An 8-year-old returned $100 to an 86-year-old man who could not afford to buy his groceries after losing the bill recently.
Jaron Johnson picked up the cash in an aisle of a Walmart store in Pineville, Louisiana, Inside Edition reported.
"He was a few steps behind me and said, 'Mom, look what I have in my pocket,' and he said, 'Can we turn it in to Walmart and give it to the rightful owner?'" Jodie Johnson, the boy's mother, told Inside Edition.
Jodie Johnson, a special needs teacher at Tioga Elementary School, was weary to hand the money in to employees in case they pocketed the cash. The next day, upon her son's insistence, she contacted Walmart to find out if anyone had reported the money missing.
At the time no one had so Jodie Johnson left her number with the store and a few hours later she received a call from James Grice's daughter, who explained that her father had lost the bill while doing his grocery shopping.
The 86-year-old lives on a fixed income and had to return to his home, which is a 30-minute drive away, with nothing to eat.
"When I walked outside of the store I said lord let somebody that really needs that money, find it," Grice said, according to KALB.
"When I turn things over to the Lord, I don't fool with it anymore," he added.
While the elderly man was certainly relieved to find out that he had not lost the money, Jaron Johnson was equally happy to return it.
When the call finally came through, the boy "was grinning ear-to-ear," his mother told Fox News.
On Monday the two got to meet and Jaron Johnson handed the $100 bill back to Grice.
As a token of appreciation, the 86-year-old gave the boy a $20 bill.
Jodie Johnson said the experience was something her son would remember for the rest of his life.
"Knowing that he was on fixed income made the lesson that much more valuable," she said, according to Fox News. "I told him 'look how much you helped him and how much he appreciates it.'"
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