Aug 3, 2015 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Missionary Work
Question Dear Gramps, Why does an apostle have to assign each missionary to a particular mission by inspiration? Why doesn’t the church just administratively assign everyone to wherever there’s a need? If you’re willing to serve, then what...
Jul 28, 2015 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Church History, Doctrine & Covenants
Question Dear Gramps, In D&C 8, the Lord gives Oliver Cowdery the power to translate the Gold Plates. The Lord directs him four separate times in verses 1, 9, 10 and 11 to ask Him for the translation he needs. In D&C 9, we find out that Oliver was...
Jul 27, 2015 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Premortal Life, Sexual Issues
Question Gramps, I have been a member of the LDS church all my life and believe the doctrine stating that our spirits had a gender before we became mortal. I find myself pondering the possibility of an imperfectly gendered body. Hermaphrodites exist, and...
Jul 23, 2015 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Mormon Policy
Question Gramps, Can you explain why it takes one year after death to be baptized in the temple? Raja Answer Raja, The simple and most direct answer is… Because the LDS Church has created a policy to that effect. The Church has many policies...
Jul 8, 2015 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Second Coming
Question Gramps, I will gladly bow before Christ and praise Him. The only problem I have is that at age 14 I injured my knees. Time and age have taken a toll on my knees and it is really hard to bend my knees. When Christ comes, will He heal my knees so I can...
Jul 7, 2015 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Mormon Policy
Question Gramps, The church allows all to attend meetings, even nonmembers and ex members. What if a non, ex, or member began outright speaking against the church and its doctrines, to the point that they were a heckler? Would they be banned from the building?...
Jul 6, 2015 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Sealings
Question Gramps, Why do we need to be sealed to our family? I understand why we need to be sealed to our spouse. But why is it necessary to be sealed to our siblings or parents? If we all make it to the same kingdom of glory won’t we be able to visit...
Jul 3, 2015 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Prophets
Question Gramps, Last week in priesthood class a member asked, “How can one tell when a man, whom we sustain as prophet, is speaking as a prophet or giving his own opinion?” Don Answer Dear Don, President Brigham Young taught that What...
Jun 26, 2015 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Prophets
Question Gramps, Brigham Young has said multiple times and it is written in the Journal of Discourses that he said people lived on the moon dressed as Quakers. He also said, “Is their life on the sun? Without question, for it was not created in...
Jun 25, 2015 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Priesthood
Question Gramps, My sibling-in-law fell on humbling hard times, began to return to the church, went through a painful and litigious break-up, then asked their Home Teacher for a blessing of comfort. He came, lectured, announced that he wasn’t inclined to...
