Funny you should mention that. In the "readers' comments" section of this Logan, UT newspaper article, a reader added this electronic comment with the article:
The whole "celestial family" doctrine is hard for me to get my mind around. Aren't my parents sealed to their parents, and so on? Does my dad live with his parents or with my mom? Do I live with my parents or with my wife? I see a geometrical progression here that is difficult to fathom."
For those not getting what this person's questions are...if you've seen the bumper sticker, "Families are Forever," that's a Mormon sticker. And they believe that families stick together as a unit in one of three degrees of glory -- plus a few wind up in outer darkness. But that presumes they've all been "judged" by God to be on the same level. What happens if you have...
...a faithful temple-going grandpa,
...an apostate grandma,
...a child of their's whose a "cafeteria Mormon" (non-temple going Mormon),
...and a "jack Mormon" (inactive) granddaughter whose living with her boyfriend?
Would that be one happy "All in the Family?" Which degree of glory? And what if the faithful temple-going grandpa had parents who were fundamentalist polygamous Mormons?
Something that the LDS church would have to figure out ...
35 sounds like a place you could comment on...
Well, my if memory serves me well, it was explained to me that those "worthy" mormons who made it to the Celestial kingdom could go down and visit those in the lower kingdoms but those in the lower kingdoms were stuck where they were. So, no, they wouldn't all be "one happy family"...it would be kinda like it was in early Utah where the hubby would visit the homes of his plural wives and children.
If this is wrong, someone please correct me.