I have met and made friends with several fella fishermen on this board and I can't think Peter and all the rest for having such a site. I know that I have had my differences with a few people in the past that made me boycott it for a while and I can't thank everyone enough for all the pm's and emails wanting me to stay apart of this site. Just about all of my close buddies on here know the differences I have had in the past with the "Man" upstairs to the point that I said there was no Heaven and no Hell, no God and no Devil basically when you die that was it, into the box you go and that was that. Boy how wrong was I to believe that. I started reading a Bible that my Dad got for me about 2 months ago and started going to church about 5 weeks ago. This past Sunday my wife and I joined a church in Lawrenceburg Ky and I plan on getting baptized in January after the wound on my stomach finally closes up. It was amazing that 5 weeks ago it felt like a ton of weight was lifted off my shoulders sitting in that first service and ever since, even though I was back in the hospital less than 10 hours of leaving my first service for 8 days, it feels like I got somebody right there beside me helping me. No dis-respect to my wife, my buddy Hens, my family and all of you fellas but it is a different feeling of help that I feel. I have tried to tell those that have personally tried to help my faith in the past and now I am making it public for all to know. I fully know this is a fishing website and maybe I am out of line but I just want to publicly thank each and everyone that said a prayer for myself, my wife and my family in helping us get thru all that we have been thru. I know there are too many to thank so if I have not talked to you in person about this, please accept my appology for that and consider this as my way of saying THANK YOU.

God Bless and thanks for everything
Elwood