Postcard from Wishmika!

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We had some pretty exciting mail this week! We’ve been sponsoring a child in Sri Lanka through World Vision for over a year, and we hadn’t received any communication from her. The average time to receive any mail from a child is three months, so we were surprised but tried to be patient. We send her mail every month, and just trust that it has gotten to her. But then this week we received a postcard! Right away, we took a photo with the card and sent it to her so she can see we got it (you can email your child and the local agency prints and translates it for you – so handy).


Normally, the cards are translated. This one was wrapped in an envelope with staff member writing “Love and peace to your family” and “Merry Christmas,” but we weren’t exactly sure that was what our child had written.

I’m “friends” with teachers from all over the world on my professional Facebook account because of my work with Microsoft in Education, so I posted the image above and asked for help. Within a day, a teacher I’m connected to from Sri Lanka translated for us! The card says “Wish you a Merry Christmas!” and “Happy New Year!” You can see the exclamation marks.
We just added a new child, Gaudance in Burundi. We’ll see how long it takes to hear from him – all the while, we pray for both children and are encouraged by the news we see from their villages through the World Vision website.

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