What should I do if I know of someone wearing temple garments unworthily?
Question Dear Gramps, I have a family member who served a mission several years ago. She stills believes in the church but since marrying a non member she doesn't attend church anymore, pay tithing or really participate in any type of church activity accept for...
Physical Bodies and Priesthood Ordinances
Dear Gramps, We have been taught that Moses and Elijah were taken from this earth without tasting death because they needed to confer priesthood keys (while they were still in the flesh) upon Peter, James and John on the Mount of Transfiguration (before the...
Finding a purpose in life
Dear Gramps, I graduated from college a while ago, and I'm having a lot of trouble trying to figure out what to do next. The job I have now is enough to pay the bills, but It isn't what I want to do forever. Every time I apply for a position I'm really interested in...
Why didn’t some of the General Authorities serve missions?
Question Gramps, Why didn’t President Monson go on a mission as a young man? What other apostles have not gone on a mission and why not? Pam Answer Pam, When questioning why our Prophet and some of the apostles did not serve a full time mission, one must think...
Interracial Marriage
I know that the church "discourages" interracial marriages, but I am deeply in love with this girl and feel that it is right. I grew up in really the same culture and there are not many differences. Should I marry her? Thomas _____________ Thomas, First, let's...
Why are fast offerings used in ways that I find inappropriate?
Question Gramps, As a leader in our Ward I am aware that our fast offerings are being used to pay traffic tickets, high speed internet bills, late fees and other bills that are not considered necessities. I know members who can't even afford internet service...
Worthiness
Gramps, I have been away from the church for sometime and have started attending again. As such, I am attending priesthood meetings and often the subject of being worthy comes up in discussion. Since we are all sinners and only enter heaven through the grace of god,...
Quorum of the Seventies
Why don't we see Seventy Quorum in wards any more? Stephen _____________ Hi Stephen, This is a great question. There really isn't much said from the Prophets and Apostles regarding the discontinuance of the Seventies at local levels within Stakes. This is the only...
How do you help someone who has been offended by a church leader?
Question Hi Gramps, We recently visited a less-active sister and found out that the reason was that she got offended by the "cutting remarks" from the Stake President. How do you appease this situation? Thanks! Lex Answer Hello Lex, In our experiences in the...
Agency in the Millenium
Gramps, Say we are half way thru the millenium and the new children born become rebellious thru their own agency, Do they go bye-bye like those who did not live the terrestrial life at the beginning of the millenium? Gary ______________ I just don’t know Gary. The...
Priesthood in the Premortal World
I heard an opinion that every man who has kept his first estate had the priesthood given to him before he came to earth. We know it was given to some in the pre-existence. For example in Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, he said that Adam was given the...
Doesn’t the Bible say there would be no more prophets after Christ’s time?
Question Gramps, I've just read scripture that says that since Christ's time and the completion of the Bible there were no other requirements for modern-day prophets and now I'm reading about Joseph Smith, who was proclaimed to be a modern-day prophet after...
Women and Keys
Are women given keys? Karen ______________ Karen, In the Church, the term “keys” is typically reserved for priesthood authority. So women are not given keys. -Gramps
Working and the Sabbath Day
Gramps, It's been told to me that part of the reason we don't buy things, engage in certain hobbies/entertainment, etc on the Sabbath is because we are, in effect, causing someone else to work on the Sabbath, which is supposed to be a day of rest. My place of...
Priesthood Office or Priesthood Keys
Hello Gramps, On a very snowy Sunday, only the 1st counselor in the bishopric showed up (the bishop and 2nd counselor were either ill or snowed in). The 1st counselor conducted sacrament meeting and presided. In my EQ class, the EQ president spoke up in an almost...
Timing of Vicarious Work
I know that all will be resurrected--that is the gift of immortality. Will there be resurrected spirits in the millennium who have not had their work performed/nor have they accepted the gospel of Jesus Christ. OR are those individuals reserved to come at the end of...
How can I understand what my Patriarchal Blessing means to me?
Question Gramps, I have a very complex and weighty blessing. I'm trying to piece together what it means for me here and now. There are parts to it that are very specific to me and parts about my pre-mortal existence. I know you can ask the Church to send you...
Are the series of questions to be asked by the Lord true?
Question Hi Gramps, I've heard my branch president and even my stake president use an article entitled "Stewardship" in their talks before. It was apparently by David O. McKay where he told some brethren exactly the series of questions that the Lord would ask...
Fasting
I was recently studying the church resources about the principle of fasting and came across this statement: "When fasting, members of the Church are advised to abstain from two meals each Fast Day also by prayer in connection with fasting to develop spiritual power....
Can healing miracles be performed without the priesthood?
Question Gramps, I thought that only those with the priesthood can perform miracles like healing. But in class, we read a story of a young boy who blessed his father without the Melchizedek Priesthood. Futhermore, missionaries told of their experiences of...
Women
I know that we are all God’s children and He loves us equally. But as I read scriptures (both Bible and Book of Mormon, I have noticed that God seems to have loved David in a special way over the rest of us. And He is very protective of women and warns man about the...
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