All of us as
brothers and sisters have something that we
can work on to improve, to become more self-reliant. The Lord always
prepares something better for you in the future. There's always
progress to be made. If I can have the ability to
build a spiritual foundation and move forward, I can
become self-reliant. I would tell you to make
it a matter of prayer and fasting to identify
those individuals that could be blessed by this program. What really makes
this group work is if we can get a broad
spectrum of people. That enhances the
discussion that happens during the workshops. There were a great variety
of people in the group. Everybody was at a different
point in their life, and everybody had
something to contribute. Everyone has a
different experience, and those experiences from life
can bless the different people in that workshop. I would also really
recommend that you not have a narrow focus of
who you're identifying. We came up with a
list of people that we wanted to have participate. And when I put it to the ward
council--it was the Primary president, and she brought
forth the name of the Merrills. I don't think I in a
million years would have. The Merrills were doing OK. The bishop invited us
to go to this devotional to introduce this program. It was an answer to prayers
that we had been having, fasting that we had for our business. The bishop presented
this opportunity, and I was ecstatic. This initiative was
making a difference in their marriage, in their
home, with their children, and then, of
course, in his work. There are a lot of people
that we might overlook that might need to be there that
we just wouldn't think about. Everybody is lifted
in this program. There's no way you can
attend and participate without being strengthened
and helped yourself. It's not possible. You're going to grow.