Unity

Sister Mundell is on a rescue mission in Utah this weekend for one of her children.  We feel like now is a good time to take a step back and share some of our recent photos in lieu of a detailed description of this week's events and activities.


These are boxes containing more than 30 blankets that we're sending out to a non-profit group called My Very Own Blanket - that they will distribute to foster children around the country.  The YSA branch and the Kailua Ward assisted us in this effort.


Elder Mundell learned how to make sourdough bread from his son who was visiting us from Japan.  It turned out great!


We taught a lesson about unity in seminary this week from Doctrine and Covenants section 38: 24 - 27 -- "Be one, and if ye are not one ye are not mine".   We showed them this wall from inside the Waimanalo chapel as an example of what the Lord means to be one.  All of the stones are different.  Different sizes, shapes, and colors - just like us.  But they all fit together and are unified into a strong unbreakable unit by the mortar that binds them as one.  That mortar represents God's love for us and our love for each other - the two great commandments.


A quote by Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf from the general conference a few weeks ago teaches us a great truth about unity.  "We are one in Christ. The unity we seek is not to have everyone stand in the same place. It is to have everyone face in the same direction - toward Jesus Christ. We are one! Not because of where we have been, but where we are striving to go. Not because of who we are, but who we seek to become. That is what Christ's church is all about."


We also teach "life lessons" in seminary to help the students deal with choices in everyday life.


Elder Mundell talked about D&C 11:7 and shared his wisdom about financial self-reliance with the seminary students.  He gave them these seven rules for financial success and a suggestion for how much they should budget their future income.



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