Jul 3, 2015 | Current issues
Question Gramps, Last week in priesthood class a member asked, “How can one tell when a man, whom we sustain as prophet, is speaking as a prophet or giving his own opinion?” Don Answer Dear Don, President Brigham Young taught that What...
Jul 2, 2015 | Current issues, Homosexuality, Marriage
Question Dear Gramps, In light of the recent Supreme Court ruling for homosexual marriage to be allowed in all 50 states, what does this mean for the future of the Church and its members? Is this a specific sign of the times? I’ll be honest in saying that...
Jun 26, 2015 | Current issues, Prophets
Question Gramps, Brigham Young has said multiple times and it is written in the Journal of Discourses that he said people lived on the moon dressed as Quakers. He also said, “Is their life on the sun? Without question, for it was not created in...
Jun 25, 2015 | Current issues
Question Gramps, My sibling-in-law fell on humbling hard times, began to return to the church, went through a painful and litigious break-up, then asked their Home Teacher for a blessing of comfort. He came, lectured, announced that he wasn’t inclined to...
Jun 24, 2015 | Current issues
Question Gramps, What kind of a god do Muslims consider Allah to be? A person like Heavenly Father? Does he have a wife? Is he considered the father of the spirits of people? Bobbi Answer Dear Bobbi, For a moment I considered telling you that...
Jun 22, 2015 | Current issues
Question Gramps, If I fast and/or pray that someone who is ill may have health restored, but the will of the God is that that person not be healed, does that mean that my fasting/prayer was for the intent to change God’s will? And does His will change...
Jun 17, 2015 | Current issues
Question Dear Gramps, My husband and I have been praying over a specific problem regarding faith. We are getting drastically different answers to our prayers. Why do people who are praying regarding the same issue get such different answers to their prayers? ...
Jun 16, 2015 | Current issues
Question Dear Gramps, How do you pick someone for a calling? Do you just ask the Lord and He somehow tells you who He wants? Or do you just pick someone that you like and ask God if He approves? How does that work? Robert Answer Robert, Calling...
Jun 15, 2015 | Current issues
Question Gramps, As a woman who was not blessed with children I was comforted by reading Isaiah 54 and that I would have so many children I would need to enlarge the tent. Also that being refused by the Lord as a young wife would be for a short time and in...
Jun 14, 2015 | Current issues
Question Dear Gramps, Why was the temple veil rent in twain when Jesus was crucified? I’ve heard evangelicals interpret it to mean that there is no longer a separation between God and man (and thus no need for temples anymore). But obviously we...
