Last Sunday's Lesson

Many thanks to Kathleen Towsey for her lesson last week on the post-mortal spirit world. We enjoyed hearing thoughts and questions from many of those in our RS. A few quotes from the lesson manual:

Latter-day prophets have said that the spirits of those who have died are not far from us. President Ezra Taft Benson said: “Sometimes the veil between this life and the life beyond becomes very thin. Our loved ones who have passed on are not far from us” (in Conference Report, Apr. 1971, 18; or Ensign, June 1971, 33).

Spirit beings have the same bodily form as mortals except that the spirit body is in perfect form (see Ether 3:16). Spirits carry with them from earth their attitudes of devotion or antagonism toward things of righteousness (see Alma 34:34). They have the same appetites and desires that they had when they lived on earth. All spirits are in adult form. They were adults before their mortal existence, and they are in adult form after death, even if they die as infants or children (see Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph F. Smith [1998], 131–32).

If you would like to read or review the lesson, here's a link: http://lds.org/manual/gospel-principles/chapter-41-the-postmortal-spirit-world?lang=eng