Can you tell us your most unforgetable exprience in helping others?

Helping others is an opportunity that gives us joy and so I do not consider that I have done something great. I sponsored a girl child, brought her home, gave her education, got her married and now she is independent but sadly I am being haunted by her inlaws for financial help rather ruthlessly!! They are trying to take away the joy I had in this activity.

True, helping other people can give us joy and know that God is pleased with us. My most unforgettable experience of helping other people was when I volunteered at the medical mission near our place, who got really affected by the "Ondoy typhoon here in the Phils." Many people in that area were affected by floods that they could no longer live in their homes so at the evacuation center, we donated some goods, I helped out in dispensing the medicines. It's a great feeling to help even though that time we also got affected by the typhoon, I forgot myself and still be a blessing to the needy and it's worth all the effort, for helping others is the best!

When I was a student, one day I helped an old granny to carry her things to the bus. After that, this old granny said to me:"Thanks, little boy!" Oh, I had to say that I was a girl, but I just had short hair. It was a little upset to me. But I didn't correct her anyway. Perhaps she didn't have a good eyesight, so she thought I was a boy?:) Didn't she realize how difficult it was for me to carry her things to the bus? A boy should do it easily. I love China

The most unforgettable experience stays fresh in my memory all the time. Longtime ago, I was standing at bus stop when I was in my school days. A girl came to me and asked few bucks so that she can reach home. She forget to carry bucks and I had only few, just for me. I didn't think more I gave it to her as her home was very far and I took a walk. I reached home. Mom asked me why I am late. I told her that I walked a while. I am tired and went to my room.After two days, I saw a girl coming to me and she said. Thanks! I didn't recognised her then she said that she is the same girl I helped. She came to return money. I said No it it. It was a help and help cannot be measured. She gave m a sweet smile and hugged me. It was a nice day. I will never forget her sweet smile.

hi my most forgettable experience in helping others is that am having two types of unforgettable experiences one is that a man met with an accident and we some of the friends admitted in hospital and i gave my blood after that their relatives came and appreciating and thanking me it makes me happy and one more my friend asked me money to buy some books and i gave 2000 rupees to him but he buys a gift to her girlfriend . . . .

Well my most unforgettable experience its when i was in 8th grade, the story goes like this: I was presenting an exam and a schoolmate (girl) was behind me (my crush in that time), I studied for that test like if its the final exam which it wasn't but was important, well she didn't studied at all and she was in trouble... sooooo i tried to give answers to her... but the class room was to silent... so i said to her "GIVE ME THE EXAM" and i did to her the exam... and i did mine... the next week the teacher gives the results and i got 14/20 and she got 16/20! i did knew what to do.. to get mad or to laugh for frustration... but then she comes to me and gives me a kiss (in the cheek) and then i kissed her in the mouth and then she went to my home and start kissing again.. and thats all xD... i was to young for what you were thinking DIRTY MINDED PEOPLE! XD... thats it

I think my most unforgettable experiences helping each other would be from when I was younger. When I was younger, I was really shy so it was a huge deal for me to get the courage to take action and help someone. The first memory that came to me when I read this discussion was when I was maybe 9 years old or about that age. I went out to eat with my family at a McDonalds. It was one of the McDonalds that had a playground. I remember there were a lot of kids playing around and I was inside the playplace. I was about to go down the slide when I saw a mom calling for her son to come down. I went down the slide and I saw her. I don't remember exactly if she asked me or if I asked her how I could help, but I ended up going back into the playplace to find her son standing next to the slide. I wasn't exactly sure that was her son though, but I guessed it was because he was the closest one to the slide. Anyway, I took her son's hand and we went down the slide together to meet his mom at the bottom. As soon as we got down, she started thanking me and I had a huge smile on my face. I was just really happy that I got to help someone. I even thought about how I gained more courage to take action (even though it wasn't that big of an action, it was pretty big for me) and help someone on the car ride home. Another time, I was a couple years older. I was at church and the service ended a while ago and we were finishing our lunches. I saw an elderly lady with a container or something with food in it and a napkin over it because she didn't have a cover for it. I saw that she was looking for a rubber band. Everyone else was busy with their own thing so I didn't see anyone help her get a rubber band for her food. I didn't have a rubber band on me, but I still wanted to help her, so I searched all around the church campus to look for a rubber band on the ground. I finally found one and I went back into the room where we were all in and I gave her the rubber band. She gave me an appreciative look. That was one of my more unforgettable moments of helping others when I was older =D

I definitely had a lot of unforgettable experiences in helping others but there are 2 of them in which I was thinking about when I was reading this discussion. It was all in 2009 too! =] haha My first unforgettable experience was when my friends and I ate out at In N Out. After we finished we saw a car that has been there for a while and it was stuffed with things so we could barely see anything in the car, except an old couple that "looked" like they were sleeping or hurt. We wanted to help them so we bought them food and we knocked in their car window. The woman woke up and opened the window. It turns out that they were just resting and that they were OK. But we gave them food. It looked as if they were having a tough time so we asked if she can get out of the car and talk with us. She started talking about her son and his accident and going to the hospital. Then she talked about how her and her husband were always traveling and always goes to that In N Out to take a rest. The for a long long time she started talking about religion based things. At the end I felt pretty good we helped/talked with her. It was pretty refreshing. But at the same time it was sorta uncomfortable. But we definitely made them smile and being able to help them was whats important. My second experience was with my friend's cousin. I wont say her name for privacy purposes but she was going through adepression-like stage. Like I mean serious depression where a person cries and analyzes things wayyyy to much and is sad about everything. She felt that nobody could relate to her and nobody could help her. I tried to help talk to her a lot. I was helping her understand that there ARE a lot of people who care for her and understand her. Her cousin and I tried to talk to her a lot, trying to offer her help, comfort, guidance, and advice. At first she takes it but after a short while she gives the advice back to us and doesn't accept it. Shes always questioning if she can really be helped. Sometimes she seems like she really doesn't appreciate our help because she is always second-guessing us and questioning us. I am not sure of her current situation as of right now but that situation was definitely unforgettable mainly because that situation was a situation in which triggered my downfall moments. But fortunately I was able to get back up and that is what matters, getting back up and learning how to deal with it. =]