6/26/11

Yeah our new mission President will be here this week. President and Sister Weston:) I'm excited. He'll bring his four kids as well. Hoorah for Israel! Missionary meetings are very neat.


We had a great week! I'll tell ya one thing that was pretty special. We were at the hospital visiting a very sick man and on our way out we ran into a Chinese man from Hong Kong. He's been in the states for 7 years. He just graduated from school with his masters degree in aerospace engineering. He's 28. He saw us and started talking to us, and he remembered missionaries stopping him in Hong Kong and was amazed that we dressed the same. He also had a friend in grad school who was Mormon and served a mission. This friend didn't talk to much about the church but he was a good example. Well after talking with him for a bit he asked if he could just come hang out with us so we said sure! He's only up from LA visiting a friend who got in an accident on I-5 on her way from Oregon to here somewhere. So he drove up. He didn't have anything to do so he was pretty bored. Well since last Wednesday when we first met him he has come running with us 3 of the mornings and hung out with us while we did our normal thing for 3 full days. We have been teaching him about the gospel and he,  throughout these past 5 days has just had so many questions! He's very very smart. We answered them and tried to stay simple. He loved it all and knows why it's so important to know the Book of Mormon is true for himself. He wants to be baptized. So that he doesn't have to pay for a motel we asked a Sister  if she'd let him stay with her.  So now he's there and may stay for a bit. He's such a kind man. We'll see what happens. His desires are there so wherever he goes he knows what he's felt and he'll do great. It's been fun and will continue to be. Ha he even comes to our dinner appointments with members:)

Mom and Dad I love you. I really do. I can't explain how much, remember it's not possible in the English language. So I'll just keep working hard knowing you're doing the same:) Please hug and kiss the littles for me. Thanks for praying for me and for teaching the littles about prayer. I loved when Peighton said he sometimes just stops what he's doing and prays for me. He's a very special little boy. Please hug Shenise and Chand for me too. 1 minute each when you see them and tell them how much ya love them and then tell them that I think about them and love them very much. If there's anything I can do for ya just let me know. Love ya.

Elder Paramore

6/20/11

Well my goodness it just doesn't get better than this:) Every week I hear from you all I just get so full. Thank you for taking the time to write me and thank you for loving me:) Oh I'm glad you get to go to Andy and Devon's for the 4th! That'll be so much fun. I love being up there and spending time with the family. Ha I never know what to say in these emails! First... All is well...Elder Jones and I are working hard and I think about how much you all love me often. This work is truly a growing experience. I love having problems and working them out through prayer and work. I have learned so much and realized that I still don't know much but I've learned to love the Lord even more. I love doing this work. Second... I'm glad you got a hold of Elder Ramirez, he's quite the person. I loved serving with him:) Thanks for doing that. I am so so so excited the missionaries are going over to Landon's on Tuesday! Everything's going to be alright:) Sister Burner is quite the person, her whole family is really neat. I'm glad she was email you. I love Chico. It's such a neat place. Hey do we have a farmers market down in St. George?  I don't remember having one but if we do that'd be sweet:) It's where all the local farmers bring there crops to sale. They close down a road  here and the all set up booths.


My goodness that movie sounds awesome! I can't wait to watch stuff like that. I don't know why I feel the way I do a lot of times and I don't know what genes of who I received but I feel so blessed to be who I am and have the testimony I have. I think Peighton and Haizlee are pretty lucky to have been born to a mom and dad like you all. I just think you and dad are so darn awesome. Thanks for filling me in on your dates:) I think we've got a healthy family. How are your family home evenings, scripture study and prayers? Thanks mom.

Dad I hope you had a happy fathers day:) HAPPY FATHERS DAY! I sure do love you and I hope you know that you are one successful dad. To a boy a dad should be a goal of what to be and to a girl he should be a hope of things to come. I think you've taught us how to love with such a selfless pure love. Thank you for always working so so hard for us. I'm so grateful things worked out so you could raise me and be the single most influential man in my life. I don't know if I can comprehend the significance of a fathers call but you are a goal of what I want to be. Thanks for always being there and for teaching me how to be a man. (As man as a man can get without facial hair) I look forward to going to the temple with you and talking on probably the shortest truck ride of my life because I won't want it to end. I love ya and I think of you often everyday. It helps me be who I'm supposed to be when I think of you. I imagine you with a small group of men including the man who raised you and the man who raised my mom and so on watching me, cheering me on, lifting me when I'm weak and reminding me that I bare the priesthood of God. What a blessing it is to literally be apart of each one of you and to be apart of this great work. I feel privileged. I love this work dad and I wouldn't be here if you and mom wouldn't have taught me the things you did. I hope you and I and the family can just keep looking forward knowing that we'll be together forever. The Lord has a lot of work for our immediate family to do. Thanks for being there always and for, most importantly, loving the Lord. He most certainly loves you.

Well family I love ya. Peighton and Haizlee I think you two are awesome thank you for always saying your prayers and for being nice to your friends. I know that it makes mom, dad, Heavenly Father, and Jesus Christ so happy:) I can't wait to play with you two:) Guess who my best friends are in the whole wide world?!?!?! Peighton and Haizlee! Thanks for loving me. Have a good week family and know that I love ya and pray for ya:)

6/13/11

  

Flowers in Chico, CA.

Hey!


Hi! Let me just start by letting you know that I know this church is true. I know that if it wasn't for the Gospel we wouldn't be happy today. Thank you for your examples and your faith:) I sure do love y'all and I hope you know that. You know I was thinking and you might not think it's a good idea and maybe you already do it but at random down times during the middle of the day you can pray for me with the littles. Pray for me to be able to help others be happy through the gospel.

All is well! Elder Jones is a fire ball! This is my first time with him and we're having so much fun. This is his 3rd time in this area. Yeah I've been here for awhile and I really enjoy the members. It was sister Robinson that called you I think. She's such a sweet lady. She just asked for your number one day:) Elder Jones and I have a lot of work to do. He and Elder Clawson go home in 11 weeks. I love these two. They're great Elders and so much fun to serve with. It really has been like serving in my home ward with a couple of my best friends. It's too much fun. We have no choice but to work work work:) The family that has 8 kids is doing pretty good. The first time we saw him we taught about prayer and just tried to get him to know how important it was. He was out of work and it was really dragging him down. We saw him days later while we were walking around just talking to people and he was working. When we talked with him he said it was because God had helped him:) Missionary work is so sweet! Couldn't you cry over a simple experience like this?!  We have things like this happen daily and we are just continually thanking our Father in Heaven. Elder Clawson and Elder Jones were MTC companions and have served 36 weeks of their missions together. So Elder Clawson is pretty jealous we're together. Ha not really but we all just really love one another. Elder Ramirez went home to Florida with no family to welcome him home. He's such a courageous individual. His home ward there was there to greet him but  I would imagine it's not the same. He's the only member in his family. I am so grateful for you love and support. .I love you mom and dad. Thanks for being missionaries to us kids. I promise that you're doing exactly what the Lord needs you to do by showing us so much love all the time. Please just let those littles know that I know the Jesus Christ and Heavenly Father loves them:) Hug and kiss them for me and next time you have the sisters over feed them Fruits and Vegetables maybe some kind of smoothie. Ask for recipe if you need one. Ha help them eat healthy:) I would love to go to our house for dinner as a missionary I bet Peight and Haiz love it. K love ya: If there's anything I can do for ya just let me know.

Love Elder Paramore

6/6/11

Flowers in Chico.

Elder Paramore and Elder Clawson finishing up some very successful time together.

I'm so grateful for you all! Everyone looks so happy and healthy! What a family:) I'm glad you all had a good week. Elder Clawson and I had one of the best weeks of our missions. A lot of good things happened for us and we're just grateful to be here and to be working together. He'd never tell ya but man he is one good Elder and it's been such a blessing to work with him. We had a goal to run 100 miles last transfer and finished on Saturday:) Elvis got baptized Saturday and was confirmed yesterday to end the transfer. We wanted to finish the book of Mormon together and we only have 14 pages left so we'll finish today before he leaves. He's been transferred to Oroville. We also taught 30 lessons which is more then I've ever taught in a week last week and we found a new investigator that has a family of 8. I wouldn't just tell you this to tell you:) I say it all because there's so much potential I think for all of us. Lately we've just focused on practicing and applying true principals such as prayer, Christ like attributes, living the word of wisdom, being virtuous and really just loving people. Elder Clawson is really good at just being so tender and caring. When we can become submissive enough just to do these things a real change is brought about and we change and become a "new creature" in Christ. It's all about faith. The miracle of prayer is remembering your prayer. We've been working hard and we've learned a lot. It paid off. Hopefully all the inviting we've done will help others to allow the snowball of a change to work within them. Bishops have got to love baptisms in their wards. Everyone's mind turns to missionary work and how they were converted and when a ward is doing missionary work a ward is healthy when they aren't they aren't healthy. We got a lot of people involved in the baptism and had a huge turn out. I love this work with all my heart. I love the Lord and know he has faith in us as we have faith in him. Sorry if this all bores you ha. I don't think I can possibly explain how exciting and fun this work is but I try... Sorry. REMEMBER REMEMBER:) Please REMEMBER. We were asked to teach the High Priests two weeks ago and the Relief Society asked us to teach them yesterday. I've never been to Relief Society. When they started singing the opening hymn instead of singing Elder Clawson and I just stayed quiet and listened. I love women, they are all so precious and holy cow where would I be if I never felt the love that I felt from you mom. It was so spiritual for us. This ward is too great. I get to stay here and Elder Jones is coming here to be my companion. He and Elder Clawson were MTC companions. He's really neat and very dedicated. Hmong is coming along... Always tough but each day provides a bit of learning after a bit of struggling:)

It was so cool to see dad cliff jumping! Holy cow I couldn't believe it! When you said he jumped I though to myself that there's no way I could see him doing that:) It looks like you all are just so happy! Thanks for being so loving. Yeah I know your praying for me and it indeed helps me so much. I love you. I love our dad so much too. I hope he knows that he's just the best. That's kinda crazy he was Orland. That's really close. He should have come to the baptism. Well anyway...I hope all is well and I hope you all know that I love ya. Yeeeehaaaaa!!!!!!!

Love Elder Paramore

PS When you talk to anyone from this Chico 1st ward tell them how grateful I am to be serving here and feel so much love and support.