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After lunch, Katie and Jen switched places. I was in between Hanni and Katie, and I was actually feeling great. It was nice and warm out, I was working (most of the time that’s something I enjoy. :)) and I was talking with some amazing ladies. So yeah, I was feeling pretty great.

After a while Jamie sent Bruce and Luke over to help us. Hanni sent them to look for some rocks to bridge a gap in the trail, on the hill above us.

They were gone for almost an hour, and I was starting to wonder if they were both ok. That was when I heard them stomping around above me, and they started rolling rocks down the hill towards us.

I jumped to the side as a rock veered from its course, coming to rest right where I had been standing. I thanked God before picking up the rock, bringing to over to where it should have landed.

The guys were done throwing rocks at me rolling rocks down the hill, so they went back to Jamie to see what they could do next. By then it was almost three, and we had reached the dead tree.

“Hey girls, we’re going to go see where Katie’s old group did service with us. Let’s go put our tools back and we’ll get the Elephants.”

All of the tools were put by the split in the trail and everyone hiked back to where I had been working. We bush pushed up the hill, because we needed to get around that tree. There wasn’t really a trail, and it was really, really steep. But we were done working, and we were going to go see where Katie had worked before.

Within ten minutes we were done with our bush push and we were back on the trail. The trail that was already there looked really good – a lot better than ours did. But ours was also on the side of the mountain, and this one was winding through a forest.

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