Greetings from Lesotho!

Hello Friends and Family!

Greetings from Lesotho! We have now been in Butha Buthe, Lesotho for a week now and are really enjoying our time here!

We have just finished with our youth camp: The Amazing Race which took place over Easter weekend and coincided with the school holidays. The youth (ages 8-20) are all from the same village and are apart of the LXP youth program each Saturday afternoon. LXP offers camps bi-annually as a time of refreshing and spiritual enrichment in the lives of the youth. On this particular camp, there were 80 youth and the theme scripture for the camp was Hebrews 12:1-2a.

The camp kicked off with learning about what a race is, and the fact that we are all running the race of life.

The first morning they were unexpectedly woken up at 5:00am to “persevere” through a three hour trek up and down the mountain. As the weekend continued, they learned about throwing off the sin that holds us back, running with others (teamwork), running victoriously, and running well (self-discipline).

The camp ended Monday morning and we are now taking a few days to relax and revive ourselves!

For the rest of the time while we are here, we will be doing the necessary things for our return to Lesotho in the near future.We are really enjoying our cultural immersion here in Lesotho. Piet is able to brush up on his Sotho language and I, Leah, am learning bit by bit as I go. We are also loving the warm hospitality from the Sotho people.

Prayer Requests:

-Please pray that we make the right decision about where we should stay long term. We have found two possible options. One is in the town (running water, electricity) and the other is in the village living among the people and like the people (electricity, but fetching water daily). 
-Please pray for other logistics as well such as renting out our house in JHB and selling our Ford.

Truly Loving Africa,

The Bakers