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FEMALE SPEAKER 1: Life just didn't start at birth.

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We live spiritually with our Heavenly Father.

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FEMALE SPEAKER 2: We knew that there was more, and He told us about His plan,

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that He did have more prepared for us,

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but it would mean that we had to choose to

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come to this Earth and have some hard experiences.

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Jesus Christ volunteered to help make the plan of salvation possible.

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He knew that we would need someone to help us

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get back to Heavenly Father that we couldn't do on our own.

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MALE SPEAKER 1: We chose that we would accept it and come down to Earth

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and be part of this earthly existence.

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FEMALE SPEAKER 3: Why does life have to be so hard? We're here to learn.

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How will we understand the difference if

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we don't experience the difficult and the hardness?

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How will we know happiness if we don't experience pain and sadness?

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Heavenly Father has very carefully put those opposites together to grow us

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and to teach us and to expand us and evolve us as spiritual beings.

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MALE SPEAKER 2: I think for those that are struggling,

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there is always hope and there always will be hope.

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But through those struggles that we have in life, through those challenges,

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we are able to draw nearer to our Heavenly Father if we choose to,

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if we want to do that, and we're able to find

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peace with our Savior, if we want to find peace.

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I was 8 years old when Mum died,

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and probably not realizing it at the time,

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but I think that started for me,

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a lifelong pursuit of finding out about her and where she is,

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and where I need to be with her.

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I found out that she's still alive.

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Mum right now lives in the spirit world.

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I found that out for myself.

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But I found out, too, that I could qualify to see her again.

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That's been a driving force in my life, my entire life.

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FEMALE SPEAKER 4: There is absolutely life after death.

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MALE SPEAKER 3: It's not something you can see,

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but it's something that you can feel.

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That also comes with knowledge and through study of the scriptures.

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I lost my wife four years ago,

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and so that motivates me to keep on

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the straight and narrow path so that I can be with my wife again in this life hereafter.

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FEMALE SPEAKER 5: After death, I do believe that we will be perfected.

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I told my husband many years ago

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that he'll be able to sing and chew after.

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For myself, because I have the pancreatic cancer,

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the breast cancer, I have damaged discs in my lower spine,

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each day that I live here on

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the Earth with faith and hope in Heavenly Father's blessings,

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I am actually working toward the fact that I know after this life,

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I'll be able to throw this crutch away,

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and I'll be running marathons, and I will be perfected as we all will be.

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FEMALE SPEAKER 2: Because I know that there is more and that there is

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a Heavenly Father that has a plan and who knew that these things would happen,

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but loved us enough to send us here.

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I think it makes anything you go through bearable.

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I think having that knowledge also makes you more

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loving of people around you and wanting to help them to get through their hard times,

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too, so that they know that there's more than what's happening right now,

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but that there's eternal happiness ahead.

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DALLIN H. OAKES: Essential to the plan of salvation is our Savior Jesus Christ.

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Without His atoning sacrifice,

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all would be lost.

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It is not enough, however,

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merely to believe in Him and His mission.

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We need to work and learn,

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search, and pray, repent and improve.

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We need to know God's laws and live them.

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We need to receive His saving ordinances.

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Only by doing so will we obtain true eternal happiness.