Editor’s Note: This is one in a series of stories highlighting graduating high school seniors in Smith County.
Arp High School senior Tyler Bardsley will embark on a mission trip to Kiribati, an island country in the Micronesia subregion of Oceania.
“All my life, I’ve always wanted to go on one,” Bardsley said. “I’m not the most in-tune person with the gospel. I don’t know everything, I don’t know a lot, but it will help me grow spiritually and physically.”
During the two-year mission, he anticipates…



