A Sixth Grade Thank You

The sixth grade class at St. Joseph School in Dallastown, PA, sent me a package in the mail filled with thank you cards from each of them. It was a delightful surprise! I went to their school a few weeks ago to make beads and rosaries, talk about Mary, the rosary, and Our Lady of Guadelupe.  Here is a sampling of their beautiful thank you cards.

This card had me cracking up. She writes: I love Jesus! in smelly markers.

Unfortunately most of the smell rubbed off in the mail :(  The card is very sweet. Here is the rest of it.
It says:
Dear Mrs. Harkins,
Thank you for coming to my class and teaching us how to make clay rosaries.  The one you made for a boy in my class [one of the boys' families had purchased rosaries from me in the past], was beautiful! I will definitely go on your website and teach myself how to make clay rosaries [A little entrepreneur! I like it!] I learned a lot when you told us about Our Lady of Guadelupe. It was a fantastic story!! I will cherish the rosary I made. The rosary will be extra special because my pastor is blessing it. Thanks again for everything! Julia

I just love this picture Joe drew of me with a cross on my chest. It makes me look so holy :)

Finally, one last letter:

Dear Mrs. Harkins,
Thank you so much for driving here to show us how to make the rosaries. Also thank you for the clay! I had so much fun I wish I could have made more! I saw one of your rosaries and it was absolutely beautiful! I loved it! My rosary was pink and mixed yellow with black beads in between.  Also Father Charels is going to bless them! How exciting is that? [Pretty exciting, if you ask me!] I'm going to use mine to pray every day! [That is even more exciting!] Thanks again!
Sincerely, Brianna