Again--there is but one mention of "faith alone" found in the Biblical text:

James 2:24---New American Standard Bible (NASB)
24 You see that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone.
I take it that you never read the rest of the post with any ability to comprehend. Faith does not save. Grace does not save. It is God alone that saves and that is only because of his at***ude of grace that he has for man. There is no way that a human can ever be worthy of salvation that is why it is by God’s grace that he saves anyone.

In your form of salvation, after all that you can do, how do you know that you have done all that you can do? You’re working for salvation is at best, a turkey shoot. You will never know if you are saved let alone having reached exaltation. There seems to be a difference according to LDS web sites.

You are taking James 2:24 out of context. Are the unsaved ever justified? No! Justification is after salvation.

What is exaltation? (https://www.lds.org/manual/gospel-pr...ation?lang=eng)
Exaltation is eternal life, the kind of life God lives. He lives in great glory. He is perfect. He possesses all knowledge and all wisdom. He is the Father of spirit children. He is a creator. We can become like our Heavenly Father. This is exaltation.

Salvation (https://www.lds.org/scriptures/gs/salvation)
To be saved from both physical and spiritual death. All people will be saved from physical death by the grace of God, through the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Each individual can also be saved from spiritual death as well by the grace of God, through faith in Jesus Christ. This faith is manifested in a life of obedience to the laws and ordinances of the gospel and service to Christ.