Delinda and I went to Waveland, Mississippi this weekend with our Church group. There really aren't words to describe how destroyed that city is. It's really very sad. The pictures show just a small portion of how bad it is down there. So much is destroyed... it looks like a war zone. But the people are working hard to recover their lives and move on. I admire their persistence and motivation to keep going when there is so much to pull back together and repair.
I again feel very blessed to have what I have. I'm blessed to have been able to assist in a very small way in comparison to what needs to be done there. I hope that I can get back down there to work some more. There is SO much to do and so many people to help.
We got there late on Friday night (Saturday morning rather) and camped... well sort of. We slept in the car, or tried to. Got to work early in the morning. We were the only girls in our group. Yeah, we rocked- that's right.
We stayed at this stake center the next night and slept in one of the classrooms on the floor. The building had also been flooded and all the carpet was taken out and about a foot of the wall from the ground up- so we laid our sleeping bags on the cement and tried to get sleep after a LONG day of work. We had Sacrament meeting in the morning, and then all returned to working before we drove home. It was a neat experience, but quite strange sitting in the chapel in our jeans and t-shirts taking the sacrament! We were grateful to be there having such a neat, once-in-a-lifetime experience though. 
This was the group we were with at the house of the couple in the center of the photo. They weren't on our list, but they were next door to one we were working on so we went to help them.
We got there late on Friday night (Saturday morning rather) and camped... well sort of. We slept in the car, or tried to. Got to work early in the morning. We were the only girls in our group. Yeah, we rocked- that's right.
We stayed at this stake center the next night and slept in one of the classrooms on the floor. The building had also been flooded and all the carpet was taken out and about a foot of the wall from the ground up- so we laid our sleeping bags on the cement and tried to get sleep after a LONG day of work. We had Sacrament meeting in the morning, and then all returned to working before we drove home. It was a neat experience, but quite strange sitting in the chapel in our jeans and t-shirts taking the sacrament! We were grateful to be there having such a neat, once-in-a-lifetime experience though. 
This was the group we were with at the house of the couple in the center of the photo. They weren't on our list, but they were next door to one we were working on so we went to help them.
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