I recently took my kids to an event called the Compassion Experience. It was an audio tour narrated by various children growing up in 3rd world countries detailing the impoverished lives they were brought up in. As we listened, we traveled through various trailers, set up to replicate the environments being described in the audio tour.
Most of the children began working to help support their families around the age of 7. My kiddos hearts were definitely touched. What stood out to them the most though was the alcohol addiction of some of the parents. One child would wake up in the middle of the night to find his mother was gone and he'd go and track her down at a local bar and bring her back home.
This experience spoke to all of our hearts and we were filled with compassion but it also reminded us of the safety the Word of Wisdom provides- plus I loved seeing how dang cute my kids all looked in those over sized headphones.
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