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years ago from her hometown in Sweetser, she saw a man walking on the side of the road alone. She drove past him, hearing her parents' directives in her head to never to pick up a hitchhiker. But she felt a nudge in her spirit, and she'd learned long ago not to ignore that. So she turned around and stopped. She didn't immediately tell her parents. Turns out, though, the guy was walking from Delphi along State Road 25, on his way to Lafayette to give plasma. One good deed being facilitated by another. "We had a good conversation," Moses recalled. "It was a really positive conversation and we talked about his family the whole time. I asked him about the process of donating plasma, and he told me. I dropped him off and never saw him again." Where her car promptly got stuck by the entrance. "It didn't faze me," Moses said of the hiccup. "The people were home safely and warm and others in their apartment complex were nice and came and helped us get unstuck." The Best Friend Sophomore year, Lindsey Rains couldn't get away from Courtney Moses. They weren't teammates, though both played sports for the Boilermakers, Lindsey as a center fielder on the softball team and Moses as a starting guard on the basketball team. They weren't roommates, though it seemed as much with Moses always over to the house Rains shared with soccer player Mollie Kuramoto, among others. Moses had become friends with Kuramoto during a mission trip to Haiti. Moses kept encouraging Rains to join them at Fellowship of Christian Athletes meetings, an organization Moses was involved in then and would become president for as a senior under chaplain Marty Dittmar. Rains, though, didn't grow up in church and had a lot of questions about faith. At every turn, Moses was a willing mentor, never missing a chance to listen, to answer, to share while never being "preachy." "She does a lot of small things that have impacted my life, but the biggest thing is the faith she's introduced to me and taking the time to teach me," Rains said. "She lives The Stranded In early February 2011, West Lafayette anticipated a severe snow storm. Purdue students were checking their email incessantly, waiting to see if the university would shut down and cancel classes. Finally, the announcement came, at 5:48 a.m. on a Tuesday, wiping out the class schedule for what ultimately was several days as more than a foot of snow drilled campus. Students tried to brave the chilly temperatures, trudging through the snow to grab essentials, to avoid being closed up in dorms and apartments. They tried to stay bundled waiting at bus stops for vehicles they didn't know would come. Everyone should have just stayed inside. Moses, though, saw it as an opportunity. "It's like, 'I have a car. I could help them out,' " she said. So she grabbed a friend and took to the very messy streets, scanning for Mobile banking FroM anywhere people to give rides. Local banking goes global with mobile banking at Lafayette She delivered several to their desti- Savings Bank. Their mobile app is perfect for my busy nations that day, including one to an lifestyle—and yours. Check out mobile banking at Lafayette Savings Bank today. www.lsbank.com | 742-1064 apartment complex in town. David Boudia, Olympic gold medalist f EvEry AnglE. E v E r y P o s s i b i l i t y. IllustrateD volume 24, issue 2 73