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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