Sep 3, 2015 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Divorce
Question Dear Gramps, I’ve always loved your site and hope you can answer a question my husband and I have been puzzling over! Background: My husband and I have struggled greatly in the last year of our marriage. Many times while in the temple I have...
Jul 27, 2015 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Premortal Life, Sexual Issues
Question Gramps, I have been a member of the LDS church all my life and believe the doctrine stating that our spirits had a gender before we became mortal. I find myself pondering the possibility of an imperfectly gendered body. Hermaphrodites exist, and...
May 17, 2015 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Trials
Question Dear Gramps, The Savior is supposed to be our example in ALL things. Yet he meekly endured terrible abuse by others prior to His crucifixion to the nth degree. The 13th Article of Faith says we hope to be able to endure all things. So at what point...
May 11, 2015 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Scriptures, Trials
Question Gramps, I know we can, otherwise the First Presidency and the 12 wouldn’t keep the hymn “Come, Come ye Saints” in the hymn book. But many times in the scriptures it explicitly says to not say “all is well”. I just want to...
Feb 26, 2015 | Current issues, Sexual Issues
Question Dear Gramps, Those who have been born male and have chosen to live in this world as a woman are referred to in the press as “she” and the new feminine name they go by. The same goes for the opposite gender. Should Latter-day Saints...
Feb 7, 2015 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Depression
Question Gramps, Over the last several of years I have had a few friends take, what they think is, the easy way out. This is devastating for all those left behind. A few have them are members, some not. Most of them I served with in the military and had a great...
Jan 7, 2015 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Sexual Issues
Question Grandpa, I recently confided in my sister. I told her that I was in therapy trying to heal my chronic pelvic pain, PTSD which resulted from sexual abuse that I never dealt with. What am I missing? I’m very familiar with the atonement. It’s...
Dec 28, 2014 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Blessings, Trials
Question Gramps, Do I get a greater blessing for successfully enduring a trial? For example I don’t have a family. I was not blessed with children and my relatives are dead. I hear about how important family is. Will I get a greater blessing if I...
Dec 2, 2014 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Afterlife, Divorce
Question Gramps, Unfortunately I am in a situation I never wanted. I was sealed in the temple but am now divorced. I have 2 young children. What is the church’ stance on having the sealing revoked? I have heard it can only be done if you want to remarry?...
Nov 12, 2014 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Trials
Question Dear Gramps, I have been struggling with skinpicking (Dermatillomania) since 10 years. I feel so horrible about my picking that I have really low self-esteem. I know our bodies are temples and therefore holy, but I can’t stop the urge to pick....
