Apr 18, 2008 | Family, Forgiveness, Life's Lessons, Love, Marriage, Sexual Issues
Gramps, Our 21 year old son, BIC but not an RM, has decided to do what his non-member girlfriend wants him to do, which is to move out of his roommate’s house and move in with her. We have tried to counsel both of them to get married first, that cohabitation is both...
Feb 8, 2008 | Divorce, Family, Life's Lessons, Love, Marriage, Mormon Policy, Obedience, Temples
Dear Gramps,I am new to the Mormon Church and right now, have not had the time to really find myself in it. I was baptized two years ago and truly love the Church, the people, the restoration of the gospel, all the teachings. . . I feel I have found home when I found...
Feb 7, 2008 | Family, Forgiveness, Happiness, Marriage, Sexual Issues
Dear Gramps, I think my husband may have been molested as a child by a family friend. I know that at least his sister was and my mother-in-law doesn’t believe her. When this man died his wife told my husband she was sorry. She did not say for what. I have always...
Feb 6, 2008 | Divorce, Family, Forgiveness, Marriage, Mormon Policy, Obedience, Repentance, Word of Wisdom
Dear Gramps: I am in the process of a divorce I didn’t want. My husband and I were together for 15 years, and married 10 years ago in the temple. I found out that he had been unfaithful, and then he stopped going to church and disregarded the Word of Wisdom entirely....
Feb 5, 2008 | Babies, Marriage, Sexual Issues
Question Dear Gramps, I do not want to seem argumentative, but I do know that it is possible for a man to have a reverse vasectomy and it be successful. I feel that there is no room to say that it is a “drastic manner to eliminate temptation.” I feel that this...
Feb 1, 2008 | Family, Marriage, Temples
Question Ntando wrote: I’m born out of the wedlock, so is my younger brother. We are both of different fathers with whom my mother had already broken up before both their deaths. Later on I became a member of the Mormon Church, and much later my mother and brother...
Jan 5, 2008 | Afterlife, Marriage
Dear Gramps, Is it true the reason men can be sealed to more than one woman is because there will be more women in the Celestrial Kingdom than men? If it weren’t for that some good women would be condemned through no fault of their own, and that’s not just. Becky,...
Dec 28, 2007 | Afterlife, Death, Marriage
Question Dear Gramps, My cousin’s fiancee recently passed away two days before they were suppose to be married. My family and a few friends are telling me that even though she has died they can still be sealed in the temple as if she was alive. Their reason for...
Dec 27, 2007 | Divorce, Life's Lessons, Love, Marriage, Obedience, Prayer, Repentance, Sexual Issues, Worthiness
Hi gramps, My step-daughter has grown away from the Mormon Church, she is dating a young man with whom she can see being married too. ( He was a Mormon is now a Catholic) They have decided to move in together to see how it works out and then get married. I’ve...
Dec 14, 2007 | Marriage, Mormon Doctrine, Temples
Dear Gramps, I’m glad I found your site. There is an investigator in my branch of the Mormon Church who is troubled about eternal marriage. He wants to know why women cannot be sealed after the husband has died, while men can. I’m not even sure whether that’s the...
