Elder Paramore returns!

Elder Paramore will be flying into the St. George airport on February 14th at 4:30 pm.
He will be speaking in Sacrament meeting on the 26th at 9 am. An open house is still tentative, I will keep you posted.  Thanks for all your love and support.

1/30/12

Dear family,

 

I don't have much time today:) I'm sorry. I just want you to know that I love you. The work is always so much fun and right now is no different. We had Ma Her and her Husband Chong Xeng get baptized on Tuesday and then yesterday Donna UIngaro was baptized. Each of them having their own experiences that have led them to show faith, feel the spirit and be baptized. It's been too good to work with Elder Moyle and Elder Talbot. I love being a missionary. We have a busy couple weeks coming up and it's exciting. Our entire zone is becoming more obedient and they are seeing the fruits from it. It's been a miracle to see the willingness and dedication of them all. I love Peighton so much. I love all the littles. Would you give them hugs and kisses for me. Tell Peight that he's one of my heros. He's touhger then I am:) Mom and dad I love you, I am grateful for you faith. I feel your prayers. I feel your love each day and in each moment. I'm tired, but it's the best. Ha I can't wait to be tired for the Lord for the rest of my life:) I hope all continues to go well. Thanks for all you do. Please let me know if there's anything I can do for you:) I'm doing fine by they way. I just need you to keep being great:)

 

Love Elder Paramore

1/15/12

Hi Family! Oh my goodness do I love you all:) Thank you for the email and the love. I am always so uplifted by the things you have to say. I'm grateful Haizlee's ok, to be honest I was never to worried. She's tough:) Thank you for the address. I feel silly having burnt it while our furnace was broken. We probably burnt 15 boxes over a week or so. The address was on the box. So many wonderful things are happening in the California Roseville Mission. In our Zone now we have 14 people with dates. We'll have 3 people baptized this week in our companionship. We've been prayerful and diligent. Yesterday we asked John Thao if he'd pick Ma Her up for church and when they got there we saw that her husband came as well! I never would have though he'd come when just a week ago he was against her getting bapitzed. I fasted this week and tried my best to follow the spirit and when I saw them both walk in I was flushed with gratitude for the hand of Lord in this work. I know that it was Him through ways i'm not sure of nor can I see that hearts were softened. Now the husband wants to be baptized as well. These two only speak hmong and they're pretty old. This Sunday another woman will be baptized and we're excited for her as well! She first started learning about 4 weeks ago. When people feel the spirit and are willing their desires change and they no longer want silly things but have hope in those lasting things. It causes them to show their faith and really change and become happier. We're excited. It'll be a busy week. Then the following week a 19 year old young man will be baptized. I'm grateful for how powerful obedience is. I'm grateful for the covenants i've made and remember through my actions:) Life is too sweet. I also really feel grateful that i'm able to love the Elders and Sisters I serve around. I was reading the scriptures last Friday and I felt I needed to write down some of the ways I see Gods love in my life and as I started writing the first thing I felt to write was that you and dad had been sealed and have made sacred covenants and how that decision has shown me Gods love. I'm thankful for all the love and the faith you show. If it weren't for making and remembering that covenant as my parents then my life would be a lot less powerful. I'm excited for my future wife:) I really do love her very much and I think your examples have had a great impact on the way I feel. I love my companions. We have so much fun together:) They are both giants. We all run in the mornings and we all drink green smoothies. Yay for the word of wisdom! 

 Thanks for all you do and I hope you all have a great week. Love ya.

Love Elder Paramore 

1/15/12

Thank mom! Yeah we do have to keep giving our family to this work because we are part of Brother Tanner's family! Life is too good! I love love love love getting your emails. Before I forget...  That's great that you had 21 sisters to the lunch group! We had 14 Less actives again this week and 2 investigators. This week we set 3 baptismal dates. I'll tell ya what, I have two of the best companions right now. I love them each so much and i'm learning so many different things from this experience. I love the responsibilities I have and how they  allow me to spread my love and bare my testimony to others. I love being prayerful and pondering. It brings about the most sacred memories. I just don't know how to feel mom and dad. I love being a missionary... We had a great week. My companions are Elder Moyle from Enterprise UT and Elder Talbot from Plain City, maybe I already told you that...sorry. No, i'm not training again. It's just the way it worked out. Our heater broke in our house a couple days back so it was 46 degrees in one room this morning:) We have a fire place though so we just start a fire and study next to it until we get the heater fixed. I'm on track still to run 108 miles by transfers end:) I'm grateful the baby Grace is doing well. She's so so dang cute. Thanks for always hugging and kissing the littles for me. Could ya please tell my dad how much I love him. 

I also got a letter from the Heatons:) Do you know if they had their baby yet? I'd love to work at the Bar 10 again so we'll see what happens. Elder Jordan Houston wrote me a couple days back and he'll be out there again this year when he gets back. I hope it works out. I love the Bar 10 and I sure do love the Heatons. They're too nice. I hope all continues to go well for you all this upcoming week. Thank you for your faith. Please know that I just love ya. Tell Wayne i'm excited to be able to speak a little bit of hmong with him but mostly excited just to see him:) All is well and we have a great week ahead of us. Our zone right now has had 5 baptized this month already and we have 9 people with dates for the next couple weeks:) There are people out there, it's up to us to find them. Lifes too good. Thanks for all you do. If there's anything I can do for you let me know. Oh and yes i'm in the Olivehurst Ward. Thanks for sharing about the man who's taking lessons from the missionaries. We should have the missionaries over if possible a few days after I get home. I love you. Please hug and kiss the littles for me and please hug and kiss my dad:) 

Love Elder Paramore

PS That'd be awesome if Chandis worked at the Bar 10!

1/9/12

Hello Family, 

Thank you thank you for the email:) I always enjoy them. No matter how much or little you write. I enjoy hearing about your sabbath days and all about the littles and how they're doing. I don't think life gets much better than right now. I hope baby Grace is going to be alright. She is so precious. I bet it's the best responsibility in the world to raise littles. I remember the times when she was a baby and she'd be sick and there was nothing I could do but hold her. Oh my goodness, I can't believe she isn't a baby anymore but am still grateful she has given me permission to call her baby because she's "the baby of the family." Mom and dad I don't think I need anything. I'm getting along just fine. It's been a whole different learning experience being with two companions. I feel as if I got good at learning how to be with just one companion all the time and know two is so neat. I'm learning lots and loving much. Elder Moyle is from Enterprise UT. So it's a 40 minute drive from St. George. He went to Dixie before he came out. He's awesome and he and Talbot are two peas in a pod. We still managed to teach a lot last week. We're now covering Hmong work in the entire stake and the Olivehurst ward. I'm on track to run 108 miles this transfer which is such a neat feeling. I love living the word of wisdom. I enjoy my studies each morning and the power and strength they bring to me. We found two new investigators this week. Not Hmong. Between English and Hmong we had 18 less actives to church and we had 1 Hmong investigator. Last week being the first week of the transfer we had some things to figure out so that we could find the best way to teach all the people we're both teaching. It's going to be a busy week. We already have 12 lessons set up by Thursday. Mom and Dad I love being a missionary. I'm grateful for all your love and faith. All really is too well here. We were tracting a couple weeks back and we found some Hmong men playing basketball so we took off our suit coats and played:) They expressed that they'd like to play in a gym so we open our gym for them every Friday from 7-9. Before they play we stand in front of them and remind them where we're at and to watch their mouths then we have a prayer. It's really neat to watch them being careful of the things they say and how they act while they're in there. You can tell people are trying to be respectful and we're confident they'll feel the spirit of that. I'm beat. I feel tired. It's the best tired i've ever felt. While I was saying my prayers last night I was caught in pondering and this overwhelming feeling came over me that I was loved and supported by not only Heavenly Father but in a very real way my ancestors. I couldn't help but cry in gratitude for how tired they must have been as they diligently came across the plains, or stood up to robbers and all kinds of persecutions. I know they loved it because they knew the things they hoped for and they enjoyed becoming more like Christ. They loved all those who did them wrong and only wanted them to be happy as well. If they didn't then they do know:) Life is always good. Loving is so much fun. I don't think I have anything else. I love you all. If ya meet my future wife tell her I love her:) Please hug and kiss those littles for me and tell them I love them. Please let me know if there's anything I can do for you all. Love ya.

Love Elder Paramore

1/2/12

Hi! 

Thank you for that wonderful email. I did! I felt so grateful that Bishop Hansen will welcome me back:) Mom you're to great. I love reading your testimony. You're such a powerful women! I bet it was a bit quite around there. I'm just glad they're back ha. I kind of worried that they'd get stuck there or something. Everything will be alright:) Always. Yeah i'm reading the George Albert Smith book as well. I'm grateful for men and women that love the Lord first. I had a great week. We were obedient and worked hard. I love serving with Elder Talbot. He's always upbeat and optimistic. Hmong people are so so special.  I enjoy the spiritual battle. I enjoy being exactly obedient, prayerful and moldable to the spirit that we might be able to help each person we're working with individually. It's so much fun loving people. Yeah transfers were today and all is still pretty much the same. We'll have a busy busy week ahead! We're excited. Mom I love you. Please hug and kiss the littles for me and when ya see dad let him know that I love him and give him a big hug and kiss for me. I sure do love you all. Thanks for all your faith.

Love Elder Paramore

PS Please let me know if there's anything I can do for you and thanks for being tired for the Lord:)