The Words of the Drenicheva Family

Two Letters from Elizaveta Drenicheva

Rafael Enriquez Ablong
February 14, 2009

Below are two letters from Elizaveta, which she wrote to us from jail.

First Letter

Hi pals!

Many thanks for your letters! Thank you for your support! As much as I tried, I couldn't restrain my tears. Mama says, "I'm the happiest girl, because I've got SUCH friends!"

Don't worry, I'm fine! Now I start realizing what it's all about.

I'll try to describe in short what life in prison is like. Now I can understand how our True Father felt when he was in jail. Of course, there's no comparison, but still…

Here there are special rules. In general, they welcome: absence of bad habits, positive public thinking and of course, good humor -- just like everywhere.

People here are incarcerated for three reasons: murder, drugs and fraud.

The first 2 days I was placed "in quarantine," that is, in a mass cell. It's customary there on acquaintance to recite your name and sentence. Everybody showed interest when I named mine. Women older than me call me "daughter" or just "Lizka". I'm trying to make heartistic relations. The whole day I'm sitting inside. Once a day we go for a 20 minute-walk, but it is also inside a limited space with concrete walls and louvered ceiling? When I at last see the sun, I'll surely dance of joy. I miss the sun so much!

The windows here are also armored with metallic jalousie, so that it's impossible to see anything through them. However, we have a TV set. News for me is like a window into the outside world. The bulk of the information I get is from there. And I get great support from God's word. I try to read as much as possible. It's now clear to me, what Jesus and TF had to overcome. The local atmosphere helps a lot. Was it a coincidence or God's dispensation, that most topics on TV are about prisons? But whose life flies easy now? Life comes not easy to anybody, and God's burden is the hardest. I'm trying to combine "the pleasant and the useful". I started learning English and have also taken up Korean. By the way, here also God is witnessing! My Korean textbook aroused big interest [among my cell mates]. I told them I am planning to learn 12 languages and that Korean is the easiest among them. Everybody got immediately inspired and ready to learn with me, especially, because now Korean movies are very popular in our cell. Thanks for the [drinking water] filter. I wish you knew how much joy it awakened here.

And also, thank you for the song-book! Would it be possible to pass me yet another song-book with Kazakh songs? All my fellow-prisoners are Kazakh women and I cannot sing always alone. For them it's vexing, that I don't know their language. And one more favor I'd like to ask of you. Please send me a cup. The one I had is broken. It's true. It got cracked under boiling water.

As far as it goes I consider myself the happiest person in this prison. I'm trying to be the most loving and giving. I do not insist everything goes OK, but I keep on trying. I've a good chance to gain wisdom by experience. I'm very much grateful to everybody.

My biggest and warmest greetings!

Liza

Second Letter

Hello, my dear!

Thank you for the letters! I was sitting, reading and crying…thank you for your heart, for support, for poems. Thank you that you are near. Me too, I'd like to be close with you, want to witness, just like you! But we can go through everything and everything will be fine! I am praying for you everyday, my heart and my mind with you! And I am dreaming about you very night! "No one can break us or kill us!"…

Thank you for all your warmth, care, support, cloths, food (all is very tasty). I am also trying hard, reading HDH (the one I rewrote), Sunday service, praying… Together we can overcome everything and win.

Every day here in prison is like whole life. In prison you can become real prisoner or super-believer. But God did not leave me, and I did not leave Him also. Just here very clearly it was opened to me -- God is not in Heaven, God is a suffering God. He suffers for His most unhappy children. Here you can understand His broken Heart. I think that all what I see here will benefit me to better help God now and later. There is nothing scary happen to me, everything fine. All policemen are surprised: "what is article #164?" I am not thinking about what is going to happen here but what will be when I will be released. And I worry about you no less than you about me. I tightly embrace everyone! I will come back soon! See you!

Your Liza

PS: I had a dream with my leader. He said that most important is unity. And that we should not separate even into 2 groups. I will be with you! Forever!

And also I had a dream that I was a seagull and was flying! It was so beautiful! Probably this is for goodness. 

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