Island Images: December 2012 [Part 2]

Wielding their wooden mallets, Mike Kaihe, left, Keith Miyahara and Ryan Miyashiro pounded a batch of rice into mochi Sunday at the Tenrikyo Mission Headquarters of Hawaii in Nuuanu. Church members and volunteers gathered at 5:30 a.m. to steam the rice, then began pounding the rice at 7 a.m.