MJB acknowledges the role of Heavenly Mother.
Melvin J. Ballard, “The Pre-existence of Man,” Liahona: The Elders’ Journal 24, no. 1 (29 June 1926): 6
The Lord in a revelation to the modern prophet Joseph Smith stated that our spirit always existed, that in the eternal worlds through a Divine Father and Mother we were given a spiritual body through the eternal laws of procreation, and that we existed for ages as rational, thinking, spiritual beings.