Jan 28, 2011 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Afterlife
Gramps, Could you please explain the meaning of the terms “Eternal Life,” “Exaltation,” and “Immortality.” Are they interchangeable terms or has each a unique meaning? Thank you. I have learned a great deal from reading your works...
Jan 23, 2011 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Afterlife, Natural Phenomena
Dear Gramps: I recently attended the funeral of relatives of mine…a couple who died under the tragic circumstances of murder and suicide. I went with only sympathy and compassion in my heart. Ill will towards the perpetrator of this tragedy had not crossed my...
Jan 17, 2011 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Afterlife
Gramps, When does our second Estate end? Bob, from Idaho Dear Bob, We read that They who keep their second estate shall have glory added upon their heads for ever and ever (Abraham 3:26). I would imagine that the second estate lasts until that occurs. Thus the second...
Jan 15, 2011 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Afterlife
Gramps, When we are resurrected do we return to our grave and, so to speak, pick up our old bones and become an immortal being. If so how about those cremated or burned up or, well you get my drift. Thank You. Bruce Dear Bruce, Alma, in teaching his son, Coritanton...
Jan 5, 2011 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Afterlife
Gramps, A newly returned missionary said that his mission presisdent told him that there was no place in the scriptures or Church doctrine that said one couldn’t progress from on kingdom to another. It was always my understanding that whatever kingdom you went...
Dec 14, 2010 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Afterlife
Gramps, Will we eat and sleep in the next life? And will physical relationships between a husband and wife be the same there as here? Robyn, from New Jersey Dear Robyn, Interesting questions about the projections into eternity of the necessities for continued...
Dec 9, 2010 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Afterlife
Dear Gramps, In our High Priests class, whenever the subject of the celestial kingdom comes up, two brethren always make mention of a Joseph Smith statement they are supposed to have read that says we will be suprised to find there, catholics, methodists, muslims etc,...
Nov 26, 2010 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Afterlife, Babies, Family
Dear Gramps, I have seen Q&A’s in your column dealing with still born children, and the family keeping their own records of the children with names. Does it apply to children who were determined to be lifeless early in the pregnancy, thus resulting in a...
Nov 17, 2010 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Afterlife, Marriage
Gramps, We were discussing plural marriages in the celestial kingdom. Our question is: Will this be a choice or does this pertain to the brethren who are sealed to more than one wife here on earth? Doug, from Washington Dear Doug, There have been no plural marriages...
Nov 9, 2010 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Afterlife
Question Gramps, I would like to know where dogs go when they die. I had a dog that died and she was like family. I would like to know if we will be with her in the next life. Is there a special place they go or will she be with u?. Please let me know because...