The Spirit World

Alma teaches about what happens immediately after we die:

21 ...there is a space between death and the resurrection of the body, and a state of the soul in happiness or in misery until the time which is appointed of God that the dead shall come forth, and be reunited, both soul and body, and be brought to stand before God, and be judged according to their works (Alma 40).

As I understand it, life in the Spirit world will be similar to life as we experience it now, with the one key difference being that we will not have the use of our physical body. We will be in spiritual form. I was just thinking about how strange it would be to experience life without my body. I will still be me in every other sense: I will have the same emotional disposition; I will still desire the same things as I desire now; all the thoughts and intelligence that I have obtained will still be with me. And yet I will undoubtedly feel a sense of hollowness, a deep sense of incompleteness without my physical form. How important it is then to develop self-control, to bridle every passion and subject my body to the will of my spirit, so that when I pass away and lose my body for a time, I will enjoy the state of rest from all care and sorrow, rather than have to suffer the torture of desperately wanting to satisfy physical appetites and not be able to!