I was recently in Canada, here's a couple of stories for your pleasure.

When distributing in Vancouver recently, I approached a man with his teenage son and his eleven-year-old daughter. As I was showing him the Bhagavad-gita he said to me, "Jehovah’s Witness?"

"No, Hare Krsna."

"Oh, Hare Krsna."

After showing the book to them I said, "We just ask for a donation for it." The little girl then grabbed the book and said, "Father, I want this book."

"Are you sure you’re going to read it?"

"Yes, father, it’s beautiful."

I said to the father, "You have a very intelligent daughter. Nowadays not many people are philosophically inclined, what to speak of eleven-year-old girls." He gave a nice donation, and the family walked away with Krsna putting them on their path to enter into their eternal family in the spiritual world.

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Later while I was in Toronto I heard of a very interesting way one of the devotees their came to Krsna consciousness:

Rafael Abdula was born into a family in which his mother was Hindu and his father was Muslim. When the family moved to the USA, both his parents, amazingly, became Mormons. When he reached his teens he asked them questions about God that they couldn't answer. He became an atheist. When he was in Venezuela he met a devotee who asked him if he knew about Krsna. Rafael replied that he'd never heard of Him. (Although his mother had been a Hindu, she had only spoken about Siva and Ganesh before she turned to Mormonism.) He took a book from her to find out about Krsna, and she took his e-mail and phone number. She kept in touch with him. Once she called and taught him the Hare Krsna mantra, which brought him a little closer to Krsna.

Later he was at a bookstore when a man standing next to him who didn't work at the store and who he'd never seen before picked up a /Prabhupada Lilamrta/ and asked, "Are you interested in this?" Rafael replied, "Yes, this may be interesting." He bought it, took it home, and found that it was the best book he'd ever read.

A short time later he was in Trinidad and met more devotees. They invited him to the temple, which he appreciated and returned to every Sunday. Eventually became a disciple of Guru Prasada Swami. His name is now Raghavendra dasa, and he lives and serves in Toronto.

This shows how the transcendental team of Krsna and his devotees gradually pull in the conditioned souls to His shelter.

-- by V dasa