Dec 28, 2011 | Afterlife, Doctrine & Covenants
Dear Gramps, In D&C Section 76, it details a vision given to Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon of the three degrees of glory. Verse 72 describes one possible condition that will lead to inheritance of the Terrestrial kingdom, i.e., those who die without law. Yet...
Dec 2, 2011 | Afterlife, Children
Dear Gramps As a young teenager, trying to find her own testimony, my daughter was badly and publically embarrassed and upset by her youth leaders and several of the youth. The trauma of the upset sent her into Church inactivity and now, in her early 20s, she no...
Nov 8, 2011 | Babies, Death
I’ve heard that those who die before the age of accountability do so because they are so perfect they don’t need the experience of mortal life. As most people die before the age of accountabiity and many people in the Millenium grow up without sin there...
Nov 5, 2011 | Death, Mormon Policy
Must I, as an endowed member, be buried in my temple clothing? Also, may I choose to be cremated instead of buried? I have always felt cemetaries to be a waste of space in our over crowded world. Kathy _________________________________________ Kathy, There is no hard...
Aug 30, 2011 | Bible, Current issues, Death, Happiness
Since we got the surprising news about Osama Bin Laden’s death we all rejoiced. But I remembered a scripture not to do this kind of thing. “Do not rejoice when your enemy falls, And do not let your heart be glad when he stumbles.” Proverbs 24:17...
Aug 1, 2011 | Afterlife, Death
Hi Gramps, After the resurrection, our bodies and spirits will be the age where we were in our prime, right? How old are spirits once they leave this earth? Are the babies still babies? I wonder because I know a man who just passed away, his wife passed 30 years ago....
Jul 26, 2011 | Afterlife, Marriage
Question Gramps, My husband and I have been married for 20 years now. We are best friends and eternal companions. I have read in some of your other responses to question that in the after life, if a women wants to be sealed to a married man she must first ask his...
Jul 12, 2011 | Afterlife, Family, Sealings
Question Gramps, I have a question I hope you can answer quickly concerning the sealing power that enables a wayward child to return to their parents so long as they repent and haven’t committed the unpardonable sin. I am terminally ill and will soon...
Jul 9, 2011 | Afterlife, Family
Hello Gramps, We are taught that as we live worthily we can live together as families in the Eternities. Obviously that cannot mean my little (nuclear) family as then I would not be with my parents nor my children with their children and so on. I have considered that...
Feb 23, 2011 | Afterlife, Babies
Dear Gramps, My husband and I became pregnant before marriage. We went through the proper repentance and were sealed in the temple a year after we were married. The baby was stillborn (I was full term). She was not sealed to us in the temple sealing, will she still be...
