Part 2: The 2020 Secret Santa Special

merry christmas everybody i'm nate eaton and we are in ammon today the snow is gently falling so it's the perfect time for another secret santa surprise we're about to surprise a woman named christy i want to read you a little bit about christy she's the kindest most selfless person and genuinely good woman that you'll ever meet she's a beloved preschool teacher a devout member of her church and she goes about doing good all day long before her mother passed away christy volunteered to pick her up and take her home from dialysis three times a week she did this for 16 years christy would pick up her mother's medication take her to appointments grocery shop and help in any way she could she never complained about this and did it without fanfare christy is a mother of five her oldest is 22 her youngest is two and has some special needs christy and her husband carl are equally selfless and compassionate as those around them they quietly serve others even when it's inconvenient they consistently have an open home policy if anyone needs help i have been moved to tears multiple times by their kindness she takes meals to her preschool families when they are sick now christy and her family have one working shower so there's seven people sharing one shower they need less than five thousand dollars to get that shower fixed and secret santa's going to fix it for them christy's behind me working in this preschool today the head of the preschool knows we're coming christy does not know and we have a check for five thousand dollars from secret santa [Music] would you like to come in boys and girls we have a visitor today hi guys we are looking for christy christie how are you i'm doing well i'm nate with east idaho news and a secret santa asked us to come and give christy a present today wow what do you guys think about that should we let her open it yeah should we all right there you go oh my word we heard you needed a shower fixed i do and that's five thousand dollars you can hopefully get your shower fixed glad i did my hair today you look nice you look beautiful thank you well thank you so much how's your family doing good my daughter follows you she loves you so much this is gonna blow her mind thank you so much you bet and please tell your daughter hi for us and have a merry christmas thank you guys [Music] merry christmas everybody i'm nate eaton and we are outside the mcdonald's in idaho falls on yellowstone highway i want to tell you about diana she's an employee here at the mcdonald's and she and her husband also wake up every morning and they deliver 150 newspapers she then comes here and she's hoping to retire within the next two years now both diana and her husband cameron are in their 60s cameron has had a lot of health issues he's on disability also diana sometimes suffers from poor health but she's doing the best she can to make it through the day now they have a vehicle a van that has almost 240 000 miles on it and they've had to replace so many things but it just keeps breaking down well a local secret santa who lives here in our community said i want you to go to mcdonald's and i want you to surprise diana with this car so she's working right now not only is she going to drive home in this car today secret santa also bought her five thousand dollars in gas cards and he has a thousand dollar check for her which she can use to pay the registration on this and get a start to her holiday shopping so let's head in and surprise her [Music] hello are you diana my nate with east idaho news met before it was about three years ago that's right i remember you here we can step out here how's your day going oh my gosh almost off right at 2 30. somewhere like that yeah well generally it's 2 30 or whatever the drive through lane goes away well you have a lot of people in the drive through today we are doing really well it's so nice seeing you again are you feeling better yes yes i had friends about my age who were down with this stuff for three four weeks and i'm coming back you come back and you look great well a secret santa who lives here in idaho falls asked if i would bring you this present today why so it's it's not even thanksgiving yet but we want we want to see you open it and give you an early christmas i know you are you all are busy doing this all year round basically we try to make people's days a little better and today it's your day oh thank you so let me give you this present and you can open it up oh my goodness for the stack of something [Music] oh i've seen this on your videos before so there's 500 on each of those cards that's 5 000 of gas cards and which is pretty amazing and a thousand dollar check for you also have one more thing for you but i left it outside oh my goodness in fact this might give you a hint my daughter and i just watched a video last week about because in an elementary school well we're at mcdonald's today we're not in an elementary school and that car is for you wow wow can we show it to you let's go outside and we'll show you now you you deliver papers before work don't yes yes you see that red suv right there oh my goodness you'll come and get in the driver's seat your van has a lot of miles on it doesn't it yes it does how many miles any idea oh about 210. so here's what you got to do push that button and the key will pop out and this unlocks it oh my car keys smarter than me there you go [Music] [Music] just turn it there you go oh my goodness possible this that'll give you all sorts of cautions if it's cold you can sync your phone to it oh my goodness merry christmas diana oh and tell you to tell you tell the secret santa thank you ever so much absolutely and then you just push that yeah just hold it and then it goes right down like a pocket knife yep i think i can send you that now [Music] merry christmas everybody i'm nate eaton here with some east idaho news elves behind the camera and we are outside cabela's today and we're about to surprise an employee here named hillary hillary is around 45 years old she's been married to her husband for 25 years and several years ago he started developing some weird health ailments some weird health problems he's been tested for everything from als to brain tumors to muscular dystrophy and they just can't figure out what's wrong with him because of his health he can no longer leave the home he's home bound so hillary is working full to support her family she works full-time here at cabela's while rob's at home and she'll frequently run home to take care of what he needs and then come back to work well secret santa heard about their situation heard how hillary is such a positive person and he wanted to give her a little christmas gift and so we have a few gifts here today we have a 2500 gift card to brolums so that she can stock up on groceries for her family secret santa also got them six months of care for her husband basically a trained professional can come to their house five days a week for six hours a day and be with rob so that that's one less burden hillary has to worry about she's working at the store behind me let's go surprise her don't be scared hillary no i watched this too many times you've watched us yes oh how you doing i was fine until i saw you i make people cry again yes you do well we're here for a happy thing this isn't a sad thing how's your day going good i like the dog on your shirt thank you is that your dog it's not i just have a fondness for furry babies okay you've had a couple challenging years here yeah it's been a little nutty what's been going on so my husband has been undiagnosed for about nine years with a neurological disorder and it's just been a little financially stressful and emotionally mentally stressful for my family but i have been blessed to have good co-workers and a good family that have been a solid foundation for me um and a lot of you know just surrounded by love so they've been very supportive and very helpful so it's been fantastic but it still gets hard sometimes yeah how's your husband doing today he's doing okay he's just slowly progressing getting a little bit worse but you know what he's strong he's got a good attitude his kids make him laugh and i think that's what keeps him going is his family he's got a fantastic you know mom and they've been helpful and my family's been supportive and so he's got he's got a good attitude because he's got a lot of love around himself and they don't know what's wrong with him they don't know what's wrong with him so he's kind of been back and forth to utah and to several other doctors and stuff and they just can't quite figure it out so we try and treat what we can and keep him walking which is a good thing and keep him eating on his own and getting him to dress himself and we do physical therapy and so we do everything we can to keep him going and keeping motivated and stuff and then hopefully maybe something will pop up one of these days do you have home health care we do we have um physical therapy physical therapy that comes in twice a week and that's through his medicare and then um we pay for any nursing care and stuff that comes into the house and that's where it gets a little financially tough but i run home at lunches and take care of him and make sure that we've got him fed and that he's comfortable and then run back to work so like i said if it wasn't for these guys you know it would it would be really tough but everybody here has been really good and very supportive and they've told us so many good things about you every person we've talked to just can't say enough good things about you we want to give this to you from a secret santa who heard about your story that's awesome so there's 2 500 in grocery gift cards and fortunately the grocery store is right next door so no it's a it's a blessing and a curse they're a fantastic store we love berlin so this is fantastic and then we have one more thing for you from a secret santa i can switch it off here so that will get you six months of care for your husband five days a week six hours a day and it's all paid for [Music] thank you merry christmas this is amazing thank you that's awesome thank you [Music] merry christmas everybody i'm here with two of secret santa's elves and we are in rexburg today it's actually thanksgiving the day that we're shooting this we're about to surprise a man named caesar caesar has spinal muscular dystrophy he's been in a wheelchair all of his life and he needs a new one in fact the chair he's in now he's had since he was 17 and let me give you an idea of how old he is now he's been through college and now he's a professor at byu idaho he lives alone he doesn't have any family around here and he really wants and needs this new wheelchair so we're gonna surprise him on thanksgiving with a new wheelchair and two thousand dollars to brolums and he thinks we're coming over with thanksgiving dinner we reached out to him and said we want to drive by thanksgiving dinner so we have a hot dinner that's in the car warming up this kid forgot his coat which is typical but we're gonna go celebrate thanksgiving and christmas with him are you guys ready yeah you ready yeah all right let's go [Music] come on in he says i'm bringing a lot of food thank you are you hungry yes where are you on the martinelli's thank you there's some rolls awesome and this is an apple cruise so this was not made by us this was made by a very nice volunteer cool and we brought you something else from a secret santa okay so everett want to give that to him thank you [Music] i wonder who the sweet present is well it's a secret and if we told you it wouldn't be a secret awesome so that's two thousand dollars to burworms thank you groceries we have one other gift for you that's for a new wheelchair you've needed a new chair for a while haven't you uh yes yes i have this this chair's several years old right i've had since i was 17. 17 and how old are you now that's a good question would you mind telling these kids why you're in a wheelchair okay so i was born with something called spinal muscular atrophy and it's where my muscles aren't getting a signal from my brain like you do with yours and so over time my muscles slowly start to turn off and they don't work so his muscle his leg muscles aren't communicating to his brain so that's like all muscles everything that you can do i can't do it my muscles are very weak well that check from secret santa can hopefully get him the chair he needs so that it's not as painful happy thanksgiving merry christmas you too [Music] merry christmas and happy holidays everybody i'm nate eaton and secret santa has asked us to visit dubois today we're about to surprise a woman named patricia sadly earlier this year patricia's husband passed away from carbon monoxide poisoning he was working all alone in his shop and never came home and when investigators showed up they discovered that he had passed away now patricia is raising her three kids on her own her kids are 7 11 and 13. she bakes cakes and sells them throughout the community and that's her only source of income and she is just an extremely positive person let me read a little bit about what we learned about patricia when she was going through her budget for the month her kids were doing homework patricia mentioned they had money to pay all her bills except the power bill sebastian heard her and ran to his room to get a dollar and told her that his dollar was enough to pay the power bill and maybe get wi-fi this is a very sweet family and patricia is so positive about her situation and if this wasn't hard enough just days ago she was in a car accident well secret santa asked us if we could bring patricia a 10 000 check we hope that she's home right now let's go find out [Music] hello are you patricia how are you i'm nate with east idaho news how's your day going good thanks we're here on behalf of a secret santa a secret santa asked us to come and visit you you've had a pretty rough year haven't you i have suffered what's that so pray for me oh yeah we have a surprise for you can we give you this surprise get no strings attached it's just for you we'd love to see you open it you can just lift that lid right off ten thousand dollars for you merry christmas thank you so much thank you you're welcome that's from an anonymous person who just asked us if we could drop that off to you we know you've had a rough year how's how's everybody doing well we're praying for you and we're thinking about you and there's a lot of people that care about you thank you my god merry christmas thank you so [Music] oh it's much it's okay it's okay i know i'm wonderful so thank you so much you're welcome have a good holiday okay take care we'll see you you make cakes yeah yeah for you maybe next week that would be wonderful if you are we'd love to try your cake i heard they're really good thank you [Music] merry christmas everybody i'm nate eaton we are outside the state office building in idaho falls we're about to surprise a woman who works inside the building her name is clelly clelly has had quite a life she has battled addiction and mental illness and she has turned everything around and she works now here for the department of health and welfare as a peer support specialist she helps others going through what she's been through well clelly has really changed her life around and secret santa found out about her story and he said i want to do something to help her so we're going to go in and surprise her secret santa paid her rent for the next year it's taken care of for the next 12 months also she needs a tire she needs her tires aligned and new tire rods he's paying that for her and giving her a 2 000 gift card to brolums she has no idea we're coming nobody else does so let's go surprise her hello oh my god are you klelling yeah how are you [Music] hi how's your day going it's going amazing i just watched you guys giving that car out to that lady like that had kids and her roof can you tell me what you do here what's your job i i'm a peer support specialist um so i love my job it's amazing what does that mean a peer support specialist i i'm in recovery and um and i deal with mental health issues and i help other people like me um complete their goals i've helped people get housing that wouldn't be able to get housing because they were felons um i find like i find resources for them i find like clothes like whatever it is that that they need in order to succeed well we've heard you're like the best in eastern idaho that you've touched so many people and that your story has inspired so many others you even did a ted talk didn't you yeah i did a ted excitable false talk in 2019. what would you say is the number one thing you've learned through your experience and through helping others um that really that that's where it's at like i wouldn't be here today if i didn't have somebody help me get to where i am and help me um like recognize that i am good enough and i deserve good things um and i like giving that back like to other people is is where it's at it's giving it's given my life something um meaningful well a guy here in idaho falls saw your story and he wants to remain anonymous but he said she's given back to so many people i want to give something to her so he sent us with this early christmas gift for you yay we heard you needed new tires on your car yeah yeah thank you and that's grocery gift cards two thousand dollars to brolums holy crap it is two thousand dollars you can stock up and keep that fridge full yeah yeah and we have one other gift for you yay your rent's been paid for a year that is freaking awesome i i am so excited about that thank you guys so much you bet me yeah that's from a secret santa we're just delivering it not really from us we just wanted to bring it by and wish you a merry christmas and thank you for all you've done for the community thank you very much and whoever the secret santa is thank you this is going to be amazing to have my rent paid for a year [Music] happy holidays everybody i am nate eaton with east idaho news and we are outside tie breaker elementary school today in am and we're about to surprise one of the employees i want to tell you a little bit about cali cali is a hard worker who would do anything for others she works here at tiebreaker elementary school with students who have emotional disabilities callie gives 110 every day to help students that others would be frustrated with and want to give up on last year callie told me a problem she was having with her eyes she had developed cataracts and needed to get surgery i noticed her struggling to read some of the fine print in the teacher's manuals when she was teaching she went to the dollar store and bought some magnifying glasses and used uses those to help her when she has a hard time reading callie went to the eye doctor and was going to schedule eye surgery but she didn't have the money to pay for everything up front so she put it off this year on halloween night callie was out with her grandkids trick-or-treating and noticed some strange dark webs forming across her left eye blocking her vision she knew the cataracts were spreading but couldn't do much about it she come she can't she continues to come to work and do her job despite the difficulty of not being able to see she knows she needs to have surgery but the cost is going to be difficult well secret santa is paying for that surgery it's covered all the follow-up care the initial checkups secret santa is going to cover that for cali he also has five thousand dollars for her she's worked here for such a long time we are going to go in and surprise her hello ladies hi how are you fine thanks we're looking for miss little um okay how are you fine i'm with east idaho news okay i'm nate and we're here with a special present from a secret santa okay and uh we heard that you might need some cataract surgery oh are you kidding me [Music] okay so i want you to open this gift if you wouldn't mind and and if if you're unable to see it i can tell you what it is once you open it i'm able to see it okay good good [Music] oh my gosh thank you so much so that's five thousand dollars from a secret santa to pay for your surgery and hopefully the follow-up and all that you shouldn't have to pay anything out of your pocket thank you so much and we figured once once your surgery's done we've got to give you one more [Music] and this is gift that's for you another five thousand dollars for you thank you so much whoever this is thank you so much thank you we hear you do such an incredible job here with the students how long have you been working here about 27 years 27 years and what do you do i just try to help the kids to know that they're important no matter what and do you work in the special ed department i do and that's got to be so rewarding and i imagine it's challenging it is but it's rewarding it is they're worth it well merry christmas thank you so much hopefully you can get those cataracts removed and go get yourself something and enjoy the holidays thank you so much happy holidays everybody i'm nate eaton we are in saint anthony tonight and we have a really special gift for another special person from a secret santa this is a man named derek derek has full custody of his three children he works at taco time full-time and he's had some health issues recently not only that but he's taken in his sister and he's caring for her and secret santa heard about his story and some other things going on and he asked us if we could come up and surprise him now he had some very specific needs including a new pair of glasses he needs new glasses so inside this box we have a certificate for a new pair of glasses also three thousand dollars to target and this a snowblower we heard that he needed a snowblower so he could get out and keep his driveway cleared and that's exactly what secret santa got him so he's home right now let's go surprise him [Music] merry christmas are you derek i'm derek derek we've been all over looking for you we went to the wrong house we went to taco time you're hard to catch how are you doing i don't like cameras what's that you look great you look fine we're here on behalf of a secret santa okay who wanted us to bring you a christmas gift go ahead and open that if you want oh wow oh my goodness that's that's three thousand dollars to target and then there's a certificate in there for you to get a new pair of glasses oh my goodness someone heard that you needed some glasses so you've got the exam and you've got the new glasses whatever pair you want to pick out and we have one more thing it doesn't look that exciting but that's actually a manual for a snow blower oh my which is right around the corner we're going to bring we didn't know where you wanted us to put it it's a brand new industrial snow blower that hopefully you can keep your walks cleaned and everything taken care of this is amazing i don't know i don't even know what to say i thank everyone involved i sure hope it was a lot of people involved did not well it was one person it was one person a secret santa who said i want you to take this to derek yeah and there's that snow blower wow so it's not oil and gas it's ready to go and it's yours it even has a light and heat is angry i i've had two back surgeries and i have another procedure on my back in a couple weeks oh wow and so shoveling is little yeah it gets a little rough i want to get thank you guys pass the word along thank you so much that's that is incredible yes that's amazing merry christmas take care derek see you [Music] merry christmas everybody i'm nate eaton we are in ammon today about to surprise a really special girl named brooke brooke has had health problems the majority of her life with her spine and different issues that require her to wear special shoes now these shoes are pretty expensive around three hundred dollars from what we understand and her insurance and medicaid do not cover these shoes now on top of all this brooke recently lost her job because of covid19 so she's looking for a new job she's living with her parents and secret santa said we've got to get her some new shoes so we went on the website where she can purchase these shoes and he got her a thousand dollar gift card so she can choose any of the pairs on this website that she wants he also got her a thousand dollars to kohl's so she can get some new clothes when she starts that new job and a thousand dollars to the grocery store she doesn't know we're coming her family doesn't know we're coming let's hope that they're home right now and let's go pay our visit hello is brooke here thank you [Music] hello hello are you brooke i am i'm nate how are you doing good what have you been up to today helping my mom with my grandma oh nice well a secret santa asked if we could come and bring you a christmas present okay so we just want to give this to you and uh we'll let you open it right now if you want okay [Music] i'm shaking it's all right can you see that do you know what billy footwear is what i i had never heard of that what is it um these big shoes were like zippers for braces and so they're looking for a great very good brand of shoes to wear and they're like very comfy and you do you need those special shoes well there's a thousand dollars of gift cards right there so you can get yourself some billy shoes there's a hundred dollars on each of those papers so you can just go online and choose whatever shoes you want i wasn't gonna try to pick you out shoes oh yeah okay and we have one other gift for you from from this same secret santa who was so inspired by your story oh my gosh do you ever shop at brolums there's a thousand dollars to brolums and a thousand dollars to kohl's so you can get some new clothes to match your new shoes and have a nice meal oh my gosh merry christmas thank you you're welcome we hope that you can use that and secret santa sends his love this is awesome i like it a lot oh good well we like you a lot and so does secret santa have a good christmas okay can you show us how those shoes work then yeah um so you take the zipper okay it takes a zipper and you just come undone like that oh okay so you just zip them up yeah well maybe you can get one of every color yeah i have one for every day of the week yeah all right send us a picture when you get them okay okay have a good day merry christmas [Music] merry christmas everybody i'm nate eaton we are in salt lake city utah today outside of the ronald mcdonald house i will say this is the furthest we've ever traveled for a gift from secret santa but we had to get down here today to surprise alex and maria and inside this box we have a special gift from secret santa now alex and maria had a baby in october the baby weighed one pound so the baby has been down here in the intensive care unit at primary children's hospital and he is just doing the best he can fighting to survive his name is angel now maria has had to come down here and be with angel all hours of the day she wants to be with her son unfortunately the car that alex and maria had broke down and they don't have a vehicle they're borrowing a relative's car and alex recently came down here to get a temporary job so he could be with his family now maria works at the gables assisted living secret santa heard about her from the relative of one of the residents they say that she makes everybody's day so much better that she is so loving and all of her co-workers love her so what we have for maria inside this box is gas cards farm secret santa we also have a thousand dollar check and inside this box check it out come up here we have a little match box car hot wheels secret santa is giving them a car we couldn't drive it all the way down from idaho falls so we're going to give her this then she and her husband the next time they're in idaho falls where they live they can go pick up that car now we have no idea if maria and alex are here they could be up at the hospital we want to catch them off guard we want to surprise them so hopefully we can go check in see if they're here and give them a surprise it is almost 9 30 we've been waiting nearly four hours for maria to get back from the hospital we're assuming she's here the one good thing about waiting is the pretty christmas lights have turned on so we get to see that but emmy do you think she's here i don't know i'm hoping she is here [Music] are you maria yes how are you good we're the package that you need to sign for oh we're with east idaho news we drove down from idaho falls today to come and see you okay so first of all how are you doing i'm okay how's your baby he's doing better yeah how old is he now he's four months four months and i hope he's weighing more than a pound he is he's actually eight pounds eight pounds wow and and how is his prognosis um yeah and how are you guys holding up you and your husband we're trying to hold up there too far away from home yeah yeah hoping to go home soon i imagine now did your husband recently take a job down here yes he did okay he's actually upstairs oh so he's actually here to be with you well that's good well a secret santa in idaho falls asked if we could bring you a gift tonight so we've been trying to track you all day and we're glad we finally caught you do you want to give that to her thank you [Music] we know you have a lot of driving back and forth so there's three thousand dollars in gas cards that you can use to drive back and forth and then there's a thousand dollar check that you can use for whatever your family needs you're welcome and then i have one more gift in here it's kind of small but it's a toy car because he has a real car for you in idaho falls yes it's a real car that's at the dealership because we heard your car broke down and you're using your relatives yeah my sister's your sister's car well you don't have to use hers anymore because secret santa bought you a car so the next time you guys are in idaho falls it's all ready for you you just need to pick it up you don't have to pay a thing he's paid the taxes he paid everything except the registration which that check can cover thank you so merry christmas we wish you guys the best and we hope that you're home with little angel right yeah [Music] merry christmas everybody i am nate eaton and we are out near ryrie today about to surprise a woman named lucy with a really special gift from a local secret santa lucy has had a tough year i want to read to you some of the things that have happened to her in october her mom lost her battle to cancer during her final days lucy's husband became sick with covid and was in the hospital while trying to make funeral arrangements for her mother to be taken to mexico lucy was informed that her husband needed to be placed on a ventilator to keep his organs because they were stressed from fighting covid when arrangements were finalized to be able to take her mom to mexico lucy was having a difficult time making the decision should she stay with her husband or should she accompany the body of her mother to mexico lucy decided to go down to mexico for a few days and give their mother her mother a final goodbye while there lucy received the call that her husband was fading fast and she needed to get home but by the time she arrived back in idaho falls her husband had died lucy has been through so much having two close relatives die within a month of each other and she needs some funds to give her husband a proper headstone at the cemetery and that's exactly what secret santa is going to do for her he's purchased the headstone any headstone she wants to pick out he also got her two thousand dollars in grocery gift cards and a five thousand 000 check to help with some other expenses let's go give lucy these gifts [Music] hello is lucy here she is [Music] lucy yeah hi how are you i'm nate with east idaho news how's your day going yeah you've had a kind of a rough year haven't you okay how are you holding up well there's a lot of people praying for you and that care about you and secret santa a local secret santa asked if we could bring you a present today so we want to give this to you ahead of christmas thank you you can open it [Music] that can get you a headstone [Music] is that for your husband yeah and there's some grocery gift cards to the grocery store there's two thousand dollars there for the grocery store oh i have one more thing for you [Music] she says who's this from it's from secret santa it's a secret she says she doesn't know how to say thank you and let them know that she appreciates it well you can tell them right now you might have just done that she says thank you to everyone that she doesn't know how to thank them enough yes i know it's been a rough year but hopefully that can make the season a little brighter and you can go pick out your stone for your husband okay you bet have a good holiday thank you guys well thank you so much merry christmas everybody i'm nate eaton with east idaho news.com and we are in pocatello today about to surprise a really special woman with a gift from secret santa in october britney's husband and sister were killed in a car crash britney is pregnant and has an 18 month old and a three-year-old child that she's caring for she moved in with her parents after the crash and she is basically starting over her husband was going to be attending medical school so they didn't have much money and now she's getting her life back together she doesn't have a vehicle until today now she does secret santa has asked us to bring britney this car right here and he also wants to pay for the headstone for her husband so we have a certificate that she can take to the monument place pick out a monument for his gravesite also a thousand dollars that can help pay for the registration on the car and any other expenses she might have brittany is now living with her parents and that's where we are going to go right now to surprise her hello how are you merry christmas for brittany okay she around she is laying down with her daughter trying to get her to take a nap oh okay well we have a special gift that a secret santa has asked us to bring to her okay let me let me see if she let me go see okay thanks [Music] hello hello the worst thing to do is interrupt a mom putting down her baby i'm so sorry she was like tucked under my arm and that's like did she fall asleep that's the question oh good how old is she three okay i've got a three-year-old i know the feeling yes um how are you doing i mean okay yeah you might recognize us we're with east idaho news my name is nate and a secret santa has asked us to come and first of all see how you're doing because my gosh what a year you've had yeah right it's been a rough couple months i bet i guess i shouldn't even say a year because the accident happened in october didn't it two months ago tomorrow and you're expecting a baby aren't you i am i'm 12 weeks pregnant oh boy so morning sickness is that almost going away yeah i haven't morning sickness hasn't been too bad this time around which is a really great blessing that's good so do you probably don't know if you're having a boy or a girl yet right not yet not yet all right are you gonna find out yeah definitely yeah oh well it's kind of an exciting bittersweet time i'm sure everything all around well we'll get to the point because you're probably wondering why we're here and we had we wanted to bring you this gift from a secret santa who was so touched by your story wanted to most importantly send his love along with with a gift so you can we'd love to see you open that nothing will pop out i promise have you picked out a headstone yet okay good because it's covered and you can go to that iaf monuments and whatever one you want you've got and we wanted to give you one more thing from secret santa it's parked around the corner are you kidding me i'm not kidding you are you kidding me merry christmas you've got a new car oh my gosh i literally said to my mom on the way over here what are they going to give me a new car yes we are well secret santa is at least come and see it we parked it around the corner so nobody will see [Music] what merry christmas oh my word so this is yours that is amazing everything's been paid for the taxes the fees do i get to know who the secretary is but just know that he wants to send the utmost love and that he's been thinking about you and he asked us to come today he's like you gotta go see britney today and we're so glad we could stop by and leave you this present in your driveway why don't you get in and start it i don't even know how to start a car anymore push the button in the keel flop yeah there you go [Music] there you go well shoot that is amazing okay well secret santa whoever you are thank you i wish i could give you a hug [Music] [Music] [Music] merry christmas everybody it is cold we are in rexburg this morning where it seems like it's always cold but we're about to warm somebody's heart this christmas this is john and margie they are long-haul truck drivers and several weeks ago they were loading a load of potatoes hauling it across the country when they both suddenly felt sick turns out they both had coveted 19 and they were hospitalized for 18 days they needed to get home to idaho so they were able to rent a car and get back here when they arrived home they found that their swamp cooler had frozen and flooded part of their house and margie within 20 30 minutes of being home was walking around when she actually fell and hit her face and broke her nose so it's been a really rough couple of weeks they are on the mend they are doing well and they're back on the road but before they head back out for another trip secret santa wanted us to bring them five thousand dollars in grocery gift cards so that they can stock up when they get home and and get the food that they need we hope they're home right now we understand they're leaving any minute for another trip so let's go surprise [Music] all right thank you margie hi are you margie i'm assuming how are you doing i'm good how are you doing well it's cold this morning but rexburg is always cold so do you guys want to come in we'll we're fine right here we'll be fast but we're just glad we caught you home we've tried to catch you over the past few weeks you guys are on the road a lot yeah what do you do for work um he drives trucks and you go with him yeah and you've had a rough couple weeks from what i understand had a rough couple months what happened um we went to pennsylvania and um when we got over there we were both just sick of nadal and um we ended up an emergency room and we both had coldhead and we were both in upper respiratory failure and i had pneumonia and i had kidney injury and just a whole bunch of stuff and anyway we were pretty much dead if we wouldn't have gone to that hospital we wouldn't have made it oh my gosh yeah so you're away from home in the hospital yeah we're about 2 000 miles away so we were on the cove at work for five days and then they moved me to icu for i was in there for 10 days and he got out in nine days and then i spent another three cold before i can't believe you were here and then you had to get home well i hope we didn't wake you up no um but you got home and then you had another injury didn't you well yeah i fell like five weeks before that and broke my nose and then i hadn't been home maybe 20 minutes and i tripped out that door over there and tried to get to the pickup to stop myself and just fell right on the bumper broke it again and broke my cheekbone and yeah so it's it's not been fun well we're here with some good news to hopefully make it better a secret santa heard about everything that you guys have been going through and he wanted us to bring you a small gift today that might be hard to see but there's 10 500 gift cards in there are you kidding tim rollins so oh my gosh that's going to get you groceries for several months just down the street i know and and i know you you're on the road back and forth so whenever you're in town your food's taken care of tell him thank you so much thank you thank you we will and please please pass our best to your husband is he leaving today tomorrow tomorrow okay yeah yeah well as i said you're hard to catch so we're glad we finally got you home please tell him thank you we will and you have a merry christmas things will only get better [Music] merry christmas everybody i'm nate eaton we are outside burton elementary school today in rexburg we're about to surprise a woman who works here her name is leslie now secret santa found out about leslie from a woman in omaha nebraska that's where leslie is originally from she and her husband paul raised six kids and recently paul started to have some very serious health issues so they moved out here to rexburg to be closer to family and leslie and paul are actually living in the basement of one of their daughters while the daughter goes to school full-time at byu-idaho through a series of unfortunate events leslie and paul do not have a vehicle but paul has to go to the doctor so often in idaho falls so leslie has to borrow her daughter's car to get him to the doctor now she's working part-time here at burton elementary she's an aide for children with special needs she is doing all she can to support her husband and support her family and be a good grandmother to her children so secret santa asked if we would bring her a 10 000 check and this this car is for leslie and paul so that she can get her husband back and forth to his appointments and get back and forth to work and have life be a little easier and nobody here at the school knows that we're coming so hopefully we can catch up with leslie and give her these gifts leslie hey how are you doing i'm good how are you good i saw that you saw us and kind of uh put your head back do you know who we are i do i like to watch your little things oh well we're here for you today well that's very sweet somebody in omaha got a hold of secret santa and told him about you what's your what's your tie to omaha uh we lived there for like from probably 82 until 2019 we came here oh wow what brought you to expert um our daughter our youngest daughter is here going to school at ewa at byu idaho trying to get into the nursing program and so it's kind of a mutual helpful situation hopefully we're helpful my husband has my husband has a lot of health problems so we came here so she could help me and i could hopefully be helpful to her and her husband because i have three kids and she's trying to do that so and you're here working part-time yes part-time so i can be home to help her in the afternoons but have a little bit of income and be able to just yeah be able to work a little bit but still be able to be helpful to her so good for you how do you like idaho i like it you're not saying love it as it's four degrees outside today exactly i would say i love the summers yeah the winter is a little i have to try to love it yes i love it some days well i hope you're gonna love today because we brought you a gift from secret santa that he asked if we could deliver it to you today here at school that's very nice you and him yes well go ahead and open that [Music] oh my gosh so so very thoughtful thank you so much i have one more thing for you it's kind of a small gift okay it's a heavy gift yes oh my goodness that's really that'll be that's not a little gift thank you well we got to go outside and see it because it's part of right outside the school oh very nice thank you so much you're welcome yes you can so you guys don't have a car right we have two cars that are two thousand they're like both two thousand or two thousand one so you have some older cars we have cars that we have two of them in case one of them doesn't start i can try the other oh boy that's always fun we've been very blessed our good friends gave us one of them and then our son and daughter-in-law gave us the other one and we just go back and forth we just go along every day yeah well i think this is a 2020 car this this is a check that's gonna pay the registration oh my goodness but everything else is paid for secret santa paid the taxes the fees anything like that you don't pay a penny other than the registration you're welcome you want to start it up i promise it works i drove it up how do i start just push that button at the top and the key will flip out yep move your finger yeah there you go [Music] nice merry christmas everybody we are getting closer and closer to christmas day and secret santa still has plenty of surprises left in store we're about to surprise a woman named lindsay she's actually an emergency dispatcher so if you call 9-1-1 you might get her on the other end of the line when lindsay was in college she was in a car crash she ended up paralyzed and having to use a wheelchair she was able to go on and become trained in becoming an emergency communications officer over the last few years lindsay has had some pretty significant health issues due to an injury on her foot that did not heal she ended up having it amputated despite her personal health struggles lindsay is always thinking of others she makes care kits to donate to ladies going through cancer she has crocheted items to donate to the children's hospital and she's always trying to think up new ways to serve others lindsay is one of the first people to step in and help those who are struggling well secret santa decided he wanted to give lindsay a christmas gift inside this box here he got her two thousand dollars to target so she can shop and buy what she wants also two thousand dollars to the grocery store and a two thousand dollar check we understand she needs new tires on her her car well that should help pay for those tires she's at work right now we're gonna call her supervisor and let her know we're here to see her and hopefully we can give her the surprise are you lindsay how are you i'm nate with east idaho news your voice sounds so familiar it does we have a scanner in our newsroom that must be why that's probably why i am we've been trying to catch you for three weeks we understand you got sick and and how are you feeling i'm finally feeling a little bit better a little bit more human again oh good yeah at least you're back at work yes back at work well we went to your house and you weren't home so we're glad we can catch you here we have a gift from a secret santa okay who wanted us to to bring this by and and drop it off to you and we'd love to see you open it here okay thank [Music] oh my you oh wow there's several brolums cards in there i think two thousand dollars and then two thousand dollars to target and a two thousand dollar check oh my god that you can use you need new tires maybe on your vehicle i do i do yes so that can get you new tires and then some oh my gosh and you can uh buy whatever you want at the store we know that you crochet things for people in need we do yeah kids in need and do whatever you want with that and have a great christmas oh my gosh thank you so much you're welcome that's amazing i watch you all the time with us like never would think you're the one to do it well here you are today this is your day oh my gosh well thank you so much you bet i appreciate that merry christmas everybody we are in chubbuck today i'm nate eaton with east idaho news and i want to tell you about nathan and jennifer jennifer was recently diagnosed with a brain tumor and nathan is doing all he can to care for her and their three children one of their children has some severe disabilities that requires 24-hour care and nathan is striving his best to take care of his family while caring for his wife who has medical issues on top of all of this this family is very frugal their savings account was hacked earlier this year and a lot of money was stolen from them and they weren't able to recoup those funds so secret santa is coming to the rescue they need a new car and he is giving them this vehicle right here this mini suv on top of that he also has eleven thousand dollars for them that they can use to kind of get their feet back underneath them now nathan and jennifer are home right now as far as we know and we're about to go make their [Music] christmas [Music] i'm sorry about that you got the dogs taking care of the dog's taking care of you how are you are you nathan i'm nathan yes i'm nate with east idaho news how's your day going it's going all right yeah yeah so you guys have had kind of a rough year from what we understand that's why kind of why we're here okay everybody doing okay no there's we're surviving yeah yeah holding our heads above water now oh good so we'll see a secret santa asked us to bring you a gift today okay so i want to give this to you and we'd love to see you open it okay chase the cat oh and there's my wife and oh perfect timing are you jen well we came here at the perfect time you look great not every day you have cameras on your front porch so you sound familiar too this is nate eaton from east idaho news.com oh okay yeah we're here on behalf of a secret santa oh you are huh we came to deliver a gift to your family wow i guess he's gonna let you open it i didn't look at it so you want to open that go ahead dear sure merry christmas so that's for you guys after a rough year from what we what we understand the roughest well how are you doing jen i'm okay yeah i'm doing okay yeah so well hopefully that will help who told honest i can't tell you but i can tell you that we have one more thing for you too you guys since i opened this first box no i believe i got to open this one no look at him he spoils me well i love her you know what in the world what in the world it's right there parked in front of the house no it is not that's a chevy equinox that is yours merry christmas you've got to come and see it that's yours it's been paid for everything okay don't pass out yeah can you make it out there are you sure you want a cane yeah yeah yeah i don't want you to i don't want you to fall down you guys have had car issues well we see one car here it looks like the windows one of them yeah none of them work we actually have somebody is set up to try to come and get them and just take them to the the lot to the car heaven yeah so they've just filled up our parking lot because we've just tried to just get what we can you know just like just the nitty gritty oh my gosh i don't even know what to say how did this even happen well somebody told an anonymous secret santa of one person a secret santa and he said he was touched by your story and he said i want you to go to chubbock today and take him this car and this ten thousand dollars and tell him that i love him and he doesn't want you to know who he is he just wants you to know that he's been thinking about you oh my gosh i can't even believe it i don't know if you can see the plate there it says secret santa loves me oh hello i'm so glad it was really cool oh fun so you can clear out your driveway and put this one in there oh my goodness oh my goodness oh my goodness merry christmas oh you guys i just thank you merry christmas we obviously don't even thank you we don't know what to say you don't have to say anything but if you want to say something to the secret santa he might be watching oh thank you from the very bottomest of our hearts whoever you are you know it's been [Music] you rough you guys take care and we can't wait till you're back to full health 100 and yeah we'll be seeing you around town driving your your new car oh you will no yeah she's got a working car to drive around now and drive rather than driving my truck yeah it's hard to drive his truck it hurts yeah so because it's so big and stuff yeah go ahead and sit down here you want to see if it fits okay yeah make sure that they got the right size something you don't have to step up into and the size easy to dry yeah there you go [Music] and you guys have three kids got three kids so they should fit in the back seat okay or in the trunk oh cow i just can't even believe it i just can't even believe it not even the littlest bit well it might take a little while to let it sink in but we're going to leave it right here in front of your house with with the key [Music] i'm just at such a loss i can hardly stand it yeah gosh [Music] merry christmas everybody i'm nate eaton we are in rigby today about to surprise a man who lives in ashton his name is abel and you might recall his story back on november 13th a fire started at his home around 3 30 in the morning he says that he and all of his kids were sleeping he has four kids under the age of six along with his wife and he immediately ran outside when the fire started and yelled for help then ran back inside to get all of his family to safety they called 9-1-1 but unfortunately they could not save anything they lost all of their personal belongings and their dog they're currently staying at a friend's house until they can find a place to live basically starting over from scratch they've got nothing well secret santa asked if we could give abel and his family a ten thousand dollar check now he's at a job site today he works in construction so we're going to show up at the site and hopefully they can track him down and we can give him this early christmas [Music] present [Applause] are you able yeah how you doing good how's your day going i'm good are you cold yeah so we heard that your house burned down a few weeks ago yes i did what happened any idea oh i woke up and then i saw flames on the roof and and i tried to go get some help nobody would help me so then i thought about my family my family was still inside and that's when i'm like if i have to die to save my family then i would my last child my oldest was my last one that was in the house screaming that he was stuck he was stuck he was well he was standing when he was stuck but he was like in the middle of the hallway he couldn't breathe or see anymore so i i saved my life and went inside and tried to go and help him out thank god i got him out you got him all out how many kids do you have i have four how am i wearing two little two little girls and two little boys and were you able to salvage anything not really like we lost pretty much everything then with the help of the community we've been trying to get trying to get through this hard time you know but where are you staying now what are you doing i'm staying with my mom because my mom's taking care of my grandma right now she got sick so she had an open plate for us to stay so now now we're trying to get through all this stuff and find a new home and spend time with the family that's all i can do yeah and you're working here doing construction yep that's what i do framing and all that so when you do a good job it looks like a nice house we tried our best for us and are the two people up there and then our boss is not here right now so he's doing another job site all right well a secret santa asked us to we could bring you an early christmas present today all right and we'd love to see you open it holy crap that's a lot of money i imagine you have a lot of purposes you can use that for yeah we're trying to get a new we're all we're trying to get like an apartment or somewhere else late because i like to have my own space with my kids because my kids are really you know how kids are they're they're running around and making a lot of noise well that can get you the down payment on the apartment and a couple of months of rent too and probably some christmas presents for my kids because they lost like i said they lost everything their clothes their toys everything what we had and we pretty much lost everything well we wanted to to bring our love with that money and secret santa wishes you guys a merry christmas and hopefully you're you're back in your own place before long that's what we're trying to hope so that's why i've been working here pretty much monday through friday much monday through saturday whatever i can do to save up some money so i could can prevent from my family for a new place or somewhere else for us to stay at yeah well all the best please please tell your kids and your wife hello and and merry christmas all right thank you so much thank you take care [Music] merry christmas everybody we are in the middle of nowhere just outside of ashton and we are about to surprise brandon and shanna wheeler they have ten children eight of them were adopted nine of them have special needs what an incredible family well earlier this year shanna was diagnosed with breast cancer so she has to travel a lot to doctors appointments in salt lake city her husband needed to quit his job and he is now working at a gas station in the early morning hours and late at night so that he could help care for his family during all of this and one of their children became sick earlier this year with a pretty serious condition so secret santa heard about them and he asked if we could come up to ashton and give them a gift we have a few things in here we have a 2 000 gas card because they are on the road so much going to doctors appointments we also have two thousand dollars to the grocery store that can help them get their groceries and feed their family and secret santa also has a two thousand dollar gift certificate to the furniture store to ashley furniture that they can go in and pick up any furniture they might need for their house beds or any sort of couches a dining set whatever they need secret santa's going to take care of that so let's go surprise you guys live out here in the boondocks i'm nate with east idaho news good we're looking for shanna is she around [Music] thanks [Music] hello hi are you shanna i am and you're brandon i'm assuming yes how's your day going good yeah but it took us a minute to find your house that is beautiful thank you so we're here on behalf of a secret santa who asked if we could come up and um deliver a gift to you today so you've you've been to the doctor a time or two over the past year how are you feeling now what's that doing good um i just got last week found out that my cancer looks like it's cleared up and i'm on every three months now wow that's great it's much better yeah that's great and do you go down to utah for appointments or are you able to do them here locally i've had most of them in rexburg all my my chemo and everything but i've had some surgeries down at the huntsman center in utah yeah well that is really good news yeah so i just want to hand this gift over to you from secret santa oh well thank you this is so nice you're welcome oh wow wow yeah there's a few of those in there that's so great two thousand dollars in gas carts because we know you're going back and forth i am and even if you don't you have a van that i imagine costs a little bit to fill up yeah it's a big one yeah and this is one more gift from him thank you we have 10 kids so it's that's great and most are adopted right yes eight of our children are adopted we're good for you guys yeah well there's two thousand dollars to use at the grocery store is that one shopping trip for eight kids maybe two groceries and then there's another pink thing if you pull that out and i'll explain what that is it might be confusing it's all right it is cold too so that's two thousand dollars to ashley furniture you guys have a credit that you can get beds or couches or a dining room set whatever you want secret santa has that there for you as a credit oh thank you this is so wonderful our kids are just getting off the bus oh perfect timing well you guys have a merry christmas we're glad you're doing better and we we understand that everybody thinks the world of you who knows you well thank you this is so kind thank you you're welcome all right we'll let you get back to your day hey guys [Music] how was school good yeah we're with the news we're with east idaho news they came and brought a christmas present for our family yeah a secret santa asked us to bring your parents and you guys a gift isn't that nice well they gave us some money for some groceries and for some gas to help our family wasn't that nice how about how about you make them each let you pick out a treat you can pick out one treat that's a deal we can do that but then after that i get half merry christmas everybody i am nate eaton we are in idaho falls today and secret santa has a big gift for this next family and when i say big i mean big 15 passenger van big misty and ben ashley have 12 children many of them adopted they love kids they love the challenge of caring for children that might have some special needs and they are the best parents that you could ask for according to everybody that we've talked to now they are both working several jobs so that they can pay the bills and take care of their children and recently their van broke down actually it wasn't recently it was several months ago that their van broke down it has been sitting in their driveway so they have no way for all of the family to go anywhere together at least until today and not only a secret santa giving them this van taxes or paid fees or paid everything's paid for except for the registration he's giving them a thousand dollars to pay for that registration also there's a ten thousand dollar gift card in here to a furniture store they can go into ashley home furniture and they can get all new beds for all the kids or some new couches or a dining room set whatever they need they've got 10 grand to ashley home furniture thanks to the secret santa now we've tried to go to the ashley's before earlier this week and they weren't home we're hoping that they're home this afternoon but again they don't know that we're coming so let's go surprise them [Music] hello how are you great how are you good we saw a bunch of heads pop up through the upstairs window as we were walking off yeah those are my kids all right are you ashley no you're miss ashley yeah my last name's actually misty and ben are you ben yeah and you guys are actually both home yep because it's sunday well good that's why we came today a secret santa asked us to come and see you guys okay so he asked us if we could bring you a gift and it's here in this box i'd love to hand it over to you awesome and then there's something on that pink paper if you pull that out that might be hard to understand but that's a ten thousand dollar credit to ashley home store seriously seriously so you can get beds or couches or tables or whatever you need for all of your kids crap and they know that you're coming they have the account all set up you just take that in and you guys can get whatever you need wow we'll definitely need couches that's for sure yeah how how many kids do you guys have 12 12. under the age of 17. well 17 to 1. you must be really patient god-like people angels yeah he works his butt off all the time so that that's what we hear that's why we're glad you're both here that's why he's working all the time we have one more thing for you but you're gonna want shoes on um okay i don't have shoes and and you can bring all the family if you're okay with that okay i don't don't okay well you could you can run out i guess i don't care i don't have i don't want that you're a tough mom don't be scared okay keep coming we're almost there that's for you guys thank you oh my god the one behind you is not working right no and i got over my junkyard like 10 years ago this isn't from a junkyard come and there's 15 seats so that that shifted everybody right [Music] merry christmas come on in dad come on on this side [Music] how does it feel oh i think both these doors open guys they do they just come in okay there you go what do you think i like it you can all fit in one car now right there's enough seats you don't have to worry about breaking down yeah i don't think this will break down [Music] so everything's been paid for accept your registration and that thousand dollar check should pay should cover your registration [Music] thank you so much merry christmas we couldn't find it more deserving family thank you you're welcome we're just going to leave it here with you guys thank you thank you so much hey dad let's take that one back to the [Music] junkyard [Music] all right everybody time for another secret santa surprise we are in idaho falls today we are about to surprise a woman named jennifer jennifer fell at work almost five years ago and fractured her jaw suffering a traumatic brain injury she has ongoing medical bills and most recently complications from the injuries have created staph infections in her sinus and neck the antibiotics don't touch the infections that are now raging they can only put her under anesthesia and scrape the infection to try to control it she is in constant pain she can't eat she can't drive and her days are filled with doctor appointments and worry she is a cancer survivor and she and her husband edward have both buried stillborn twins she loves to serve others and despite everything that's happening in her life she always puts on a cheerful face well secret santa was touched by jennifer's story and he has a check for them today that we're going to surprise her with 20 000 she has no idea that we're out here she just lives down the street let's go surprise her [Music] hi are you jennifer oh jennifer you're helping your neighbor's sidewalk you're shoveling your neighbor's driver are we at the wrong house yeah we're we've come to deliver something to you [Applause] a secret santa asked us if we could bring you a gift today and here you are out helping somebody else oh these are our neighbors and they're just getting back from arizona and have some help from so we shoveled their driveway oh that's nice i need to move next door to you actually i have a really good neighbor that does the same thing so usually the boys do it but they're in school and it just before it gets worse how are you doing um we've been better yeah yeah you look you look all right but i understand you've had some health issues yeah yeah um 96 surgeries 96. yeah um i had an accident at work and broke my jaw but you'd look familiar i'm on the news is that why i am with east idaho news that my name is sweet friend natalie always shares your posts oh okay well maybe she'll share this one and she should we would just want to give you this gift from a secret santa and we'd love to see you open it now do you need to sit down no um you okay i'm sure it's been a week i'm sure i don't want you to pass out though so no i can hold your shovel here you can do the shovel um and just open it just open it yeah i'm so sorry it's okay merry christmas today's rough i just lost my dad a week ago took home in arizona and [Music] just got back from the doctors i'm sorry you said you lost your dad yeah he just passed away and you went oh i'm so sorry yeah he had um covered complications and passed away well you know that money can't take away that pain but hopefully you can know that somebody loves you and cares about you i'm so sorry it's okay it's okay you're fine um what this is sorry i can't tell you who it is if that's what you're going to ask it's a secret um we just played secret santa to a family we adopted on saturday oh that's great um what um i'm so sorry my husband's at work well you have some good news to tell him when he gets home tonight um um who who can i think or you can if what santa might be watching you can say a message to him if you thank want thank you so much i'm a fart i look a mess and i'm out here like shoveling the snow look just fine you look just fine i'm so grateful thank you so much i don't know how this happened but i promise to try to pay it forward and continue paying forward well we hope you don't have to have any more surgeries you and me both yeah and that you guys can have a really good christmas and that don't just pay bills with that do something fun get yourself a nice deal like you've had some medical issues get expensive create some memories don't just pay bills all right okay okay um [Music] and if santa wants to show up i got hugs for days what's her name that's great well you might want to go sit down inside i've got to finish here okay that's a cashier's check you just deposit that at any bank um sorry you're all right you're all right we'll let you go have a good day jennifer see you later bye goodbye [Music] [Music] merry christmas everybody i'm nate eaton we are in ammon today outside the cal ranch store's headquarters we've got a really special surprise for a woman inside her name is latisha she's a single mother with a teenage daughter who has had several heart surgeries over the years and she's getting ready for another heart surgery in just a few days now latisha has done so much for her daughter when she goes down to the hospital in salt lake city where these surgeries are done she sleeps in her car so that she can save money and that she can be close to her daughter well secret santa heard about her and said we need to do something to help her out especially with this other surgery coming up so he got her a few things first of all we have a four thousand dollar check from secret santa we also have two thousand dollars in maverick cards gas cards that she can use to fill up her car going back and forth two thousand dollars to target so that she can stock up on uh clothing whatever other essentials she might need and a fifteen hundred dollar gift card to hotels.com that'll that will get her several nights so that she can actually stay in a hotel rather than sleeping in her car we understand she just got back from her lunch break we're gonna go surprise [Music] how you doing we're looking for latisha [Music] hey are you latisha i am i'm nate with east idaho news hi nate how are you doing i'm a little shocked but good yeah how's your day been okay you got any plans for the weekend i'm packing for salt lake yeah why are you going to salt lake uh so my daughter's having her fourth heart surgery so we are leaving on wednesday and getting that done and how long will she be down there so 10 to 14 days yeah fourth heart surgery and how old is she so she just turned 13 in november oh my word she's a doll how's she holding up so she's good she made presents for all the nurses and uh she's excited she likes to do that type of stuff and she's kind of happy that it was over the holiday i'm happy she's not missing as much school yeah will she be home for christmas or do you have to stay down there so if she does super good the earliest we can get out is the 24th and they require us to stay overnight so she won't be home for christmas oh well that's so kind of her to make gifts for everybody down there that tells you what type of person she is she's fun well here our secret santa asked us to bring you this beautiful gold box today awesome and we're glad we caught you before you were leaving town i didn't know you were leaving town so we came on the right day and we would love to see you open it oh my gosh thank you guys so much you're welcome that's really awesome hopefully that can help you get down to salt lake and go back and forth and get everything taken care of it'll be a great help merry christmas thank you guys all please give her our best too and let us know how the surgery goes well prayers would be appreciated we would take all the good thoughts and prayers that you could give us on that day 17 17 december 17th all right we'll have to post that on this video on that day absolutely then everybody around the world can be praying for we would appreciate it all right take care good seeing you elbow bone there you go merry christmas we just left letitia we have more for her that i forgot i got to go tell her this [Music] latisha this this has never happened before but we've been so busy secret santa has more for you so what was in the box a check how much forty five hundred dollars okay well we also have two thousand dollars in gift cards to target two thousand dollars in gift cards to maverick for gas and you stay in your car when you go down there um well this time they're not letting me they're not paying for me to stay anywhere so usually we stay at the ronald house but with covid and with the insurance not paying for it it's been a little iffy i found out that the ronald house is open at the hospital so that's great news i can take a shower and i'll be able to stay bedside so i'll be okay well we also have a 1500 gift card to hotels.com so you can book yourself a room maybe not this time but next time you're down there i can't believe i forgot that i'm sorry so sitting on my desk is 2000 to target 2000 to maverick and 1500 to hotel.com which we'll bring back to you later this afternoon guys you bet merry christmas we are in ammon today i'm nate eaton with east idaho news.com outside trc fabrication we're about to surprise an employee in there named jair he has had quite a year just a few weeks ago his uncle passed away of covid in mexico then his dad died then his mother died and then his brother died all of covet 19. now jair recently graduated from byu-idaho in the engineering program and he has had to go back to mexico one time for the funerals of his family members but now he's left to pick up the pieces and get all of their finances and other issues in order he's a father of four children he's raising his kids he's working hard and secret santa was just so impressed with his story during this difficult year that we have a check from secret santa for ten thousand dollars for jair we understand he's working right now of course he doesn't know we're coming so let's go surprise hello are you are you jair i am yeah i'm not the hr lady but we're the ones that wanted to see you how are you doing i'm doing great thank you you've had kind of a rough year from what i understand yeah how's everybody in your family holding up um i think we're doing better uh yeah we we just had our my mom my dad and my oldest brother passed away so that was a rough a rough time i guess and we're just trying to keep on going working and you know life doesn't stop work doesn't stop and uh we just you know we just keep moving i'm so sorry to hear that that's oh how horrible and did your uncle pass away too well yeah a month prior my my dad passed away um his brother and and uh his wife uh passed away also so yeah from congress from kobe yeah oh my word so you're you're kind of left to handle everything right yes yeah well a secret santa heard about your story okay and asked if we could bring you an early christmas present today okay because we know you've have you been going back and forth to mexico or you're trying to get back there i went so i went yeah a few a few weeks ago i went back home because my mom and my dad passed away but when i went there i realized that my oldest brother was very sick that same day that i arrived we had to take him to the hospital and he he was in the hospital for two weeks battling and then he finally passed away this is his name ivan yeah and yet older than you he was older yeah three years older well we'd love to see you open that present if you don't mind thank you oh oh my gosh thank you you're welcome merry christmas i know that uh you just graduated too from college right yes i graduated from byu idaho uh about a year right and you already have a job which is yeah yeah and you have children i'm assuming yeah i have four kids yeah my wife well that should help with the burden of trying to get everything taken care of with your family and and we wish you all the best going forward especially for a much better 2021. thank you thank you very much i don't know who is doing all this but thank you to whomever is participating you know it's a big blessing for for me and my family thank you and thank you very much merry christmas everybody we are in idaho falls today i'm nate eaton with east idaho news and we're about to surprise a really deserving person named alan with a gift from secret santa let me read to you the nomination form that came in i got to know alan when the company i worked for needed to hire some temp workers allen immediately stood out he had an excellent work ethic worked hard to be proficient in the job and always left his work area immaculate the work we needed was on and off and whenever we called the temp agency we always requested alan we lost track of him for a while but we're lucky enough to get him back he was in a pretty dire situation when he started back he struggled to make ends meet and ended up being homeless for over a year he lived in his truck this was two years ago and he never told anybody about it luckily he was able to reunite with some family and able to move into a house as a temporary solution recently he was hired full time and now he has a little house that he rents he's always the first one to arrive at work and works long hours and cancels vacations just to make sure deadlines are met while alan has a home and does make ends meet he does have the difficult decision of whether to afford if he can't afford getting some of his teeth pulled in fact all of his teeth need to be pulled he cannot afford to get them cleaned or repaired when there is a problem and they have become infected even though alan does have insurance there's still an out-of-pocket expense to get all of this dental work done not anymore if you look inside this box secret santa is going to pay to get alan a new smile not only that he's going to give him three thousand dollars in gift cards to a local store we're here outside patandon where alan is working let's go surprise him is alan out here okay you gonna get him is he cut on his way great how are you guys you're here for the company meeting we're here for you alan don't try to sneak away i'm nate with east idaho news how's your day going oh great yeah yeah how long have you worked here oh [Applause] about four and a half years wow we hear you're the best temp worker that uh these guys have ever used okay they tell you that well i'm still here so you're still here and you're not a temp anymore from what i understand you're actually an employee right well we wanted to come and thank you for all the hard work you do here and a local secret santa heard about you and asked if we would bring you a christmas gift today thank you so you can you can open it you don't have to wait till next week [Music] there's 500 on each of those well you got to be kidding me so it's 3 000 total and you can use those at walmart or at sam's club so that can hopefully get your christmas started off right and we have one more thing for you from secret santa i'll switch your boxes if you want [Music] so these obviously aren't yours but secret santa wants to get you a new smile he's contacted a dentist and all your dental work is paid for and it's it's all set up we have some paperwork we'll give you here in a minute uh but we we want you just we want to see your new smile for the new year so merry christmas i don't even know what to say thank you [Music] we are in idaho falls today everybody i'm nate eaton with east idaho news.com time for another surprise from secret santa this one is for a mother named holly holly is a hard worker she's raised her kids she's helped raised other kids she's taken care of her family and secret santa said she deserves a break in fact all of her appliances from what we understand or most of them at least are broken down they're old they're the original ones that came with the house that was built decades ago so secret santa got them five thousand dollars to an appliance store that she can use to go in and replace all of her appliances not only that in this smaller box we have a gift thousand dollar check let's go surprise her hello we're looking for holly is holly here she was here just a little bit ago you missed her by probably 10 minutes did she go back home no she is out running errands i could get her here 15 minutes [Music] hi are you holly yeah we've been looking all over for you this morning okay did you get what you needed at the dollar store yeah i did well good because we have something for you as well from a secret santa who asked us to go all over idaho falls and find you and i don't think any of your family was in on this today i probably they probably weren't but let me just hand over this gift to you you can open it up and that's from secret santa oh my gosh so that's five thousand dollars from home depot how old are your appliances in your house from the 70s 70s they were original to the house do they still work yeah the dishwasher doesn't but the how the everything else does well it's probably time for an upgrade so yeah probably you can use those to get an upgrade and get a new washer and dryer or stove you fixed the stove from what i understand when it broke yeah it wasn't working right and it was because it has a manual you can do it a time bake and it had been turned on to the time bake and so i just had to switch it back to the manual settings so it could be worked properly but yeah there you go let me give you this one other gift from from secret santa i can switch your boxes [Music] merry christmas thank you so much you can use that five thousand dollars for whatever you need to do that is oh my gosh i can't even begin to express how grateful i am well everybody tells us that you deserve it i don't know how but thank you in the few minutes we've had to be with your family waiting for you we've heard the nicest things about you so we're so glad we could drop these off and we wish you the very best this christmas thank you thank you and whoever you are thank you so much this is [Music] we are in new delhi today everybody and we have never done a secret santa surprise in new dell until now and it's for a really special couple i'm nate eaton and we're about to introduce you to scott and twyla now they deliver newspapers every morning but they're most known for their fudge in fact they make delicious fudge and sell it at the farmers market and other events throughout the upper valley but because of covid all of those events have been canceled so one of their main sources of income didn't happen this year scott has parkinson's disease and he volunteers at apple athletic club in idaho falls to teach boxing classes that's one of the ways that he's been able to deal with the disease and help others deal with the disease and did i mention that twyla is a lunch lady if i didn't i'll mention it again on top of all of this she has they've gone through three different cars this year the transmission keeps going out they have other issues so secret santa asked us to come to new delhi and give them this shiny red car it's perfect for under the christmas tree not only that we also have a ten thousand dollar check for them in this box and a thousand bucks to pay for the registration on the vehicle all courtesy of secret santa we're gonna go knock on their door and surprise [Music] we're here we're here for some fudge aren't you the fudge master i am well we should have placed an order but you're busy we've been trying to catch you for a week you're twilight right i am twyla and i'm nate with east idaho good to see you good to see you so we're here a secret santa asked us to come and see you really yeah really serious oh my god how has your year been yeah we know that your business took a hit with the clutch right oh our business took a real big hit this year but you know you just roll with punches yeah but you do other stuff too not just the fudge well i took on a full-time job doing a paraprofessional which i just absolutely love i work with the kids that was really awesome let's see what else do we do do we deliver newspapers [Music] [Music] he was really really i start crying when i think about this because he was so bad that he was um almost to a wheelchair and he couldn't feed himself he couldn't clothe himself he couldn't do anything and it was kind of like a a miracle a blessing it just came you know our son found out about it and he got into it between that and medicine yeah wow that's amazing it is awesome well let me give you this gift from a secret santa [Music] oh my god merry christmas i don't know who this person is [Music] i will i will he wanted to give you one more thing i was gonna enough well it's it's a little box oh you're kidding no we're not kidding it's part right there my god should we go see it yes let's go you've had some car problems oh my god have we ever had carpro three cars this year this car just went down on us the engine went out on it this one we've had so many times to get it fixed and i just finally said i'm done and then this one right here the transmission went out of it a warframe well this one you shouldn't have transmission or engine or any of those issues i don't know what to say wow oh my gosh oh my gosh it smells new yeah it does have a good smell this should make the paper out hopefully a lot easier um and it gets it gets good mileage for your husband to go back and forth to apple too i don't i honestly just don't know what's i mean i really just don't know what to say [Music] i in all my life i never ever ever thought something like this would happen ever well today's your day twyla wow just wow don't know what else to say is this your husband is this scott this is my husband and he's probably shocked what's going on listen to it it runs [Laughter] scott we just we just delivered a gift from from a secret santa and we'll let your wife tell you the news do you want to tell him twyla they didn't give us a car and this [Music] i just i guess i don't know what to say i'm just totally blown away [Music] well you helped me so many of these we keep watching well that's so cool for those people today it's you today you're those people oh my gosh i can't even imagine i i i'm just kind of like wow i don't i just said you hear about everybody else happening in this tune i'm going like and we love it and in my wildest dreams i never ever thought this would happen ever you know are you so happy for everybody else it's like you kind of think what's so special about me you know there's a lot there's a lot special about you guys believe me if you only knew the the compliments and the kind words that we heard about you all we couldn't wait to get up here today we were so excited oh my god so is that your one working car yes that's it and our kids bought that for us for christmas because they felt really bad because everything had broke down i mean when that one broke down we're just going like we just sat there and we go like okay now what do we do and i just thought okay everything's gonna be okay it's not gonna be okay and then i started crying everything's gonna be okay we're gonna figure this out and then our kids called us up and they said hey mom we're going to get your card and i'm just i just broke me and i started crying because i thought it just made me feel like my kids cared about us you know what they do we were so grateful we're so grateful that they brought us a car and we're going yes we have a car well now you have two cars that will run i am just stunned you even got my favorite color good good it's a pretty color it's beautiful sound of sleigh yeah there you go hopefully it lasts many many christmases oh it will it will believe this merry christmas everybody i'm nate eaton and we are in saint anthony today we are about to surprise a woman named annette annette lives alone and her heater recently broke so she's heating her home with her oven range secret santa wants to fix that inside this box we have a check for five thousand dollars so that she can get those repairs made also a thousand dollar gift card to home depot so that she can upgrade some of her appliances we also have a thousand dollars to the grocery store so she can stock up and keep groceries in her pantry let's go surprise annette hello those dogs are really excited to see us are you annette i am how are you i'm nate with east idaho news we're here with a gift from a secret santa oh my gosh are you kidding i'm not kidding are you warm inside your house i am yeah yeah using your stove from what i hear well i not so far this year oh good but i do use it a lot yes it's cold up here yes well let me hand over this gift from secret santa for oh my goodness your dogs are really anxious we can tell they i would let you in but you'd get a tap that's okay oh my gosh are you kidding me no i don't know if you can tell what's in there oh my goodness oh my gosh you guys so that's a thousand dollars to brolums oh my gosh there's a thousand dollars to home depot oh my gosh you guys that's this is wonderful but there's needier people than me yeah that you're deserving of that i want to give you one more gift in this box i'll switch it that's easy oh my gosh [Music] because two presents are better than one oh absolutely there you go [Music] oh now what is this oh my gosh oh my gosh are you kidding me merry christmas oh my gosh thank you so much you're welcome um this is this is insane well we hope you have a really good christmas and secret santa said to send his love to you how could i not oh my goodness thank you so much and give him the biggest hug i will in the world for him i will oh i can't believe this this is crazy well let me leave these with you and we'll get on our way and let you get back to your afternoon oh thank you so much you're welcome merry christmas annette can i give you a hug sure thank you so much can you take care and stay warm oh i will thank you so much you're welcome oh my goodness i can't believe this let me get the door for you so those dogs don't come charging out nipping at our ankles they'll just probably try to lick you to death yeah you got it thank you you're welcome take care very sweet we'll see you so much merry christmas merry christmas everybody we're outside burger king in idaho falls today and we're about to surprise a woman who's worked here 27 years her name is mary and she walks to work every day and then walks home sometimes she works late so she's here until midnight one in the morning and she walks home sometimes she's here early in the morning she loves her job though in fact she comes in on her days off she's scheduled to work five days a week sometimes she works six days seven days she loves being here and everybody tells us that they love working with her in fact the person that told secret santa about mary said even if you give her a candy bar she will be so grateful well secret santa has more than a candy bar in fact we have two thousand dollars to the grocery store for mary and a thousand dollars to a department store so that she can get herself some boots some gloves some winter clothing they called her in early today so that we could meet up with her let's go surprise her hi mary how are you i'm good come on over here now how long have you worked here at burger king i've been here since 97 97 i'm nate by the way with east idaho news oh good so what do you like about your job i like working with these people and i like coming in while my days off i don't know your days off yes i don't like i just don't like being alone okay yeah so how many days a week do you work well i usually work five but usually you usually work seven seven days a week you love it that job that much yes i love these people yeah they look like a great bunch well a secret santa asked if we could bring you this christmas present today are you serious i'm serious okay okay did they call you in early today yes i came in early today because i had to help some guys out well and to help us out too so oh my basket there you go go ahead and open that in front of all your friends well whoever did this thank you whoever oh my god she's got five dollars no that's five hundred dollars no no no no no no no that's that's more than 500 there's 500 on this one and on this one and on this one oh my god and on this one this is for albertsons this is the grocery store there's two thousand dollars to the grocery store and you got 500 on that one and 500 on that one that's to get you some winter boots you walk to work yes i do well you need some new boots oh my gosh thank you very much new clothes mittens gloves the whole the whole thing thank you very much merry christmas thank you you're welcome thank you all have a good holiday thank you see you guys thank you so much take care thank you very much yeah be safe walking home all right hey everybody nate eaton here in aberdeen today i don't think secret santa has given gifts to anybody in aberdeen until today and inside this box i have a ten thousand dollar check for a woman named marva jean marvajin has raised her family she's in her elderly years and she recently had heart surgery she has done so much for this community she's helped raise money for the playground she serves with the american legions she's just one of those people that everybody seems to know and everybody seems to love well after her heart surgery she needs to make some modifications to her bathroom in fact her bathtub is leaking into the basement so she's had to put buckets down there to catch the water well secret santa wants to give her this 10 000 check to make those repairs to her bathroom let's go give it to her hello how are you doing good are you bill are you santa and secret santa come on in is marva jean here no she's not oh i hope she is marmotine how you doing good are you all better from your surgery no i'm getting that way i'm nate with east idaho news oh i have never been to aberdeen until today you're kidding and what a beautiful town i i hear you helped raise money for the playground i did yeah have you lived here your whole life yes and what do you like best about living in aberdeen it's just a small town and people are good you know friendly with everybody we lived in a lot of big cities yeah we were glad we came here they can't even get me to leave everything you'll never leave them where are the houses yeah i can't believe it's booming well we came from idaho falls today to bring you a gift from a secret santa you're kidding that's why we're in hats and um we we just want to hand this over to you we'd love to see you open it okay nothing will pop out holy cow you gotta be kidding not kidding did you see that bell what ten thousand dollars who in the world give us that it's a secret it's a secret santa we're just the delivery elves if you need to make some uh repairs to your bathroom yeah that'll help that'll help fix the leaks yeah we told you all this stuff guys you're great i can't tell you oh my gosh but we just wanted to wish you a merry christmas and we hope that you recover 100 and get all the repairs done to your house and then maybe have a little extra to just spend on what you want oh i wish i could give you a hug well i'll give you an elbow bump how's that there you go bill merry christmas well thank you guys a million and you've surprised me to death oh god i can't imagine why you'd choose me but well you deserve that both of you deserve that and well i'm glad you said me too well her name's on that check so you've got to talk to her how many years on your 55 55 years well there's a late anniversary gift too so at least take her to a nice dinner bill all right no she takes me okay take him to a nice dinner she is difficult that probably is smart well merry christmas guys so nice meeting you have a great holiday with your family i can't believe that you guys did this thanks a lot there you go that's a cashier's check you can just take it to your bank and they'll deposit it or cash it you can take it in any bank okay thank you very much you bet merry christmas to you guys see you later i gotta sit down merry christmas and happy holidays everybody we are in preston we've never come to preston for a secret santa surprise until today and this deserving boy is truly a special kid his name is driggs when he was two doctors discovered cancer in one of his eyes they were able to prevent it from going to his other eye but he had to have the one eye removed and since then he's had a glass eye well driggs is now eight and they have not been able to get him a new glass eye as they are fairly expensive and insurance does not cover a glass eye they say that it's a cosmetic thing so it's not medically necessary well drinks is getting a new glass eye today inside this box we have a check for his parents so they can take that and get him his glass eye he has to go to doctor's appointments in salt lake city to make this happen so he's getting a new eye for christmas and we hope that he's home right now he's the oldest of five children his mother just had a baby a few days ago they just got home from the hospital so hoping here's hoping that we can catch them at home [Music] hello hi how are you good how are you are you maya yes and that's your new little baby little girl yeah little girl what's her name i'm watching you you do yeah are you drinks yeah i am drinks how old are you eight and i'll be turning nine in january so is that second grade uh i'm in third grade third grade and how are you guys actually going to school or are you we're learning from home going to um what a cute little baby there and she's like what a week old um she's three weeks three weeks how do you guys like having a new little sister yeah so cute she is cute well we're here because a secret santa asked us to come and visit you and drinks this this is a gift i think for you that we wanted to give to you and your mom so we're gonna let you open that and then i'll explain what it is eight thousand dollars that's for you to get a new glass eye oh my goodness because you've needed one haven't you well now you've got one dude you're welcome is this something that you kind of outgrow that you need a new one every year yeah well your your eye looks fine to me from where i'm standing but i imagine you're ready for a new one well there you go buddy that's from a secret santa he wanted to wish you a merry christmas thank you you're welcome this was a last minute one let me tell you someone sent it in two nights ago and we said we gotta learn more about driggs so secret santa brought that to me this morning and said you gotta drive to preston you gotta go see him so that's just for you i hope you know you're a special kid thank you anything you want to say dude you're welcome will you send it send me a picture of your new eye when you get it you have very pretty eyes are they greenish greenish gray hazel green greenish blue i don't know and where is it where do you get that from your mom or your dad probably mom yeah one cup he's blue so am i what color is mom so hazel bro hey what are these these that does his eye that's what we asked him like because he's kind of like bluish green so he said like hazel is really like any mix of colors yeah so that's what he like so he makes this fake eye that's like the guy that makes them he makes yeah the specials that makes fake eyes so he was like hazel's like any mix of colors like that's secondly what it is so i was like okay well you would know well i hope you guys have a good christmas thank you hi buddy you must be two and this little baby's three weeks so mom has her hands full yeah yeah better than empty for now that's right all right well i'll give you guys a fist bump can i fist-bump ya there you go all right merry christmas send it send us a picture of your new eye okay dude all right we'll see merry christmas everybody as you can see the snow is coming down so it definitely feels like christmas is just a few days away we are in saint anthony today outside of the courthouse where we are about to surprise a dispatcher named helena helena has eight children five of them still living at home she is a single mother caring for her children and she not only works at the dispatch center but she also is a reserve officer in madison county and she cleans cabins and island park she is always working every person we spoke to about helena talked about how much of a hard worker she is and she needs a reliable vehicle so she can get to her work and carry her kids safely and this is what secret santa is going to give her today it's covered in snow but it is much newer than the vehicle she is currently using she's inside the dispatch office as i mentioned not only is secret santa giving her this car but inside this tin we have a check for five thousand dollars for her let's go surprise her [Music] knock knock knock how are you ladies you're looking for helena how are you how's your day going good any hot calls coming in today slide-offs are just starting the roads are slick believe me yes uh how long have you worked here two years and what do you do for your job i help people yeah and this isn't your only job from what i understand um i am a jack of many trades yes every person that we spoke to says you work so hard if you're not cleaning cabins you're here or reserving in madison county you're just always busy plus you're a mom busiest of all yes well a secret santa asked if we would bring you an early christmas gift today yeah it's okay you can cry so you can open that it's a little wet sorry it's snowing you're fine can you tell what's on there a big check it is a big check five thousand dollars thank you we heard you might need that yeah and we have one more thing for you [Music] merry christmas oh my goodness do you want to come and see it yeah so you haven't been driving a car yeah i have a car so my one son worked all summer saved money for a truck and he bought it and it blew just a few weeks after he had bought it so it's been sitting i've been working saving money obviously working extra jobs to try and save for it and then the little beater car that he's been driving recently just had car issues so between three myself and two teenage boys were sharing everything well here you go this is yours of course oh my gosh just push that button on the top there yep and it should go right in so christmas came early this morning christmas this is pretty freaking amazing yeah well we're gonna leave it here you guys are awesome thank you and thank you to secret santa you're welcome never had a million years because i feel like there's always somebody else out there that needs more help myself and then here's another thousand dollars this is that you can use to fill it up with gas and register it i don't even have words besides this is i'm very very grateful merry christmas everybody i'm nate eaton we are in firth today with another gift from a secret santa and we are about to surprise the williams family their home burned down about a year and a half ago and they have been unable to rebuild so what they've done to live is they've brought in these campers behind me and they've split up the family and each of them stay in different trailers and secret santa was so touched by them and how they're they're doing right now there's six kids and the parents the father's a truck driver that he wants to give them twenty thousand dollars that can be used toward a down payment for a new home and hopefully they can get back on their feet soon we've come by a few times this week and they haven't been home but i think i see erica the mom right behind me so we're gonna go surprise him we've been trying to get you this week you're busy we've come a few times i had some appointments for my father and i had to take him too okay so you guys from what i understand you used to have a home here right we used to what happened we lost it to a fire and we were two men two weeks away late for a payment so insurance canceled everything on us and told us they wouldn't help us oh no so it burned down we tried to get the insurance money and they said because the day we called them they canceled it oh my gosh so you haven't been able to get any insurance no so what how are you living campers we got the house removed so that was the first step and then saving more money now so we can get a house eventually oh my god wow how many kids do you have six six kids and you're all staying in one camper my two oldest staying this rv and my sister is letting us use okay and then the four are with me and my wow and do you does your husband drive truck or okay so he's home now but long haul he's actually just got a job where he's home every night so that makes it really nice well we wanted to bring you this gift from the secret santa you heard about your situation and was touched by your story and you're welcome to open that merry christmas i hope that'll help get get your home hopefully a down payment or something uh or at least start rebuilding and putting it towards your savings you're welcome you guys have a good christmas we're glad we finally caught you that you're home did you just pull up everybody got home from getting the kids okay good well we came at the right moment will you guys take care please send our love to your family too thank you merry christmas and happy holidays everybody i'm nate eaton we are outside sam's club in idaho falls we're about to surprise the greeter you know the person that checks your receipts when you leave the club well he's had a rough year his name is robert he's 72 he moved to america several years ago from new zealand was living in utah but moved to idaho falls so he could help help care for a family member who has a brain tumor well robert and his wife moved in with this family member they're sharing an apartment and it has been just a rough year for him he recently got covered so he's been out of work today's actually his first day back he's just been here a few hours we've waited to do this surprise for him to return to work and secret santa wants to help ease the burden inside this box we have two thousand dollars in gift cards to the grocery store we also have a 500 gas card and i've got a check in my pocket that's going to pay robert's rent for the next year he doesn't have to worry about rent at all he can care for his his family member who is sick he can take care of his own health and he can hopefully save a little money to to do well so sam's club we've told them that we're coming but robert doesn't have any idea we're going to go in the club and then i'm going to walk out and you know how you hand over your receipt when you leave i'm going to hand him over the check get his reaction and then hand him this box with some extra christmas presents it should be fun let's go [Music] hello robert you need my receipt yes thank you there you go you know what that is yes a secret santa just paid your rent for the next year i don't know what to say merry christmas thank you you've had a rough year from what we understand we've with our baby here we better absolutely terrible year yeah yeah my wife nearly died and we both got beat up by a drunk armed gunman oh my gosh and uh her sister's got a brain tumor and it's just gone on and on and on well you don't have to worry about rent for the next year your your apartment complex knows about this just take that to the office and they're going to pay for it and i want to give you one more thing from the secret santa i'll trade you okay thank you thank you [Music] i'm shaking [Music] oh there's two thousand dollars in there to the grocery store and underneath that there's a five hundred dollar gas card as well oh thank you so much you just blown away merry christmas thank you we know that you worked so hard you're always here with a smile except the past few weeks when you had covered right yes true yeah we've been waiting to come in every day and we got the word this afternoon that you're cleared thank you we sort of wondered what the rush was to get me back to work this was the rice i'm just so overwhelmed i don't know what to say honestly it's absolutely incredible my wife's gonna just about die when she hears what's happened today well you can you can wait and tell her on christmas or you can tell her today you might want to tell her today thank you yeah thank you merry christmas we'll leave that with you and uh maybe they'll give you a five minute break to go catch your breath i don't know it's just mind-blowing honestly this that's all i can say it's absolutely mind-blowing yeah well you have a good holiday your glasses are about to fall off don't don't lose them all right we'll let you guys go thanks for letting us come in merry christmas [Music] merry christmas everybody we are south of rexburg tonight and the snow is gently falling it's the perfect winter evening we're about to surprise a woman named molina she's a 47 year old mother of two her husband randy is 50. he was diagnosed with stage four pancreatic cancer earlier this summer so he has been going through a lot of chemotherapy to help keep up with the bills and everything else molina works two jobs she works at byu idaho in the events department she also works at an elementary school they have a car that has 141 000 miles on a 2005 nissan and she's worried that this car may not last very long well she's getting a new car tonight thanks to secret santa this chevy equinox will be parked in her driveway and here's the best part about this it's her birthday today so we're gonna go up and we're gonna surprise her sing her happy birthday and then give her this car we also have a check from secret santa for five thousand dollars and an extra thousand dollars for her to pay the registration on the car happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday dear valena happy birthday to you how you doing i'm okay you might know half of these people and you might not know us i do you do okay how's your day going happy birthday thank you 27 let's say that okay good we're here on behalf of a secret santa who asked us to bring you a gift today for your birthday and for christmas so i'm i'm gonna give it to you and let you open it right now [Music] you're welcome you've had a rough year and hopefully that can be a bright spot for you and a memorable christmas gift it can be it is thank you very much we have one more thing for you we've got it parked right in your driveway this is a 2020 chevy equinox can you see it down here oh my word you're driving a little bit of an older car i am do you want to get in it where's your daughter you want to get in is this your daughter yeah you want to get in it too it's keyless so as long as you have the key you just push the button and it'll it'll start right up just put your foot on the break put your foot on the brake and push that oh my word [Music] happy birthday merry christmas all of it together in one thank you very much you're welcome i have one other thing for you it's a check it's a thousand dollars another check that'll pay for your registration fill it up with gas um it'll probably give you a little extra too that you can do whatever you need to do with with the car or whatever else you want thank you you're welcome happy 27th birthday [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] merry christmas we are in chubbuck today i'm nate eaton with east idahouse.com we're about to surprise a woman named diana with a special gift from secret santa let me tell you a little bit about diana she came to the united states when she was 20 from england she has raised four kids on her own she's worked hard raising those kids and did an amazing job she works more than full time to provide for her family she works at a doctor's office she does grocery demos on the weekends and on friday afternoons she takes an elderly lady to the grocery store to take care of her this year has been tough for diana her car was totaled when someone ran into her so she was borrowing a car one morning she went to open the driver's side the door was frozen she pulled it and it fell off so she had to pay to get that door fixed on top of all of this she woke up one morning and was having problems seeing and so she had to have eye surgery well now she's working to raise enough money to repair the broken car she's borrowing another car but she doesn't have to do that anymore because this is going to be given to diana from secret santa we also have a thousand dollar check for her a thousand dollar in gas cards and a thousand dollars to the grocery store she's home right now let's go surprise it appears diana is not home we're gonna go find her all right we think we found her we think she's working let's go see diana where are you i'm here why i'm here for you how are you doing come on over here for a minute what's going on what do you know we're actually here to give you a gift from a secret santa oh we heard you've had kind of kind of a rough year with cars breaking down and eye surgeries and oh yes how are things going now pretty good yeah good yes all right a lot better now well i just want to pass this over to you we'd love to see you thank you shall i open it yeah that'd be great oh my god oh goodness oh my gosh who is that from it's a secret i can't tell you oh my god so here's let me show you this one first this is a thousand dollar check [Music] just for you and then this is a thousand dollars to the grocery store and we know this store's near your house because we went to your house and you weren't there and this is a thousand dollars to the gas station oh my gosh so we hope you have a merry christmas thank you i don't know who it's from but thank you very much well it's a secret i forgot to put one more thing in there we have one more box for you oh my god you know what that is a car a car and it's been paid for and you don't owe a penny on it oh you're kidding and it's right outside oh you need to come out and see it oh my gosh come on out let's go [Music] oh my gosh so do you have a car diana no i'm not i have my gorgeous car right now i've had it since so this is your new car oh my gosh oh you're kidding i'm not kidding oh it's from secret santa come on the driver's side gosh it's beautiful oh my god okay so this is how you work this you push that oh my god there you go i don't know how to work it's too fancy just put that in let's make sure it starts so that thousand dollars inside that'll pay for your registration your insurance get you some gas but all the fees and taxes have been paid for you don't pay anything oh my gosh so yeah the insurance is covered with that check as long as everything else i just hope you have a way to get this car home in your other car i'll find a way okay go ahead oh my gosh my kids are never going to believe it thank you so much merry christmas thank you you're welcome this is yours this only happens in movies or on east idaho news so there you go merry christmas everybody we are at bonneville high school by the time you watch this school will be out for the holidays but today students are in class we're about to surprise a teacher who has worked here his name is mr clayton he teaches debate and english and speech he's been here for 15 years tragically last year around christmas time his wife passed away and so he is living living with his elderly father taking care of him and he has done so many wonderful things for this school their speech program goes to state every single year they've won a bunch of awards and from what we understand he has 27 nieces and nephews who love him so secret santa is giving him this car he needs a car the car he has is old and run down and is not very reliable and so secret santa wanted to give him this car along with a 10 000 check that he can use to repair his bathroom apparently the tub needs some remodeling he needs to make some changes in his bathroom so we have a 10 000 check from secret santa let's go surprise him how you doing are you mr clayton i am we hear you're the best speech teacher in idaho falls well there you go you guys have been to state a few times right even nationals yep almost every year yeah so what makes a good speaker what's the number one tip you could give me uh practice confidence good well we're here a secret santa has asked us to come and bring you a christmas gift oh wow and i know christmas is a few days away but i'm just gonna hand i have two gifts for you oh my goodness i want to give you this one first though the pretty one all right i'm opening it yeah go ahead and open it holy toledo we hear you need some bathroom work done remodeling yeah yeah yeah it's been it's got a hole in the wall so well hopefully that ten thousand dollars can help with that hole in the wall oh my goodness that definitely will and then i'll give you the other box here you can switch if you want sure oh wait toledo my hands are shaking oh my gosh that's a nice thing yeah and it goes to a nicer thing which is right outside this door i can't believe that you're you're driving an old car from what we understand yeah it's about 20 years old 20 years old how many miles uh just about 200 000. just about yeah this one does not have two hundred thousand miles on it holy cow we'd love to see you get in there and it's a keyless one so you just gotta put your foot on the brake and push that button to the right of the steering wheel and it'll start up wow that's nice i can't believe that merry christmas oh thank you very much you're welcome so everything has been paid for except your registration which some of that this check can help pay for that oh certainly yeah and um oh my gosh i can't believe that we just want to wish you the best of christmases and we know last december was a little rough from what we understood it definitely was yeah i lost my wife well so that was really a tough one so hopefully this christmas can be a little bit brighter after a crazy year [Music] definitely [Music] merry christmas and happy holidays i'm nate eaton with east idaho news we are in saint anthony today we're about to surprise a woman named michelle michelle has four children three of them have autism one of them brandon passed away three years ago now michelle works at a place called excellence in everyone in saint anthony caring for children and adults who have disabilities ethan her son who lives with her at home will only eat mcdonald's chicken patties she has to buy them by the case it's the only thing he eats but he does like to watch movies on the ipad and stay home and have fun now her other child paige she loves to write letters to everybody in the community she writes cards and notes and she just could check the mail all day every day hoping that people would write her back michelle's mother mary moved in to live with him to help with all of the stresses of everyday life and on top of all of this they've got a saint bernard dog so secret santa wants to give everybody in the house a special christmas gift here's what we have in this bag from secret santa first of all from michelle a 5 000 gift card to a furniture store ashley home furniture so that she can get new couches or beds or a dining table whatever she might need plus we got her a thousand dollar gift card to maverick so she can put gas in her car as she travels back and forth to work for mary grandma secret santa got her three thousand dollars to kohl's so that they can get outfits for the entire family we also have a 500 gift card for ethan to mcdonald's so he can get all the chicken patties his heart desires and for paige 500 to an office supply store and a roll of postage stamps 100 stamps so that she can write as many letters as she wants and for the dog a fun little chew toy you can see it popping out of the bag here and a hundred dollars to a pet store so that he can get some delicious pet food and feel full during the holidays so i think we got that all we're gonna go surprise him give each of these gifts to everybody in the family and wish them a merry christmas [Music] hello hi hi is michelle here yes michelle hi how are you doing my house is scary your house isn't scary i'm nate with east idaho news how's your day going good we're here on behalf of a secret santa and we have some gifts in fact one for everybody in the house if they're if they're here and if they're presentable if if you feel like you want to call them out okay i'll call them out so how long have you guys lived out here this is the house i grew up in oh that's great uh my dad built it when i was probably like four and do you chop all your own firewood no the missionaries did that the missionaries did that is that how you heat your home yes oh wow well we have electric key too but that's more cost efficient is grandma not going to come or ethan she said hey she's here can i say hi i'm nate how are you ethan hi i haven't i have presents for you guys can you come say hi say we're not a man of many words are we why are they that's okay come say hi my name is pidge paige i'm nate now i understand you like to write letters to people why yes and cards birthday cards and christmas cards what's the birthday cards yeah joseph's cards well i have a gift in here for you from a secret santa oh well this is can you open that for us yes this whoa [Music] do you know what this is that's a hundred stamps it was stamped that you can mail a hundred letters and that's five hundred dollars to the office store so you can buy stationary envelopes whatever you want to buy and you can order it all online and they'll ship it right to your house oh well yes merry christmas merry christmas can you tell him thank you you're welcome ethan i have a present for you too can you open it let's see what it is okay just pop the lid right off it was oh he's taking off ethan that's okay so we understand he only eats mcdonald's pretty much mcdonald's patties yeah like chicken patties chicken patties well that's 500 to mcdonald's so are you serious i'm serious so he can go and have mcdonald's to his heart content his heart's content where's grandma is she sleeping she probably okay i don't know if she'll come to the door that's why she's in her pajamas can i give you grandma's and you can open that one open it and tell her what it is yeah oh oh my gosh so on on all of them there's 500 on all of them there's three thousand dollars to kohl's for you guys to get all new winter wardrobe boots long sleeve coat whatever you need and we have where's the dog oh my gosh this is for the puppy big puppy and then this is for him too so he can be eating well there's a hundred dollars to petsmart oh my gosh she yeah we'll let her come out last night because she she'll she'll lick us to death yes and then this is for mom i can switch your boxes you got a lot there i that might last me a month well there's two of them in there seriously there's two gas cards that's a thousand dollars and then this check is to get you guys any furniture you might need you've got a shopping spree down at ashley home furniture for five thousand dollars whatever you need the couch is like a thousand years old that's what we heard so you don't need to get somebody must have come over today i'm not coming back to this place no we wanted to bring this all to you guys from a secret santa who's anonymous and wish you all a very merry christmas well then i hope you're merry christmas you too you too have fun writing your letters oh [ __ ] she probably goes through 100 yeah yeah she writes letters to the whole world don't you be good if you want to write a letter to secret santa send it to me and i'll give it to him so santa claus bring this present that's right can we write we need to write a thank you to the secret santa who brought us all this stuff right yes yes okay well i'm gonna leave that with you okay hi doggy holy smokes you're going to be eating good where's that toy does he disney dolly i'm sure she'll chew this up in in two seconds flat but hey hey okay i feel bad he walks around my driveway you

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