November 18-19: Try to get Kamiko to do last minute things to prepare to leave. Buy remaining little things.
November 20-22: Work
November 22: Kamiko's last day of work at Franklin Covey warehouse.
November 23: Finish shopping. Finish preparing for farewell.
November 24: Kamiko speaks in church, followed by A LOT of well-wishers in the house. Morning shift got hot cocoa, nut breads and fruit. Afternoon crowd got kalua pig, teriyaki chicken, rice, macaroni salad, green salad and cookies. By the way, the sacrament meeting was great. Haydn Bowden spoke and so did Dan Helie. Kamiko thinks highly of both. Haydn is a priest and Bro Helie has been our home teacher, taught Primary with Kamiko and is his friend Todd's dad. It was a great talk on missionary work and he shared an experience he had last year while waiting to get home Thanksgiving weekend. I got lots of comments on how well he did. It really is your kid's first big-kid talk. He did great. I didn't even cry.
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| Kamiko got his TA name tag back. KC, Starlyn, me, Kamiko, Ali, Steve, Annie, Mat and Kat |
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| My boy gave a great talk |
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| The family: Melia, me, Kamiko, Allie and Keenan |
November 25: Decorate for Christmas and take down Thanksgiving decor. Help Kamiko finish packing.
November 26: Drive to Denver
November 28: Thanksgiving in Colorado
December 1: Drive home.
December 2: Kamiko drives around to see people and say good-bye. He finishes packing and re-arranges a few items. Go to Cafe Rio for dinner, but Kamiko can't eat much. He locks the keys in the van when he needs to be home soon to be set apart.
Mike, mom and dad go with us to have Kamiko set apart by President Livingston. He's in our ward and I really like his family. It was a great experience. It made me so calm and ready to take him. He's so ready to go and serve. I'm grateful he's going to Chile. It's gonna be perfect for him!!!!!!!!
Setting Apart of Elder Darren Kamiko Hookano Adcock by
President Livingston
Pleasant Grove Manila Stake, 8:30 pm
Grandma and Grandpa Hunter, Uncle Mike, Jon Amundson,
Keenan, Dana, Allie and Melia came
President Livingston gave some cousel:
1.
Quoted Kamiko’s mission scripture Matthew
28:19-20
a.
The Lord is with you always, until the end.
i. We
can’t understand how He does it, but He is there
2.
Testified of the difference of each blessing in
being set apart. Since he was made stake president last January, he’s set apart
almost 100 missionaries and all blessings have been unique.
3.
Matthew 26:36-45 (see JST)
a.
Even when Jesus was suffering, he watched out
for and took care of his apostles. He will never leave us.
b.
You might feel lonely, BUT YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
4.
D&C 84:88
a.
You won’t be alone
b.
You can’t fail
c.
You are part of the dream team
5.
Listen to and follow promptings to pray for your
family at home
6.
Family is to listen to and follow promptings to
pray for Kamiko
a.
DO NOT DELAY
7.
Family needs to write and let Kamiko know of
blessings we’re receiving because of his service
Blessing:
1.
The Lord accepts you as His
2.
Heavenly Father will bless you with the gift of
tongues
a.
It will quickly be apparent that you are able to
speak fluently and understand as well as a native.
b.
People will come to you for help
c.
“Take no credit”
i. this
is a gift from Heavenly Father
ii. Testify
of the gift given to help people understand how God works
3.
Blessed with power and protection
4.
Blessed with health
5.
Angels have been assigned to watch over you
a.
You will be aware of them going before you,
preparing the way
6.
Families have been prepared for you – pray to
find those families to teach
7.
Your family will be blessed while you’re gone
a.
Girls testimonies will be strengthened
i. Their
doubts will be replaced with faith
8.
Prophets met to give you your assignment. They
were happy to see your name and assign you to Chile. This call is from
Prophets.
9.
Be obedient (mentioned multiple times)
10. Be
patient with and help your Chilean companions who have come from humble circumstances.
Note from mom: Kamiko, this was a great experience. I felt
the spirit very strongly and felt as if this blessings was specifically for
you. It was sweet to see your sisters so emotional. They love you tons. We all
love you and will pray for you daily, even many times a day. Be obedient and
you will see all of this come to pass.
Kamiko said goodbye to mom, dad and Mike. Grandma cried. She is such a good grandma.
December 3: Get up and have nice breakfast. Head to the airport. Stop and bank to add Keenan to his account and stop at Covey on the way to turn in his badge. We got to the airport a couple of hours early and met the elders with whom he'd travel and spend time in the MTC.
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