When I hear those words "This is the right place"

Hey everyone!

So it`s been another FREEZING cold week here in Quebec filled with LOTS of finding...most days this week it`s been -16 C with a wind chill of between -24 and -30 C, so a bit colder than in WV. Plus it`s been snowing...I found out that 2 pairs of socks, 3 pairs of pants, 2 shirts, 2 sweaters, and a huge coat don`t quite cut it, so I`m going to have to start figuring out another way of layering my clothes...we`ll see how it goes :)

Things this week did go pretty well. The work was better and we had more new investigators at the beginning of the week, but then by the end most of them had told us that they really weren`t interested after all. I just find that so sad and I don`t quite understand...if you have the fullness of the gospel before you with all of the promises that God can give and the opportunity to be with your family for ALL ETERNITY, who would not want that? Why would you not want to learn more? But I guess everyone has their agency and can do with it what they will, so I`ll just keep working on finding the ones who are ready and willing to listen and gain all their blessings.

This week was zone conference which is always SO much fun! It was kind of strange to have it here in Quebec and with only one zone...in Mount Royal we had it with the IDM zone as well, so there were at least 40 missionaries there plus the senior couples, and here there were only 14 total. But it was so fun; the Victoriaville sisters came up the night before and spent the night with us on Thursday night (it takes about 2 hours to drive from Victoriaville to Quebec so most of the outlying areas like that drive in the night before so we can start right at 9:00) and it was wonderful. They got here at like 9 pm (it`s Sister Orozco and her greenie, Sister Fletcher) but then the APs were supposed to be bringing air mattresses for them to sleep on up with them when they came and they ended up not getting there until after 10:30, so we sat around and talked and ate cookies and made Valentine`s for people (we found a box of little valentine`s in French in our cupboard so we made them for other missionaries..so fun). It was great to get to know them better. Then the APs came and we tried to blow up the mattresses but we couldn`t figure it out, so Elder Ronndahl and Elder Mills came in to try and help us and it took us a good while to figure it all out and of course they had to do it the hardest way possible to make it work. But it was hilarious; I really love the two of them together.

I`m trying to remember what else happened this week and I`m having a bit of a hard time with it...it seemed like a pretty standard week. We did a lot of finding and almost got attacked by this psycho dog...it`s jaw like locked open and it was trying to jump out of it`s owner`s arms and was like biting her to try to get to us. Crazy. Needless to say, the owner didn't let us in. Then there was another guy we talked to who was being SO frustrating...it was that same night and it had been a long day of porting (door to door) and we were a bit irritated with people (and by we, I mean me). Sister Pearson went and contacted this guy who was walking his dog and he asked us if we were trying to “save” all of Quebec and Sister Pearson went to say no and I cut in and said “If we can!” He just laughed and then went on to say that that he didn't believe in anything and the purpose of life is to have fun and go out drinking with your friends and that`s all that really matters, and I was so sick of people saying that so instead of responding with something real, I said “And then what happens when you`re 80 years old and can`t walk anymore? I`d LOVE to see you go out drinking then.” He just looked at me...and that`s pretty much how the whole contact went. Poor Sister Pearson was trying to do an actual real contact, but it wasn't working out. She started laughing as soon as it was over and just loved my responses...we decided that maybe when he`s 80 and can`t walk anymore he`ll realize the importance of our message :) We`ll see.

Other than that, nothing too exciting happened this week...pretty much just the usual. But it was fun and this week is going to be even better. The French is coming slowly, but someday I`ll get it. Have a wonderful week and I hope to hear from you all soon!

Love, Sister Nicole Lindsey

PS: my name tag broke and I lost my first one and the new ones haven`t come in yet...so there are 2 Sister Pearson`s in our companionship for the next few weeks or so... :)

Oh, also: there`s this great CD that I`ve been listening to nonstop this week..it`s the Nashville tribute to the pioneers and it`s so much fun... :) That`s where the title came from this week...it`s the song that`s running through my head.