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Dear
Gramps, |
Dear
Dale,
You
didn’t tell me if your wife was sealed to her former husband. Assuming that
she was not sealed to him, her promise that he would always have his two sons
with him has no meaning. Are the sons living with him now, or with her, or are
they on their own?
If
she was sealed to her former spouse, families are together in eternity only if
they are true and faithful to each other and abide by all the covenants that
they have made in the temple. The fact that her former spouse in not active in
the Church does not mean that he cannot repent and be forgiven of all his sins.
But then, the covenant has nevertheless been broken because they are no longer
true to one another.
Now
she has married you. It is yet her decision if she would want to be sealed to
you for time and eternity. If so, it would be necessary to request a
cancellation of her former sealing by the First Presidency. Then, if the
cancellation were granted and if you both qualify by your worthiness to enter
the temple, you could be sealed to each other. To consider whether or not her
children could or would be sealed to you and her would require their approval
and worthiness and would be a question to taken up with your local priesthood
authorities and the president of your temple.
Gramps