Aug 13, 2019 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Missionary Work
Question Dear Gramps, The owner of the gym where I work out has become a friend with my husband and me. He shared with me a dream he had about what “hell” was like. He said it was not fire and brimstone but total darkness. He felt that “hell” was the absence of...
Mar 17, 2019 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Missionary Work
Question Dear Gramps, The Church teaches that every able-bodied worthy young man should serve a mission. I am able bodied and I strive to be worthy through repentance. I’m not nervous about leaving home or having a strong testimony or even talking to...
Sep 27, 2018 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Missionary Work
Question Gramps, I can not count the number of times I have heard the comment “Mormon’s have their own bible” or “Mormons do not believe the bible”or some variation of that. Why then do we not include a KJV when handing out the...
Jul 23, 2018 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Love, Marriage, Missionary Work
Question My husband would eat this website for Thanksgiving. He used to ask me questions like this all the time, being a convert and having spent more time inactive or anti than active. He loves to find things like your questions about fire newts, seer stones,...
Mar 3, 2018 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Family, Missionary Work
Question Dear Gramps I am a convert to the Mormon Church and have children from two previous marriages who are grown and not members of any church. They seem to not want any contact with any church but are having many problems in their lives due to not making...
Sep 22, 2017 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Missionary Work
Question Gramps, When did the Church start teaching that all worthy and able young men should serve a mission? I heard that prior to maybe the 60’s or 70’s there wasn’t any prophetic counsel that said it was an obligatory priesthood duty. My...
Jan 23, 2017 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Missionary Work
Question Gramps, How do I explain the Neanderthals to an investigator? If you don’t know who they are, they were a species or subspecies of archaic human, in the genus Homo. Neanderthals became extinct around 40,000 years ago. They were closely related...
Sep 10, 2016 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Missionary Work, Mormon Policy
Question Gramps, I was always told that service projects are not proselyting activities. Yet there is interest in my ward from a couple of people who are wanting to have printed proselyting type tshirts for everyone to wear while doing service...
Jul 3, 2016 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Forgiveness, Missionary Work
Question Dear Gramps. I struggled with pornography for a while. I have recently stopped my actions regarding the subject. And continue to repent and try to make up for what I did. I make sure to put others first, I help out whenever I can, and I know the gospel...
Apr 13, 2016 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Missionary Work
Question Gramps, I am 16 years old (almost 17). I know everyone says, “every man should go on a mission.” Yet in the past six months I have been diagnosed with intermittent explosive disorder and major depressive disorder, along with chronic...