Sep 18, 2019 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Afterlife
Question Gramps, This is not a comment. I have been trying to find out why after someone dies that you have to wait another year before you can get them their endowments. I have tried to find out through the proper ways, but no one has the answer for me. My...
Sep 17, 2019 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Joseph Smith
Question Gramps, In Joseph Smith history he states he was in his fifteenth year (JSH 1:7)… Though he was 14 when he had the first vision. Why is this the case I’m just a little confused by it. Jordan Answer Dear Jordan, This seeming...
Sep 12, 2019 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Baptism
Question Gramps, Comment on baptism for the dead. No documents of the early Christian congregation testify to the practice of baptism for the dead. The Bible principle is clearly stated: each person is answerable for his/her own deeds. Who are the dead one must...
Sep 11, 2019 | AAAA AskGramps Website, God, Jesus Christ
Question Hi Gramps, Why are the genealogies for Jesus in Matthew 1 and Luke 3 different? I realize that Matthew runs from David and Luke all the way from Adam, but the people are different, right down to Joseph’s father! Furthermore, the notes to one of the...
Sep 10, 2019 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Sacrament
Question Gramps, When I was a full time missionary in the MTC in Provo (January-March ’82), we were taught to keep our left arms and hands at our side. That is, we were specifically told not to bend our left arm behind our backs, as do some worldly...
Sep 1, 2019 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Baptism
Question Gramps, I regularly hear members and leaders refer to baptism as a covenant, which is a formal promise made by a coventantor to a covenantee before witnesses. Yet at a baptismal ceremony, the person being baptized makes no promises nor do they signal...
Aug 27, 2019 | AAAA AskGramps Website, God
Question Gramps, What does it mean that God is a jealous god in Mosiah 11? Brian Answer Brian, As used in the scriptures, the word jealous has two meanings: (1) to be fervent and to have sensitive and deep feelings about someone or something, and...
Aug 21, 2019 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Satan
Question Gramps, Lucifer is often heard being described as Heavenly Father’s “Left Hand” in a way; which leads to the possible assumption that Lucifer’s name quite reasonably once held an equal level of reverence to that of Jesus’...
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...
Aug 11, 2019 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Repentance
Question Dear Gramps, I am currently waiting on a mission call but lately I feel the need to talk to my bishop about something that happened about 6 months back that I thought I had cleared up with my bishop. I think I might have said the wrong thing or worded...
