Fall is coming in Quebec :)

Hey everybody!

So this week was a week FILLED with miracles. SO many things happened! For one, the Friday before this last one all the elders in our district came and blitzed our area (they all worked in our area for like3 hours). We call it "Good Friday" and we pick a different area in our zone each week and blitz that area. It turned out really well. We were in the middle of calling all of the people and then we randomly got a call from somebody that Elder Eslick had talked to saying that she wanted to meet with us. So we set up an appointment with her for Wednesday and taught her a first lesson and it went really, really well. But it was so exciting...that never happens! So the first lesson was good and she said she wanted to see us on Friday as well so we went and taught the Plan of Salvation, or started too, but she was just in an argumentative mood and kept questioning everything and wanted proof from the Bible (not the Book of Mormon) and wouldn't accept any of the scriptures that we used. Finally I stopped the lesson, said we didn't have any more time, and when she was ready to listen to the Spirit and let the Spirit teach her instead of just going off of what she had learned when she was 15, we'd be willing to come back and teach her. It was crazy...I started crying in the middle of it and was shaking and I thought I might have said it a little too strong, but she calmed down immediately and afterwards Sister Davis said that that was her favorite part of the lesson. We're teaching her again tomorrow, so we'll see how that goes.

Ok, so that wasn't the best miracle story, but there were a lot of others. We also had another woman call us because she had met the elders on Good Friday and we met with her before District Study on Thursday and the first lesson went well. She's Muslim and didn't know hardly anything about Christ and so we spent the whole lesson talking about the Savior and she was SO happy! We're meeting her again this week...it's going to be wonderful :) Then we also called a less active that the sisters had met on Good Friday and set an appointment and she was so cool. She started smoking after her baptism and felt like she couldn't go to church anymore, so she stopped coming, but she loves the Gospel and when we showed up she had invited a friend to the lesson and started testifying about the importance of the book of Mormon and it was such a great lesson. We were so excited :)

Then yesterday at church we showed up and this man and his mother (both a bit older) came up to me and Sister Davis and introduced us to a friend they had. I hadn't met any of them before, but they were so sweet. They said the friend wanted to be taught RIGHT THEN, but we couldn't, so we set up a lesson for Sunday evening, and that lesson was AMAZING. It was a first lesson and she accepted everything. We told her to read and pray about the Book of Mormon, but she said she didn't need to - she already knew that it was true. She had been praying that God would place somebody in her path to lead her back to Him, and then Brother Lacroix showed up and introduced her to us. She ahd felt the Spirit through the whole sacrament meeting, done some geneology, and LOVED our lesson. We asked her to be baptized, and she said she would love to work for that. So we're going to :) We're meeting her again on Wednesday. I'm so excited. Then also in the middle of church, one of our members, Sister Bougie, came up to us and told us how a woman that she had helped the missionaries teach 3 years before had randomly come to church and sat next to her. In talking with her, Sister Bougie asked her if she wanted to be baptized now, and she said yes. So next Sunday she's going to introduce her to us, we're going to teach her everything again, and then baptize her. It's amazing the miracles we've been seeing!

So life has been good. We've been working hard, having a wonderful time, and I really do love this area. I hope everything is going well back home and I love you all tons! This really is the work of the Lord and I am SO grateful to be a part of it and see how the Lord does prepare His children and bless each one of us. Take care!

Love, Sister Nicole Lindsey