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Without the memory of our early time with God, our life on earth becomes a great test to see if we will seek out, learn, and follow God’s Plan. Though we don’t have our memories, God has provided a way for us to learn about the Plan and what we must do to follow it. What we have to do is seek out that learning and act upon it.

God has taught men called prophets about the Plan and what God wants us to do. These prophets are instructed to tell other people and to write down these things in books. The Scriptures are a collection of books written by prophets and we can learn about the Plan by reading them.

As part of the Plan, God sends his Spirit to help people feel when things are true. When we listen to a true prophet of God or read his words, the Spirit lets us feel that the things we hear or read are true and come from God. This way, we can know truth. This is how we learn about the Plan and what God wants us to do, even though we cannot remember learning about them when we lived with God. God will answer our questions through the Spirit when we sincerely ask him through prayer.

If we are to grow up, we must learn to make good choices. Our earth life provides several possibilities to choose from and to learn from. The Plan, as taught by prophets of God, is one possible choice among many on how to live your life. We learn very quickly that the choices we make can affect us for the rest of our lives and beyond.

Before you were born on earth, you rejected the ideas of the Devil and his followers. You are now the enemy of the Devil who wants to destroy the Plan by persuading you not to follow it. He may entice you to do things that God doesn’t want you to do. He may convince you that the Plan is foolish or too hard to follow, or that there is no God and no Plan. He can trick you into ignoring or rejecting one or two parts of the Plan so you can never become like God. The Devil can confuse us by offering many, many different and appealing paths to follow besides God's Plan. If the Devil can get us to deviate from the Plan, even just a little, we can abandon our opportunity to be like God. God doesn’t want this to happen.

Before we were born, the Christ promised that he would help us follow the Plan. He was born and lived on earth just as we do, and he followed God’s Plan perfectly, giving us the ultimate example to follow. Knowing that we would make mistakes and might be tricked into doing the wrong things by the Devil, the Christ paid the punishment for the things that we will do wrong and offers us the chance to repent of our mistakes and sins against God’s Plan. When we repent in the way the Christ taught us, it is as if we never sinned and we can be right back to following the Plan. The Christ truly does fulfill his promise to help us follow God’s Plan.

Experiences we have on earth can prepare us for living a life like God’s. Parenting children, avoiding bad things and embracing good things, and gaining control over our bodies and minds help us to be more like God and help us better follow his Plan.

Once we learn about the Plan and are following it, we need to help others do the same. We can do this by teaching our children these things and sharing with them how we discovered the Plan. We can also do these things for other people around us.

Our first purpose in life on earth should be to recognize God’s Plan, learn of it, and follow it by following the example of the Christ. Our second purpose should be to help others recognize, learn, and follow the Plan as well.