Why did Our Heavenly Father place a VEIL OF FORGETFULNESS over our minds?

A veil of forgetfulness?  What is that; I’ve never seen one...

Well, it's kind of hard to imagine and hard to see it as an integral part of the Plan of Salvation that makes "agency" possible!  What?

How does the veil make agency possible?  Isn't it a negative thing?  I mean, who wants to forget things?  I don't...

Well... that is, I don’t want to forget things that are integral in my life that are integral in my efforts to follow God and His Christ.  Abraham 3:25 reminds us that Christ says, “And we will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them”.

Prove, me now...  Herewith to see if I won’t do all things that are asked of me (by Thee--Malachi 3:10 or 3 Nephi 24:10!

If there was no veil to help us forget the pre-Earth life, we would know that God the Father is our Father in Heaven and what that meant to us and means to us and what we will do with that knowledge, and we would not be able to either follow God’s plan, with near exactness (but be guilty of sin when we didn’t...), or we would be guilty of an outright sin when we strayed from Our Father’s will!

Without the veil, the only choices would be: Follow God’s Plan of Salvation or sin.  I suppose, agency would still be possible—we can always choose—but, there would be more sinning, and consequently, more suffering for Jesus Christ.  Who wants that?  I do not!

In Matthew 13:11-15, the Savior spoke about parables—11 He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.
12 For whosoever hath, to him shall be given, and he shall have more abundance: but whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that he hath.
13 Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. 14 And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
15 For this people’s heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.“

Christ Jesus obviously does not want to damn anyone but to give all of Heavenly Father’s children the most that he’s capable of giving...

I need to reword my initial question: “How does the veil make agency possible?”  Answer: I does not.  It simply makes man less accountable and makes the test possible!

Nah...  I need to think more about this!

President Dallin Harris Oaks said, in One of his October 2018 talks, “God created this Earth, where His beloved spirit children could be born into mortality, to receive a physical body and to have the opportunity for Eternal progress by making righteous choices.”  He continues, “To be meaningful, mortal choices had to be made betweeen contesting choices of good and evil.”

Elder Renlund says, in his 10/2018 talk, “Choose You This Day”, “personal choice was—and is—vital to this plan, which we learned about in our premortal existence. We accepted the plan and chose to come to earth.to ensure that we would exercise faith and learn to use our agency properly, a veil of forgetfulness was drawn over our minds—so we would not remember God’s Plan.  Without that veil, God’s purposes would not be achieved, because we could not progress and become the trusted inheritors he wants us to be [without it].”

JPS