Gramps, Thank you for all your hard work. I apologize for the rambling this question will take. I have tried to pin down exactly what I mean, but it’s difficult. My question is regarding intercessory prayer. If we pray and pray for someone to come into the church and they don’t, what does that mean?  If they do, what does THAT mean?  Isn’t it better for a person to figure out they need truth and find it themselves by asking God themselves? I am not talking about the people out there who would never hear of Christ or the truth if we didn’t preach. Missionary work and talking to others about the gospel is essential. I mean, what has intercessory prayer got to do with a person’s conversion, and what are the rules that apply to that, if any? I understand that if I pray for my husband to join the church and in his entire life he never does, I know the Spirit has worked with him and he refused to hear. But what if I never pray for him? Is his lack of conversion my fault or his? Wouldn’t it be better if he found his own way in? What about those in the world who are never prayed for? And one more question, there is a member of our ward who, whenever he feels he has a big issue to be prayed over, calls up lots of members to “pray about it with him.”  Does that mean I would get more help from God to convert my husband or family if I had an entire ward pray for them in addition to the temple prayer roll? I can’t find answers to these questions anywhere. Hope you can help me make sense of these. Pam, from California