I too spend much time trying to find ways to inspire our Relief Society in Visiting Teaching since I am RS Pres. We have done a couple of things. We have 8 shut in sisters. Each week 8 different sisters are given a pink slip with one of the shut in sisters names on it. It is then her assignment to visit that sister during the week. It has had some really good response from both the visitor and visitee. It gives the older sisters company, and the rest of us get to know and share of their spirits. We also have about a third of our sisters who are single. It makes it really tough as they work and struggle to provide for themselves and their families. We also have lots who will not visit teach so our Bishop has let us assign the young women who are seniors to visit with an older companion. It has added some new enthusiam and hopefully will make the transition into Relief Society a little easier for them during the year. We in the past have had difficulty getting the new sisters interested in Relief Society. I had an experience when I was expecting my first child. I got appendicitis and all of our family members except my husband worked midnights and it was 3:00 am. We had a home teacher who had never bothered to come to our home. My husband asked if I wanted the Home teacher to come help give me a blessing. I told him no that I didn't even know the guy. My husband blessed me alone. Later I shared my experience in fast meeting leaving out names of course. He knew who he was. He apologized and never missed visiting us or any of the other families he was to visit. I will never forget the feeling I had not being able to call on my Home Teacher. I have been the best and the worst visiting teacher. There has been times in my life when I spent hours each month making token gifts for those I was to visit. And other times when I spent hours making excuses for not doing my visiting teaching. But the Lord knows my potential and therefore gave me my current calling. Before I could not find time to visit 3 sisters. Now I average 4 or 5 a week. I have learned we can do what we really have a desire to do. If I weren't so bull headed I could probably be serving as the nursery leader. Love Lois