Jan 3, 2007 | Current issues
Question Gramps Why is the Mormon Church obsessed with statistics such as visiting teaching, home teaching etc.? Janel Answer Dear Janel, What makes you think that the church is obsessed with statistics? In order for any organization to manage its...
Jan 3, 2007 | Current issues
Question Gramps, A disease has attacked our ward – it has affected so many people in that they refuse to accept callings to serve, to speak, to attend, etc. I was raised to believe you accepted a calling whenever possible. I would also like to know...
Jan 3, 2007 | Current issues
Question Dear Gramps, I didn’t grow up in the Church, and didn’t have a testimony of temple marriage and other things. Although since I was a child, I always believed in Jesus and wanted to be close to him. I have been divorced twice. The first time he ended up...
Jan 3, 2007 | God, LDS Scriptures, Marriage, Mormon Doctrine, Premortal Life, Second Coming, Temples
Question Dear Gramps, Should the quotation from John Taylor be interpreted as meaning that those who do not marry in this life may have the opportunity to do so in the millennium, thereby attaining exaltation, if they are otherwise worthy? I have been an...
Jan 1, 2007 | Bible, Jesus Christ, Marriage
Question Gramps Given the central motif of marriage throughout the Bible (between God and Israel, Christ and the Church, etc.), not to mention the original purpose of women–to be a companion of men–why do both Jesus and Apostle Paul sanction celibacy as even...
Jan 1, 2007 | Current issues
Question Dear Gramps, I am struggling with the apparent sexism found in 1 Peter Chapter 3, verses 5-7— For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in Subjection unto their own husbands. Even as Sara...
Jan 1, 2007 | Marriage, Temples
Question Dear Gramps, I’m getting married in the temple this summer as a recent convert to the church, and will have been a member of the Mormon Church for a year in July. My family is having a really hard time with the temple ceremony and not being able to...
Jan 1, 2007 | Current issues
Question Dear Gramps, What is a mission financier. If a missionary is called to serve in the mission office as the financier, what are his responsibilities and why would he be taken away from the “field” to work in the mission office. Becky ...
Jan 1, 2007 | Book of Mormon
Question Hello Gramps, How do you explain the use of “steel” as quoted in the Book of Mormon, when steel was supposedly invented many centuries later. Looking forward to your response. Bob Answer Dear Bob, The definitive word in your question is...
