Amazingness!

Lumela! ("Hello"- pronounced Dumela)
Lesotho was amazing! I really wish I didn't have to leave. I spent the last two weeks in Lesotho, mostly in the capital city, Maseru. I got to fly with all of the pilots there and help them with their flights- mainly picking up patients and bringing them back to Maseru to get to the hospital, bringing the patients back to their villages, and transporting cargo and people who work in the clinics to different places around the mountains.
I got to spend three days in the mountains with a missionary who works with AIM (Africa Inland Mission). This was an amazing experience!I went with Sefiri, one of the guys who works at MAF and he taught me the language, to the mountains. On the way there we took the taxis and bus. This was quite a rough trip. In the taxis you are super crammed in and you have all your luggage around your lap and legs. They stop at random spots in the road and let more people in or out. Sometimes at major stops you will wait for an hour or so. There is no real schedule to things there. Halfway through we switched from a taxi to a bus (a bit more space but they keep letting ore people on and they often stand in the aisle). On our last switch over we found a taxi that would take us to Mokhotlong (the city close to where I would be staying)- a 4 hour crammed taxi ride in the mountains- which means super bumpy roads filled with huge potholes! We spent a lot of time traveling by road in the mountains (no airstrips near where we were). On the second day we drove to two villages which were right on the border (South Africa and Lesotho border). We had big bags full of clothes and blankets which we passed out to the children.
This trip was really amazing and I see God leading me towards the mission field as a pilot. The Lesotho MAF team is a great team and hopefully in the future I can return and work with them again!
Ke leboha ha holo!! (Thank you very much).

Fly with Christ!
Helen (Nthabiseng- my Sesotho name)!

ps. I will post pictures soon on this blog and on facebook.