Beginnings: The First Mortal Family

Adam and Eve, our progenitors and the two choosen to get the ball rolling on Heavenly Fathers plan.  Many of us have heard the story of our first parents (Genesis 2-3; Moses 2:26-31,3-4) how they were placed in the garden and after partaking (eating) of the fruit they were cast out.  This was vitally important; as we learn from the scriptures that life could not go on without a fall.
2 Nephi 2
22And now, behold, if Adam had not transgressed he would not have fallen, but he would have remained in the garden of Eden. And all things which were created must have remained in the same state in which they were after they were created; and they must have remained forever, and had no end.

 23And they would have had no ^achildren wherefore they would have remained in a state of innocence, having no ^bjoy for they knew no misery; doing no good, for they knew no ^csin.

(For more on the subject Genesis 3:16(1-21); Moses 5:11).

And so Adam and Eve began the all too familiar pattern of families: a father and a mother that help bring children into the world, and raise them to adulthood, being taught proper morals and truths.

(Raising the first family: Moses 5:1-3,12; 6:5-6)

 "When Eve was given to Adam, the union was an eternal one. There was no death in the world, for the fall of man came later. When the seeds of death were sown and man was  banished from the presence of the Lord because of his transgression, the union previously formed was not severed." (Doctrines of Salvation Vol. 2, pg. 69; Joseph Fielding Smith).