Jan 26, 2007 | Current issues
Question Dear Gramps, In your response to Amber’s question “Will mortal children be born in the Millennium” you quoted from “Doctrine and Covenants 101:30-31” What is this source? By the way, I thought your answer was right on. We...
Jan 25, 2007 | Current issues
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 | Current issues
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 23, 2007 | Current issues
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 | Current issues
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 | Current issues
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 | Current issues
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...
Jan 20, 2007 | Current issues
Question Dear Gramps, Being in a troubled and abusive marriage for four and a half years I have had enough. I went to my Bishop who counseled me to go to the Temple, read the scriptures and pray. I faithfully did so over a period of thirteen weeks and received...
Jan 19, 2007 | Current issues
Question Gramps, When we are resurrected do we return to our grave and, so to speak, pick up our old bones and become an immortal being? If so how about those cremated or burned up or, well you get my drift. Thank You. Bruce Answer Dear Bruce,...
Jan 18, 2007 | Current issues
Question Dear Gramps, I am having difficulty with expressing to someone how the Holy Ghost is able to be with those who are not members of the Mormon Church. I have searched the Mormon Church websites for literature, but am having difficulty finding something...