Hello family,
Sounds like things are going pretty good for everyone. Ammon, I need pictures of Homecoming. And really I need pictures from all the dances you went to last year too! I haven´t seen anything! And that´s not cool. Good luck with Shakespeare, that will be fun. And good work Micah beating Payson to a pulp. That´s what I like to hear :) And with all A's, nice! I´m excited for Halloween too. But you guys have to figure a costume for me, I don´t know what to be :) I´m glad Bro Roby said I could shadow him. That would be a really really good opportunity. With that and trying out for Les Mis I should keep pretty busy for those few months before school. Add to that Thanksgiving and Christmas and everything, I think I´ll definitely have some things to do. I loved that talk that you used for your lesson dad. And I´m super super excited for General Conference this week! It will be the best! Hope you all enjoy! Things here are going really well. Nothing out of the ordinary. Kinda got this guy stalking us though. That´s not fun. But no worries, we´re all safe and sound. And we helped out with a baptism. That was also interesting. But a good week overall. It´s weird to think that I´m only going to email you all 4 more times before I come home. But don´t get trunky or anything.
So mom I want to try to answer your question with my thought today. Can people repent in the spirit world? Most definitely. But surely it is a more difficult process. And yes, repentance should generally happen in this life. Let me explain using a few scriptures. Alma 34:32 "For behold, this life is the time for men to prepare to meet God; yea, behold the day of this life is the day for men to perform their labors." This life is the time for us to prepare to meet God. This life is the time for us to repent. But can we repent without understanding the commandments? No. If someone is sinning without a knowledge of the gospel, they are still breaking the commandments, but they are not fully guilty of their sins. Or at least they do not receive as much condemnation as someone that does understand the commandments. (D&C 82:3 "...he who sins against the greater light shall receive the greater condemnation.") Repentance, just like baptisms for the dead, are specifically reserved for those who die without a knowledge of the gospel. Can other´s take advantage of this same blessing? Here´s a big long series of quotes from Brigham Young: "Suppose, then, that a man is evil in his heart—wholly given up to wickedness, and in that condition dies, his spirit will enter into the spirit world intent upon evil. On the other hand, if we are striving with all the powers and faculties God has given us to improve upon our talents, to prepare ourselves to dwell in eternal life, and the grave receives our bodies while we are thus engaged, with what disposition will our spirits enter their next state? They will be still striving to do the things of God, only in a much greater degree—learning, increasing, growing in grace and in the knowledge of the truth (DBY, 379)...If a person is baptized for the remission of sins, and dies a short time thereafter, he is not prepared at once to enjoy a fulness of the glory promised to the faithful in the Gospel; for he must be schooled while in the spirit, in the other departments of the house of God, passing on from truth to truth, from intelligence to intelligence, until he is prepared to again receive his body and to enter into the presence of the Father and the Son. We cannot enter into celestial glory in our present state of ignorance and mental darkness (DBY, 378–79)...When we get through this state of being, to the next room, I may call it, we are not going to stop there. We shall still go on, doing all the good we can, administering and officiating for all whom we are permitted to administer and officiate for, and then go on to the next, and to the next, until the Lord shall crown all who have been faithful on this earth, and the work pertaining to the earth is finished, and the Savior, whom we have been helping, has completed his task, and the earth, with all things pertaining to it, is presented to the Father. Then these faithful ones will receive their blessings and crowns, and their inheritances will be set off to them and be given to them, and they will then go on, worlds upon worlds, increasing for ever and ever (DBY, 376)." The spirit world really is an active place where progression and growth are possible. But in Alma 34, Amulek teaches that the spirit that posseses us in this life with continue with us into the spirit world. Just like Pres. Young teaches, if we are doing evil on earth we shall surely continue in the spirit world. The same for righteousness. We will be able to continually progress and become better there. But the best place to learn to do that is in this life. If we live faithfully in this life we will have power to resist the temptations of the devil after this life too. Brigham Young also said, "If we are faithful to our religion, when we go into the spirit world, the fallen spirits—Lucifer and the third part of the heavenly hosts that came with him, and the spirits of wicked men who have dwelt upon this earth, the whole of them combined will have no influence over our spirits. Is not that an advantage? Yes. All the rest of the children of men are more or less subject to them, and they are subject to them as they were while here in the flesh (DBY, 379).

Here [the faithful] shall be perplexed and hunted by him; but when we go into the spirit world there we are masters over the power of satan, and he cannot afflict us any more, and this is enough for me to know (DNW,1 Oct. 1856, 3)." Let us live righteously and we will have power over satan and his minions. Keep on truckin fam. You´re doing great!
Con amor,
Elder Flint