In a new video, Sister Amy A. Wright tells of a special experience she had in a post office during one Christmas season. A young mother was frantically wrapping packages while her infant son cried loudly. Sister Wright felt compassion for the mother but wasn’t sure how to help.
The post office was very busy, and Sister Wright took her place in the long line. When the young mother finished wrapping her packages, she went to the back of the line, her son still wailing. The other people in line began to criticize the mother.
“My heart broke, for we did not know her story,” Sister Wright says. “The post office was just a few miles from a large Air Force base. Maybe she was living far from home, and her husband was deployed. Maybe those packages were filled with a hollow substitute of her heart as she braced herself to spend Christmas alone with her young son.”
Twenty minutes later, Sister Wright made it to the front of the line.
“With a prayer in my heart, the Holy Ghost told me exactly what I should do,” Sister Wright says. She then walked to the back of the line and asked the young mother to trade places with her in line. See what happened next in the video below.
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