Dec 29, 2015 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Priesthood
Question Gramps, My husband was excommunicated for apostasy months ago. He doesn’t recognize the excommunication and claims to still have the patriarchal priesthood. He uses that priesthood to prepare the sacrament and baptize and rebaptize our two young...
Dec 28, 2015 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Repentance
Question Gramps, Even if you have fully repented, can you still feel guilt? Amy Answer Dear Amy, Yes, you can. Apparently it happens often enough that the Brethren have felt the need to address this issue on more than one occasion. Consider the...
Dec 21, 2015 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Mormon Faith
Question Gramps, Please explain the phrase “Law of the Gospel.” Thanks. Bob Answer Bob, For the simplest answer just look at the Fourth Article of Faith: We believe that the first principles and ordinances of the gospel are: first,...
Dec 20, 2015 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Atonement, Jesus Christ
Question Hi Gramps I have a million questions in my head right now regarding the atonement and the fall. I’m trying to understand why any was necessary? So Adam ate the fruit, and we make mistakes, but why did the Savior have to atone for all that? Why...
Dec 18, 2015 | AAAA AskGramps Website, God, Prayer
Question Dear Gramps, I have great faith in our Heavenly Father and pray often but I was just wondering, if I were to ask the Lord to make someone well who is sick but that sick person was a non believer, would God still answer my prayer? Shelley Answer...
Dec 16, 2015 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Mormon Faith
Question Hi Gramps, I found a talk by Henry B. Erying “Mountains to Climb.” He says unbreakable spiritual strength comes simply by sincere service to God and man. Is it really that simple? Is he literally meaning strength that is truly...
Dec 13, 2015 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Mormon Policy
Question Hi, I was just wondering why BYU expels LDS students who have left the Church? I don’t completely understand this? Nathaniel Answer Dear Nathaniel, The students at Brigham Young University agree to living the standards of the Honor...
Dec 11, 2015 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Priesthood
Question Dear Gramps, President Ezra Taft Benson and others have told stories of how they were mobbed as missionaries in the early 20th century. My question is, why did they not raise their arm to the square and command them in the name of Jesus Christ to...
Dec 9, 2015 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Book of Mormon, Prayer
Question Gramps, I have often wondered why at the end of the Book of Mormon does Moroni ask us to pray to see if these things are not true? Rather than inviting us to pray to know if these things are true? Thanks. Matthew Answer Dear Matthew,...
Dec 8, 2015 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Afterlife
Question Gramps, Why do we, as Mormons, think we have the only trump card on death and returning to our pre-mortal world? While billions of people past and present don’t have a chance unless they obey the Lord’s commandments. I will never treat my...
