The first thing I am going to say is that I imagine this next place called the afterlife that we are going to will be very close to heaven. This place is before we get our bodies back in the resurrection. Well, you probably want to know how we get there to the afterlife. This is how I picture it:
Well before we go we all gather round and we all get turned into what we want to be. And what I want to be is a swan and very graceful like a ballerina and they can fly. But we all know that we will be our purest version of ourselves and there is nothing better in this world than a little girl, so I will probably be that. But I am hoping for a swan.
So then we would spin spin spin and fly fly fly into the next world afterlife. This world would be very close and heaven would be very close, we would be able to visit both of them with no problem and we would always visit heaven anytime that we wanted to play chess and checkers and hide and go seek and freeze tag. Heaven would not be our permanent home though. No body=no living in heaven, just visiting. Heaven would also be the place that we paint and explore. Heaven would be so filled with places to explore that I like to imagine what it looks like.
But back to the afterflife. You will always live with your family. So Myri will be the doll next to my swan stream where I live in and mom will be there as the tree feeding off of my lake. If I make a guess Dad would probably be a blue bird living in mom's tree and he would take mom's tree on rides around the universe on dates. Because mom being a big tree and him being a small bird won't matter. No gravity in the afterlife.
Gaebriel will be a bassilica and his bassilica will protect our forest. It will be called the Lillokomete Forest and the YM (pronounced Emmy) Lake, the Fairlighting Tree, and the Blue Burning Bird (like the phoenix, symbol of the resurrection that's about to happen) and the Doll of Myribeauty and the Brother Basillica.
But we would also need to explore all over the afterlife, because we have not spent a lot of time imagining it and so it needs to be built up from our imaginations and become more and more exciting for people to explore so they aren't sad while they wait to get their perfect bodies back.
I think the way that the timing works is after you grow old you start over again and after you do this for 2 times in the afterlife celebrating with your family and exploring it then you have a year of visiting friends in heaven. Then you have another 2 years of being whatever you want to be wherever you want to be (maybe back on the earth helping your great great grandchildren out or something like that).
For our year that was all together it would be one big celebration and even excitinger things than we do here.
Then in the year of visiting we would all go and visit together and we would wear robes of bright colors and our veils of valence streaming from our hair as we flew and we would first visit all of our friends and cousins and stuff and then all together we would go and visit Heavenly Father. To get to the holiest place we would have to turn into our shape-shifting shapes and everything would have to climb into the mommy tree and then the tree would be plucked up to the highest heaven.
Heaven:
The wonderful thing is that we will be living outside because we will be able to feel the cold and hot but not discomfort with those perfected bodies and so we could go to the Redwood and Sequoia forest all of the time and not almost have our feet fall off from freezing because a surprise storm comes in the middle of the night while we are in a tent!
I want to know if heaven is one room. If it is I want to explore all of that room. If it is one planet then I want to explore all of that planet. I think it will be filled with clouds and I would love a bed made out of clouds. I think that we can sleep if we want to because maybe we want to end something and start over again in a morning. Then you can sleep. But our bodies will maybe not need to sleep. But maybe we will be so excited about going to explore something as when we were about to go and explore the Harry Potter Studios! And we wanted to stay up all night but our bodies couldn't. In heaven you can stay up all night if you are very excited like the night before you go on the wildest waterslide on heaven!
I wonder what the meals will be. I'm hoping that some of them will be spaghetti or mashed potatoes or cake or Reeses Pieces and popcorn and chicken noodle soup and chickpeas and spinach. But what if we don't eat? Then I'd probably see how it is to put clouds in your mouth. Do you think that they taste like popcorn or cotton candy. The first time I saw someone eating cotton candy I thought that they were eating cloth, but it is very good.
I picture heaven with lots of clouds and so it is going to snow and rain alot. We will get the snow first and then the rain and then sun. Most people say that heaven is up high in the sky and that is why I see it with clouds, but maybe it is down in the ground. If it was there it would be tunnelly and lots of dirt and worms but does heaven have to be pretty? Well, I don't think it does. Jesus was no handsome guy and the best people that I know aren't really the prettiest. But, if heaven did have to be pretty I think that the roots of trees would be tubes that you could get sucked into like a straw and then you could see the inside of the trees and it would be more beautiful than I can tell you.
What is different about heaven from here? In heaven I think people won't be making things melt and there will be cool instruments that we haven't discovered how to make. There will be places in heaven where you dance and dance and dance and I think the music you can hear is African and then the birds will carry cinnamon on their backs and then let it out and so it smelled like cinnamon and then we would eat lots and lots of dates and coconuts. I just think that African music is different from what I am used to and I think that heaven will be very different from what I am used to in good ways.
When it did snow or rain you would have hot chocolate. Everyone there would carry a candle and they would carry it around. They would carry it to the temple of light and they would go in and go to the highest tower and put their candle on one of the little places where you put a candle and it would burn for 8 days like for Hanukkah and then you would go up and bring your candles down and put them in a special place and wait until the next year.
Let me repeat that we would play a lot in heaven. We would play and laugh and sing songs while we were doing it. When a new person came to heaven everyone would come and give them presents. It would be roses that live forever and drawings of ears, eyes, noses, and mouths. You also get plants like tiny bonsai trees and they give you quilts because you don't get cold, but the quilts are very special. They protect you and make you feel love.
You also get pillows covered in the patterns of your family tree. And everyone in heaven has their name written on that pillow. But that isn't really difficult because there is a magic in the heavens that allows millions of billions of names to fit on a pillow.
In heaven everyone has gardens because everyone wants to create things. You have everything that you need there. For holidays you give a quilt or something from your garden or you could carve a fine fairy house out of fallen trees if your sister loves fairies. But don't go chopping down trees in heaven! Sometimes in heaven trees just prune themselves and so there is something to chop on. There is nothing that you need that you don't have and the more you give to others the more you receive. Some things are the same here and there.