After quoting 3 Nephi 1:13 "Tomorrow come I into the world" First-Presidency Second Counselor J. Reuben Clark states (in a talk at BYU): "But it seems possible that the spirit may not be present in the embryo till at least shortly before birth, whether the birth be regular or premature."
[Source: On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com, based on Michael Quinn's Mormon Hierarchy vols 1 & 2]
The spirit or soul of every man and woman that has ever lived or will ever live, with the sole exceptions of Jesus Christ and Adam & Eve our first parents, was/is created in the womb at conception. Only Jesus Christ had a pre-mortal existence.
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