Jun 30, 2013 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Callings, Divorce, Mormon Policy
Can a man married to a divorced woman (specifically if she was sealed in the temple in her first marriage) be called to be a Bishop? I can’t find an accurate answer for that. Thanks! Bernice _______________ Bernice, As I have taken time to research an answer to...
Jun 29, 2013 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Forgiveness, Homosexuality, Life's Lessons, Missionary Work, Mormon Policy, Obedience, Repentance, Sexual Issues, Worthiness
My son has SSA (Same Sex Attraction). He does not act upon it. He wants to go on a mission. He has worked on worthiness and feels ready to go. We were told that he couldn’t go because he has SSA. In the Church Handbook of Instructions it says that individuals...
Jun 9, 2013 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Bible, Depression, Doctrine & Covenants, Life's Lessons, Self Worth
My dear friend has been having a lot of trials lately. It seems everytime something is set to go well life pulls back and says “gotcha!” As a result her outlook on life is bleak and I can feel her losing faith. I remember reading a scripture about our...
Jun 2, 2013 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Sexual Issues
As an LDS sister divorced for many years, it’s increasingly disillusioning trying to find a man that does not press for sexual intimacy outside of the bounds of marriage including the LDS men I’ve known. I’ve been told by LDS men that some LDS women,...
May 28, 2013 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Divorce, Family
What happens to people, by people I mean my father, who cause a divorce when there is small children involved? Rose ______________ Rose, Any decision we make we are held accountable before God for the consequences of our decisions, whether they be choices which lead...
May 20, 2013 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Forgiveness, Repentance, Sexual Issues
So my girlfriend and I have been planning to get married in a few short months and were previously not living the law of chastity and just a couple weeks ago I confessed to my bishop and am now going thru the repentance process but today I found out that my girlfriend...
Apr 26, 2013 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Depression, Forgiveness, Happiness, Jesus Christ, Life's Lessons, Sexual Issues
I suffered from rape/molestation as a child and was told by my mother that “that’s the way guys are.” My mother wasn’t mentally capable of helping me as her abuse was suppressed as well. I spoke to my grandmother and she told me that my grandfather used to...
Apr 23, 2013 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Abortion, Mormon Policy, Sexual Issues
Question Dear Gramps, I was wondering, why does the Church say it is okay to abort a child that is the ‘product’, if I may, of rape or incest? Isn’t that baby still a human, with every right to life that we do? I ask this for a better...
Mar 18, 2013 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Forgiveness, Life's Lessons, Love, Marriage, Sexual Issues
My husband committed adultery almost four years ago. I have not yet gotten over it completely but making a daily effort towards that. But, even if I try my best, how can I trust him or how can I know he is and will always be true to me only from here on? Haydee...
Mar 7, 2013 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Life's Lessons, Sexual Issues
Gramps, I have a question regarding depictions of nudity in Japanese anime and a gospel perspective on it. I’m told in Japanese culture, that nudity in anime often signifies Japanese animesome supernatural happening or some other pseudoscientific event that...
