Dec 6, 2013 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Bible, Blessings, Prayer, Priesthood
Question Gramps, I wonder what the difference is if someone with the priesthood prays for someone who is sick and they get healed compared to a preacher in another church who prays for the sick who gets healed. Nicko Answer Nicko, That is a great...
Dec 5, 2013 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Prayer, Repentance, Sexual Issues
Question Dear Gramps, I have a lusting problem. Fortunately, I don’t have a pornography problem. I have tried and tried and tried for over 30 years now to overcome looking with lust at immodestly dressed women I see in public. I am no closer now to...
Oct 26, 2013 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Personal Revelation, Prayer, Youth Issues
Question Gramps, Some questions I have asked you I have asked other people before and after I’ve seen your answer. Who am I to believe? Sometimes my Sunday School teacher will give me a different answer than my Seminary teacher which might be different...
Jun 25, 2013 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Prayer
I’ve been a member of the Church for 12 years. I firmly believe in the distinct personages of God the Father, His son Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost. I know that the Church teaches us to follow the example of the Savior by praying to God the Father (as evidenced in...
Apr 18, 2013 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Prayer, Prophets, Revelation
Dear Gramps, I was reading in church history how difficult it was for President Spencer W. Kimball to get the 1978 revelation on the priesthood. He spent months in the upper rooms of the Salt Lake Temple, pondering and praying upon the matter before he felt he had an...
Mar 31, 2013 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Current issues, Happiness, Life's Lessons, Prayer
Hello Gramps, I am a 27 year old divorced LDS woman. I have been divorced for 3 years and I have just graduated from nursing school. I tried attending YSA activities but I felt very out of place due to the fact that most of the people are between 18-21 and are in a...
Mar 21, 2013 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Prayer
Some say that God does not hear our prayers directly but that our prayers are communicated to Him by angels or deceased family members who have been delegated the task to listen to us. Personally, I don’t believe it but would like to know if the church leaders...
Mar 20, 2013 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Faith, Prayer
Dear Gramps, Does it do any good to petition for someone’s healing, like from cancer? The scriptures say if they are ordained to live, they will live, and if they are ordained to die, then they will die (D&C 42:48. So if God has already made up His mind on...
Feb 19, 2013 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Prayer
Question Gramps, So pops I have a question about a reference I heard while on my mission. One of my companions said that Bruce R. McConkie once said concerning group prayer, “If it is over 30 seconds the spirit has already left”. My question is, to...
Dec 5, 2012 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Family, Life's Lessons, Prayer
I have an RM son who has apostatized from the church. He likes to make disparaging remarks about the church when he is in our home and is influencing his 16 year old sister with his care free, apostate comments. We are a fully active family and always have been but...
