Sunday morning we got up and headed to church in St. Louis du Sud. The church members were all dressed up lookin fine. The kids were all dressed up in some of the clothes we brought, and the girls were loaded down with hair bows. We were the worst dressed bunch in the crowd! The Haitians seem to be doing fine but we must have looked kinda funny cuz we were sweating like dogs! The most moving part was when they had the orphans sing and they were crossing the room toward us.
Watching them worship was so wonderful with their eyes closed and hands raised. The next part was the hardest part as we said good bye. We took some photos and left. The van was quiet as we all were reflecting back on our week. We stopped back by our new friend Marie's. She is the lady who took us in on our first exciting night in Haiti. Then if it wasn't sobering enough driving through port au prince, our driver drove us thru "the city of the sun" , a expansive slum that is wholly indescribable. Overwhelming poverty. We spent the night at Mission of Hope with about 100 people. They house groups who come in to do short term mission work. It was the first white people we had seen in a while. We had our last group meeting in the midst of all the activity then bunked down for the night. We shared the back of a truck with with 16 other Americans and all our luggage and bounced and lurched to the airport. The road travel has been a whole other story in itself! Now we're all waiting patiently at the airport for our flight has been delayed 2 hours. This is heather and Amy signing off. See you soon!
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