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It's not very often nowadays that you get a big surprise, but our family certainly did this week. Cathy's daughter Keilah and her husband Anthony were expecting their first child together, and the due date was yesterday, October 19th. But her doctors felt it could be harmful for mother and baby to go full term, so Keilah was scheduled for induced labor a few days earlier on the 16th. They'd had ultrasound images of the fetus, were expecting a baby girl and had chosen the name of Myanna for her. She didn't go into labor until the 17th, and the delivery went very well. Except for one thing -- they were shocked to discover that their little baby was a BOY!!! A cute little angel from heaven. Some parents prefer not to know the sex of the baby ahead of time. But for Keilah and Anthony, all of their prenatal planning and preparation were based on having a little girl. But now they were in a situation where they had no male clothes for the baby and no idea what they were going to name him! Luckily those kind of obstacles sort themselves out fairly quickly, and so we welcome our newest grandchild into the world, Chase Anthony Young, born October 17, 2024 at 8 pounds, 9 ounces. 



Sister Mundell will be flying out to Las Vegas tomorrow to spend a week with the new parents and help them around the house. Elder Mundell will be flying solo as a seminary teacher and doing his best to serve the groups we visit each week by himself.

Some of the senior missionary couples on Oahu like to get together to socialize and play games every month, but so far we've always had a schedule conflict that prevented us from attending -- until this Friday. We enjoyed ourselves immensely, especially since we got to meet and get to know a few new couples who've recently joined our mission. We will get a chance to socialize with all of the senior missionaries next month when Elder Dale Renlund and his wife visit our mission and we have a 3-day mission conference. We will be hosting Elder and Sister Shim from the big island of Hawaii. 

Game night at the LDS Institute building near the Univ. of Hawaii

One of the recent changes to the missionary rules is a limit on the amount of weights the elders and sisters can have to less than 50 pounds. Weight lifting and strength training is limited to small weights like 10 lb. dumbbells. But when we served at the pantry on Friday there was no weight restriction at all! Elder Mundell was lifting dozens of 50 lb. bags of Idaho potatoes into shopping carts and loading 5 lb sacks into individual boxes to give out to every family who had food orders. He was doing more weight lifting that day than the young elders are allowed to do. They had several bags left over at the end of the day, so we loaded them into our vehicle and handed them out to the ward members at church today. We love doing that!



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