Easter Baskets

 We love this unique opportunity to be full-time missionaries, and to have so many experiences each week that teach us the importance of loving others, showing them kindness and respect, and serving God by serving others.  We feel great blessings of peace and joy as we invite people to come unto Christ, to hear his voice, and to follow him.  The added bonus is we get to do all this in a wonderful island paradise!  

Sister Mundell embracing the Hawaiian culture - cuckoo for coconuts.

One thing we try to do with our seminary class is to teach them to love and serve others.  This week we made cute Easter bunnies out of paper plates, filled them with candy and other goodies, and then gave them to the seminary students in the freshman and sophomore class.  They were surprised and happy to be the recipient of a small simple act of love and kindness.  The most special thing for us is to see these acts of kindness reciprocated towards us.  One of our students gave Sister Mundell a wonderful hand-written card for her birthday, and another gave us handmade leis made out of white pikake blossoms. 

Our seminary class made these!

We treasure moments like these on our mission

We felt a special sense of joy and satisfaction as we shared the events leading up to the resurrection of Jesus Christ on Easter morning with the young people in the correctional facility on Wednesday.  We taught them about the last supper, Christ's public humiliation and betrayal, suffering in the garden, dying on the cross and glorious resurrection from the tomb using pictures hidden inside numbered eggs, and then reading a Bible verse about what was depicted there. 

Resurrection Eggs

This week we delivered more than 80 Easter baskets that the Relief Society sisters from both wards made last month to the women and children at a homeless shelter where we do fun activities with on Thursdays. This is a picture of the amazing sisters in our wards who offered this gift of love and kindness to others.

Olomana and Waimanalo Relief Society sisters made these cute Easter baskets

One more thing Sister Mundell did this week (in spite of feeling sick because of a bad cold) was make Easter sugar cookies for the primary children in the Olomana ward to decorate.  The children really had a lot of fun making some colorful eggs and bunnies - then eating them!




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