"'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
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