Using CRecordset::Open and determining if no records returned?

Question

    CString strSQL = _T("");

    rAryStrMemo.RemoveAll(); // Type CStringArray

    strSQL.Format(_T("SELECT memo1, memo2, memo3, memo4, memo5 FROM [Congregation Speakers] WHERE Congregation='%s' AND Speaker='%s'"),
        theApp.FormatDBText(strCongregation),
        theApp.FormatDBText(strSpeaker));

    CRecordset *pRecords = new CRecordset(theApp.GetDatabase());
    if (pRecords->Open(CRecordset::snapshot, (LPCTSTR)strSQL, CRecordset::readOnly))
    {
        CString strMemo = _T("");
        GetFieldValue(pRecords, _T("memo1"), strMemo); rAryStrMemo.Add(strMemo);
        GetFieldValue(pRecords, _T("memo2"), strMemo); rAryStrMemo.Add(strMemo);
        GetFieldValue(pRecords, _T("memo3"), strMemo); rAryStrMemo.Add(strMemo);
        GetFieldValue(pRecords, _T("memo4"), strMemo); rAryStrMemo.Add(strMemo);
        GetFieldValue(pRecords, _T("memo5"), strMemo); rAryStrMemo.Add(strMemo);
    }

}

The function it calls:

inline void GetFieldValue(CRecordset *pRS, LPCTSTR lpszFieldName, CString &rstrValue)
{
    rstrValue = _T("");    // Fallback.

    if (pRS != nullptr)
    {
        CString strTemp ;
        pRS->GetFieldValue(lpszFieldName, strTemp);    // This will be not right.
        rstrValue = (LPCTSTR)strTemp ;    // Forcing this conversion corrects it.
    }
}

I learnt something new today. If the resulting CRecordset is empty it causes an "Invalid cursor state" exception. I mistakenly thought that if Open returned true that it had one or more records. Obviously not.

So, what is the right way to know that atleast 1 record was returned?