Los Chorros de Juayua. This was a neat day because we got to share
our children with some close friends. Mario,
Isela and Carlos, as well as Jose, Kelly, Nicole and Kiki went to the Juayua
falls with us. Mario is a guide as his
mom lives at the last house before the trip down to the falls. He took the group on Sunday from the
campaign, but Dwaine and I didn’t go.
Jose said he used to live close by and came often as a child. But he had not been in a long, long
time. We parked at Mario’s and walked
down. There were lots of butterflies
along the way and Christina snapped a ‘few’ photos on the journey. Jose and Kelly said that when Sister Ana and
Rosalidia were young, that was the only water source in the city and everyone
had to wash clothes in the falls.
Because it was so crowded during the day, they would go two to three
times a week between midnight and four o’clock in the morning. What a journey with a load of clothes! I cannot imagine going in the night! When we arrived there were a few people there
and two policemen. We had heard off and
on it could be dangerous in that someone could be robbed, but we felt very
safe. The water was cold! I think everyone got in. For the part we saw, there were a series of
three falls with pools at the bottom. We
got some interesting stories. They said
that originally, it was all natural. But
in the 2001 earthquake, some of the falls were destroyed and they had to be
reconstructed at the bottom of the falls to reform the pools. I asked if anyone was killed in the
earthquake and they said yes. There were
several rocks that had landslide down the cliff into the water. They said that in the earthquake, especially
the second pool was most affected and was full of people washing clothes and
all were crushed and killed. Yes, we
swam in that pool too. In fact, we took
the dare so to speak and traveled the tunnel.
Each fall was separated by a tunnel.
We were told the water level was too high and over the tunnels on Sunday
but today, they had an opening about upper shoulder to head high. Mario said we could go through the second
tunnel, but he had to go first. It was
fairly long and completely dark. Mario
went first, then Clifton and then me. It
was hilarious and scary. Dwaine,
Christina and Leanna and some of the kids followed in the second group. When you approached the next pool, Mario had
the progression blocked to make a sharp turn out to the pool. He said that if you continued you would
die! He said it was a sharp drop to the
bottom! So we turned. The walk back was very rocky and painful because
no one had shoes. It was fun and we
walked back. When we got to the road
where only 4 wheelers Dwaine went and got our car for me and a few to drive
back. Dwaine, Christina, Clifton and a
few others took a short cut through the coffee fields. We arrived back about the same time. We mostly rested for the afternoon and
cleaned for the weekly Bible study at our home for Thursday night. It just down poured just before the meeting. We still had just over 20 and Mario gave a
good lesson on Matthew. It was a great
day and a good break to recoup after the campaign.
Los Chorros
Waterfalls
Bible Study
in our home
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