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“With propoganda, we can make heaven seem like hell and hell seem like heaven.” – unknown

Since I’m thinking about this, I thought I’d put it here. It’s amazing to me how if a country’s government wants to control its population, they control the access to media. If you want to control what a person thinks or is, you control what they have access to as far as information. If you can control everything a person reads, listens to, or watches, you will be able to control what they think. It’s an interesting phenomena that is still happening in our world today.

The next time you go to research something, think about the wonderful privilege it is to have access to the internet or other media outlets. What if you could only hear one side of the story? What if there was no second opinion? It would be a lot more difficult. I never really thought that much about freedom of the press before today, but now I understand why we fight for that freedom.

Good News

We got good news yesterday about our housing situation. Right now, we live in a house owned by the International Mission Board. We are renting it from them at a great price. Our “contract” with them is up in August, but we just renewed until August 2007. This will be the longest we have ever lived in one place.

We figured it out that we have lived in 5 different places in the 2 and a half years we have lived in Mexico. Before moving to Mexico, we lived in 5 places in 5 years. So, it’s good to have some “stability,” even if it’s only for a little while.

June Newsletter

Today was a pretty good day. I had the chance to finish up writing our June Newsletter and sent it out to our church. Thankfully, they send it out to our mailing list whenver we write a snail mail newsletter. If you want to receive that newsletter, we’d love to add you to our mailing list. Just leave a comment on this post. Of course, if you have Adobe Acrobat Reader, you can download the PDF file by clicking here. You can also check out the back issues of our newsletter on our newsletters page. Also, leave us a comment if you want to be included on our email list. We promise we won’t send you spam.

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Cole’s birthday

Cole in boat at Xochimilco Tonight I went to Ruby Tuesday with a bunch of missionaries for Cole’s 17th birthday. We had some really good food and then, we went back to their house for some dessert. Cole got tons of CDs for his birthday, and I had a great time with our friends here in Mexico City. If you want to know more about Cole’s life, check out his blog, and make sure you write him a comment.

Photo: Cole on a boat in Xochimilco

Only in Mexico…

I got to the airport today in Guadalajara (more on that later) to find out that my flight was cancelled. When I asked why it was cancelled, the lady said that they had planned to cancel that flight. I don’t really understand why they would sell me a ticket for a flight that they were planning on cancelling. Maybe that was so I would show up an hour earlier because I thought that my flight was leaving at 4 and so they could really put me on the flight that left at 5. I’ll never understand.

Wedding video

So, I finished up the wedding ceremony video last night. It was a lot of fun. I learned a lot about video production, and I think it turned out pretty well. It’s a lot better than the video we have of our wedding, which didn’t turn out at all. Of course, the photographer kept getting in my way (and everyone’s way) during the wedding, but she didn’t seem to mind at all. I mean, right at the kiss the bride, she stands up in the middle of the aisle to snap a shot, in front of the entire crowd. Frustrating. Oh well, at least they’ll have a picture of their kiss to mail to the 200 people who couldn’t see it because she was in the way. I still have a lot of video to edit, and I want to put it on a DVD for them. We’ll see how that works out. No time today, though. I got lots to do before tomorrow.

NOTE: If you want to see the video on Youtube.com, here are the links. It’s poor quality, but you get the idea.
Part 1
Part 2
Part 3

Back in Mexico with lots to do

I made it back to Mexico City last night, and I just finished my seminary class for the day. I’m extremely tired, but I have a lot of things to do. Here’s my list:

  1. Grade Mexico homework
  2. Prepare for last week and a half of class.
  3. Prepare for Guadalajara trip this weekend.
  4. Talk to Salomon about the workshop in Guadalajara.
  5. Communicate with Nahum, who is coming to lead a youth ministry conference on Friday in chapel.
  6. Grade stuff from Cuba program.
  7. Prepare class for Cuba trip in June.
  8. Finish details for Cuba trip.
  9. Edit video from the wedding (Everything but the ceremony).
  10. Get gas in the car
  11. Clean the house.
  12. Sleep?
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