Day 12
After another amazing
handmade breakfast, we began our perilous journey on finishing up the container
duties.
Our first stop was to
the nursing home. We unloaded our many donations and sat down to share with
them the gift of our voices. I don’t know exactly how great that gift was but
we gave it with our full hearts. They replied in song and we left swiftly after
saying our goodbyes.
Round 2 of the
container, we prepared to go to the school. It rained but we pushed through the
weather and prepared to meet the children.
We pulled up to the
school and a sound was coming from the building that was drowning out our
radio. When we emerged from the vans the children’s voices overpowered even our
thoughts. We sat in front of them as they sang and cheered and clapped.
We sand and they tried
to clap us off of the stage twice. But the stubborn team that we are, we sang
threw the madness and they cheered even louder (didn’t think that was possible)
when we finished. Some people were a little surprised when Lauren and I
volunteered the team to come back tomorrow during beach day…woops.
Lucky us, we got to cool off in a ride in the truck back to the house. Once again we began to unload the container and construct hygiene kits for the parents awaiting their sick children at the hospital.
The halls were chilled and full of hope. Parents who had been there for days were beyond joy when we presented them the gifts. I have never seen pure joy before until that day when I handed the small 3 year old named Genevieve a teddy bear.
Today was a monumental day. We as a team were the cause of so much joy. That is something that you will never forget.
**Maddy Wolford**
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