It is now day two of week 4 in hot bug infested Weslaco, TX.  Do I sound frustrated?  I'm not really.  The bugs are ridiculous here though.  I was nearly carried away by masquitos this morning after I left the pool area where I take showers (long story, the shower in my room is so small if I were to drop the soap I would have to get out of the shower and pick it up, plus the spout hits about my chin so doesn't do a lot of good when you have a huge afro!).  This week is going pretty well, considering the situation...I am shooting 9 sites which is the most I have ever done.  Last week was 8 and they were all really close.  This week there is 9 and farther apart.  We are in Rio Bravo this week, as apposed to Reynosa where we have been.  Rio Bravo is special to me for a couple reasons.  My first trip down here two years ago we built a house for a lady name Graciala.  I was fortunate enough to see her today.  Of course she didnt' recognize me at first because of the hair, but once I pulled it back she knew who I was.  She had a picture of Jana and was trying to find her.  Rob and I talked to her for a bit, to make things easier Daniel (the son of the Vacation Bible School Director) came and helped interpert for us and explain that Jana wasn't coming this summer because she is doing an internship in Iowa.  She seemed pretty upset, but gave me lots of hugs anyway so that was awesome.  The other reason I love Rio Bravo is becuase of Luis.  I spoke of him a little in the last entry I think.  Luis is an 8 year old Mexican boy who I am going to take home w/me one day.  He has officially become my "video assitant".  He has been doing some shooting for me, I'm still trying to teach him not to press the red button (the record button) every time he moves.  Makes the clips very choppy, but it's a lot of fun!  He reminds me how bad my spanish really is.  He's really good about helping me talk my way through things though.  Kids so smart, he's only 8 and still amazes me!  He's got a whole photo album of him and Mission Discovery that I have to go see at his house some time.  He hung out with me yesterday and today.  Today was the first day of VBS so I got to see his mom and two sisters as well.  His parents are amazing people as well.  Pretty young, but his dad is really awesome.  They actually moved the house that mission discovery built for them last year, moved it from infront of their old house to the side of it.  The father said, "it was in my way, and we couldnt' see the road."  So he just uped and moved it.  He is now putting a picket fence up infront of the house, it's not exactly a pretty white picket fence like I'm sure you all are imagining, but it is definitely the nicest fence on the road.  Such awesome people they are!  That's the past 2 days in a nut shell.
Last week, junior high camp...thought it was going to be rough, but I ended up having a good week.  Monday was a rough day.  I didn't get finished w/my video until really late.  Like after 6pm so I missed dinner and was almost late for evening program.  But the week got better.  I ate a lot of good pastries from Pan de Vida AND Jim Bates was here.  He is a youth pastor who aslo does a minsitry called midnight ministry where him and some people come in and do lock ins for youth groups.  That's how I met him originally.  I think it was my junior year or just after my sophomore year something like that.  But he was here a week I was here last year as well.  He spoke last week.  Amazing guy!  I had so much fun with him last week.  He made a good point, we live like 10 minutes from each other yet went a WHOLE year without seeing each other.  He actually talked to me about an internship...kinda scary.  That sounds all grown up and stuff!  I'll worry about that later.  Anway, last week was a lot of fun.  I didn't really get to connect with the campers until Friday, seems like I've been so busy that i'm missing the fun of being down here.  Jenny (Pocohauntas) and I talked about that tonight.  The bad thing is that it won't really change this week.  I've been working on finishing two promo videos for "Game Time".  A new thing we are doing in the afternoons down here.  It is actually for Brooke's internship that she is doing while down here, but I get to make the promo videos.  We shot for something like 2 hours on Saturday and I worked over 3 hours making the first one and have to finish the second one tonight.  I really should get on that!  And tomorrow night I have to work on my tender moments video (which by they way, last week was the first week I did my own tender moments video or tear jerker video or money shot video...whatever you wanna call it and I had to turn the volume up to drown out the sobbying! am I braging noooo...what can I say, it was junior high kids!) then thursday night I have to do the duplicate thing all over again, soooooo HOPEFULLY after this week things will lighten up a little bit!  After next week Maury will be back and I won't know what to do having him around to help out when needed!
Hope all is well with those reading this.  Please pray for VBS, I never heard how many attended today, but it was ALOT!  They expected 80 women for the women's ministry part of it.  Don't know if they reached that or not.  I'll try to keep you updated.  God bless you all and hope to hear from you soon.