Feb 8, 2008 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Divorce, Family, Life's Lessons, Love, Marriage, Mormon Policy, Obedience, Temples
Dear Gramps,I am new to the Mormon Church and right now, have not had the time to really find myself in it. I was baptized two years ago and truly love the Church, the people, the restoration of the gospel, all the teachings. . . I feel I have found home when I found...
Feb 7, 2008 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Children
Dear Gramps, Is a parent held responsible for her 8 year old children after they are baptized? Stephanie, from Brittany, Louisiana Dear Stephanie Our children are all between 50 and 60 years old and we still feel a sense of responsibility for them. When children are...
Feb 7, 2008 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Family, Forgiveness, Happiness, Marriage, Sexual Issues
Dear Gramps, I think my husband may have been molested as a child by a family friend. I know that at least his sister was and my mother-in-law doesn’t believe her. When this man died his wife told my husband she was sorry. She did not say for what. I have always...
Feb 6, 2008 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Divorce, Family, Forgiveness, Marriage, Mormon Policy, Obedience, Repentance, Word of Wisdom
Dear Gramps: I am in the process of a divorce I didn’t want. My husband and I were together for 15 years, and married 10 years ago in the temple. I found out that he had been unfaithful, and then he stopped going to church and disregarded the Word of Wisdom entirely....
Feb 5, 2008 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Babies, Marriage, Sexual Issues
Question Dear Gramps, I do not want to seem argumentative, but I do know that it is possible for a man to have a reverse vasectomy and it be successful. I feel that there is no room to say that it is a “drastic manner to eliminate temptation.” I feel that this...
Feb 1, 2008 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Family, Marriage, Temples
Question Ntando wrote: I’m born out of the wedlock, so is my younger brother. We are both of different fathers with whom my mother had already broken up before both their deaths. Later on I became a member of the Mormon Church, and much later my mother and brother...
Jan 24, 2008 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Book of Mormon, Family Roots
Gramps, Are the Polynesian people of Lamanite descent? Robert Dear Robert, That appears to be the consensus among Mormon writers. Here is an exemplary paragraph from Encyclopedia of Latter-Day Saint History)— “In the great final battle at Cumorah, as recorded in the...
Jan 23, 2008 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Afterlife, Death, Family
Hi Gramps, I heard that when you die you meet up again with your parents or family members is that true? And also what if they don’t go to heaven and they end up in hell wouldn’t we know they where missing? Not everyone goes to heaven! Ruth Dear Ruth, When we die and...
Jan 20, 2008 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Depression, Family, Obedience, Repentance, Self Worth
Dear Blake, When is it necessary to go talk to my bishop about “making out” or necking with my girlfriend. I don’t know the boundary line of going to far. Blake, from Utah Dear Blake, Questions such as the one you pose I find to be very intriguing. Perhaps one should...
Jan 15, 2008 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Bible, Family, Premortal Life
Hi Gramps, I am wondering if, in the pre-existence, some spirits are older than others? for example, my husband and I have two children; could it be that all four of us were in the pre-existence at the same time, just my husband and I were sent to obtain mortal bodies...