Jan 27, 2024 | Repentance, Satan, Sin
Question Gramps, If someone commits a “grievous” sin, and repents, are they still turned over to the buffetings of Satan? Is it true that after that buffeting they will come forth in the next resurrection and still be able to inherit celestial glory...
Jan 27, 2024 | Afterlife, Depression
Question Gramps, Will those who struggle with mental illness still struggle after they die? Ginger Answer Ginger, This is a great question, and from our scripture we have nothing to really answer this question (specific to mental illness);...
Jan 26, 2024 | Ordinances
Question Gramps, When I was very young, my entire family went to the LDS Laie Hawaiian Temple to be sealed. I remember the event quite vividly. A few years back, I went to my bishop to obtain my membership number, and there is absolutely NO record of me being...
Jan 24, 2024 | Priesthood
Question Gramps, Today in the Priesthood meeting I used the phrase to magnify the Priesthood. A good friend told me that I shouldn’t use that phrase because what we magnify is our calling. I have read a few discourses where the phrase to magnify the...
Jan 21, 2024 | Forgiveness
Question Gramps, What was the correlation between healing and forgiveness in Jesus’s time and what is the connection in our time between a person being healed and that person being forgiven of sins? David Answer David, Thank you for taking a...
Jan 20, 2024 | Faith, Personal Revelation
Question Gramps, My daughter is on a mission, teaching a young man who is 20. He is very interested in the church and praying about baptism but he struggles with lack of support from friends and family. All of his friends and coworkers are very unsupportive and...
Jan 7, 2024 | Joseph Smith
Question Hey Gramps. I was having a discussion with someone about prophets and how Joseph Smith wasn’t a true prophet because he practiced polygamy. I told him that Joseph Smith was a prophet in a new dispensation and he stated that he wasn’t...
Nov 26, 2023 | Mormon Doctrine
Question Gramps, I realize that the Book of Mormon says that now is the time for the preaching of the gospel to the gentiles. My question is: when did the Jews stop being the “Covenant People?” David Answer David, God, in His dealings...