... and now we can't understand a thing they say! Here's Sandy's report on how it went:

I did not know what to expect when we reached New Orleans. I thought there would be a lot of people down-hearted and angry, but that wasn’t the case.
In the French quarter you couldn’t tell that anything had happened. It was when we headed out for our work projects that it was hard to take. In the neighborhoods there were houses that were fixed up right next to a house that had not been touched since the storm three years ago. To think that Calvin (the owner of the first house we gutted) still lived in a camper in front of his house because he could not afford to get his house gutted was heartbreaking.
The second house we worked on was in worse shape. It had been flooded up to the roof and had not been touched for three years!! When we started cleaning it out I was so heartbroken for the people that had to leave their home-literally their life- and start over. My heart broke and I took some time to cry and pray for the owners that they would be found and could be given their home back to start over. I prayed that they were safe, we didn’t know if they had survived or not, and that they knew that God loved them.
The verse that we looked at during the week in our chapel time was Micah 6:8, “He has showed you, O man, what is good and what does the Lord require of you? To act justly, and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.” God really touched my heart to walk humbly during this week.
We would be in Walmart, at a coffeehouse or on the street and people would ask us if we were here with the Christian groups that were helping their city. When we said yes we were gutting houses they would thank us for coming to their city and helping them. Complete strangers thanked us for working.
It was very humbling and I was touched deeply and know that God was pleased with the work we did for Him in New Orleans!