Sep 6, 2010 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Current issues, God, Obedience
Gramps, I had a question come up in my 16-17 year old Sunday school class that I am having difficulties answering. We where talking about the two forms of death physical and spiritual, when one of my young students me asked about Adam and Eve and the two commandments...
Sep 5, 2010 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Current issues, Family, Life's Lessons, Obedience
Dear Gramps, My mother is a member of the church, and she has taken out her own endowments, and my brother too, who went on a mission following this sacred event. She was also sealed to my deceased father and sealed to my brother also. My brother served his mission...
Jul 9, 2010 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Bible, Current issues, Obedience
Dear Gramps, In 1 Timothy 1:13-14 it reads, “For Adam was first formed, then Eve. And Adam was not deceived, but the woman being deceived was in the transgression.” Why does Paul bring up that Adam was formed before Eve? Is he simply illustrating...
Jul 5, 2010 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Current issues, Forgiveness, Life's Lessons, Mormon Policy, Obedience, Repentance
Gramps, I’ve been excommunicated for awhile, maybe longer. I’d like to know how the system works for people that want to come back into the church again. My EX (convert) left the church, never wants to come back. I still want to be sealed to my kids and of...
Jul 4, 2010 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Blessings, Current issues, Faith, Family, Obedience
Dear Gramps, My patriarchal blessing promises me (depending upon my faithfulness and obedience of course) that my children will be sealed to me while I sojourn on this earth. I am 59 years old and a single parent. My children are grown and have testimonies, but both...
Jul 4, 2010 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Bible, Current issues, Holy Ghost, Obedience
[emailaddress] Hey Gramps, When the scriptures talk about the “natural man” are they referring to our human nature, as opposed to the divine nature that Peter talks about in 2 Peter 1:4? Thanks, Noah, from Utah Dear Noah, I guess it depends on what you...
Jul 4, 2010 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Current issues, Health, Obedience
Gramps, I take prescription medicine everyday, including when I fast. Am I still fasting? Anonymous, from Illinois Dear Anonymous, We may be involved in a question of semantics here. If fasting is to abstain from ingesting anything at all, then taking medicine would...
Aug 25, 2009 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Mormon Policy, Obedience, Preparedness
Question Hi Gramps, I am fairly young and trying to plan for my and my family’s future. Would you think it wise to invest in food rather than in 401ks, investments, etc? I figure that eventually someday money will be worth nothing, and the most valuable things will be...
Aug 3, 2009 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Obedience, Sexual Issues
Dear Gramps, I have a female friend that will take her daughters to someone elses home and then she will spend the night at a single mans house. She claims that nothing is going on but this happens sometimes 2 to 3 times or more a week. I know she has her free...
Mar 20, 2009 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Mormon Doctrine, Obedience
Dear Gramps, Is it considered steeling if a debt of over $4000.00 is owed to a non-church member by a member for nonpayment of rent and taking a refrigerator. The owner’s only income was the rent money. The owner got a judgment for this amount and has been unable to...
