wanted to be firemen and baseball players just like so many little boys. >> to my parents, and grand parents, i wanted to be a trashman, because i liked driving on the -- i thought it would be fun to drive on that truck. >> reporter: instead, ryan connors of providence, rhode island became a priest, ordained last june. >> i did not think about the priesthood a great deal deal growing up, but not until high skochool and college. >> reporter: until this student got the calling, he didn't know what it was. you didn't know what we seminary was? >> yes, ultimate ly, it is a calling. you look back at it and the beautiful thing about being in the seminary and being a seminarian is that when you hand yourself over to the lord where he can take you, and i guess for each and every one of us, we never would have thought that we'd be sitting here today. >> reporter: chris syler thought he would be get marry and have children, and he had a girlfriend in st. louis.