What a day, what a day, what a day!  Headed to Mexico today expecting an amazing day and let me tell you that's definitely what I got, only I had no idea.  I took my own camera down, which I normally do on thursday since it's the last day of the week, and I shot about three minutes on it and a good 20 or 25 minutes on the mission discovery camera.  I seriously thought it was some of the best shots I had got all year.  I had a lot of good tender moments shots from the different sites and the kids (American) were cooperating great with me and just shooting some AWESOME stuff.  I redid a skit that I had tried to do yesterday, but decided not to because I didn't get enough shots, partially because the battery on the camera died.  Anyhow, today I had plenty of shots to do the skit and just a lot of great footage.  The only thing that went wrong in the Colonia today was I didn't get to see Luis until right as I was leaving.  I guess we just kept missing each other all day long, so that was sad (but I think Rob and I are going to try to sneak down to Rio Bravo on Saturday and see him and eat at Goat Cheese).  I got back to edit about 12:45 or so, which is pretty early.  The joys of working in Rio Bravo.  I plugged my battery in to charge so I could have enough juice to capture all the video and went and changed and cleaned up some, came back started to capture the video and had nothing.  Then I had footage from last week.  I ran out of tape earlier in the week so I started taping over last weeks tape instead of using a new one.  I rewond the tape until I found footage from yesterday, then I fast forwarded it to see if I had somehow just skipped some, then watched a little closer and last weeks footage had a strip down the middle left side of the screen and I finally realized that strip was todays footage.   I took the tape out and the ribbon part of the tape had got caught out side of the cartridge, just a little bit.  So all that great footage I thought I had, was non-existant!  At first I thought, hmm...this could get interesting.  I started calling a few people to see if I could get a hold of Rob in the Colonia still and have him take some video on his camera since it has a video feature and some still shots of the families we were building for.  Well needless to say I didn't get ahold of him in time, but I did end up getting some footage from a couple of the youth pastors that I was able to use tonight on the tender moments video.  Today's video on the other hand...I decided I would just go back and steal footage from throughout the week, which I did.  This was kind of interesting seeing how I am used to getting clips from 20 minutes of footage today I had over an hour worth the footage to try and find clips from.  I guess that's good though, I did find some stuff that I hadn't used in previous days and used it as well as using some stuff that I had already used.  I felt really bad for the campers.  The had done some awesome things for the camera that I'm sure they were excited to see on the big screen, but were not able to.  I felt awful.  The video wasn't terrible, it just wasn't very exciting because not very much of it matched with the song that was played.  I have thought quite a bit about this whole situation and I truly think that God is just humbling me.  I know and I admit that I am a prideful person!  I take too much pleasure in seeing peoples reaction to things I do and too much pleasure in receiving praise about stuff.  I think this was God's way of reminding me that I don't have control and though he did allow me to come up with something for the day it wasn't what I (key word there, I) wanted.  It wasn't the best that it could have been.  But maybe because of this I put somebody on the video who I had passed over all week and would have not got on the video otherwise?  I don't know, if I did what would be the fun in that?  Anyway, it didn't stop there.  I quit working on the tender moment video last night because I didn't think I had enough shots and I didn't like how they were falling in to place and I was getting frustrated so I quit that and went and passed out on my bed reading my Bible at like 10:30.  I came in tonight, with no more shots than I had last night since I lost all the footage of today, and everything just started falling into place.  I was almost done in an hour which is pretty good.  The computer said it was updating the time line, but was taking longer than normal so I decided I would go call Brent and Clay and see how they were and if the computer would fix it's self in that time.  Well I came back and it was in the same position.  I couldn't cntrl alt delete it even.  It was totally frozen, so I had to restart the whole computer with the restart button.  When I opened my project back up nothing I had done tonight was on there...all of it gone.  Rob was here and I'm glad he was because I might have lost it and broke the computer had he not been here.  But we started looking around and found the autosave files which had MOST of the stuff I had done so that saved me another hour of working on tender moments video.  But I got it done and I am now duplicating videos. 
This week has been crazy, I've worked on videos every night I think after chapel.  Seems like that's all i've been doing!  I was all thinking that I have a 3 day weekend to just relax and chill and do a whole lot of nothing, but John Dolph wants me to shoot a promo video for him at the beach tomorrow.  A promo video of the buses or something like that, he said he'd talk to me about it tomorrow at the beach.  I thought about not going...not really.
This all happened today after yesterday was crazy as well.  Yesterday I didn't leave the Colonia until after 1:00.  I was very much hurried to finish the video in time and I actually didn't get to thicket until about 15 min. until 7 and the evening program opens between 15 and 10 min until 7 so..it was pushing, but it got done.  Once again, God provided just what I needed!  Funny how He has a time schedule and no matter how much I try to work out my own it does no good unless it happens to correspond with God's....if that makes any sense?  It's getting to be that time where I am really tired and should go take a nap while the videos are recording!  Hope you enjoy this.  If you have any questions be sure to comment on this or you can email me at ptd797s@smsu.edu feel free to do either.  God bless you all, please pray for us at the beach tomorrow that everybody be safe, pray for the families with their new houses, for the kids leaving to go back into the real mission field, and finally that God will prepare the hearts of the kids who will be arriving on Sunday.  God bless you all.  Miss you all back home.