A Florida housekeeper at an airport hotel was rewarded with $100 and an employee of the month party for finding and returning $6,000 cash.

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The Miami International Airport Hotel said housekeeper Jeanne Mydil, 50, found a large zippered bag containing the cash in the nightstand in a vacant room and immediately turned it over to superiors, The Miami Herald reported Friday.

"I am Christian," Mydil said through an interpreter in Creole. "I never had thoughts of taking the money."

Hotel officials said the cash was left behind by a missionary group on their way to Haiti to assist with earthquake relief efforts.

"We're very thankful for the people in that hotel. What she did is completely amazing. You have no idea,'' said David Ruesga of the El Paso, Texas, based missionary group Youth With a Mission.

Mydil was rewarded with $100 from the group and Marta Guerra, the hotel's director of marketing and sales, said the housekeeper was thrown a party honoring her as the Miami International Airport Employee of the Month.