I sent off something last week. Though our P-day was changed because we had Canadian Thanksgiving on Monday. It's a little odd here because the Quebecois have a lot of pride in Not being a Canadian because they are very much Quebecois. So basically no one does anything during that holiday. Some Canadians that are just living in Quebec will group together, shoot off some fire works and have a big meal. Though one American family that wanted to embrace Canada had thanksgiving during the Canadian time and invited us. It was rather strange having it this early but it was very nice. No one here puts up thanksgiving decorations though and that was a bit of a bummer. They do have Halloween here so those decorations make up for that.

Our teaching pool of amis (investigators in French. It's shorter in French) has dropped a little due to some baptisms, people moving and some churches preaching that Mormons are of the devil but we had a really cool experience! With our extra time we have been doing service at the Amrée du Salut  (Don't remember the English version but they have them in the US). Every Wednesday, Jeudi, and Friday we go to serve food to people in need and last Sunday we served them a special meal for Canada's Thanksgiving. We have been giving service there for a while now and it is an amazing opportunity to contact! It's about the only way to effectively talk to people here because they do not like to talk about religion except when we render service. Then they will open up a little . When we were cleaning up last Sunday after the meal a random person came up to us and said that he had talked with the missionaries on the street before and wasn't interested at the time but he was so impressed at how we were giving service so often he decided that he would talk to us now. He even said that he wanted to start meeting with us! That's unheard of here! We did not have a lot of time to talk with him before we were sweped away do continue working so we ended up not getting his contact info! We were bummed but we knew we would see him the following Wednesday so we could get it then. The next day we were in the middle of companionship studies and a formerly less active family that we had been working with a lot called us up and said that she had a friend that was currently at her house asking a lot of questions about the church. We jumped in the car and whipped on over as fast as we could without going over the overly cautious speed limit that these narrow street have and when we got into the apartment here was this guy that we had talked to before! He said he was just over because the members son (I'll call him Léo for now) invited him over after school. After we talked with him for a while he said that he had been praying for the Lord to help him and he had been looking for a church. He thought that we were not interested in him because we did not ask to meet with him so when he found out that Léo went to church he started asking questions not knowing that he was LDS also. When we came in he was very exited! It just goes to show how following the commandments of our heavenly father, even when they are not the basic 10 commandments can really help! So I ask you, when was the last time you gave service?! It's something that Elder Utchdorf (of which I'll talk on next time) talked a little about during the first talk of general conference. It's a basic that we can't ignore. Even though we had some extra time on our hands we still had to make room for service. I challenge you to find some more time to give service even if it is only a little bit. Even though we had a little extra time the mission life is still busy and it was hard at first to make room to do it. We had to sacrifice some time that we could have set up some more member missionary mission plans or done a whole host of other things but we knew that charity is important and that we needed to carve out more time to serve other just as our example in life, the very person that we have promised to be like, Jesus Christ did. I know that through that you can really open the windows of Heaven even more and find more of that Christ like love for everyone that we must have! We all live busy lives but just as it says in the ever famous 1 Nephi 3:7 we can do it because our heavenly Father will make it possible.