Jan 4, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Missionary Work
Question Gramps, My family, including children and grandchildren, watched the General Conference of the Mormon Church last weekend together. It seemed to me that many of the talks emphasized senior couples going on missions. I absolutely do not want to go on a...
Jan 4, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Obedience
Question Gramps, What does it mean when the Savior said that it is easier for a camel to fit thru the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of Heaven? Curtis Answer Dear Curtis, The example given by the Savior, that It is...
Jan 4, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Jesus Christ
Question Dear Gramps, I was stunned reading Nephi the other day where Jesus Christ destroyed entire towns, women and children. I asked my Mormon neighbor, who rhetorically asked about Sodom and Gomorrah. But I was shocked that the Savior of the World, the...
Jan 4, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Church History
Question Gramps, We have been studying the Doctrine and Covenants, as we do on a continuing basis. The Manifesto clearly states that entering into plural marriage was to be discontinued as of October 1890. Does this mean that those who had been married already...
Jan 3, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Church History, Priesthood
Question Dear Gramps, Could you please explain to me the line from my Line of Priesthood Authority, which goes like this: “Joseph Smith Jr. and Oliver Cowdery ordained the Three Witnesses. (Oliver Cowdery, David Whitmer and Martin Harris) were called by...
Jan 3, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, LDS Church
Question Gramps Why is the Mormon Church obsessed with statistics such as visiting teaching, home teaching etc.? Janel Answer Dear Janel, What makes you think that the church is obsessed with statistics? In order for any organization to manage its...
Jan 3, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Callings
Question Gramps, A disease has attacked our ward – it has affected so many people in that they refuse to accept callings to serve, to speak, to attend, etc. I was raised to believe you accepted a calling whenever possible. I would also like to know...
Jan 3, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, God, LDS Scriptures, Marriage, Mormon Doctrine, Premortal Life, Second Coming, Temples
Question Dear Gramps, Should the quotation from John Taylor be interpreted as meaning that those who do not marry in this life may have the opportunity to do so in the millennium, thereby attaining exaltation, if they are otherwise worthy? I have been an...
Jan 1, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Bible, Jesus Christ, Marriage
Question Gramps Given the central motif of marriage throughout the Bible (between God and Israel, Christ and the Church, etc.), not to mention the original purpose of women–to be a companion of men–why do both Jesus and Apostle Paul sanction celibacy as even...
Jan 1, 2007 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Marriage, Temples
Question Dear Gramps, I’m getting married in the temple this summer as a recent convert to the church, and will have been a member of the Mormon Church for a year in July. My family is having a really hard time with the temple ceremony and not being able to...