As we ponder the importance of learning by our own experience, we sense all the more that in our first estate we were told things now forgotten and we saw things with a wider perspective. We, at that point, had not had the personally validating experiences. Without these our determination to support divine standards would have lacked the full weight of personal verification. Thus Brigham Young explained: “It has also been decreed by the Almighty that spirits, upon taking bodies, shall forget all they had known previously, or they could not have a day of trial-could not have an opportunity for proving themselves in darkness and temptation, in unbelief and wickedness, to prove themselves worthy of eternal existence. – Neal A. Maxwell, “That Ye May Believe,” p.193