My husband says that he doesn’t love me. What am I to do?
Dear Gramps, I married my husband in the temple and a short time after that he told me that he didn’t love me. I felt that I should leave him because of the way he felt and he said to me not to leave that he would work on trying to love me. Years down the track he is...
What is the first step to take to return to activity in the Mormon Church?
Gramps, I was sealed to my husband and children in 1999. Shortly thereafter, we moved to a rural area with a small church membership. We slipped away from the church due to frustration of driving so far to meetings. I became lonely and depressed and violated my...
What exactly is involved in obtaining a change of heart?
Dear Gramps, What exactly is involved in obtaining a change of heart? And what can insure it remains permanent? Sometimes I feel like a yo-yo, saint and sinner, going back and forth and never quite being one or the other. How do I know I am on the right track? Robert,...
Could you please explain to me the meaning of Doctrine & Covenants 46:19-25? Are some still able to talk in tongues, etc?
Dear Gramps, You have references D&C 46:10-26 in many of your answers. Could you please explain to me what verse 19-25 mean to us? Are some still able to talk in tongues, etc? Melissa, from Midvale, Utah Dear Melissa, All of the gifts of the gospel mentioned in...
I am terrified of sharing the gospel with non-members of the Mormon Church. What can you do to help me?
Dear Gramps, I have been a member of the Mormon Church for 12 years and have a strong testimony of the gospel, but am terrified of sharing it with non-members. No one in my family is a member of the Church and the few times the subject has come up they get pretty...
Can you help me get over the feelings of love I have for a person with whom my relationship has ended?
Dear Gramps, I’m Negar from Iran. I’m 22. I brakage in love and after three years dissent, I can’t forget my love and like be a new person. Help me please. Egar, from Karaj, Iran Dear Negar, These early romances are often very difficult to get over, but there is one...
How do you think the Lord would feel about a person who had weight loss surgery?
Wanda wrote: How do you think the Lord would feel about a person who had weight loss surgery? Would it be desecrating the body or the use of a modern day miracle? Locale: Long Beach CA Dear Wanda, I think that it would be neither. Rather than desecrating the body,...
Is it gambling to put money in a pot and then draw lots to determine who would win the pot?
Dear Gramps, Several of the sisters of the ward get together one night a month to play bunko with other non-member sisters. They donate $10 dollars each for small gifts for the winner(s). My question is…….would this constitute gambling? Philli, from Grayson, Georgia...
What evidence do we have to counter the blasphemous statement of my teacher that the early Mormon Church taught that all Black people would go straight to hell?
Gramps, Today my teacher told my class that in the early church, Mormons believed that blacks go straight to hell. I know this is not true, but I don’t have any evidence of proof to back it up. Can you explain why that’s not true and how non-Mormons get that...
How can I placate my wife who won’t agree to my paying my tithing?
Dear Gramps, I just received $20K for part of an insurance settlement. I want to tithe $2K and use the rest to pay off debts. But my wife has come unglued at me!! She now says we need to pay off our debts first then we can tithe later. She had been OK with small...
