I've been so so so  good lately and I'm very grateful for it. Prayer is real. Hmong is coming along. It's still tough but I feel like I'm beginning to understand the people a bit more. I love the people. So you know how I went to a Hmong party well we went to a even bigger party and pig was once again served, It really is good. Just still kind of strange to see a whole pig on the dinner table. I wonder if  I'm different than any  missionaries, because  it has taken time to get used to everything and I didn't think it would. I'm learning a lot and everyday is much fun and a blessing. When I lay my head on my pillow at night  I just want to  get back outta bed and do so much more because there is so much work to be done and I can't handle people not knowing or understanding about the Gospel. We are so lucky, some would cry very hard at some of the  thing I have seen. There's bad , evil, and poverty everywhere but some places are better then others and I've never experienced so much. We've been blessed with the opportunity to live in good places. The work is good. We're teaching a lot of people which is fun and kind of hard. You can see the Lords hand in the progress of our our investigators and other times you can see the temptations of the adversary pulling them back. It's a real war and I'm grateful to be apart of it on the Lords side. So there's a Hmong family we're teaching and in there house are cockroaches everywhere that just climb on the wall and on the ground and everyone knows they're there but they don't do much about it,  whenever  the mother sees one she moves like molasses and slams her hand down in a very slow and most of the time unsuccessful attempt to kill them. It cracks me up. We were given about 40 pounds of food this week but Hmong people. They love us. Staying with the Spanish Elders last week was fun. I slept on the couch then the floor ha but no worries it wasn't too bad. Chandis would be proud, I've been running about 2.5 miles consistently for the past 6 weeks or so and I do a little lifting afterward. Alls well :) It has been way hott here. It's crazy. Probably not as hott as you there but oh baby a good dip in the Colorado river would sure be refreshing. Haha  Thank you for taking the time to write me Mom. Please give my love to Dad and everyone. Last year for your anniversary we went to the Bar 10! Neat huh?! Time flies. Happy Anniversary!  Well I love you a whole lot. Read Mosiah 20ish through Alma beginning ish and notice the trend. I`m  there right now. I love the Book of Mormon and could read it all day. Bare testimony whenever you get the opportunity. To everyone! Children, spouses, friends. neighbors, even strangers , this news is too good not to share! Kuv hlub koj nrog kuv lub siab tag nrho. I love you with my heart complete or in other words with my whole heart.


Elder Paramore

Elder Carter and I are working hard. He goes home in 2 weeks and has done his very best to not talk about it. So many missionaries get so distracted with how long they've been out, and when every ones going home and it's kinda sad because it just makes you miss home a whole lot more. One thing Brooks mentioned to me before I left was concerning getting a companion that was going home. Ha my first one. Kinda neat though because he's been a great example. He really has. Hmong is still hard. Very hard. I translated in sacrament meeting yesterday for a bit. Though I don't translate very well the practice is good. Sometimes I have to just say what I want, as long as it`s along the same lines I`m good.  Elder Carter told me yesterday when I was struggling to just tell them a story. It's fun, and when we sing hymns to them I'm sure they just love that.haha  We're teaching a lot of people. Maybe 15. We try our best to get to all of them but they don't often keep appointments. The ones that are more serious always keep commitments and it's so much fun to teach them. I've learned that, for me, whenever I'm down and my heart hurts for some reason( I think I'm more homesick then I lead on) then I gotta bare my testimony. I love doing it. I have become addicted. Do you think they have a 12 step for that? I don't know. Sorry,  I really am  being serious... It really is so important to me to bare my testimony because I know I'm far from perfect and I know that whenever I do, Angels in Heaven record it and one day when I'm standing at the judgment bar of God I want my savior to have my back.


We were at a Hmong dinner party  the other day and Elder Carter was asked to share a spiritual thought in front of 50 or so Hmong people. It was really cool for a couple reasons 1. There was a man there who was Hmong who served a mission for our Church then decided for some reason after he got back that he'd be a minister for a Methodist church so he got to here us bare testimony 2. There were a lot of non members there oh and 3. Elder Carter turned to me and said in Hmong now my companion would like to share a few thoughts ha. So I said a word that kind of means like uh oh in Hmong and everyone laughed. I then continued by thanking everyone and telling them that they have a great family and I love my family and it turned out alright:)  Oh and when we finally lined up to eat (they always make us Elders get in the front of the line) we saw the table and there was a full dead cooked pig on the table, yep his head, his feet and all of him. It was a bit different. It tasted pretty good though. They really treat us very well. I feel blessed to be among these people.

Well, I gotta go. I love you a whole lot and thank you for your prayers. Thanks for the updates, stories, and letters, they mean so much.

Love,
Elder Paramore