“I believe that we, as fellow workers in the priesthood, might well take to heart the admonition of Alma and be content with that which God hath allotted us. We might well be assured that we had something to do with our ‘allotment’ in our pre-existent state. This would be an additional reason for us to accept our present condition and make the best of it. It is what we agreed to do… .
“… We had our own free agency in our pre-mortal existence, and whatever we are today is likely the result of that which we willed to be heretofore”
(in Conference Report, Oct. 1952, p. 71).