Moving To Texas Narrative Report

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MOVING FROM STATE TO STATE TO STATE (only 3 times but 4 different houses) (this is also partially my life story)

I was born in Salt Lake City, UT. I had to stay in the hospital for about 2 weeks because I had minor bleeding in my brain & a small hole in my lung. We then lived in a duplex, and my dad was a youth pastor at Mountain Side Baptist Church in Sandy. Then I think when I was a little over 1 year old, my dad became the pastor of our church, so we got to live in a parsonage for free as part of my dad’s salary. So we lived there for about 8 years. Then my grandma got sick down in Texas, and my mom’s old youth pastor was looking for help and an associate pastor. So we prayed and asked God what we should do, and we thought that He said that we should move to Texas. So when school was about to be out for Christmas, we started packing up to move. Then about a
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Then once we got to Texas, we unpacked and set up everything, even though it was like 12:00 am. We lived in that house for about 2 ½ years, then the person who owned our house wanted to move back in from Louisiana. So we had to find another house. We found another house, but we only lived in there for about 8 months. Then my dad got a job offer for pastor of a church in Greenbrier, Arkansas! When I thought of Greenbrier in my head, I thought it would be a big city with a Taco Bell in its own building. Once we came here, I saw that the Taco Bell was in a gas station, and that the public library was so tiny. My dad preached for one service, then once it was over, the church voted and it was 100%! So then we went to Whole Hog Cafe, and we found about the vote, so we went back home to Texas, and we decided that we would move to Arkansas. We started making plans to move, so then mid-October, we moved to Arkansas, and I got shotgun in the moving truck. Once we got here, a lot of people from the

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