Mundell Bakery

We're really enjoying our mission! Each week there are new and different things happening to us that keep the whole mission experience fun and interesting. It's not the same thing over and over each day. The whole point of doing this missionary blog is to keep our children and siblings informed about what's going on with us each week, and also as a permanent record we can refer to after our time in Hawaii is completed, helping us jog our memory a bit about the many blessings we received at the hand of the Lord. Enough people outside of our little circle of family members wanted to know what's going on with Elder and Sister Mundell that we also post the text of our blog on Facebook. This allows our experiences to be shared with a wider audience, even though that's not our intent. We have the same desires as Nephi, who wrote in the Book of Mormon, “The fulness of mine intent is that I may persuade men to come unto the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, and be saved”.

Little did we know at the start of our mission that there would be days when the majority of our missionary efforts for the members and those seeking to learn about the church would involve many hours in our small kitchen, baking hundreds of cookies to share with them. But that's exactly what happened this week, and we (actually just Sis. Mundell) were very busy. Because it's almost Valentines Day, Cathy wanted to include decorating heart-shaped sugar cookies with every group activity we're involved in. But on top of that, we were asked to provide cookies for the elders and sisters to decorate during lunch for a combined zone conference for three stakes, almost 80 missionaries in all. It was a massive undertaking, but a labor of love. All of the cookie dough and frosting was handmade from her favorite recipe. Needless to say, dozens of people were very pleased with our efforts, we love to serve any way we can! 

We had a special stake conference today. A leadership training was held in Laie yesterday, and our stake was selected to host one of the senior church leaders who attended the meeting, the Presiding Bishop Gerald Clausse. We had a chance to chat with him for about a minute before the meeting started, and he is a very humble, genuinely nice man. He spoke of how we do things in the church because we honor the covenants we make with Heavenly Father and his Son Jesus Christ. Our EQ president invited a pastor from another church to sit with him today, and he said the man was crying, the spirit was so strong. The choir sang "Let Us All Press On" the way the tabernacle choir does it, and it gave us goosebumps. In addition to  a great experience at stake conference, we were asked by a lady at a halfway house we visit every Friday if she could have a copy of the Book of Mormon to read. We love our mission!

Cookie decorating at Zone Conference

Senior couples at Zone Conference

Let Us All Press On

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