I want to tell you the story off.

我想把故事講給你聽

John.

約翰。

Hi, I'm John.

嗨，我是約翰。

I'm Electrician's and I fixed an old lady's entire home for free.

我是電工的，我免費修了一個老太太的整個家。

John is not an ordinary electrician's.

約翰不是一個普通的電工的。

He is an electrician's with the biggest heart I've ever seen.

他是我見過的心胸最大的電工。

And here is why I can't even comprehend the gratitude that I have.

這就是為什麼我連自己的感激之情都無法理解的原因。

One day, John received a call from an old lady.

一天，約翰接到一個老太太的電話。

She wanted him to fix one simple light in her house.

她想讓他給她家修一盞簡單的燈。

But when he got there, he realized it wasn't just one light that needed to be fixed.

但當他到了那裡，才發現需要修的不僅僅是一盞燈。

It was everything.

這就是一切。

The water wasn't working.

水不能用了。

Half the lights were out.

一半的燈都滅了。

The garden was like a jungle.

園子裡就像一個叢林。

The roof was leaking, the floor had holes, animals were getting in, and even her ceiling looked like it was about to collapse.

屋頂在漏水，地板有洞，動物在裡面，連她的天花板都像是要塌下來了。

The lady didn't have any family members, and she was so old she didn't realize how bad her house had become.

這位女士沒有任何親人，她年紀大了，不知道自己的房子已經變得多麼糟糕。

Yeah, when I first got to Gloria's house, I was just shocked at the condition of the house.

是啊，當我剛到格洛麗亞家的時候，我只是被房子的狀況嚇到了。

I couldn't just let her live like that.

我不能讓她就這樣活著。

That is where John came in when he got called to fix one light.

這就是約翰被叫去修一盞燈的原因。

He could just have done his job and nothing any more about it.

他可以只做他的工作，而不做任何其他的事情。

But he didn't.

但他沒有。

He gathered a bunch of his friends together.

他把一幫朋友召集在一起。

They cleaned up the ladies home at no charge.

他們免費打掃了女士們的家。

But soon he realized it wasn't enough because there was just so much to do.

但很快他就發現這還不夠，因為要做的事情實在是太多了。

John and his friends could not do it alone.

約翰和他的朋友們無法獨自完成。

The more we worked, the more we realized that more had to be done.

我們越是工作，越是意識到要做的事情越多。

We needed to buy materials, pain, electrical supplies, roofing material, lumber.

我們需要買材料、油漆、電器用品、屋頂材料、木材。

Delicious went on and on.

美味的去了。

So he went to the Internet asking for help.

於是他到網上求助。

So he put up a Facebook page, called it Nice old lady needs help, and pretty much immediately the Internet went crazy.

所以他在Facebook上開了個頁面，叫 "Nice old lady needs help"，幾乎是立刻網絡就瘋了。

Suddenly, people from all over the U.

突然間，來自美國各地的人。

S.

S.

And the world wanted toe help A single old lady in Minnesota just like that.

全世界都想幫助一個明尼蘇達州的單身老太太，就像這樣。

John raised a total of $115,000 in less than a month, and with that money, he and his friends did wonders.

約翰在不到一個月的時間裡共籌集了11.5萬美元，用這筆錢，他和他的朋友們創造了奇蹟。

They replaced everything the lines, the windows, even the backyard and the porch steps.

他們更換了所有的線路、窗戶，甚至後院和門廊臺階。

This broken house became a welcoming home for the old lady to spend her retirement years.

這座破房子成了老太太養老的溫馨家園。

Response we got was just crazy.

我們得到的迴應實在是太瘋狂了。

Channel seven picked it up, and then other newscasters started broadcasting the story, and contractors from all over will call and asking what they could do to help.

第七頻道接收到了，然後其他新聞主播就開始播報這個故事，各地的承包商都會打來電話，問他們能幫上什麼忙。

I wasn't looking to rebuild the whole house at first, but now it looks like we did.

我一開始並沒有想重建整個房子，但現在看來，我們已經重建了。

As more people knew about what John did.

隨著越來越多的人知道約翰的所作所為。

Mawr people in need started to ask for help, so he decided to turn a one man operation into a national campaign toe, 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 resource is could reach out for help.

毛爾有需要的人開始向他求助，於是他決定把一個人的行動變成全國性的運動趾，幫助老人他召集了全國各地的建築工人和志願者，以老太太的名字命名為 "Gloria's Gladiators "組織，所有沒有任何資源的人都可以伸出援手。

I can't even comprehend the gratitude that I have.

我甚至無法理解我的感激之情。

And that's how he started a ripple effect.

他就這樣開始了連鎖反應。

A job to fix one Light became an online campaign to help old people all over the country.

修一盞燈的工作，成了一個幫助全國各地老人的網絡活動。

Things just goes to show that everybody else who had done the exact same thing as I did, you know, sometimes all it takes is just to get the ball rolling.

事情只是表明，其他人 誰做了完全相同的事情，因為我做了， 你知道，有時只需要 只是讓球滾動。