I think that my formal narrative essay will be about when I broke my leg and that's because my life has now taken a 180 degree turn. #3

As I stated in the tittle of this blog, I think that the best event to write about for my formal narrative essay, is when I broke my leg 5 months before I left for an LDS Mission. Before my Mission, right out of High School, I had a Scholarship at the University of Utah to play football; at the offensive linemen position. I had committed to the University of Utah during the last few months of my Jr. year of high school, and I was really excited that this was going to be my future. My brother was at the University of Utah at the time: playing in the Quarter Back position. He really liked the University of Utah, at the time, and was very excited that I would be playing there.
I left for the Mission Field March 28th 2012, but months before, while I was working at Pier 49 Pizza in Springville Utah, I was invited by my coworkers to go to the newly open Lowe's Extreme Air Sports: which was an Olympic gym in Provo on 100 south. We went and had a great time doing flips, rolls, and many other fun stunts.
At about 5-10 Min before we were about to leave we decided to play a game called Gladiator, where someone would run through an obstacle course while others would hit them with foam pads trying to stop them from getting to the end of the course while staying on the runway. I was elected to be the first one to go and as was running through the course when I landed hard on my left leg and snapped both my Tibia and Fibula bones in half, just barely below half way down my calf: it was a compound fracture and had pierced the skin. I had surgery the next day and they had placed a Titanium Rod and two screws in my leg. My family and I are very dedicated to sports and the thought that I could not play sports, that I might lose my scholarship, or that I may not be very active at all devastated me.
My religious beliefs were the biggest support in this time of hardship,  My family and friends were also always there to help me whenever I needed them, but after I had served a full two year mission, which was very hard having had another surgery in the Missionary Training Center and not being able to excessive well nearly the entire time, I returned to find that my scholarship that I had had was taken away. Knowing that this was part of a higher plan was one of the best ways for me to cope with what had happened, and I have been able to see what should truly to my future my family. I have been able to see what can and will make me and others happy: even though it is not at times a sport or game that we play.
I have now learned from that experience that I can overcome obstacles. I am not playing football or basketball, at least on the collegiate level, but I am able to run, jump, swim and do all that I could before, and more, and I am very excited for what the future holds in store for me and my family. I was able to learn what truly was important to me and that playing football at that level wasn't something that I wanted. I know now that if someone like me, who has never considered themselves as a strong person, can overcome what had happened anyone can. I was someone whose whole life was dedicated to sports, and now I did not have that focus, but I know that my future is brighter then ever and that the trials will be worth the success that will be reached ahead.

How I Feel About Reading and Writing

I enjoyed this Chapter and have learned a lot from it. I do agree that critical readying is now trying to down play or to diminish someones ideas but to better understand them. To understand why they say what they do, what was their past, who taught them this and how they came to certain conclusions.
I also agree that a lot of things that are written are opinions of others. I know from on my mission, many people would tell me many things that they believe, and they would state it as facts; whether they be little or big. I would see that they have some truth in what they would say, but in the end their conclusion did not make sense with what I had known. It still didn't make sense with what I had continued to learn even trying to see it from their point of view.
My favorite point that I saw in this chapter was "Approach Your Reading with a Reflective and Questioning Attitude" I believe that we should question everything, if we question everything then we will eventually find the truth, whether it be about a book, a writer, their motives, our motives as well that will help with self improvement and there are many questions we could ask.
There were many things that I liked from this chapter, from making sure that the source is good and reliable to reading Photos, this is a great chapter.