This spring (2013) I decided to sponsor a child through Compassion International.  I’ve been thinking about this for a while because several of my friends sponsor children through Compassion: You pay a small amount each month, and that supports a child at a Christian school in a developing country.  My child is a boy named Diego.  I’m not going to post all of my letters to him, but I realized that some of these letters are going to have lessons and jokes that I might want to keep, so I’m going to post at least a few.  Keep in mind, I’m writing to a young child, who’s behind in his education and whose family is poor according to American standards. Also, someone has to translate all of this 🙂 so the writing is intentionally simple and the topics are carefully chosen.