Jan 25, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Baptism
Question Dear Gramps, I am getting baptized next week, and wanted to know if it is right for me?? I hear different stories about why it is good, and why it is bad. I’m confused. Linda Answer Dear Linda, You will hear lots of stories about whether...
Jan 25, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Children, Education
Question Dear Gramps, I have a teenager who won’t drop an AP class that he is struggling in. He is overwhelmed and getting depressed. He is getting a B in the class, but it will affect his GPA such that he may not be able to get into BYU, which is his goal. He...
Jan 25, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Forgiveness, Marriage, Sexual Issues
Question Dear Gramps, My husband has recently confessed to our bishop and to myself that has cheated on me both physically and through internet porn.(His ex-fiancee is now attending our ward and he was unhappy with the way the bishop treated him when he...
Jan 25, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Forgiveness
Question Dear Gramps, I have kind of an odd question/problem. After nearly a dozen years of inactivity, I have re-discovered the blessings of the Mormon Church. I’ve become very active, read my scriptures daily, pay a full tithing and feel very peaceful about...
Jan 24, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Marriage, Mormon Doctrine
Question Dear Gramps, I was reading a response of yours about the law of polygamy being no longer practiced today. My father who has recently left the Mormon Church begs to differ. He says that the Church loves to claim that, but in reality the man can divorce...
Jan 24, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Forgiveness, Self Worth, Sexual Issues
Question Dear Gramps Our family are members of the Mormon Church. My daughter recently married a young man of another faith, who had been raped when he was a young boy. The perpetrator of this vile act was hunted and captured and put on trial with full press...
Jan 23, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Jesus Christ
Question Dear Gramps, Many members of the Mormon Church including yourself and the General Authorities use the term “Free Agency” when speaking of agency. I believe it was Joseph Fielding Smith who said that agency is not free. It was bought and paid for by the...
Jan 22, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Priesthood
Question Dear Gramps, If all things happen in “God’s Time,” why then do we use the Priesthood power to try and interfere? Anna Answer Dear Anna, Given that all things happen in God’s time, the things that happen depend upon the...
Jan 21, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Trials
Question Dear Gramps, In the news a while ago a little boy fed his little brother windex through a bottle. I know that free agency is there but why does the Lord allow people to hurt his children. My Dad told me that the Lord takes them away quick so that they...
Jan 21, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Scriptures
Question Dear Gramps, Are the stories in the scriptures (like Adam and Eve, Noah’s ark etc.) always literal, or are some of them not literal but just illustrate true principles for the purpose of teaching? Jordan Answer Dear Jordan, I think that...
