Life has to be something better than what we can see around us. It must be a kind of utopia that’s just beyond that hill, or just a little bit after the horizon. Whatever the case, it has to be there. I don’t see any other way on how this would work. I think it’s up to us to make life better than it is. Does that make sense? I sure hope it does to someone who’s reading this. If it does then I’ve done something right. If it doesn’t? Well that’s another story for another time.
Agency was around since the beginning when we were in the pre-existance. A plan was introduced to all of God’s children where we made a decision. Satan didn’t want to follow the plan laid out, he wanted to save all of God’s children without giving them a choice. We had a decision to make. We could either follow Satan or our Savior Jesus Christ. We couldn’t choose both sides. We had to use the agency we had been given to make a choice. The plan that the Savior presented allowed us to have agency. Satan didn’t want us to have agency. And I, the Lord God, spake unto Moses, saying: That Satan, whom thou hast commanded in the name of mine Only Begotten, is the same which was from the beginning, and he came before me, saying— Behold, here am I, send me, I will be thy son, and I will redeem all mankind, that one soul shall not be lost, and surely I will do it; wherefore give me thine honor. But, behold, my Beloved Son, which was my Beloved and Chosen from the beginning, said unto me—...