Blog 54 - Stories

Last summer, my friends and I were going to go fishing.  So in order to go fishing, we needed bait and we were going to look for minnows in a creek that ran behind my friend’s house.  It was an interesting experience because we did not really have the right equipment and we were trying to catch them in a net.  But as we went along the creek, there was a muddy area and I decided to go out in this area to look for them.  Unfortunately I got stuck in the mud and I couldn’t get out.  My friends had to go back and get a shovel so I could use it and dig myself out.

Last summer I went with one of my best friends on a mission trip to Minnesota.  Even though I had never been to his church before and I was not really that religious, they let me go along with them.  At Red Lake, Minnesota, we spent time with some of the kids at a camp and we also did work for people around the town.  After this trip, I became friends with some people who were also there from Wisconsin.  My friends and I have taken a trip back to Wisconsin to see them again and it ended up being a good experience.

During my junior year of high school I was playing baseball during the fall.  It was only a fall league and it wasn’t really competitive or anything.  But during one of the games, we were just throwing the ball around after a strikeout and a kid through it towards me.  Unfortunately I missed the ball and it hit me in the face.  I had a bloody nose and was forced to take an ambulance to the hospital.  After they took a cat scan of my head, the doctors told me I broke 4 bones in my face, including my sinus.  Luckily I didn’t need surgery, but the next few weeks were an interesting time.