Hannah's Update

Hey,
I can't believe we're already on day four of our trip. Time is flying by so fast. You wouldn't believe the day we've had today.
Our missions group is split in half. In my group, we went to a woman's house (her name is Liz, short for Jermaine), to paint the exterior of her house. It was blue when we got there, and when we left it was brown-green. The houses on this street were so run down, some still having X's from the search and rescue squads that went through them 6 years ago.
Today was about a hundred degrees outside. We spent from 8 AM until about 1:30 PM painting in the hot sun, with the majority of us wearing blue zinc on our face. The woman next door to where we were working was gracious and let us rest under her shaded porch. She witnessed the flooding and saw dead bodies float by as she stayed in her home, waiting for the rescue squad to allow her to bring her dogs with her.
Anyway, after a long day of work, we ran out of paint, then got more paint, then almost everyone was worn out. A thunderstorm rolled in and we were forced inside as lightning started to flash. The temperature must have dropped twenty degrees or so. Suddenly and surprisingly, it started to hail. Marble sized hail.
I wish I knew a meteorologist, because nothing about this made much sense. It was wonderful and refreshing and hopefully pictures will be up soon of Tanner running and jumping through ankle deep puddles through the hail.

New Orleans is a beautiful city. Just yesterday we were at Bunny Friends Park, on Desire Street in the 9th Ward. After returning home Chad informed us that the place we were working at was the 2nd most dangerous place in the United States.  If you had been there with us, I doubt you would believe it. The people in the community all around the park were thanking us and offering to help throughout the day.
God is so powerful. And it just goes to show how love overcomes all fear.

Right now, the Heat and the Mavs are in their 4th? game and it's 61-63 (Dallas in lead) in the third quarter.
Just in case you read this Trav, I have changed my mind and started to hope the Heat will win. I bet you guys were pretty happy when they won the last game.
We do have some fun at the end of the day, watching
Good luck, Heat.

Thank you to all who have been praying for us as we've been working. Please continue to pray for strength for our team and for us to have grateful hearts throughout the week.

I miss you all so much at home.
I miss you Mom, and Travis, and all my other buddies who I haven't been able to talk to in awhile.
Thank you so much for all your support.