Jan 23, 2017 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Missionary Work
Question Gramps, How do I explain the Neanderthals to an investigator? If you don’t know who they are, they were a species or subspecies of archaic human, in the genus Homo. Neanderthals became extinct around 40,000 years ago. They were closely related...
Jan 19, 2017 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Prayer
Question Gramps, Are we allowed to prayer over the phone? I was told by 2 bishops that we do not pray over the phone. Recently I received a mission calling for volunteer work for Familysearch and I was asked to pray over the phone. So have things changed or...
Jan 18, 2017 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Tithing
Question Gramps, Hello. What if we were to pay our tithes in other ways besides money? It seems that we are told to pay a tithing on our increase, not necessarily our income. What if we do not have an increase in income? For example, we don’t bring home...
Jan 13, 2017 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Life's Lessons
Question Hi Gramps, Right now I’m struggling with some of my younger roommates in Provo. They are really struggling to see the importance of the gospel in and doing some pretty immature stuff. Sometimes I get really frustrated with them, but I remember...
Jan 12, 2017 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Prayer
Question Hi Gramps, Are we meant to pray God or to Jesus? The Bible states the only way to God is through Jesus. If we’re to pray to Jesus, it doesn’t make sense to pray to Jesus and then conclude the prayer with (in Jesus name). Thanks. Chris...
Jan 11, 2017 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Satan
Question Gramps, Lehi in The Book Of Mormon explains to us that there must be opposition in all things. That there must be righteous influence as well as wicked influence. I know we all had agency in the pre-mortal realm and we still do on this earth. ...
Jan 5, 2017 | AAAA AskGramps Website, LDS Church
Question Gramps, I don’t understand why the Church is so secretive about our Heavenly Mother. Without her, we would not even exist and the entire Plan of Salvation would make no sense. I have been a church member my whole life and have never heard Her...
Jan 4, 2017 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Afterlife
Question Gramps, Are those who are waiting in the spirit world conscious of time passing? Several people have told me they don’t do temple work because it will all be done in the millennium. It seems to me like they would be waiting for us to do the...
Jan 3, 2017 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Sacrament
Question Gramps, Is it wrong to break the bread after the Sacramental prayer is offered, rather than doing it before? Steven Answer Steven, No, there isn’t anything wrong per se. But that is the pattern we have used in the Church. And...
Dec 31, 2016 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Life's Lessons
Question Gramps, As I understand it, the Bible is very clear that we should be either giving away our possessions to the poor or sharing them. There are so many desperately poor people right under our noses but lots of very wealthy people too. Yes, some of them...