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3 letters arrived -- three large envelopes full of hundreds of
letters! They have been sorted, stuffed in envelopes, and Friday I
spent a good 45 minutes at the post office working with my friendly
postman to get them on their way to our sponsors. I should have taken a picture
of the box full of envelopes (next time!). Some had to be weighed so
that took some time. I had sorted them according to USA regular, USA
with extra postage required (because some people sponsor more than one
child, their envelopes were fatter), overseas regular, overseas extra
postage required, and then my big manila envelopes that are going to our
beloved mail coordinators.
Thank you from the bottom of my heart for helping us, Mail
Coordinators! I never mind doing the mail as it is a labor of love -- I know how important that correspondence is to the sponsors and to the children who took the time to write the letters and draw the picture.
Now
I HAVE to tell you a story about sending these letters off! Of course,
the post office line was growing longer and longer as I was monopolizing
one of the three postman. Just as I was feeling a little sorry to be
holding things up during the postal holidays season, the postman,
reading the
return address, asked me what Plant-a-Book International was. I
explained that we are a group of people from all over the world that
have joined together to support a school and orphanage in Kenya and that
the envelopes contained letters from their sponsored children. He was
looking at the letters going to Switzerland, Italy, Japan, Canada,
Australia, Germany, Denmark, Scotland, Finland, The Netherlands, the UK,
Croatia, Spain, France, and all over the USA and he said, "So you are bringing
people from all over the world together to help these kids?" I said,
"Yes." He said, "The world needs more people like you!" My spirits
were soaring when I left there. I couldn't have received a more meaningful compliment.
We are doing good things, Everyone! Thank you for being a part of our sponsorship "family."
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