Jun 29, 2010 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Current issues, Forgiveness, Life's Lessons, Repentance
Dear Gramps, My question is on repentance. How does one go about it? My question arises because in a recent meeting of the stake priesthood (I attend a University student stake) the president advised those who had committed any form of fornicative sin to see his...
Jul 16, 2009 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Current issues, Doctrine & Covenants, Forgiveness, Jesus Christ
Dear Gramps I read your article concerning that we need to forgive and forget and have a problem with it. I agree with the affect on those who don’t forgive but it appears to me from my own experience that those who commit offenses seem to continue on doing so and...
Apr 17, 2009 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Forgiveness
Dear Gramps, I have been feeling a deep hatered for a couple in our ward and have not attended church for almost 3 years because I can’t stand the sight of them. I have read every thing I can find on forgiveness to get past these feelings, but I haven’t...
Apr 1, 2009 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Forgiveness
Dear Gramps, I have a question I am marrying a lovley LDS women in a few months and in a prievous marriage that she was in for 26 years she was verbal and mentally abused he now is a branch president the other day she called me and told me hoe he called her and said...
Mar 2, 2009 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Forgiveness, Repentance
Dear Gramps, What happens when someone wants to join to church who has been excommuicated? I was excomnuicated about 25 years ago. I had gone inactive. Wanted i guess to see if anyone cared if i went or not. A letter was left for me saying i was excommunicated....
Feb 6, 2009 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Current issues, Forgiveness, Jesus Christ, Mormon Faith, Repentance, Testimony
Dear Gramps, I’ve been inactive for many years and its now that im coming back. Since then i have committed countless numbers of sins and some of which i cant even remember. How will God judge me for the sins i forgot i committed and how do i go about repenting for...
Jan 31, 2009 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Forgiveness, Repentance
Question Dear Gramps, When repenting of a major sin, how can we know whether we are being too hard or too easy on ourselves? Will Answer Dear Will, The following comes from President Dieter F. Uchtdorf’s address at April 2008 Conference....
Aug 5, 2008 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Doctrine & Covenants, Forgiveness, Life's Lessons, Repentance
Dear Gramps, Having read the book ‘Following the light of Christ into His presence’ I was left to ponder about being completely clean of my sins. How can I know if I have been completely forgiven of my sins, or how do I know I have repented from all the sins I have...
Apr 18, 2008 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Family, Forgiveness, Life's Lessons, Love, Marriage, Sexual Issues
Gramps, Our 21 year old son, BIC but not an RM, has decided to do what his non-member girlfriend wants him to do, which is to move out of his roommate’s house and move in with her. We have tried to counsel both of them to get married first, that cohabitation is both...
Feb 9, 2008 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Forgiveness, Obedience, Self Worth
Dear Gramps, OK, I lied to my mom really badly. I went to a high school dance. I told her that I wasn’t going and told her that my dad wasn’t home so I could cover up spending the night with my friends. She figured out and I don’t know how to apologize or how to make...