Gaining Experience

“The primary purposes of our existence upon the earth are to obtain a body of flesh and bones, to gain experience that could come only through separation from our heavenly parents, and to see if we would keep the commandments.”

President Thomas S. Monson - October 2014 General Conference "Ponder the Path of Thy Feet"  https://www.lds.org/general-conference/2014/10/ponder-the-path-of-thy-feet?lang=eng