Barely able to reach the bathroom sink, 7-year-old Janice Underwood stood tiptoe over a soapy basin of torn envelope corners.
"Jeralee taught me how," Janice said as she peeled stamps from the corners. "Jeralee has a stamp collection and now I do, too."Janice stripped the stamps she will add to the collection from hundreds of sympathy cards her family received after the brutal slaying of her 11-year-old sister.
Although her sister's absence is painfully obvious in this simple routine, Janice believes Jeralee is not far away.
About two weeks ago, Janice told her mother about a "vision" she had of her dead sister.
"Janice said she'd seen Jeralee singing at church and she was happy," Joyce Underwood said. "She said she wasn't dreaming because she was awake."
Deeply rooted Mormon beliefs hold the young family together in the wake of tragedy. With the help of their parents, three sisters - Jennifer, Janice and Jessica - and two brothers - Jamen and Justin - go on with their lives.
But reminders constantly crop up.
Five-year-old Jessica says she's afraid to sleep alone in the bedroom she shared with Jeralee.
"Jessica has a room of her own now," said Janice, who shares a bedroom with 9-year-old Jennifer. "So, she sometimes asks me to sleep with her."
Also, each time the Underwoods drive to church, they pass the corner where Jeralee was last seen alive.
More than a month ago, Jeralee was collecting money for her Idaho State Journal newspaper route at Carter and Main streets in Pocatello, where she was abducted.
James Edward Wood was arrested July 6. He confessed to killing the girl and led police to her body in Idaho Falls.
Jeff and Joyce Underwood refuse to relive the gruesome details of their daughter's death, choosing to remember her vibrancy in life.
"I just always remember her bubbly personality and excitement and her smile," Jeff said.
As a straight-A fifth grader, Jeralee was elected student council vice president at Indian Hills Elementary School.
"She probably would've run for president next year," Joyce said.
Only days before her death, Jeralee attended a family reunion in Boise and met relatives she didn't even know she had.
Jeralee never let her own problems prevent her from helping others, her mother said.
"The times Jeralee was hurt, she would go to the people who weren't too popular and try to make them feel more important," Joyce said.
For Jamen, 12, it's still difficult to talk about Jeralee.
"But it's getting easier." he said. "Just knowing she's in heaven and that I'll be with her again."
At the Underwood home, tragedy does not breed bitterness.
"There's no way to change it," Jeff said. "Even if I had a chance to change it, I wouldn't because of the closeness it's brought to the community."
More than two thousand gathered at two local LDS stake centers mourned with the Underwoods at Jeralee's memorial service July 11.
Pink ribbons adorned cars, storefronts and lapels across Pocatello, signifying the community's shared grief.
Today, many residents still ask Joyce what they can do to help.
She had a simple response at a service on August 1.
"We wouldn't have been able to make it without the gospel," Joyce told the congregation. "I do feel like the doors have been opened to many. We need to find those open doors and go in and share the gospel."
Yet prayer cannot undo the crime that ripped their daughter from their lives.
"There's always going to be an empty hole that can't be filled," Jeff said. "But I can see people who hold anger and bitterness. It just destroys their lives. I don't have room or time for anger. It interferes with righteousness."
But some Pocatello residents are more concerned with revenge than righteousness.
David Haggard - who told police he believed James Wood was responsible for Jeralee's abduction - received threatening phone calls after his cousin's arrest.
Upon hearing this, Jeff phoned Haggard.
"We don't hold any anger toward him or his family," Jeff said. "We can't pick our relatives. I think he felt sorry that his cousin had done what he'd done."
Forgiveness comes easily if you have faith, Jeff said.
"Scriptures tell us we're to forgive everybody," he said. "I'm sorry he (Wood) had done what he'd done, and I don't even think about it."
The Underwoods said the depth of their daughter's religious convictions were truly apparent after her death.
"Even when this guy had abducted her, she wouldn't take his beer or nothing and talked about religion," he said.
"People really liked her," Joyce said, holding a snapshot of Jeralee juggling Frisbees on her head. "That's why we felt fairly safe with her on her paper route."
Jeralee and Jamen took on the paper route nearly a year ago.
But Jamen conceded that he never shared his sister's enthusiasm for collecting.
"She was outgoing and friendly," he said. "She liked to meet people."