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President Smith knew about death…

Eight months after the death of his eldest son, Hyrum Mack Smith, Hyrum’s widow died just a week after giving birth to a baby.

President Smith was just five when his father Hyrum Smith, was slain in Carthage Jail.

His mother died when he was 13. His wife died By 1918, only one of his siblings was

still living. Of his 44 children, 13 died.

Doctrine and Covenants 138:1-11 (BACKGROUND)

Find (and mark) 2 or 3 doctrinal truths from your passage

1. Doctrine and Covenants 138:12-172. Doctrine and Covenants 138:18-233. Doctrine and Covenants 138:29-344. Doctrine and Covenants 138:38-48

(list)5. Doctrine and Covenants 138:54-566. Doctrine and Covenants 138:57-60

Where is the Spirit World?

THE SPIRIT WORLD

Brigham Young

Where is the spirit world? It is right here.

(Journal of Discourses, 3:369)

Is the veil removed when we die?

JUSTICE AND MERCYNeal A. Maxwell The veil of forgetfulness of the first estate apparently will not be suddenly, automatically, and totally removed at the time of our temporal death. This veil will continue in some key respects into the spirit world. Death does not suddenly bestow upon the disbeliever full awareness of all reality, thereby obviating the need for any faith. (The Promise of Discipleship, p. 111)

What is the purpose of death?

DEATH

“Death releases a spirit for growth and development and places a body in the repair shop of Mother Earth, there to be recast, remolded into a perfect body, clean, whole, perfected, and ready for its occupant for eternity.”

The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, p.45 

Is the veil thick or thin?

THE VEILOur loved ones are permitted to look down and view the activities of this world, to view the activities of their own loved ones and often are pained because of our misdeeds and our mistakes and our neglect. There are people over there who are pulling for us - people who have faith in us and who have great hopes for us, who are hoping and praying that we will measure up. (Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson, p.31)

Is life ‘normal’ in the Spirit World?

LIFE IN THE SPIRIT WORLD

Brigham Young 

When you are in the spirit world, everything there will appear as natural as things now do. Spirits will converse and exercise every variety of communication as naturally as while here. (Discourses of Brigham Young, p. 380)

What can we do in the Spirit World?

LIFE IN THE SPIRIT WORLD

Brigham Young The brightness and glory of the next apartment is inexpressible. They move with ease and like lightning. If we want to visit Jerusalem, I presume we will be permitted - there we are, looking at its streets. Or if we want to see the Garden of Eden as it was when created, there we are. We may behold the earth as at the dawn of creation, or we may visit any city we please that exists upon its surface. (Discourses of Brigham Young, p.380-381)

What will our bodies look like after we are

resurrected?

RESURRECTION“One day loved ones whom we knew to have disabilities in mortality will stand before us glorified and grand, breathtakingly perfect in body and mind. What a thrilling moment that will be! I do not know whether we will be happier for ourselves that we have witnessed such a miracle or happier for them that they are fully perfect and finally ‘free at last.’”

Jeffrey R. Holland, October 2013 General Conference

In what ways will we look different after we are

resurrected?

RESURRECTED BODIES

“President Joseph F. Smith said people will come forth "even to the wounds in the flesh. Not that a person will always be marred by scars, for these will be removed in their course, in their proper time..." [Gospel Doctrine, 4th p. 30.]  Deformities will be corrected immediately at the time of the uniting of the spirit and body. We may be sure that every man will receive his body in its perfect frame in the resurrection.”

Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation 2:293-294.

RESURRECTED BODIES

“In both of the (lower) kingdoms there will be changes in the bodies and limitations. They will not have the power of increase, neither the power or nature to live as husbands and wives, for this will be denied them and they cannot increase. Some of the functions in the celestial body will not appear. I take it that men and women will, in these kingdoms, be merely immortal beings having received the resurrection. ”

Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, 2:288-289

RESURRECTED BODIES

“We bear the image of our earthly parents, but by…the holy resurrection, we shall put on the image of the heavenly, in beauty, glory, power and goodness.

Brigham Young, Discourses of Brigham Young, p.374

“There is nothing grander that I can imagine than a resurrected body.”

Lorenzo Snow, 5 October 1900, CR, p. 4; Teachings of Lorenzo Snow, p.99

How can this doctrine affect marriage and family relationships?

Who is looking forward to the Spirit World?

Who is looking forward to the

Resurrection?

Why?

“Each release of a righteous individual from this life is also a call to new labors. Therefore, though we miss the departed righteous so much here, hundreds may feel their touch their. One day, those hundreds will thank the bereaved for gracefully forgoing the extended association with choice individuals here, in order that they could help hundreds there.” (Neal A. Maxwell, Not Withstanding My Weakness, 55).

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