Kelley’s Bundle

Notes from a Love Letter Writer:

Once again, you scripted your heart out to this month’s Love Letter Bundle recipient. I think that if most of us are honest, Kelley’s story resonates in the lives of many who took up letter writing this month. The days when I dealt with bullying and the “mean girls” still stay with me. Even after years of distance between the events and now, they still hold this power to sting.

I tried to sink my feet into the shoes of Kelley this afternoon and wonder what it might be like to get love letters at this time. All that I can do is hope and pray that they’ve reached her safely and that she knows herself loved and supported by so many of us.

Great job, Team!

Best,

Hannah Katy

November’s Love Letter Bundle: The St. Louis Girls Volleyball Team

Notes from a Love Letter Writer

I know this Love Letter Bundle stuck into the crevices of a lot of our hearts last month. I don’t know how to thank all of you for writing these letters of love to the St. Louis Girls Volleyball Team, who recently lost a teammate to teen suicide. You’ve proven once again that love can make a page glow, can pull you closer to a cause without even knowing a person. Today I am beyond proud to be working with all of you. I am beyond proud to have decided to step forward and make MoreLoveLetters.com a reality. If it had only sat in my hands, this would have never been possible. Thank you.

A special thank you to Emily-Anne Rigal this month. Emily-Anne is the girl I want to be when I grow up. At only 17-years-old, she is the founder of @WeStopHate, an organization that promotes the end to teen bullying. She was recently awarded a Nickelodeon Halo Award and some pretty sweet street cred from Ms. Lady Gaga herself. Thanks to people like Emily-Anne- we grow closer to ending teen suicide caused by bullying each day. Thank you Emily-Anne for taking this request of mine to write a love letter by storm.

You are all stellar. Prepare for this (times 12) in the next days ahead as we move into the 12 Days of Love Letter Writing.

-Hannah Katy

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A Testimony from Briana’s Letter Requester

“And then I open this envelope that is filled with these beautiful, incredible, heart-warming letters. I have never been so moved, uplifted, or touched before.” -Briana

Remember Briana? So many of you put your pens to paper and wrote her a love letter when she needed it the most. Her best friend Erin, the one who requested the love letter for Briana, writes a letter to let all of you know how much it helped. Want to be a part of this?? Simply sign up here.

Sitting here writing this, it suddenly hits me. Everything has come full circle.

I remember the first time I stumbled upon the More Love Letter project. I had been an avid reader of hannahkaty.com and craved more. I fell instantly in love with the idea of sending people love letters to help them through the difficult moments in their lives. I requested love letters for one of my good friends, Briana, and was so happy when she was chosen to receive a bundle of these letters.

I met Briana when I was in middle school, it has to be about seven or eight years ago, and I couldn’t believe that I wasn’t friends with this girl before. She has this infectious laugh and ginormous smile and, I swear, everyone in a ten foot radius stops what they’re doing just to get a glimpse at this girl. I never knew Briana that well until I started college. Our relationship was confined to Facebook because we were in two different towns, but every status update of hers saying things like “Need another job, I can’t afford groceries” had me worrying like a big mama bear. But, regardless of the trials, Briana was strong and able to figure things out on her own.

One day she told me that she looked up to me so much and I couldn’t believe her. Did she not see the mess that I was? Her life was a million times more difficult than mine and yet, she looks up to me. I started searching for a way to make Briana see that she is amazing and strong and she gives me so much hope in a world full of brokenness.

So I submitted her name to More Love Letters. I thought she’d just receive one letter from someone encouraging her to keep going, but instead she was chosen for the Love Letter Bundle! When I received that email from Hannah, I literally jumped up and screamed and started dancing! I couldn’t have asked for anything more for Briana.

Waiting for the bundle to be sent to Briana was awful, I just wanted Briana to have those letters in her hand as soon as possible, but God
works in mysterious ways.

On November 12, Briana sent me a message on Facebook saying that she came home crying today because she wasn’t going to have enough money to pay her rent and was losing steam. “And then I open this envelope that is filled with these beautiful, incredible, heart-warming letters. I have never been so moved, uplifted, or touched before.”

She was crying, I was crying, happy tears all around. Talking to her that night is one of the biggest highlights of
my year because I know that she needed those letters. She plans on reading them to her son once he’s born (which is very soon!!).

I think that the best thing that came out of this entire thing is that the first thing she wanted to do was write someone a love letter. She shared the website on her page and is doing a speech on the site for one of her classes. She whole-heartedly believes in More Love Letters in the same way I do.

It’s not that the letters heal you, they show you that you’re not alone, that you’re not struggling for nothing. And that is something so big that I can’t but help but want to be a part of it.

-Erin

October Letter Bundle: Briana

Confession to make: When I was growing up, there was nothing I wanted more than a PO Box. I’m talking MAMMOTH DESIRE to have a luscious, big PO Box with mail pouring out of it.

My mother thought I was crazy because the whole point of a PO Box was to have letters inside of it, people writing to you. Well look now, Mama. Look Now!

You guys did it again. First Corey, now Briana. You filled the More Love Letters PO Box with letters upon letters of inspiring words for Briana and we are shipping those letters off to Briana tomorrow. We will be sure to keep you posted on her response to the letters but cross your fingers that they find her well when she needs the encouragement the most.

Keep blowing the stationery out of my hands.

-Hannah Katy

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A Second Round of Love Letters: Frontline City Church, New Haven

“Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.”

Community group members at Frontline City Church in New Haven took a Wednesday night to bundle up love letters for individuals in their lives that are weathering the storms of sickness and heartbreak. These love letter writers are a perfect example to the fact that most times we need only to open our eyes, look left and look right, to find someone close to us who could use the extra thought it takes to write and send a letter.

Gather a group of your friends, wrap yourself in good company, buckets of prayers, and great stationery and bulk up a bundle like these guys!

Who in your life needs a love letter today? Are you going to write it, or will you ask us? The offer is open.

Love Letter Bundle for the Kids at the Ronald McDonald House: Frontline City Church, New Haven

Note from a Love Letter Writer:

Constantly, constantly, I am amazed by the combination of eloquence and passion that sweeps over individuals when they sit down to write a love letter to someone they may never meet. The words of encouragement, strength, and understanding are all there, stocked up and stored inside of us. It is a matter of planting those words outside of ourselves and letting them grow in the hearts of others that need the words more. Don’t be afraid to write a love letter… whether you know it or not: you are already so very good at it.

I cannot thank my community group at Frontline City Church enough for allowing me to facilitate Tuesday’s Love Letter Writing.

-Hannah Katy

Members of Frontline City Church in New Haven, CT, pinned a Tuesday night to baking muffins and writing love letters to some of the children currently staying at the Ronald McDonald House.

The Ronald McDonald House is a “home away from home” for families of children who are being treated at nearby hospitals and other healthcare facilities.

One Girl, 39 Love Letters: September’s Love Letter Bundle

At the beginning of September, we put out a call for love letters.

We gave email subscribers two weeks to write & send a card or letter to PO Box 2061, North Haven CT 06473, for a girl with a full college course load and two jobs, in need of some inspiration.

You poured your heart and souls into these letters and for that, we thank you.

We are beyond excited to be sending 39 letters to this girl in the upcoming week.

Stay tuned for photos as the letters get bundled up and sent off to our unsuspecting letter recipient.

It’s not too late to get in on next month’s Call for Love Letters... Sign up today! We cannot thank you enough for your submissions.