SYG teaches the young women of the Church they preexisted with Heavenly Parents.
Susa Young Gates, "In the Realm of Girlhood. Lesson V." The Young Woman's Journal 17 no. 1 (January 1906):41
Being as we knew intelligent personalities dwelling in the presence and under the watch care and careful training of our Heavenly Parents before we tabernacled in the flesh, there can be no doubt but that the seeds of many lofty and holy aspirations were implanted within our souls.