{"id":1664,"date":"2012-01-18T08:15:17","date_gmt":"2012-01-18T14:15:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/?p=1664"},"modified":"2012-01-16T18:17:48","modified_gmt":"2012-01-17T00:17:48","slug":"mexican-survivor-t2-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2012\/mexican-survivor-t2-edition.html","title":{"rendered":"Mexican Survivor (T2 edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, two people on our team of CAM missionaries are leaving to go to another team. &nbsp;<b>Rollie and Jo Ann Smith<\/b> are joining another team (for various reasons &#8211; none of them bad!). &nbsp;(Well, bad for <i>us<\/i> &#8211; because we&#8217;ll miss them!)<\/p>\n<p>This gave us a golden opportunity.&nbsp;&nbsp;At our last team meeting, the other team members snuck out and made a video for them. &nbsp;After all, even missionaries can have fun. &nbsp;Sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>As you&#8217;ll see, the video was really made for them, so some explanations are required before you watch. &nbsp;First, a &quot;T2&quot; is a <i>Transformation Team<\/i> (two ts, get it?) &#8211; that&#8217;s what our mission teams are called. &nbsp;All <a href=\"http:\/\/caminternational.org\">CAM<\/a> missionaries are on a T2.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, some poetic license was being taken (ok, a LOT of poetic license!) &#8211; the Smiths aren&#8217;t really being sent to Pachuca (a place in central Mexico), but they&#8217;re joining the Pachuca team &#8211; so called because most of the missionaries have been from around Pachuca (actually, that&#8217;s not even the official team name).<\/p>\n<p>Lastly, and most obviously, they changed teams because of mutual discussion and agreement, not &#8230; well, not for the reasons you&#8217;ll see here.<\/p>\n<p>So even if you&#8217;re not an &quot;insider&quot;, you might enjoy this video. &nbsp;A good reminder that we have some cool missionary friends. &nbsp;Or some weird missionary friends. &nbsp;Or both.<\/p>\n<p>(By the way, as we told the Smiths &#8211; be sure to watch the <i>whole thing<\/i> &#8211; it&#8217;s just over 10 minutes)<\/p>\n<p><center><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"480\" height=\"274\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/EFQCZtPF_ks?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sadly, two people on our team of CAM missionaries are leaving to go to another team. &nbsp;Rollie and Jo Ann Smith are joining another team (for various reasons &#8211; none of them bad!). &nbsp;(Well, bad for us &#8211; because we&#8217;ll miss them!) 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