This week, I had the opportunity to interview a man with an incredible story. Marshall Henrie was only 10 years old when his older brother James died in a terrible accident while hiking in the twins peaks mountains with his friend. The Sheriff called the family, informing them of a distress signal received by Eric, the family was instructed to wait at the entrance to the mountains.
"The first news, we knew something was pretty bad,
was when Eric, my brother's friend came down, was life-flighted to the hospital."
After that, Marshall remembers waiting quite a while longer, more family members arrived at the base of the mountain. They were all talking, just shooting the breeze when the sheriff came back and spoke to his father. "I'm sorry, but there are no signs of life in your son." the sheriff said.
Eric had slipped and fallen nearly 200 feet and had survived by landing in a ravine, which broke his fall. James while attempting to get down to Eric to help, slipped and fell himself, falling over 400 feet in a straight drop, to his death.
There weren't many times in his life that Marshall had seen his father cry, this was one exception.
Marshall distinctly remembered his brother, Tanner, saying "We need to do whatever it takes to get back [to the Celestial Kingdom] so we can see our brother again."
The words stuck with Marshall, shaping him into becoming the man he is today. It was a short time later, that his family would go to the ochre mountain temple to be sealed to the newest addition to their family, a young adopted daughter from china, who was only 1 year old when her brother James fell to his death.
"knowing that families are eternal, when you see it with your own eyes, it has a much more lasting impact."
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