LORD, HAVE MERCY ON US ALL
...and that was only half way home.
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In other news: We have been served many figs and pastes made of figs as we visit members. Quinn has lost many pounds and is starting to look lethargic. It is humbling, what we have seen. I have done service projects in Mexico and thought I had seen poverty before, but really I had no notion of what poverty is really like. Tonight was the most difficult. We spent the entire day in sweltering heat and humidity sitting in the stairway of a `house`and listened to a family describe their life and offer us things we new they could not afford. It was very very difficult to come back to the Sheraton and walk into our air conditioned room with carpet and see all of our things. It was an undescribable experience that I hope I never get over. It has been very difficult to visit the members in the heat and with the distance and danger, but it has been humbling to the core. More later.
We go to Salavador tomorrow morning for the last leg of our trip. I think we shall sit on the beach and not move the entire time we are there. We are exhausted... and hungry. Then it~s a day in Mexico city and we´ll be home.
Love you all!
Q and Nic
1 comment:
What a very neat and humbling experience. We do have a lot, don't we?!
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