Seeking His [Heavenly Father's] will for us will help us recognize His answers to our prayers. It pleases God when we communicate with Him. He is also pleased when we learn how He speaks to us through the Holy Ghost.
The perfecting of the Church as an organization was not the Lord's primary purpose. The Lord's primary purpose is to perfect His Saints. The Church serves to support that objective (D&C 1:30; Ephesians 4:12-13; Moroni 10:32; Matthew 5:48; 3 Nephi 12:48).