Hello dear friends!
How are you our friends? How is everything in your life? We all are doing great. It gives us a warm full felling when we received your letter. It became one of the things that we all enjoy together. We learn a lot from every letter.
Celebrating friendship day is a great idea. It will be fun to celebrate. We can have a lot of activities that will strengthen our friendship as well as we will have fun. We can practice a special song about friendship, we can prepare a lot of games that we can play all together, special sweets to eat, poems about friendship, dance competitions and giving gratitude to one another. Oh we are so excited about the day already. When do you think is the perfect date to have friendship day?
You are right Patti, we sometimes got scared of things that are happening in our country or in the world. For us the most scared moments was when we were living on the street and we all have been in most scared and dark place and we passed those days with the help of God, our father Tesfa and now with the help of our Grandmother and you, our friends.
As a child, being scared and not having a matured mindset will cost you a lot. For example if you become scared of something, you don’t think it will pass away and better days are coming, and you will give-up easily. So the things that scares you will control your strength. But when you have a strong relationship with God, a supportive, understanding and loving father like our father Tesfa, a strong, caring and loving grandma and a supportive and creative friends like you we are not defined by the things that make us scared. We all know we are better than the things that scared us.
In addition having open commination about the things that is making us scared and anxious with our family is the most effective solution that we learn this year. We all communicate our feeling with our father and with each other. Whenever our heart feel heavy, we tell our father what is going and we feel better. The other thing we are learning to pass scare moments is by separating the things that we can control and the things that we cannot control. This will help us to focus on things that we can control and solve the problem or prevent the problem from happening. We are not perfect on separating things in our control and not our control but we are getting better every day. For example, studying and having a good mark in our exam, having a loving heart, caring for others, doing our responsibilities in our shelter, great relationship with our friends - these things are in our control and we can change the situation in to positive outcome and environment.
We are learning a lot everyday according to our age and understanding and we all show a good progress. Because of this the things that make us scared is decreasing from time to time and it help us a lot. What are other thing that we are in full control off? Can you share us other approaches that will help us to overcome scare moments?
Christmas is on the way, how is the Christmas vibe? We look forward to hearing about the holiday celebration in next letter.
We really enjoy writhing to you. We love and care about all of you. Stay safe and have a perfect month.