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Are you saying we did not have spirit bodies, but did have physical bodies to house our intelligences during our first estate? (Confused as this is a brand new idea to me, not challenging) I think we progressed from intelligences with spirit bodies that were contained in each creative period's creation (light, rocks, ocean, plants, animals).

I think we grow in our first estate as intelligences within the material that was created during the creative period (light,, rocks, ocean, land, plants, animals). Not sure why else we'd be taught about the order of Creation as often as we are. Not sure what other form we may have taken other than being parts of moons, planets, stars, the sun, etc.

Looking for your speculation, educated guesses, etc. as I understand we don't currently know. When loved ones die, I imagine their grandparents, great aunts, great uncles, spouses, etc. are there to welcome them into the spirit world. How do they know when the home-going party will be? How do they know when to welcome the living into the spirit world? They must be told, I suppose, by those who know the upcoming time of death, no? Otherwise how would they leave their missionary work to be at a home-going party? Who would know the time: God who would tell Jesus who would tell the Quorum of the Twelve, who would tell the General Authorities, who'd tell the Area Authorities, who'd tell the mission presidencies and stake presidencies who'd tell the ward and branch leaders who'd tell the...?...home-teachers, visiting sisters, ministering brothers, ministering sisters, or tell the grandparents, great aunts, great uncles, spouses, etc. directly? Or do the grandparents, great aunts, great uncles, spouses, etc. simply know when their loved ones will pass away because they are often near us, or often visit us?

also, how long do they serve?