I'm kinda new to this whole sharing the gospel online thing. I get feeling discouraged about it sometimes and for various reasons:
1. It's hard to know if anyone is reading any of your testimonies or blogs or what kind of people they are, if your just "preaching to the choir" or if your really helping anyone.
2. It can be discouraging when the truths you attempt to convey are dismissed or spurned by others, fellow Latter-Day Saints or otherwise, who happen to have that particular "pet sin" (we all have at least one) or who are just here for the "social network."
3. There's still a lot of truth that I don't understand and it can be hard to convey meaning without someone misunderstanding.
So my idea comes from Doctrine and Covenants 18:15: "And if it so be that you should labor all your days in crying repentance unto this people, and bring, save it be one soul unto me, how great shall be your joy with him in the kingdom of my Father!"
We should persevere and hope and pray that our testimonies or blogs or whatever are "striking a chord" or "planting a seed of truth" with someone (and not just ticking off people with "pet sins" or who are here for the "social club"). And realize that even if we are able to help just one person, it will be worth it.
