Jul 4, 2010 | Current issues, Health, Obedience
Gramps, I take prescription medicine everyday, including when I fast. Am I still fasting? Anonymous, from Illinois Dear Anonymous, We may be involved in a question of semantics here. If fasting is to abstain from ingesting anything at all, then taking medicine would...
Jul 4, 2010 | Current issues
Dear Gramps, My husband recently joined the Church and together we have been studying the scriptures. As he read he found the declarations that are made at the end of D&C as to the matter of polygamy. He has some questions, and I felt comfortable enough to answer...
Jun 29, 2010 | Current issues
Dear Gramps, My Bishop told me that I cannot get a Temple recommend because I cannot tithe. I am a single parent of three children and work very hard to support my family. We live from paycheck to paycheck. I don’t understand why I cannot get my recommend....
Jun 29, 2010 | Current issues, Family, Premortal Life
Dear Gramps I was just having a discussion with a few friends and the question came up about whether spirits choose their families. Is this so? If so why do some choose to go to families where they will be abused or go to broken homes etc. Your comments will be most...
Jun 29, 2010 | Current issues, Tithing, Worthiness
Gramps, I was told by a former bishopric member that you pay tithing on what YOU earn, not what your spouse earns. It is your spouses responsibility to pay tithing on what they earn, no matter who writes out the check. Thus, as a stay at home mother with no...
Jun 29, 2010 | Current issues
Dear Gramps, There are various references in the Bible to the lineage of Abraham–House of Israel, Family of Jacob, House of David, Israel, etc. Why is there not more consistency? It seems to me that there are distinctions, otherwise why the variety of terms? For...
Jun 29, 2010 | Abortion, Forgiveness, Repentance
Dear Gramps, This is pretty serious. I did something terrible when I was 18 (and BEFORE I was a member of the church) and have never told ANYONE. I have repented, begged for forgiveness and have felt a lifting of that burden, but will be getting married in the temple...
Jun 29, 2010 | Current issues, Forgiveness, Life's Lessons, Repentance
Dear Gramps, My question is on repentance. How does one go about it? My question arises because in a recent meeting of the stake priesthood (I attend a University student stake) the president advised those who had committed any form of fornicative sin to see his...
Feb 5, 2010 | Current issues
Question Gramps, I am a little confused as to who Lamech was in the Old Testament. I know that there are two different people in the Old Testament named Lamech; one through the lineage of Seth, the other through that of Cain. If I am not mistaken, the Lamech that was...
Nov 22, 2009 | Current issues
Question Dear Gramps, Is swimming on the Sabbath against the teachings of the church? Cody Answer Dear Cody, When the Lord gave Moses the ‘Ten Commandments’ He stated: 8 Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9 Six days shalt thou labor, and do all...
