Premortal Life: Selection of Family Members

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  We have no scriptural justification, however, for the belief that we had the privilege of choosing our parents and our life companions in the spirit world. This belief has been advocated by some, and it is possible that in some instances it is true, but it would require too great a stretch of the imagination to believe it to be so in all, or even in the majority of cases. Most likely we came where those in authority decided to send us. Our agency may not have been exercised to the extent of making choice of parents and posterity.

  Elder Joseph Fielding Smith

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  • Premortal Life: Selection of Family Members

  21 Oct 2026