today
i want to tell you the story of john
hi i'm john i'm an electrician and i
fixed an old lady's entire home for free
john is not an ordinary electrician
he is an electrician with the biggest
heart
i've ever seen and here is why
i i can't even comprehend the gratitude
that i have
one day john received a call from an old
lady
she wanted him to fix one simple
light in her house but when he got there
he realized it wasn't just one light
that needed to be fixed
it was everything the water wasn't
working
half the lights were out the garden was
like a jungle
the roof was leaking the floor had holes
animals were getting in and even her
ceiling
looked like it was about to collapse
the lady didn't have any family members
and she was so old
she didn't realize how bad her house had
become
when i first got to gloria's house i was
just shocked at the condition of the
house
i couldn't just let her live like that
that is where john
came in when he got called to fix one
light
he could just have done his job and not
think anymore about it
but he didn't he gathered a bunch of his
friends
together they cleaned up the ladies home
at no
charge but soon he realized it wasn't
enough because there was just so much to
do
john and his friends could not do it
alone the more we worked the more we
realized that
more had to be done we needed to buy
materials
paint electrical supplies roofing
material lumber
delicious went on and on so he went to
the internet
asking for help
so he put up a facebook page called it
nice
old lady needs help and pretty much
immediately the
internet went crazy suddenly people from
all over the us
and the world wanted to help a single
old lady in minnesota
like that john raised a total of a
hundred and fifteen
thousand dollars in less than a month
and with that money
he and his friends did wonders they
replaced everything
the lights the windows even the backyard
and the porch steps this broken house
became a welcoming home for the old lady
to spend her retirement years
the response we got was just crazy uh
channel seven picked it up and then
other newscasters
started broadcasting the story and
contractors from all over were calling
and asking what they could do to help
i wasn't looking to rebuild their whole
house at first but now it looks like we
did as more people knew about what john
did
more people in need started to ask for
help so he decided to turn a one-man
operation into a national campaign
to help old people
he gathered construction workers and
volunteers from all over the country
called the group gloria's gladiators
after the old lady's name and all people
who didn't have
any resources could reach out for help
i i can't even comprehend the gratitude
that i have
and that's how he started a ripple
effect
the job to fix one light became an
online campaign to help old people
all over the country this just goes to
show that everybody else would have done
the exact same thing as i did
you know sometimes all it takes is just
to get the ball rolling
people like john teach us that sometimes
changing the world begins with just a
small act
of kindness
you