Jan 24, 2024 | Priesthood
Question Gramps, Today in the Priesthood meeting I used the phrase to magnify the Priesthood. A good friend told me that I shouldn’t use that phrase because what we magnify is our calling. I have read a few discourses where the phrase to magnify the...
Jan 21, 2024 | Forgiveness
Question Gramps, What was the correlation between healing and forgiveness in Jesus’s time and what is the connection in our time between a person being healed and that person being forgiven of sins? David Answer David, Thank you for taking a...
Jan 20, 2024 | Faith, Personal Revelation
Question Gramps, My daughter is on a mission, teaching a young man who is 20. He is very interested in the church and praying about baptism but he struggles with lack of support from friends and family. All of his friends and coworkers are very unsupportive and...
Jan 7, 2024 | Joseph Smith
Question Hey Gramps. I was having a discussion with someone about prophets and how Joseph Smith wasn’t a true prophet because he practiced polygamy. I told him that Joseph Smith was a prophet in a new dispensation and he stated that he wasn’t...
Nov 26, 2023 | Mormon Doctrine
Question Gramps, I realize that the Book of Mormon says that now is the time for the preaching of the gospel to the gentiles. My question is: when did the Jews stop being the “Covenant People?” David Answer David, God, in His dealings...
Nov 4, 2023 | Family, Ordinances
Question Gramps, What does it mean to an individual to be sealed? We always refer to the blessing of sealings to be the opportunity to be a family forever and it is often related to being “linked” together. That’s not what I’m...
Oct 29, 2023 | Jesus Christ
Question Gramps, Hello, I was reading Romans 1:3 (Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh). The original Greek word for seed is “sperma” (something sown, i.e. seed (including the male...
