Oct 21, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Book of Mormon, Faith, Holy Ghost, Life's Lessons, Mormon Doctrine, Obedience, Repentance, Satan
Dear Gramps, What exactly is involved in obtaining a change of heart? And what can insure it remains permanent? Sometimes I feel like a yo-yo, saint and sinner, going back and forth and never quite being one or the other. How do I know I am on the right track? Robert,...
Oct 21, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Doctrine & Covenants, Miracles
Dear Gramps, You have references D&C 46:10-26 in many of your answers. Could you please explain to me what verse 19-25 mean to us? Are some still able to talk in tongues, etc? Melissa, from Midvale, Utah Dear Melissa, All of the gifts of the gospel mentioned in...
Oct 20, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Missionary Work
Dear Gramps, I have been a member of the Mormon Church for 12 years and have a strong testimony of the gospel, but am terrified of sharing it with non-members. No one in my family is a member of the Church and the few times the subject has come up they get pretty...
Oct 20, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Life's Lessons, Love
Dear Gramps, I’m Negar from Iran. I’m 22. I brakage in love and after three years dissent, I can’t forget my love and like be a new person. Help me please. Egar, from Karaj, Iran Dear Negar, These early romances are often very difficult to get over, but there is one...
Oct 19, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Health
Wanda wrote: How do you think the Lord would feel about a person who had weight loss surgery? Would it be desecrating the body or the use of a modern day miracle? Locale: Long Beach CA Dear Wanda, I think that it would be neither. Rather than desecrating the body,...
Oct 19, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Hobbies
Dear Gramps, Several of the sisters of the ward get together one night a month to play bunko with other non-member sisters. They donate $10 dollars each for small gifts for the winner(s). My question is…….would this constitute gambling? Philli, from Grayson, Georgia...
Oct 18, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Church History
Gramps, Today my teacher told my class that in the early church, Mormons believed that blacks go straight to hell. I know this is not true, but I don’t have any evidence of proof to back it up. Can you explain why that’s not true and how non-Mormons get that...
Oct 18, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Bible, Faith, God, Life's Lessons, Marriage, Obedience
Dear Gramps, I just received $20K for part of an insurance settlement. I want to tithe $2K and use the rest to pay off debts. But my wife has come unglued at me!! She now says we need to pay off our debts first then we can tithe later. She had been OK with small...
Oct 18, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Jesus Christ, Temples
Dear Gramps, Why the need for Temples, when the Bible clearly tells us that our bodies are temples and that JESUS lives inside us? Torre, from Fallbrook California Dear Torre, In the first place, where in the Bible does it clearly say that Jesus lives inside us? It is...
Oct 16, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Bible, Mormon Doctrine, Priesthood
Dear Gramps, Can you please explain how Ephraim and other Israelites were not Black even though the Old Testament says they were mixed and intermingled with descendants of Ham? It is funny how Mormons in this country claim to be descendants of Ephraim whose mother was...
