Jan 11, 2007 | LDS Scriptures, Personal Revelation
Question Gramps, Where can I find out how scripture reading can help me with seminary? Thanks, Jincy Answer Dear Jincy, What do you mean, “where can I find out?” The fact is so obvious that you don’t need to look anywhere. Perhaps you could...
Jan 11, 2007 | Callings, Life's Lessons
Question Dear Gramps, I teach an Aaronic priesthood quorum in the Mormon Church and they are pretty rowdy and do not have respect for church reverence. it seems that no matter how well prepared the class is they find a way offend the spirit. Do you have any...
Jan 11, 2007 | Personal Revelation, Prayer
Question Estimado Abuelito, My question is: how we know that the feeling of the Holly Ghost is from God, and is not from our own mind wanting us to believe something? I remember a couple of years ago after I read the Book of Mormon and ask God as described in...
Jan 10, 2007 | Afterlife, Mormon Doctrine, Personal Revelation
Question Hey, Gramps, Are there any authoritative statements regarding the role of those who have completed their earthly life assisting those of us who are currently here? We’re all aware of those with special missions, such as Moroni, Peter, James,...
Jan 4, 2007 | Children, Love
Question Dear Gramps, We have an amazing teen daughter. All her life she has loved living the gospel. In the last month a romantic relationship has made definite moves toward the inappropriate. She felt the Spirit tell her to end the relationship. Within a day...
Jan 3, 2007 | God, LDS Scriptures, Marriage, Mormon Doctrine, Premortal Life, Second Coming, Temples
Question Dear Gramps, Should the quotation from John Taylor be interpreted as meaning that those who do not marry in this life may have the opportunity to do so in the millennium, thereby attaining exaltation, if they are otherwise worthy? I have been an...
Jan 1, 2007 | Bible, Jesus Christ, Marriage
Question Gramps Given the central motif of marriage throughout the Bible (between God and Israel, Christ and the Church, etc.), not to mention the original purpose of women–to be a companion of men–why do both Jesus and Apostle Paul sanction celibacy as even...
Jan 1, 2007 | Marriage, Temples
Question Dear Gramps, I’m getting married in the temple this summer as a recent convert to the church, and will have been a member of the Mormon Church for a year in July. My family is having a really hard time with the temple ceremony and not being able to...
