Every year, high school students who are involved in FFA head to Indianapolis for the organization’s annual meeting. During this yearly event, the organization’s members do things like elect new national officers and engage in breakout sessions.

The teenagers are encouraged to spread kindness and behave themselves while they are in town. That’s why it came as a surprise one night when a group of FFA kids from the Eureka, Kansas, FFA chapter were too loud for their neighbors, and one mother immediately let them know it.

John and Randi Amt had already been at the hotel for ten days when the FFA students arrived. They were not happy about having to stay in the hotel, as they were there by necessity. Their home had flooded and been rendered unhabitable when a toilet malfunctioned while they were out of town, and living in a hotel for so long had been tough for their family.

“Living in a hotel can be fun for a little while, but being in a hotel for a long time gets to be a little difficult,” John said.

By the time the FFA students arrived, Randi was already exhausted from driving her kids to sports practice and activities back in their home town 30 minutes away. She had already tucked her children into bed, but the teens outside their door in the hallway were a bit loud, and Randi was getting frustrated. Randi ended up deciding to ignore them and go to bed, but the next day, she saw that the students’ hotel doors were cracked, so she knocked and asked to speak with them. She told them about what her family was going through and asked them to please be quieter.

“I told them that we wanted them to have their fun and we would appreciate their respect to let our kids get a good night’s rest. The young man who answered the door told me that he was very sorry about what we were going through,” Randi said.

She did not like having to confront the youths, but she knew that her family needed their sleep. As Randi prepared for bed that night, she noticed that someone had slipped a note under her door. It was from the FFA kids, who told her how sorry they were for what happened to her family.

“We are more than sorry for waking you and your family up the past few nights. We hope everything goes well with your house,” the note read.

Randi was incredibly touched when she saw what the note said.

“I opened the note to find money,” she said. “In a world where some people sit behind screens and become angry on social media, this young man restored my faith that the next generation can make eye contact and show compassion to the person right in front of him … They set an excellent example for my children and their parents should be more than proud.”

Though the Amts could have used the money themselves, they decided to take the $40 bestowed upon them by the FFA kids and pay it forward. The family bought hats and mittens to donate to a local shelter because those people don’t have a roof over their heads.

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