Joel Engelsma

 Norman Grubb was with his platoon it was zero hours. In world war one they were going over the top as they had named it. To go he ordered they went over the top and machine-gun bullets let loose like lead r, ain he watched almost every single one of his friends he knew where shotgunned down he and another private took cover in a bomb hole then the private slumped down shot dead then norman heard a thump and a stinging pain down in his leg he looked down to see blood welling down there he got his gun as a crutch and hobbled away as his friends saw him they yelled lucky for norman he has got a blimey. Meaning he most likely has a wound that took him out of the battle but won't kill him.

For school today i did the exact same thing we normally did just today was after thanksgiving break and evryvody seemed like slow from all ther turkey they ate like evrybody in gym class just walked around me and my freind hid in some pine trees and they left like evrybody just left and we just sat theire and we didnt know about it it was kinda funny. For math class we have to get a calculator in science class we started a space book it looks pretyy fun and out operation christmas child box whent out that was cool.

 Tomorrow is thanksgiving day and today is like a preparatory for thanksgiving my da has to preach a sermon at our church then on actual thanksgiving we have to go to the burning bush church and dad is preaching there.  tonight will be like the last time my dad preaches at our old church after that it's just the burning bush church and the Kalamazoo church then soo it will just be the Kalamazoo church. Tomorrow it's going to be thanksgiving day and we're going to have lots of fun. We4 are going to go to church then we are going to have like some close relations over for lunch or dinner I don't know which one.

 I had my cousin overnight on Friday he came home with us after the engelsma get together and then we stayed up for while then went to bed the next day we had to do tons of leaves we did like like our whole from yard then me and my cousin had to go over to my grandpas and do leaves their but our uncle was there and he brought his backpack blower and we did it really quickly it was pretty fun then we went back to outhouse and played basketball and had a lot of fun played some basketball at stuff.

 today we had some people from the burning bush church come over I just sat up in my room writing a book then I found a book and started reading it it was kinda boring and I was just being lazy I guess tonight we re going to go to this place and have the engelsma get together of twenty twenty-one its going to be super fun because like a bunch of my friends is coming to then my best friend that is my cousin is coming to stay the night at my house then we will probably have to d leaves tomorrow.

 The Engelsma Christmas get-together is this a bunch of engelsma and other relatives come to the high school gym and lay around and have fun and then there is this presents thing where everybody gets something for the younger kids. I m too old to do it last year or two years ago was my last year we couldn't have it last year because of covid but now we are going to do it tomorrow night and it's going to be really fun because my cousin is going to stay overnight there at our house and we are going t blow leaves.

 For two nights I got to go to my friend's house I just stayed like an extra night, I don't know why but it was fun and we helped them two because one of the days we were there we went to one o the flip houses they were flipping to sell they are actually renting that one. So we did some pretty normal stuff taking stuff out into their trailer that they are going to take to the dump there was so much stuff we swept and taped up for painting ad I earned some cash while I was at it. 

 The house was removed into is this really cool-looking house with these two massive rooms I think we are going to use one of them as a playroom and the other like a living room and ur dining room is going to have carpet with isn't really nice because you cant spill stuff nd you have to be pretty crefull and the kitchen has this oven that is an oven stacked on top of each other. Our room I think is going to be upstairs and I don't know if our triple bunkbed can fit in it. My mom and dad have the biggest room.

 we went working for my other grandpa today this time I didn't do much fu work besides blowing some leaves it was just odd chores around the farm like winterizing it cutting down plants digging up tulip bulbs stuff like that. I blew the driveway then it all came back and I had just blown it it was fun though. the grandpa we worked for to we both times to paid quite nice amounts of money. and I have been getting it all in this box until can put it in the bank. Which should be soon. this grandpa is the one with ongoing cancer.

 so i worked at my granpas house once on saturdat and once on tusdays it was pretty hard the first time because I had to work with concrete and their where tons of these like foot long pieces of concrete that we had to move. One fun thing we did was when we tore down this shed . We pushed the shed down it was so col their was this massive cracking sound. The second day it was more or less the same thing just e had to rip up the floor. That was fun because my granpa brought his chainsaw.

for sermon Sunday today I am g0oing to talk about the burning church Sunday dad had to do communion today so we are going to go there every night and so we are going there twice today where not going to go to our church once in like 2 weeks my dad has to preach in Kalamazoo for three weeks in a row i am pretty sure we are going to e moving by December seven

 Isobell khune his best freind and fellow missionary had toleave to see her husband and then casually as she went out the door this one girl is going to be in lbor any day now you can read these books to find out how to handle. It bye then the labor came and she had no ide it took one day and two night on the second night he figured out quinine will rush birth so she got omeand gave it to her and the next night she had the birth and everyone was extrmemly happy because this was their first babe that didn't die

 Football is a very dangerous sport to play. Wherein other games you kick a ball in football you're the one getting kicked there are quite a few places to play other games have a few but it seems every single person on a football field has a special name there are two wide receivers and like a lot of linemen these linemen or hopefully big and beefy. Because if you're the quarterback you want really big and beefy person protection you that is the job a lineman has he makes sure no one gets to the quarterback. Quite a few times linemen resort to violence to do this.

 we Blew leaves today it was great until ur blower ran out f gas. We have a gas push blower that I think is bout one hundred and fifty miles per hour winds s it's super powerful and we ran out of gas so we had to rake like the whole front yard. It was very hard at the end it elt extremely tired then we got to burn like all the leaves that were fun because leaves are like the top natural thing that smokes a lot and ut fire smoked so bad and it was like really really. Late when we went inside.

 So my dad I a preacher and he was looking for a church that would have him as a pastor because he got his pastorate ot whatever its called and their was ne church in the UP or one in Kalamazoo and their was another one but my dad so no to that ne because they believed something different. Then finally the up church decided to not call my dad and the Kalamazoo church did so we went their and dad expected the call and because Kalamazoo is about an hour away we had to move into their parsonage we are going to be moved in on December 7 2021.

 Today I went to school and  was kind f mad becuse I wasn't able to bring in the assignments one was from math and another science I somehow lost them or one of my brothers threw it away by accident so i was mad about that but we did a bunch of homework in class like ho to interpret this type of weather set or whatever in math we had three assignments. My math teacher has this mini quiz at the start and their was only problem and i got it right it was a super easy problem. In gym we played freeze flag.