Mar 10, 2025 | Babies, Baptism
Question Gramps, In the Old Testament, circumcision was how baby boys were brought into the covenant relationship with God (see Genesis 17:9-12). The ordinance of baptism is also how we are brought into the covenant relationship with God. Why was it okay to...
Mar 4, 2025 | Babies, Blessings
Question Gramps, Looking at LDS baby blessings. Besides it being an ordinance and recorded in the church, what’s the point of blessing him? Does he need a blessing to receive blessings? He won’t remember the blessing anyway, so what’s the...
Aug 2, 2024 | Babies, Death
Question Gramps, When a baby dies in utero, does this unborn baby get another chance to be born or will the parents be able to raise the child in the hereafter? Gwen Answer Gwen, The question of what happens to unborn babies and whether they have...
Nov 1, 2019 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Babies
Question Dear Gramps, My parents had 2 children before I was born and both died after three days of life on this earth. I have heard that my parents will be able to raise those babies in the millennium. Is that true? Or are they just exalted into celestial...
Mar 24, 2019 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Abortion, Babies, Premortal Life
Question Gramps, What and where is the scriptural basis for your contention that a person’s spirit existed in Heaven before that person’s earthly body was born? Does that spirit inhabit a baby’s body before birth or, as you see it, or does it...
Dec 11, 2018 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Babies, Temples
Question Gramps, I gave birth to twin babies 3 years ago. They were both born alive but lived for less than two hours before returning to their Heavenly Father. Please help me understand whether or not I need to do temple work for them. Baptisms? Endowments?...
Jul 7, 2018 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Babies
Question Gramps, Will I ever get to have a baby? I am in my 60s. Do I ever get to have babies–descendants. I don’t mean adopting or spirit children. I mean getting big and pregnant and wearing really cool maternity clothes and looking really...
Jan 20, 2016 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Babies
Question Gramps, Could mother Eve have children before the fall? Diane Answer Diane, While yet in the Garden of Eden, Eve was named based on the promise of her motherhood (Moses 4:26, Genesis 3:20). The realization of this promise could not come...
Jun 1, 2014 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Babies
Question Gramps, Is there a reason that some souls are chosen to be raised in affluent homes that can afford a high-level education and to parents that genuinely care about the child, and some into poverty, abuse, and suffering from the moment they exit the...
May 4, 2014 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Babies
Question Gramps, If a woman is not blessed with the opportunity to bear children in this life, will she have the opportunity to bear children in the mlllennium (if she is united in marriage)? Dennis Answer Dear Dennis, Earlier this year, as I was...
