Where do we go when we die

"'Taken home to God' [compare Eccl 12:7] simply means that their mortal existence has come to an end, and they have returned to the world of spirits, where they are assigned to a place according to their works with the just or with the unjust, there to await the resurrection. 'Back to God' is a phrase which finds an equivalent in many other well known conditions. For instance: a man spends a stated time in some foreign mission field. When he is released and returns to the United States, he may say, 'It is wonderful to be back home'; yet his home may be somewhere in Utah or Idaho or some other part of the West."

Answers to Gospel Questions, comp. Joseph Field Smith Hr, 5 vols [1957-66], 2:85
Institute Book of Mormon Student Manual p 242

Who is in spirit paradise

D&C 138:12-16 Who would this include?

"All spirits of men after death return to the spirit world. There, as I understand it, the righteous-meaning those who have been baptized and who have been faithful-are gathered in one part and all the others in another part of the spirit world."

-Joseph Field Smith, DS Volume 2: 230

influence of Satan in spirit world

"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."

-Brigham Young, Teachings of the Presidents of the Church Brigham Young, p 279

You won't all off the path after this life

"We don't need to get a complex or get a feeling that you have to be perfect to be saved. You don't. There's only been one perfect person, and that's the Lord Jesus, but in order to be saved in the Kingdom of God and in order to pass the test of mortality, what you have to do is get on the straight and narrow path-thus charting a course leading to eternal life-and then, being on that path, pass out of this life in full fellowship. I'm not saying that you don' have to keep the commandments. I'm saying you don't have to be perfect to be saved. If you did, no one would be saved. The way it operates is this; You get on the path that's named the 'straight and narrow.' You do it by entering at the gate of repentance and baptism. The straight and narrow path leads from the gate of repentance and baptism, a very great distance, to a reward that is called eternal life, If you're on that path and pressing forward, and you die, you'll never get off the path. There is no such thing as falling off the straight and narrow path in the life to come... If you're on that path when death comes--because this is the time and the day appointed, this is the probationary estate--you'll never fall from it, and, for all practical purposes, your calling and election is made sure."

Bruce R McConkie - Address given to University of Utah, January 10, 1982, Quoted in Joseph Fielding McConkie, Here We Stand, p 175

Spirit World - prison vs hell

"In the spirit prison are the spirits of those who have not yet received the gospel of Jesus Christ. These spirits have agency and may be enticed by both good and evil. If they accept the gospel and the ordinances performed for them in the temples, they may leave the spirit prison and dwell in paradise. Also in the spirit prison are those who rejected the gospel after it was preached to them either on earth or in the spirit prison. These spirits suffer in a condition known as hell."

Gospel Principles Manual

Spirit World - men preach to those in prison

"I do not believe the Methodist doctrine of sending honest men and noble-minded men to hell, along with the murderer and the adulterer... But I have an order of things to save the poor fellows at any rate, and get them saved; for I will send men to preach to them in prison and save them if I can."

-Joseph Smith, Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 366

Sins forgiven in world to come

Alma 34:32-35; 40:14 vs. D&C 138:32-37

"For our Savior says... 'but the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost shall not be forgiven, neither in this world, nor in the world to come', evidently showing that there are sins which may be forgiven in the world to come."

Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p 219