Fancy Bow Tie

Sister Jensen Parrish was serving in the Washington Vancouver Mission and her brother was in the South Dakota Rapid City Mission when their mom and dad and two younger brothers fell victims to carbon monoxide in their Pocatello home. In the year that has come and gone since she and her brother buried their family, Jensen has written about the experience. “I’ve come to better love, appreciate, and understand the Atonement of Jesus Christ,” she writes, “I know I’ll never fully understand it during this stage of Heavenly Father’s eternal plan, but I do have a firm testimony of it. I’ve come to realize the Atonement is not only given so that we can repent. The Atonement was an act of service out of love for us. The Atonement was given so that we can be with our earthly families and our heavenly family forever. And for that, I am eternally grateful.”