“Never suppress a generous thought.” – Camilla Kimball

It’s been a hard week. Painful, overwhelming, terrifying — hard.

After church on Sunday, I learned that someone had driven a truck into a chapel in Michigan, shot four people to death and wounded eight others, then burned the chapel down. People who knew the killer said he hated people of my faith — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. That was hard to sit with.

The night before, the president of our church, Russell M. Nel...