Forgiveness Video

This video showed the story of a young man, Eric Smallridge, who was arrested and sentenced to 22 years in prison after driving under the influence and crashing into a car that held two, 20 year old girls, and killing them instantly. Both the family and Eric believed that justice had been served at the trial and it was enough time to make him reflect on what he's done as a result for his bad choices. After a while the mother of Megan, Renee, wrote a letter to Eric, who was still in prison and in her handwriting was a forgiveness letter. She sent it to Eric to finally relieve the pressure of having to hate the killer of his daughter and asked the judge to reduce his sentence by nearly half of what it was. Eric too, felt relieved that he would no longer carry the burden of being hated by the family. This story showed the power of forgiveness and how it can resolve a lot of your inside battles. Eric and Renee now give conferences at high schools to show the danger or drunk driving.

Western Oregon vs.Central Washington Softball

            This story began with a girl names Sara up at plate and she hit the ball outside of the field. She was ecstatic because this was her last chance, as a senior or ever, to get a home run. She had never made one before so she was looking forward to it. as she was running she tripped on the second base and severely hit her knee, causing damage and not allowing her to walk, let alone run, anymore. That moment, she had to crawl back to first base and her team mates were not allowed to touch her or help her in any way or else they would be out. This moment is when two players from the opposing team showed their great character and went up to Sara and asked if they could help her. The Umpire allowed it and so Mallory and Liz both carried Sara up and through all the bases, lowering her so her foot touches the bases and all the way to complete a home run. The people in the stadium were happy and crying at their brave move to help the opposing team. Sara's knee injury would no longer allow her to play Softball but she at least got her home run thanks to Central Washington's team work. I think this event really showed the good that can come out of things if people just gave up the enemy lines and worked with each other so everyone can have a chance at greatness. Mallory and Liz are definitely great characters up to all good and they were great examples to everyone that day.