Sep 22, 2010 | Current issues, Jesus Christ
Email: [emailaddress] Dear Gramps, Thank you for your informative answers. I really enjoy reading them. My questions are to settle a difference between my mother and I. It is my understanding that our Heavenly Father had many spirit children in the pre-existence,...
Sep 21, 2010 | Current issues, Family
Gramps, My wife and I have four children and we feel that our family is complete. I have thought about getting a vasectomy. Have church leaders given any guidance on this issue? Thanks. Sheldon Dear Sheldon, One of the purposes of mortality is to provide a physical...
Sep 20, 2010 | Current issues
Dear Gramps, In 1 Timothy 1:13-14 it reads, “For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.” Why does Paul bring up that Adam was formed before Eve? Is he simply illustrating...
Sep 17, 2010 | Current issues
Dear Gramps, It is my understanding that all saving ordinances are to be done on this earth. If that is true, then that means that Adam had to have been baptized by someone. Who could that have been done by? It would have to have been by a resurrected being...
Sep 16, 2010 | Current issues, Faith, Happiness
Gramps, I do believe in the Godhead, the gospel, the atonement, his love and many other things, but I still CAN’T get it if I don’t feel special or unique about myself as to loving and accepting myself. I mean I don’t see the point to it. A friend...
Sep 13, 2010 | Current issues, Family, Life's Lessons
Gramps, My daughter married a Catholic seven years ago. Both her father and I have raised her in the Mormon faith. She will not attend church, and her husband doesn’t attend his church either. What’s a mother to do? Barbara, from California Dear Barbara,...
Sep 12, 2010 | Current issues, Health, Mormon Doctrine
Dear Gramps, I have a young adult son who is struggling with bipolar disorder. What do the general authorities say about mental illness? How accountable is my son for the misdeeds and poor choices he makes while mentally ill? Theresa, from Texas Dear Theresa, A mental...
Sep 11, 2010 | Current issues
Dear Gramps, OK, if Adam brought his wife with him to the earth…and into the Garden of Eden….and was made as all the rest of us (journal of discourse reference) then, where does the “cause a deep sleep to come upon him…take a rib…make a...
Sep 11, 2010 | Current issues, Marriage, Mormon Policy
Gramps, Could you please tell me the church’s view of bi-racial marriages? Thank you. Anonymous, from Idaho Dear Anonymous, I can’t quote you the Church’s official view on interracial marriage, but the following comment made by President Spencer W....
Sep 11, 2010 | Current issues, Faith, Forgiveness, Repentance
Gramps, How can one ever know if they have been truly forgiven by God? I can’t seem to forgive myself. My spouse won’t write a letter for me to go to the Temple, I have asked. He supports me in serving my Father in Heaven, but said he is not ready for this...
