Prompt:

Imagine that you live in Africa and have been captured by a slave trader and are being shipped across the Atlantic.  Write a 500 to 750 word personal narrative on recording what your thoughts and experiences might be along your journey.

Response:

While working in the fields... Read More

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I wasn't yet four. The air was chilly outside. I slept soundly with my lamp on in what I called my clown suit pjs. Mom woke me up suddenly. I had no time for questions of what was going on. Mom wrapped me up in an afghan she crochet herself, and carried me toward the front door of what was going to soon be my step father's trailer. We stopped suddenly and Mom gasped. My step father, Mike had a gun pointed at us. Mike made us go into his bedroom and get in his bed. He placed the gun on the nig... Read More

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     It was nine years ago today from that horrible night that got me taken away from my family. It was my forever ticket to freedom and my feeling of abandonment.

     My best friend in the world got her first car and she wanted to take me out in it. We asked my step father if it was okay and he said yes and off we went. We went to the Cracker Barrel and had dinner and looked around the country store and she bought me a note pad with my last... Read More

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We left off with an agnostic Bushman accepting a mission call to New England. Not being sure of his motivations he "went" without knowing beforehand if he was a believer.

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The origins for this series can be found in "My Belief, Reprinted from BYU Studies 25:2 (1985)". It was originally an essay that appeared in "A Thoughtful Faith: Essays on Belief by Mormon Scholars, ed. Philip L. Barlow (Salt Lake City: Canon Press, 1986)."

I know ignorance of the law does not exc... Read More

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