Sy Snarr: What Makes Forgiveness Possible

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 4 October 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Sy Snarr’s son, Zachary Snarr, was a senior in high school when he was shot and killed by a complete stranger. After 17 years in prison, Jorge Benvenuto, the man who killed Zachary, wrote a letter to tell the Snarr family that he was sorry for taking their 18-year-old son and brother’s life. What happened next captivated listeners of KSL’s “The Letter” podcast and, on this week’s episode of “All In,” we explore the power of the Atonement of Jesus Christ that is woven throughout the Snarr family's remarkable example of forgiveness.

Show Notes

2:34- Before
3:57- Regret
7:15- The Bind of Bitterness
12:45- Who Hate Hurts
15:47- You Have To Want It
18:12- The Sacrament Talk That Changed Everything
20:38- Losing a Second Son
23:29- The Very Real Pain of Loss
25:51- Jorge
32:21- Since the Letter
36:34- Atonement For All
40:34- A Spiritual Experience
43:50- What Does It Mean To Be All in?

“My soul was tortured, it was broken with this anguish I carried…and the way you [forgive] is you fight back, you turn to God, you turn to the Savior, you pray a lot and let Them guide you.” —Sy Snarr

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0:00.0	Warning, the episode you're about to hear involves gun violence.
0:05.7	On August 28, 1996, a simple first date between high school senior Zachary Snar and his friend
0:12.9	Yvette Rodier took a horrifying turn.
0:16.0	As Zachary was showing his date, what he'd recently learned about how to photograph the
0:20.3	moon, a complete stranger began shooting at them in an act of senseless violence.
0:26.2	Zachary's life was tragically cut short while Yvette miraculously survived.
0:31.7	The story surrounding the events of that night was told in a podcast that was released
0:36.5	last year by KSL called The Letter.
0:39.6	I've never been a big true crime podcast girl, but as my husband and I listened, there
0:44.7	was something different about The Letter.
0:47.3	There is light, and I believe that light comes because at the end of the podcast first
0:52.1	episode, we hear Zachary Snar's mother on the phone with the man who killed her son.
0:58.0	At the end of that call, we hear her say, love you, George.
1:02.2	How could this be?
1:03.7	Can someone really love the person who killed their son?
1:07.7	When George Benvenuto sent a letter to Sysnar, he didn't expect forgiveness.
1:12.9	He didn't feel he deserved it, but he did want Zach's family to know that he was sorry.
1:18.3	But he didn't know is that Sysnar's heart had been prepared over the 22 years since
1:23.8	her son's passing, and when she received a letter from George who was still serving
1:28.6	a prison sentence two decades later, she was ready not only to forgive, but to love.
1:36.4	Sysnar is a proud mother and grandmother whose remarkable witness of the power of the
1:41.7	Atonement of Jesus Christ is shared in the KSL True Crime Podcast, The Letter.
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