If the reports are easily available in MLS at the ward level, I have no problem at all taking the few extra minutes to print them out for the bishop and stake president if they so desire. And, as a matter of personal policy, I will do anything I need to do to give the stake president any report he desires, whether or not the information is in MLS.Alan_Brown wrote:Our stake presidency takes an active interest in home teaching. As has been mentioned, MLS does not provide much detail at the stake level for home teaching, so our stake president has requested that each ward send him a home teaching report each month.
I believe statistics and reports have an important place, but I must share a short story here.
Many years ago in a bishopric training meeting, the stake president asked me what the overall home teaching percentage was for my ward. I said I did not know. I turned to my two counselors and asked them if they knew. They did not.
I told the stake president I was sorry I did not know the number, and that I did not have my monthly report with me, either, to look it up. He was visibly stunned.
He announced to the meeting our HT percent. He then asked how we could have the highest percentage of home teaching in the stake and yet, as the bishop, I did not even know what it was.
After several minutes of discussion, he turned back to me and asked what I thought. I told him I was sorry that our home teaching percentage was so poor, and that I would encourage my priesthood leaders to have better stewardship interviews so we could improve it.
And I know we did, because at the meeting next month, the stake president told us how much our HT percent had gone up.