A Blessing in Disguse

Who would ever have thought that a trip to a waterfall could be such a blessing?!

After a 2 hour walk by myself in the mountains of praying and reflecting on my life and time here in this town I began to think how this was going to be a long 3 and a 1/2 weeks without much contact to other Americans or much to do. Yet the very next morning while I was getting ready for another walk my tican cousin came over and gladly invited me to go see a waterfall. Without knowing what a great time was to come I gladly said yes, quickly accepting any invitation I could got to do something different, get out of the house and spend time with other people other than my family.

Wow and I am so glad that I did! We had a blast! My cousin is great and I love how she has reached out to me here. We ending up going with a group of 8 other kids. While I was crawling through the river in the mountain I was thinking to myself, "this is the kind of activity that I enjoy and I am so glad that God gave me this opportunity to hang out with these people." The whole time we spent walking to the waterfall we were laughing, jumping in the mud and having a good time together.

When we got to the waterfall it was so beautiful....we took some pictures. However it is hard for pictures to do a justice of the beauty and true experience.