Aug 5, 2008 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Current issues
Gramps, I was reading about a lady who donates her eggs, for women who are unable to have children with their own eggs. What is the church’s point of view on this. I can see how she is helping other people become mothers, but is this interfering with God’s...
Jul 7, 2008 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Current issues
H. Clay Gorton, born March 7, 1923 to Rees Dubois Gorton and Sarah Dorleska Sterrett, passed away peacefully in his sleep on June 20, 2008 after his third battle with cancer. His marriage to Edna Foot was solemnized in the Logan Temple on April 7, 1949. They had five...
Feb 26, 2008 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Bible, Current issues, God
Question Gramps, I was wondering why in the Old Testament God sounds mean, cruel, and his continence is almost with childlike jealousy. The God I have been taught about all these years is a kind loving father who loves me and wants me to be happy. One who will...
Oct 23, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Current issues
Dear Gramps, I married my husband in the temple and a short time after that he told me that he didn’t love me. I felt that I should leave him because of the way he felt and he said to me not to leave that he would work on trying to love me. Years down the track he is...
Oct 4, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Current issues
Dear Gramps, I think I remember you saying that those that die are right here on this planet. We can’t see them but my question is can they see us? Joan, from Universal City, Texas Dear Joan, Indeed, the post-mortal spirits can see into mortality. Their vision...
Sep 25, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Abortion, Self Worth
Dear Gramps, My daughter has a friend who has asked some very pointed questions about abortion that we have tried to help her with. She feels that abortion is justified because she wishes that her mother had aborted her instead of raising her in a dysfunctional and...
Sep 1, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Homosexuality, Mormon Policy
Question Gramps, My wife and I know several members of the Church that claim to be homosexual. I keep trying to tell my wife that I am correct to say they are excommunicated if they choose to live that way after being counseled by Bishops, Stake Presidents and...
Jul 4, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Current issues
Gramps, If Joseph Smith received his information from the angel, how do you explain Galatians 1:8 But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed. The Gospel of the Bible in a nut...
Jun 27, 2007 | Abortion, Repentance
Question Hello Gramps, I was sealed in the temple years ago and later divorced. I no longer attend the Mormon Church. Later as a single mother, I had an abortion. Have I committed an unforgivable sin? Lately I have been fasting and praying a lot. I am trying to...
Apr 28, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Current issues
Question Hi Gramps, Just a quick question– I’ve been a member of the Mormon Church for nearly two years now. Before I came into the church I’d been in trouble all my life kind of. No one in our family was religious. It’s been hard converting; I’ve managed to...
