My Story

Dear Madrina, I send you all my best wishes from Zacualpa hoping you are blessed and enjoying a nice year. As you know, my family and I are members of Pentecostal Church and I enjoy attending the youth services. My sister Rosmely helped LW team to collect this information during the visit.

I am thankful because I am in good health and I am a fourteen-year-old teenager. My saddest experience happened when my older brother left to the United States one year ago. I was so sad. I missed him, but I prayed to God for protection upon his life and I felt his presence and comfort in my heart. Jesus is my heavenly father. I admire my maternal uncle because he is a good merchant. My best friends are Brayan, Teresa, Kendel, Miguel and Alex and we met one year ago. We like to play football when we are together. I am studying the 8^th grade and my name is Cirilo Elias Gamaliel Grave Garcia. My mother`s name is Elena Toribia. By the grace of God, she is a healthy woman and she earns a living as a seamstress to contribute to home expenses while my father Gilberto is working as a farmer and day laborer. As you know, he also carries people to different places in his car. Unfortunately, he is suffering from diabetes as you know, and he is under medical treatment. I would like to ask for your prayers for my father`s health. Well, it was my updated information. Have a nice day!

Sincerely yours,

Cirilo Elias Gamaliel Grave Garcia

Translated by: Gladys Chavez, AAC Secretary-Antigua