JL imagines parting with HM before coming to this life.
John Longden, “The Worth of Souls,” Relief Society Magazine 44 (August 1957): 492
It must be quite an occasion in heaven when our Heavenly Mother bids us a loving farewell for the time being! Perhaps, like earthly mothers, she thinks, "They are so young, and they might forget for a moment." Yet, our wonderful, all-wise Eternal Father has repeatedly given us rules and commandments by which we are privileged to live, for our souls are precious in his sight! The Master has told us, "This is my work and my glory to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man" (Moses 1:39).