I am sure that many of you are aware that on Sundays I single out an individual who is worthy of our praise. Today that individual is Connor Halsa. Connor is fourteen years old, and lives in Moorhead, Minnesota What makes this fourteen year-old so special surfaced because he likes to go fishing, and this summer he was out fishing with his family on Lake of the Woods.
From BlazeMedia::
“We were doing a walleye drift, so we stopped the boat, put some spinners on, and let the waves take us,” Halsa WDAY-TV. Halsa got a nibble. Ready for a fight, the boy “set the hook really hard.”
The incoming freshman at Moorhead High Schotoldol came out victorious, but what came out of the water was no walleye. Rather, the 14-year-old had reeled in a billfold, packed with $2,000 in cash. An Iowa farmer, Jim Denney had lost wallet, stuck 20 feet below in the glacial deeps. The summer prior, Denney reportedly came up against rough waters and went overboard. Although he managed to bring himself out of the murk all right, Denney later realized when readying to pay his final bill at the resort that the pocket on his overalls was down one billfold and $2,000 dollars.”
So by pure serendipity Conner Halsa came across $2000.
Finders keepers ?
$2,000 can go a long way, especially for a 14-year-old, but Halsa explained, “We didn’t work hard for the money. He did. It was his money.”
“My dad said we should give it to the person, and I said we should too,” Halsa recalled.
After setting the cash out to dry, the family looked for some way to identify the owner. Eventually they were successful and the wallet made its way to Denney’s farmhouse in Mount Ayr, Iowa,
Denney traveled to Moorhead to visit Halsa, amazed by his luck and the boy’s virtue.
“I tell you what, I have the billfold in my hands, and it is still hard to believe,” said Denney.
The farmer reportedly offered to give the boy a reward, but Halsa refused. Denney then said, “I would take Connor as a grandson any day, and I would fight for him any day.”
I like what Jim Denney said, and I would hope that all of my four teenage grandsons would do the same as Connor Halsa did!
9/3/23