Jul 12, 2011 | AAAA AskGramps Website, 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 | AAAA AskGramps Website, 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...
Jun 26, 2011 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Current issues, Family
Dear Gramps, Why are people so sure that Muslims don’t believe in the same God we do? Reason I’m asking, my daughter is planning to marry a Muslim man. We love him but are very concerned about differences in religion. We are Christian. He claims same God,...
Jun 7, 2011 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Family Roots, Priesthood
Question Gramps, What does it mean to be of the seed of Joseph and specifically of Ephraim? Is this the same lineage as Lehi and Joseph Smith. Denise Answer Dear Denise, In the Book of Mormon Lehi is said to be of Manasseh (Alma 10:3) and it says...
May 17, 2011 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Family, Family History, Family Roots
Dear Gramps, Why is genealogy important to mormons? Kiersten Kiersten, Family history work is important to members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. We believe that families are eternal and central to the plan of Salvation. In addition, we believe...
May 10, 2011 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Family, Love, Marriage
There is a high probability that my husband will fall away from the church before we are able to be sealed this summer. He very simply has no desire to seek a testimony. I have heard that if we are never sealed, I might have the opportunity to be joined to a worthy...
Feb 23, 2011 | AAAA AskGramps Website, 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...
Feb 18, 2011 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Bible, Current issues, Family, God, Obedience
Gramps, My question relates to Jacob 2:27. If the Lord is the same today, tomorrow and forever why the change in the position on one wife? Thank you for your time. Ron, from California Dear Ron, As related in Jacob 2:27, the law of monogamy was required of the...
Feb 6, 2011 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Babies, Death
Gramps, What do you say to a mother who carried a little boy for six months. Gave birth to this premature little child, whose weight was only 1 lb. My friend saw and held this little boy, named him, and after only 2 days the little boy died. This child was my...
Jan 7, 2011 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Current issues, Family, Priesthood
Hi Gramps, A little while ago in High Priests lesson time, we spoke about families. It was mentioned in general terms about the “patriarch of the home” and I mentioned that this title was something that could only be used when a man had been sealed to his...
