Dear Gramps, I have enjoyed your site Gramps, but I have a question for you. I am new convert to the church and I have been intensely involved in missionary work. In fact I am preparing now to go on a mission. But to my question. A friend of mine that is very interested in being a member of the church belongs to a polygamist family. The family in a sense is LDS and he has read the Book of Mormon. But he knows what his family is practicing is not right and he wants to be baptized. He spoke to a stake president about his concerns and this Stake President told him that if he were baptized that he could never see his family again and only communicate with them once a year (like at Christmas). My friend now will not give up his family for the church. Even though he believes it and has a testimony of the Book of Mormon he loves his family too. Help Gramps, can you shed some light? s/Ben Joe, dixie.edu [answer]

Dear Gramps, We had a friend who left the MTC after only 1 week.  He was given an honorable release.  Why would the authorities at the MTC not try any harder than that to keep him on his mission.  What is he to expect his standing to be in the LDS community? Janet [answer]