Mormon (or LDS Church) beliefs with references. What do prophets and teachers in the LDS Church teach?

1. What Mormons Believe
http://cesletter.com -- a good summary of LDS teachings
1. The Garden of Eden was in Missouri, near modern-day Kansas City. (Journal History of The Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter-day Saints, 15 Mar. 1857, 1)
2. God lives near a planet or star named Kolob in outer space. (Abraham 3:3)
3. Underwear that Mormons get after visiting a LDS temple purportedly give special protection to those who
wear it. (https://www.lds.org/ensign/1997/08/the-temple-garment-an-outward-expression-of-an-inward-commitment?
lang=eng)
4. If you don't give 10% of your income to the church, you cannot get a temple recommend (an admission card
that's required to get into the temple). If you cannot get into the temple, you cannot return to God in the
afterlife. Therefore, people cannot return to God in the afterlife if they do not give 10% of their income to the
church. (https://www.lds.org/liahona/1986/12/the-divine-law-of-tithing?lang=eng)
5. Joseph Smith, a 19th-century Mormon prophet, was guided by an angel to a set of gold plates buried in a hill
in New York. He translated the ancient writings on these plates with unique techniques, such as staring at a
rock inside a hat. A few of his close associates in the church say that they saw or held the plates, but no one
else saw or touched them. After the plates were translated, Joseph Smith said, an angel took them away from
the earth, which is why no one can see them now. (Joseph Smith—History in the Pearl of Great Price.)
6. The holy ghost commanded a Mormon prophet to decapitate someone so that an ancient book could be
taken and made available to God's chosen people. (1 Nephi 4:1-21)
7. There was no death before Adam (2 Nephi 2:22; Moses 6:38). Therefore, the type of evolution that's
described in biology classes is impossible.
8. If God's most esteemed son, Jesus, had not been tortured and crucified, God would not have forgiven his
billions of imperfect children (2 Nephi 9:26; Alma 34:9).
More Mormon beliefs are described in the Articles of Faith in the LDS Pearl of Great Price.
http://manyitems.tripod.com/blog/ -- Mormon pictures and notes