teach.
That way the SS presidency doesn’t have to fill in but can continue to check on all the classes and observe the teaching in anticipation of what training is needed in the next Teacher Council Meeting.
Hope that helps,
PrL
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