The girl standing inside his Knoxville food cooperative on Wednesday looked familiar. She must have been about 4 years old, he thought, like Elise had been. And she looked happy, like Elise always used to.
In recent months, Einwechter's mind had no longer been flooded with thoughts of his daughter. In a way, it was nice. The pain was gone - most of the time, at least.
But here was this girl in the food co-op, triggering thoughts of Elise. And here were those old images of her - playing house, pretending to work the family farm, asking her grandfather about his recent sermon.
And then Einwechter was back in Knoxville, in his car, running errands for the co-op. Once again, it was Wednesday: The two-year anniversary of Elise's death. And her brother Enoch's. He had been 5 1/2 weeks old.
"You start to forget some of the intimate details and memories about what they were like," Einwechter said. "You don't think about them as much. But a good thing about the anniversary is that they seem real again. It's painful. But it's good to feel them again."
Elise and Enoch died on Feb. 24, 2014, the day Einwechter and his wife, Monique, moved from Pennsylvania to her parents' home in Bledsoe County. Monique's Ford Expedition tipped into a pond on her family's property and sank in the 8-foot-deep water. Monique and two of her four children were rescued.
She and Jonathan say their faith in God and support from the community helped them recover from their children's deaths as best they could. That's why the Einwechters released a documentary about themselves last month.
In "Through Deep Waters," the family explains in-depth what happened that night. They also share how their Christian faith gave them strength to rally through the toughest challenge of their lives.
Jonathan Einwechter said his family received more than 400 letters from across the country as people heard about Elise's and Enoch's deaths. Most of them came from strangers. Jonathan felt people would like a clear explanation of what happened that night, and how the family has recovered since.
"We just needed to tell what God and others did for us," he said, explaining how strangers brought them food, clothes and donations. "We didn't want to be silent."
On that night, after the family spent the day painting a new apartment on Monique's parents' property, the Einwechters loaded up their vehicles to travel to a neighbor's house where they planned to sleep. Jonathan was in front, in a Ford Excursion. Monique and the children were behind him in the Expedition.
It was cold. The family's driveway was dark. It wound around the pond. Monique, unable to see far in front, focused on the taillights from Jonathan's Excursion.
"That," she said in the documentary, "was the big mistake."
Because he was far in front of her, Jonathan had already driven around the pond. But Monique didn't realize that. She just focused on his taillights, driving straight toward them.
The Expedition's tires dipped down a rocky hill. The steering wheel jerked away from Monique's hands. The car rolled, then splashed on its side into the pond. It began to sink. Monique heard her children behind her.
"They just kept screaming," she said. "I finally just laid into the horn and kept begging the Lord to bring someone. And it just seemed like we were sitting there."
The rest of the family rushed to the pond. Jonathan jumped in the water, which was just barely above freezing. He banged on Monique's door. He yanked the handle. The door wouldn't open. His brother-in-law handed him a rock, and he smashed Monique's window.
Monique reached behind her, grabbed her son Titus. She handed the boy to Jonathan, who carried him to land.
Monique's brother-in-law jumped in the water and opened the back hatch of the Excursion. He reached inside and grabbed the nearest child, John David.
But with the hatch open and the window smashed, water flooded the vehicle. Monique thought she was going to die.
She lost consciousness, but woke minutes later on the bank of the pond where her father and brother-in-law placed her after pulling her from the vehicle. They couldn't get to the two remaining children, though.
In the documentary, the family alludes to the book of Job, a story in the Bible about a man who goes through tragedy as God allows the Devil to test him. The Einwechters see their experience in the same light. They believe God took their children for a reason, and they believe they can't question God. They say this experience has fortified them.
"This trial has been carefully designed for God's glory," Monique said in the documentary.
Summing up their purpose, Jonathan added, "I wanted to encourage people to enjoy their children while they had them."
The family began shooting 15 hours of interviews for "Through Deep Waters" in June 2014, four months after Elise and Enoch died. They wanted to tell the story while they still remembered the key details.
Jonathan and some family friends didn't start editing the footage until September 2015, though. In part, this was a scheduling issue: The friends were busy with other projects. But Jonathan said he also needed some time away from the story. For months, he didn't want to hear the details about the worst day of his life.
They finished the documentary this year and have made it available for purchase on throughdeepwaters.com. Though the Einwechters suggest a price, Jonathan said people may buy the video for less if they want.
They screened the video for a small crowd at Lee Station Baptist Church in Pikeville on a recent Sunday and answered questions afterward. Jonathan said the reception has been positive, and the family is in talks to do a similar screening at another church. He is open to making more appearances.
"But it's not something we want to do a lot of," he said. "In a lot of ways, we just want to get our DVD out there and let it speak for itself. It's hard for us, watching it."
In part, the family made the documentary because they can't escape what happened. But they also don't want to wallow in it.
Last summer, Monique gave birth to Elliott Daniel, the family's fifth child.
Contact staff writer Tyler Jett at tjett@timesfreepress.com or at 423-757-6476.