Man fulfils promise made in grade 2 to pay off grandparent’s mortgage
A 24-year-old Texan student who scrimped and saved for years has finally fulfilled his second grade vow to pay off his grandparent’s mortgage.
Stefun Darts surprised his grandparents, Cecil and Marilyn Roberts, earlier this month, when he presented them with a US$15,000 (NZD$21837) cheque to pay off their mortgage.
At the surprise party arranged in their honour, Cecil and Marilyn were left in complete shock from their gift.
"Paid your house off?" the boy's grandfather reads. "Who did that? You did that?"
As the good deed sinks in, the entire room tears up in joy.
For Darts, it was the least he could do after his grandparents had done so much for him.
“I couldn’t stand you going to work at night,” he wrote in a Facebook post. “Some nights I didn’t even sleep knowing it shouldn’t be like this.”
When Darts was only in second grade, he made a vow.
“I promised God in the second grade I would pay off your guys’ house and help you retire. A promise I would never break,” he wrote on Facebook.
Having finally fulfilled his big promise, Darts is still looking for ways to make his grandparents lives better and has purchased a trip to the Bahamas for them.
What an amazing grandson!
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