The first letter was from my other new correspondent child, 13-year-old Rafael from Ecuador.
His letter is a typical first letter form with blanks for him to fill in with information about himself. He includes that he likes the color blue, playing soccer, listening to music, and his best subject is language. Rafael lives in the coastal region and says that his area is 'beautiful with lots of houses'. He asks that I pray for his family, and included a lovely picture of an island and a palm tree on the back.
I am so excited to get to know this boy. He seems very sweet and open already. I'm also proud of myself for being able to read most of his letter in Spanish before I turned it over to read the translation.
My next letter was from darling Rhean in the Philippines.
As usual Rhean's mom helped her fill out the front then wrote a long letter herself:
This letter is on the theme of 'my best friend'. Rhean says that her best friend is her neighbor, Joanna. Joanna is kind and they like to play house and hide and seek together. On the back Rhean drew a cute picture of she and her friends playing together outside her house.
Rhean's mom then writes: "Dear Emily, Hi, how are you? We are fine by the grace of God. Thank you for the letter you sent Rhean. She was very happy to get it and loved the stickers. We (her parents) are also happy because Rhean is happy. Rhean has pet dogs named Whitey and Blacky. (I wrote all of my kids a letter a few months ago about my dogs and asked if they had pets.) She also has two cats named Mago and Cuting. She likes to draw everything and color it in. (Sounds like some coloring books and paper are in store for this one!) She also likes to sing songs. Rhean is adorable! (AWWWW). She has many friends and playmates. She combs her hair and puts in a hair band and hair pins. She shares her stickers with her siblings and they were very thankful that they have stickers too. Thank you for your support, we will pray for your health and living. We stayed home during Holy Week. What is your favorite food? Rhean loves all kinds of food. Please pray for us to have good health and living. God bless you all."
I love getting letters from this family! (The last was just about a month ago so they're frequent too.) Rhean's mom is so sweet and I feel like I get to know Rhean's personality so well by hearing from her mom.
Have any of you gotten letters recently? Have you written to your kids? If not, please try to take a few minutes this week to write a short letter to them.
