And now, behold, if Adam has 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 win which they were after they were created; and they must have remained forever, and had no end.Adam and Eve were in the presence of God while in the Garden of Eden. They were able to converse with him and learn from him.
2 Nephi 2:22
And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew. For I, the Lord God, created all things, of which I have spoken, spiritually, before they were naturally upon the face of the earth. For I, the Lord God, had not aused it to rain upon the face of the earth. And I, the Lord God, had created all the children of men; and no yet a man to till the ground; for in heaven created I them; and there was not yet flesh upon the earth, neither in the water, neither in the air; But I, the Lord God, speak, and there went up a mist from the earth, and watered the whole face of the ground. And I, the Lor God, formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul, the first flesh upon the earth, the first man also; nevertheless, all things were before created; but spiritually they were created and made according to my word. And I, the Lord God, planted a garden eastward in Eden, and there Iput the man whom I had formed.
Moses 3:5-8
Adam had a spritual body until mortality came upon him through the violation of the law under which he was living, but he also had a physical body of flesh and bones.
. . . Now what is a spiritual body? It is one that quickened by spirit and not by blood.
. . . When Adam was in the Garden of Eden, he was not subject to death. There was no blood in his body and he could have remained there forever. This is true of all the other creations.
Jospeh Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, 1:76-77
And they heard the voice of the Lord God, as they were walking in the garden, in the cool of the day; and Adam and his wife went to hide themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden.
Moses 4:14
Adam and Eve would have had no children had they continue to live in the Garden of Eden. They were in a state of innocence, meaning that they didn't understand about good and evil because they had no way to know of such things. They were neither happy nor sad, just innocent. This does not mean that original sin was sexual relations, which is something other Christian sects sometimes hold, but that without the fall the spiritual bodies of Adam and Eve would not have been capable of bearing children.
And they would have had no children; where fore they would have remained in a state of innocence, having no joy, for they knew no misery; doing no good, for they knew no sin.
2 Nephi 2:23
And Eve, his wife, heard all these things and was glad, saying: Were it not for our transgression we never should have had seed, and never should have known good and evil, and they joy of our redemptin, and the eternal life which God giveth unto all the obedient.
Moses 5:11
He [Adam] had knowledge, of course. He could speak. He could converse. There were many things he could be taught and was taught; but under the condition in which he was living at that time it was impossible for him to visualize or understand the power of good and evil. He did not know what pain was. He did not know what sorrow was; and a thousand other things that have come to us in this life that Adam did not know in the Garden of Eden and could not understand and would not have known had he remained there.
Jospeh Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, 1:107-8
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