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Day 5. Action.

Morning started really early. Matt and I got breakfast at 7:30 and were out the hotel doors at 8. Jennifer and Teresa had a meeting at the UN Building at 8:30. I was about to get in the car when I guy walking by got my attention and said, "Hey, you've got a flat tire." I walked around and sure enough...flat tire. I announced the situation and we changed cars. Matt and I dropped the ladies off at the UN and headed back to the hotel to figure out the tire situation. After pondering for a minute we checked on the spare and it was a full spare. We had a short amount of time before we needed to get everyone to our next meeting...so we passed on calling Avis (Chances of them having a tire for a Chevy would be rare, multiple people were really surprised that Lesotho had even one Chevy) and just put the full spare on the car...Hoping that we would only need the one spare.

Headed back into the hotel, the rest of the team was up and ready. We loaded up into the cars, picked up Jennifer and Teresa, and drove back to Beautiful Gate. For Matt and I this would be our last chance to get what pictures or video we would need for the week. We spent time getting pictures of the preschool, campus, and skills training operation. We also were able to enjoy a little tea time mid day. I love tea time. The last thing we got were interviews of the ladies that were doing the skills training.

Matt and I wrapped up pretty quick after the interviews because we had a meeting to get Jennifer and Sonya to. LCCU - Lesotho Child Counseling Unit. They do some good stuff. They aren't big, but they are on the cutting edge of caring for sexually abused children. It was a 20 minute drive. While the ladies were in their meeting Matt and I were walking around getting footage of the building, kids, and landscape. While taking pictures we noticed a procession in the middle of a town just below where we were. Later learning that it was for a young girl that had died of HIV. As the procession walked through the middle of their town they were singing hymns. It was...idk...it was real.

The ladies had a great meeting with the leaders of LCCU. A valuable relationship was made. We then headed back to Beautiful Gate to get the rest of the ladies...then it was a rush to get to the hotel for two more meetings.

The rest of the day was dinner meetings with influential locals, backing up files in "Command Central", video diaries, and the nightly team meeting.

Anther crazy day that the Lord had made.

Day 5.