The Real Mitt Romney - 1

For the next few blog posts I am going to tell some stories about Mitt Romney.  Everyone talks about how stiff he is and how he doesn’t share anything about himself.  Jesus told us that the one seeking recognition of his good deeds is the one who will have no reward from the Father.  I admire a humble man.

Whether you love him, hate him, or don't know how you feel, these stories will make YOU feel good!  

 Reed Fisher tells one such story, from 2007:

That story begins in the aftermath of the wildfires that engulfed San Diego in the fall of 2007, consuming dozens of homes in Reed Fisher’s neighborhood and nearly his own.

Fisher told CBS News the fire did burn a hole through a fence and caught the corner of his house.

While the house was being repaired Fisher got a call from a fellow Mormon, one of his son’s friends, offering help. It was Matt Romney, one of Mitt Romney’s five sons.

When asked what he said, Fisher said, “We would like to come help. We would like to come do something. And I said, ‘Matt, I wish you could, but almost everything has been cleaned up.’ But he pressed me, and I said, ‘Well, there is this one thing. And I don’t know if the insurance is going to cover it. There is a big tree stump in my front yard. They took the tree down, the tree was torched in the fire. But the stump was still there.’ So Matt insisted, he said, ‘We would like to bring a couple of guys and do some service at your house.’”

On that day, Fisher said he ran out to get some breakfast for the volunteers. Fisher said, “As I drove down to my house, there are four men working in the hole there, … and one of them is running for President of the United States of America.”

That man was Romney. When his son told him about the service project, he had asked if he could help.

“He had dirt under his fingernails,” Fisher said. “He was the first one down the hole. He’s the first one with the power saw. He’s doing the hardest work of any of us.”

Can you imagine driving up to your house and a Presidential candidate is helping to dig a stump out of your yard?  

This was copied from www.restate.com/2012/09/17/mitt-romney-friend-in-need/