“If at death we enter the spirit world, not God’s actual presence, how are we to understand Alma’s words? President Joseph Fielding Smith … explained that Alma did not necessarily mean that we are brought back into God’s presence: ‘These words of Alma [40:11] as I understand them, do not intend to convey the thought that all spirits go back into the presence of God for an assignment to a place of peace or a place of punishment and before him receive their individual sentence. ‘Taken home to God’ [compare Ecclesiastes 12:7] simply means that their mortal existence has come to an end, and they have returned to the world of spirits” (Book of Mormon Student Manual, [2009], 242).