FEMALE SPEAKER 1: Life just didn't start at birth.
We live spiritually with our Heavenly Father.
FEMALE SPEAKER 2: We knew that there was more, and He told us about His plan,
that He did have more prepared for us,
but it would mean that we had to choose to
come to this Earth and have some hard experiences.
Jesus Christ volunteered to help make the plan of salvation possible.
He knew that we would need someone to help us
get back to Heavenly Father that we couldn't do on our own.
MALE SPEAKER 1: We chose that we would accept it and come down to Earth
and be part of this earthly existence.
FEMALE SPEAKER 3: Why does life have to be so hard? We're here to learn.
How will we understand the difference if
we don't experience the difficult and the hardness?
How will we know happiness if we don't experience pain and sadness?
Heavenly Father has very carefully put those opposites together to grow us
and to teach us and to expand us and evolve us as spiritual beings.
MALE SPEAKER 2: I think for those that are struggling,
there is always hope and there always will be hope.
But through those struggles that we have in life, through those challenges,
we are able to draw nearer to our Heavenly Father if we choose to,
if we want to do that, and we're able to find
peace with our Savior, if we want to find peace.
I was 8 years old when Mum died,
and probably not realizing it at the time,
but I think that started for me,
a lifelong pursuit of finding out about her and where she is,
and where I need to be with her.
I found out that she's still alive.
Mum right now lives in the spirit world.
I found that out for myself.
But I found out, too, that I could qualify to see her again.
That's been a driving force in my life, my entire life.
FEMALE SPEAKER 4: There is absolutely life after death.
MALE SPEAKER 3: It's not something you can see,
but it's something that you can feel.
That also comes with knowledge and through study of the scriptures.
I lost my wife four years ago,
and so that motivates me to keep on
the straight and narrow path so that I can be with my wife again in this life hereafter.
FEMALE SPEAKER 5: After death, I do believe that we will be perfected.
I told my husband many years ago
that he'll be able to sing and chew after.
For myself, because I have the pancreatic cancer,
the breast cancer, I have damaged discs in my lower spine,
each day that I live here on
the Earth with faith and hope in Heavenly Father's blessings,
I am actually working toward the fact that I know after this life,
I'll be able to throw this crutch away,
and I'll be running marathons, and I will be perfected as we all will be.
FEMALE SPEAKER 2: Because I know that there is more and that there is
a Heavenly Father that has a plan and who knew that these things would happen,
but loved us enough to send us here.
I think it makes anything you go through bearable.
I think having that knowledge also makes you more
loving of people around you and wanting to help them to get through their hard times,
too, so that they know that there's more than what's happening right now,
but that there's eternal happiness ahead.
DALLIN H. OAKES: Essential to the plan of salvation is our Savior Jesus Christ.
Without His atoning sacrifice,
all would be lost.
It is not enough, however,
merely to believe in Him and His mission.
We need to work and learn,
search, and pray, repent and improve.
We need to know God's laws and live them.
We need to receive His saving ordinances.
Only by doing so will we obtain true eternal happiness.