What is the significance of parents being sealed to children?
Question Gramps, What is the significance of parents being sealed to children? Inasmuch as we will all be adults in the hereafter, what are the benefits derived from such a sealing? And what happens to that parent-child sealing if the parents receive a temple...
Will my parents, brothers and sister be sealed if we achieve different kingdoms?
Question Dear Gramps, Will my parents, brothers and sister be sealed if we achieve different kingdoms? (I am the only member of the Mormon Church so far in my immediate family.) Kathy Answer Dear Kathy, The sealing of families together for...
How can Mormons say that the American Indians descend from the “Lamanites” when DNA evidence proves a different origin?
Question Dear Gramps, 1. How can the Mormom position that the American Indians are descendants of the “Lamanites” be maintained when DNA evidence proves a much different scientific story of human migration and origin? 2. What archeological evidence exists that...
Can I be sealed in a Mormon temple to my grandparents?
Question Dear Gramps, I am very close to my dead grandparents who are of Jewish decent. My mother and father divorced and remarried, but I still go by my father’s and grandparents last name. My mother married a good member of the church and was sealed in...
Our patriarchal blessings declare that every one of our family except one are from the house of Ephraim. One daughter is from the house of Manasseh. Does this make her a Lamanite?
Question Dear Gramps, My daughter and I had a discussion about her patriarchal blessing and the tribe she is adopted in. Our whole family is of the house of Ephraim with the exception of her. She is of the house of Manasseh and feels like she will be with that...
How are spirit children born?
Spirit children of heavenly parents are born composed of spiritual matter. There is no such thing as immaterial matter.
What can I do to help my husband become more active in the Mormon Church?
Rather than trying to convert a loved one by preaching to him, a much more powerful way would be to act as a worthy example of the believers.
What does it mean to turn the hearts of the children to their fathers?
Turning the hearts of the fathers to the children and the hearts of the children to their fathers refers to genealogy work.
What effect does being sealed to a husband in the Mormon Temple have on one’s relationship to one’s birth parents?
Being sealed in the temple as the wife of a husband does nothing to cancel the relationship of a daughter sealed to her own parents.
