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No matter how far I live from your honesty, I know about your wonderful and courageous deeds no less than those present with you, and I was very pleased with your courage, patience, your strong and indestructible mental strength, inflexibility in your way of thinking, freedom of speech and directness. I will never cease to please you, because in this way you have earned yourself not only present, but also future blessings, those ineffable, beyond every mind and every word, pleasures that await you in the future century. But you greatly saddened us by not deigning to notify us about this in our remote wilderness. I know that this happened, of course, not out of negligence, because whether you write to us or remain silent, I am confident in your ardent, sincere, genuine, ingenuous, strong and unshakable love, but because there was no one to write a letter from your words. In this case, you should, however, write to us in your natural language and in your own hand. As you know, we fervently desire to constantly receive letters from your reverence, so that we can have daily information about your health, and from here we will draw considerable consolation in our desert confinement and in the bitter circumstances of our life here. Knowing thus, my most honest and reverent lady, how much we value this, do not fail to give us this wonderful pleasure. Many people from different places have come here from you. Of course, I don’t blame you, why none of them brought us letters from your modesty; It could very well be that all of them are unknown to your reverence. But at least now that it has become possible to send letters to us with complete convenience, and especially since you have had such incidents, I would eagerly like to hear from you. Reward what was omitted in the past time, and by sending frequent, countless letters, you will console us for your previous long silence. The paragraphs in the text were arranged by us. – Editorial staff of “ABC of Faith” You might be interested in: