This is the most recent correspondence from my sponsored child through Compassion International:

Dear Sponsor, Jonathan Griffith,

I send you a warm greeting and I hope you are in good health as well as your family.  My family is fine, thanks to God.  We will have vacation from school soon and I am doing very well.  I hope you to write me back soon.  I will travel to Cartagena on vacation to play in a soccer championship probably.  I wish you and your family a merry Christmas.  I would like you to keep praying for me and my family.  I will pray for you and your family too.  Thank you for your gift.  I would like to know where you will spend Christmas.  I will say goodbye for now.

Gabriel A. Negrete