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Persuasive Letter

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To begin this letter, I would like to thank you for donating prayer and money to support Diamond Willow Ministries. You were very much a huge part of my recent trip there, as well as the boys camp that took place through the ministry.
Diamond Willow Ministries calls their summer camps Cantemawaste Camp for the youth in the community. Cante is the Dakota word for ‘heart’ and Waste means ‘good’. This phrase stands for ‘something good in your heart’. Throughout the week, I pondered several times which moments I would tell you about later. Was there anything the boys said that would make you laugh? Was there a moving moment that would make you cry? I wish you were there too in order to see exactly what it was that you did. Even more accurately, …show more content…

He didn’t want to look at me, he wouldn’t talk to me, and even when I was near him he would (very obviously) scoot away. By the end of the week, he had said barely ten words to me in total! I know nothing still of his background or what home is like for him, but I understand the environment of the reservation, and I can tell you that the society he’s grown up in is very different than any of ours. I couldn’t expect him to want to participate in all the things we were asking of him, and it certainly wouldn’t have been fair for me to expect him to behave the way I wished him to. However, despite all, he worked diligently on memorizing scripture (which he was amazingly good at), and by the end of the week, I noticed him participating in worship. This was a small, seemingly simple moment, but with big significance. He, whether he understood it or not, was putting something good in his heart. Scripture itself tells us time and time again to store up God’s word in our hearts, and to guard it. Diamond Willow is creating environments like these for these children to learn that habit! Who knows when those memorized verses and worship songs will come to mind in their futures? God alone

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