My husband was baptized last year. He had a son with another woman 17 years ago. He abandoned his son years ago and doesn’t know what happened to him. What will happen to his son, since he’s not sealed to my husband?
Hi sister. Thanks for your interesting question. It would be excellent if your husband could find his son so he could share the gospel with him. Besides, it's your husband's responsibility to care your his son's emotional and physical needs.
If it's not possible to locate your stepson, know that he will not have to pay for the mistakes his father made. It's not his fault that your husband made poor choices when he was younger. At the last day, God will find a way so that all of us are subject to just the right balance of mercy and justice. No good person will be denied the opportunity to follow Christ, if they so choose. I hope this answer helps.
Pamela Bonta
2014-10-05 06:24:52
Our Father in heaven in merciful. Your husband has been baptized, and assuming he was honest with the missionaries who interviewed him before his baptism, his sins are washed away and he has been made clean. (If he did not mention this to the missionaries before, he should chat with his Bishop now so that he can be offered an opportunity for repentance.)
While it would be wonderful if he could locate his son, apologize for his past mistakes, show his son that he is repentant, and perhaps even begin a new relationship with him with his son as part of your family, that is not always possible. However, we know that anyone who does not accept the Gospel in this life will have an opportunity to so in the next life. This is why some of us who have lost our living children for various reasons, have left instructions in the case of our deaths for our living descendants to the effect that we want our child's work done for them when it can reasonably be assumed that they they have passed on, at age 110.
Be sure to have your husband add as much information has he can to your family's familysearch.org account about his son to make this easier. Have hope! All will turn out as it should in the eternities!
If it's not possible to locate your stepson, know that he will not have to pay for the mistakes his father made. It's not his fault that your husband made poor choices when he was younger. At the last day, God will find a way so that all of us are subject to just the right balance of mercy and justice. No good person will be denied the opportunity to follow Christ, if they so choose. I hope this answer helps.
While it would be wonderful if he could locate his son, apologize for his past mistakes, show his son that he is repentant, and perhaps even begin a new relationship with him with his son as part of your family, that is not always possible. However, we know that anyone who does not accept the Gospel in this life will have an opportunity to so in the next life. This is why some of us who have lost our living children for various reasons, have left instructions in the case of our deaths for our living descendants to the effect that we want our child's work done for them when it can reasonably be assumed that they they have passed on, at age 110.
Be sure to have your husband add as much information has he can to your family's familysearch.org account about his son to make this easier. Have hope! All will turn out as it should in the eternities!