Why was Adam Chosen to be Adam? Plan of Salvation - Pre existence, veil/birth, earth, death, spirit world of spirit paradise and prison, resurrection, judgment, three kingdoms placement. Who was in the pre existence? Heavenly Father and everyone else. We know what happens there through the scriptures, prophets and the holy Ghost. Heavenly Father says he has a plan. That involves us leaving him. We have to prove ourselves to come back to him. We all chose this way as the right thing to do. What is the advantage of this? We get a body just like Heavenly Father. We want to be like him. The downside is we could screw up. Pre existence = living with parents at home. Earth = going to college on your won. You get to make your own choices. Adam is the first person who came to earth. Why? He probably was willing, very righteous, maybe Adam had the right traits. Back in the pre mortal life, you were still you! You can do as much as you wanted to do. Adam means first. He also probably went first, because God asked him to. Obedience. God's plan was to send his son for all the rest of us. If God told us that if we left him, we could have the chance to never return to him. Then Satan took away agency in his plan, and have the Glory to himself. But we would all end up back in Heaven in the end. But what would you come back as? How much failure does it take to make one invention? We learn by trying, failing, then trying again. We could not progress unless we left. When you reach a goal, you set another one. God always and always will give us the choice. WE will always have our agency. He has patience and hope in us! God doesn't leave us alone! He's left us a lot of help! The commandments are there to help you! They're not there to burden you. They're they’re to guide and help you so you can be happy! If you stay obedient to what God tells and asks of you...you will be blessed, watched over and helped. The war in Heaven, doesn't include swords. It was more of "Reason with me!" Debates. You are who you are, because it's the right time, right place, and you made the right choice in choosing Heavenly Father's Plan. Heavenly Father knows our potential and knows what we need. Heavenly Father gave us what we have so we can learn the most we can! We knew and trusted each other! We WANTED to come to earth. You are picked individually by God himself. Christ is our advocate, brother and Savior. What would you do for your siblings? Christ is on our side! How grateful we out to be to know that this work is not the work of man, but its the work of the Lord; that this church bears the name of Jesus Christ, is directed by him, and he will permit no man or group of men to destroy it. Satan tried to persuade Christ that he didn't have to do the atonement...that we didn't care...that we're not good enough. But Christ did it anyways. What makes me better today than I was yesterday? Become the person Heavenly Father sees you as. Who am I? Look in the mirror and decide who you are. Remember you are a son/daughter of God! Name at least one thing you can do to fulfill your potential God sees in you. God loves you! He does everything for you!
~Brother Lovell- Mandarin First Ward
