“Your grief is our grief,” Governor Gretchen Whitmer said in a press conference today about the attack on Latter-day Saints worshipping in Michigan.

Yesterday morning, as I sat in my own ward building in Utah, I began to weep as I saw the news of the shooting and fire in my mother’s hometown — a place my grandparents, my aunts, uncles and cousins have loved for many years alongside their ward family.

I had been in this building with my mother and grandparents on many occasions. This was a place of love, refuge, peace and security, as we partook of the Sacrament of the Lord’s supper and prayed with ward members there.

Here in Utah, I was in my own ward on Sunday, with my own ward family, doing the same. Our hearts are connected.

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