A letter from Biz...

We got a letter yesterday from our little Bizuayehu! What a great surprise that was!! Alemnesh, the teacher, wrote for Biz as she wrote a little letter to us and wrote down her questions and her prayer request for her family.

It was ironic that I got a letter from both our little boy in Brazil through World Vision and from Biz with Hopechest on the same day! Our little boy in Brazil has a brain tumor and is in the hospital. We did not hear anything new, but I fear opening World Vision letters lately because of his condition. We were so saddened to hear it is malignant, but we are glad that the government in Brazil is paying for his hospital stay. Not much we can do at this point, but continue to send letters and pray for him. Very difficult to accept yet we know his family is taken care of. We continue to send letters and sponsorship, yet are warned by World Vision of his condition. :(

The letter from Biz was so sweet. She called us "her family" and in her question to us, she asked when we would be coming back to Ethiopia?" Her prayer request was to pray for her family. Her drawings were of beautiful flowers and with bright colors of pink and yellow. I can just see her drawing her picture for us and tearfully smile as I think of her there in her little broken chair and rough edged wooden table top working on her letter for us.

We love you, Biz. We love you, Jose Carlos. Our children from afar.