Mar 4, 2025 | Babies, Blessings
Question Gramps, Looking at LDS baby blessings. Besides it being an ordinance and recorded in the church, what’s the point of blessing him? Does he need a blessing to receive blessings? He won’t remember the blessing anyway, so what’s the...
Nov 18, 2024 | Afterlife, Blessings, Covenants
Question Dear Gramps, I’m the only member of my family. I married a nonmember 30 years ago and he and my two adult children have never joined the church. I’m so tired of members telling me I have no chance of exaltation, I’m suffering the...
Nov 13, 2024 | Blessings, Priesthood
Question Gramps, Is it true that the person that you are giving a priesthood blessing for does not have to be present for the priesthood? Karen Answer Karen, In The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, priesthood blessings are a sacred...
Dec 15, 2022 | Blessings, Family
Question Gramps, I’m a convert of 6 years and married into a member family with 5 kids. When I perform back to school blessings they are specific and long and pour out many blessings upon my children. My wife has mentioned to me several times that my blessings...
Jan 4, 2021 | Afterlife, Blessings
Question Gramps, Many people who have received their Patriarchal blessing are told they will come forth in the morning of the first resurrection based on their worthiness. My wife’s blessing says that. My Patriarchal blessing makes no mention of the my...
Dec 26, 2018 | God, Happiness
Question Dear Gramps, We are taught that we can dwell with God, become like Him, and be eternally happy. I don’t understand how He and we can be free from sorrow–and, thus, experience happiness eternally–if God Himself weeps because of the...
Dec 10, 2018 | Blessings, Prayer
Question Gramps, I’ve been thinking about the line from the Bible Dictionary, “The object of prayer is … to secure for ourselves and for others blessings that … are made conditional on our asking for them.” Often in Church, we ask...
