Aug 21, 2013 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Life's Lessons
Question Gramps, OK, at school I’m a little too popular. At church, (with youth) I find it hard to connect myself with them. It’s awkward for me there. Guys there just don’t seem to be my sort of guys, and only the girls at school are attracted to me. It’s hard...
Mar 4, 2013 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Blessings, Family Roots
Question Gramps, We really love your site and have been a subscriber for years. Thank you for the kind service you render to those of us seeking answers. My question…My husband, (I am his second wife) has several children in the tribe of Ephraim. He has...
Mar 2, 2013 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Love, Marriage
Hi, I was very much in love with a non-member before I married my husband. This non-member was everything a Mormon man should be. My patriarchal blessing is unusually detailed about the person I should marry, even stating I would be in love with this man. I still...
Dec 24, 2012 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Afterlife
Question Gramps, Curious question was brought up. Can spirits embrace in the spirit world? I feel this is one of the great reasons we wanted to receive a body, but I don’t know of the nature of spirit to spirit type of bodies. Thanks for your time and...
Oct 9, 2012 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Premortal Life
Question Gramps, You recently answered a question from an individual wondering if we got to choose our trials in mortality. Your answer seemed appropriate but my expansion on that issue is since with Heavenly Father ‘all things are present’ were we...
Sep 4, 2012 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Mormon Policy
Dear Gramps, I am a member of a convert family and was baptized into the church with my husband and son one year ago. As I have attended other people’s baptisms and blessings, I have noticed that the mother or wife of the family member being baptized or blessed...
Aug 29, 2012 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Blessings
Question Dear Gramps, Recently I was told In my patriarchal blessing that I have the gift of prophecy. I had a sunday school teacher when I was younger tell us that he also had it, and he explained that he could prophesy about those whom he had stewardship...
Aug 9, 2012 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Current issues
My patriarchal blessing includes a one line statement that reads, “You will have the gift of healing with you.” I have been a member of the church for 39 years now and I have always wondered what this gift meant and how I could develop it. I obtained a...
Jun 1, 2012 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Depression, Trials
I am a member of the church. I have had depression and chronic fatigue since I was 11 years old. I’m now 55. Medication does not seem to help. Could you please help me understand a couple of things? 1) What can I learn from these illness’s? 2) Why would I...
Mar 20, 2012 | AAAA AskGramps Website, Bible
Question Gramps, Could please tell the background of genesis chapter 48-50 and the subject in it ? Naveen Answer Naveen, Shortly before dying, Jacob (Israel) called his sons together to give them one final blessing. Reuben was his firstborn son,...