North American Mission Board (NAMB) missionary Jim Ballard — all 243 pounds of him — lay sprawled in agonizing pain on a snow-covered dirt trail high in the mountains of the Salmon-Challis National Forest in east-central Idaho.   Four of his ribs and a vertebra were fractured and his sternum was cracked. His lung punctured, Ballard was spitting up pink, foamy…
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