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Sister Louise Novodvorski (nee MacDonald)

Her Testimony

The third youngest child of a family of twenty two siblings.

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Sister Louise Novodvorski – Her Testimony


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BACKGROUND

Mile 442 Lat. 58.774362. Lon. -125.702942 The location of the Southwick’s Cabin, Bus Mountain and the home of the old Indian prophet. Also where Walter and Maggie live.

Moose Lake Lat. 58.693461. Lon. -125.753888 Angus walked on the water at the northern end of the lake.

Family Cabin Lat. 58.550969. Lon. -125.688053 This is where Louise’s mother was healed.

Grizzly Summit. (Location approximate) The silver tipped grizzly bear and caribou with 42” horns were shot here.

Racing River Lat. 58.364686. Lon. -125.984728 Louise’s father’s horse rescued seven men some-where along the river when they became trapped on an island near Mile 419 as the river rose in flood.

Entering the co-ordinates given above left into Google Earth® takes you directly to the named locations.

Bus Mountain can be viewed looking south using ‘Street View’ from a point around the bend and a little north of Mile 442 along the Alaska Highway.




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Location

Four hundred miles from the Pacific coast in northern British Columbia, the tiny settlement of Toad River is home to about 60 hardy souls at Mile 422 on the Alaska Highway. It nestles at the northern extremities of the Rocky Mountains only 80 miles south of the Yukon border. In the depths of winter (December), temperatures drop to an average minimum of -27C each day and -40C is not unknown. On December 21, daylight is restricted to about 2 hours in total and in June there is only 2 hours of darkness. The city of Vancouver lies 660 miles to the south. The nearest population centre is Fort Nelson some 90 miles to the southeast. Fort St John is a further 155 miles further southeast and Dawson Creek lies another 40 miles beyond that. The Toad River crosses the Alaska Highway near Mile 442, 20 miles north of the settlement that bears it’s name. Back in the wilderness, about 20 miles west of Mile 442, Brother Branham stood on Grizzly Summit and surveying the natural, untouched beauty prayed, “Lord, let me live here during the Millennium.” Grizzly Summit was so named after the Silver tipped Grizzly Bear that he had killed on it’s lower slopes in 1961, to fulfill a vision given him earlier that year. Notes; 1. Mile 442 is the point on the Alaska Highway that is 442 miles north of Dawson Creek. In similar manner, Mile 422

is 422 miles north of Dawson Creek.

2. The Toad River settlement can be quickly found by entering the phrase ‘Toad River BC’ into Google Earth®

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Mile 442 Louise’s late Brother George (left) and Walter. Walter and his sister Maggie live on this flat area

just above the Alaska Highway. Bus Mountain is in the background.




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Her early life Sister Louise Novodvorski was born May 17, 1944 into a family of Beaver/Sekani Indians who had lived in the Toad River area for 400 years. When she first met Brother Branham in 1963, she had lived there for only seven of her nineteen years of life. When she was about five years old, Louise was taken after the manner of the times along with other Indian children of similar age, and placed into a Roman Catholic ‘residential school’ for education and to learn the white culture away from her parents. She could not speak English and did not know why she was there. It was here that she was given her English name ‘Louise.” She found herself being punished by the Nun’s more than the other children because she could not understand what the Nun’s or Priest’s were saying when they gave instructions. The other Indian children who were from different tribes such as Cree, Slavy, and Sekani/Beaver could not understand each others dialects and so could not communicate to help one another. Instead, they would hold each others hands for consolation. The first year at residential school was very difficult for all the children, but during years two and three, their experience of European schooling gradually became easier to bear as they learned more of the English language and began to communicate with each other and understand what their schooling was about. Louise remained at the residential school for eight years and then went to college to finish her education. She graduated after four years and returned home to help her parents.

Children who were at Residential School with Louise . From left to right; Janet, Eddy (Louise’s brother), Elaine, Lucy, Louise, Patsy Bain and Richard Bain

Patsy and Richards father was a tribal chief. Janet is now a nurse in Vancouver.




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Her Mother and Father Her mother could not speak English but her father, Charlie MacDonald, spoke some limited, broken English which he had learned during the years that he had worked as a guide to the US Army engineers when they built the Alaska Highway. Because of his great knowledge of the old Indian trails, he was instrumental in helping decide the route that the Alaska Highway would take through their area.

Some members of Louise’s family From left to right; Rose, four unknown persons, Louise’s Mother (beside the corner of the tent),

and Father, Charlie (partly obscured), In the foreground; Joe, Angus, Maggie and Walter.

A typical teenager Louise was a typical teenager and just like the other girls had wanted to run around looking for fun, even although this was against her mothers wishes. She first heard about Brother Branham through her brother Oscar. Oscar had become acquainted with Bud and Lila Southwick when they first moved into the area and they in turn had later come to realize that Brother Branham was a prophet of God. September 1960 – the dream about the red books One day in September in 1960, Louise had gone to see Lila to tell her about a dream she had had while asleep in the family cabin. In the dream, a voice had said to her, “Go tell that woman to give you those two red books.” She somehow knew the ‘woman’ mentioned was Lila Southwick so she rode over to Lila’s trailer on her brothers brown horse and told her of the dream and asked, “Lila, have you got those two red books?” Try as they might, Lila and Louise could not find the books.




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Bud and Lila Southwick outside their log cabin near Mile 442 on the Alaska Highway At the time of her visit to the Southwick’s, Brother Branham was also there on his first trip to the region and he noticed Louise from a distance and later told Lila that he would like to talk to her. Louise had also seen Brother Branham as she was leaving but didn’t know who he was so didn’t stop to meet him. She thought he was just one of the hunters packing the horses to get ready to go off for the day. Brother Branham told Lila that he would have loved to talk to Louise and then wept and prayed and said, “She should have talked to me.”

Brother Branham loved animals. His close friend Banks Wood is shown at the far left while on a hunting trip together in British Columbia.

Brother Branham spent the last of his teenage years as a cowboy mustering cattle in Arizona and became an expert horseman.




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The next day, Louise went back to visit Lila and Lila scolded her, “He wanted to talk to you. Louise, don’t you realize that millions of people would just love to have one moment with him and you walked away like that!” Louise said that she didn’t know who he was and so didn’t stop to talk. September, 1963 – the healing of Oscar and Louise’s Mother In mid September, 1963, Oscar went over to visit the Southwick’s and Lila testified to Oscar about the Lord Jesus Christ. Oscar told her that his mother was sick but didn’t want to go to hospital so Lila mentioned that there was a prophet coming from the United States that prayed for sick people and when he laid his hands on them, they would get well. Oscar went home and told his parents and said to his father, “Maybe you should take Mom to see that man”. At the time, they were living about 15 miles west of the Alaska Highway, back in the bush at Groundhog Creek, nearly all the way to Grizzly Mountain. Oscar went back to the Southwick’s to ask if Brother Branham had arrived but Lila told him that he had not been able to get through because there had been a flood that had blocked the Alaska Highway between Fort St John and Dawson Creek. Oscar persisted and went back to the Southwick’s the next day (September 12) to find that Brother Branham had arrived and was camped out on the West Toad River with Bud Southwick. Oscar rode across to the camp and took the opportunity to tell Brother Branham about his mother’s condition and that she was dying. He explained that the local Catholic Priest would not come because it was too far back in the bush. A vision broke before Brother Branham and he told Oscar, “God said, ‘These are my people’” and agreed to go with him to pray for his mother. Oscar and Brother Branham then rode the 15 miles to where he and his family were living. The old Indian Prophets Although Louise’s family were strict Roman Catholics by faith, they also knew that there had been Indian prophets in earlier generations of their family. Louise’s mother’s maiden name was Stone, and she had been the youngest of thirty children. The siblings had been born to Louise’s father during three separate marriages. In those days, the Alaska Highway had not been built and the family knew nothing of any white people at all. They were only aware of their local area which lay within a vast wilderness. In the Fall, their Indian custom had been to call the men together to sing songs and play the drums so they could enter into a state conducive to let them see what the future might hold. The elder men would try to hear from the Great Spirit through visions or dreams. Some 500 years earlier, one such prophet known as, “The Swift One,” had said to his wife as he lay dying in his old age, that the Great Spirit had told him, “There is coming a prophet before Jesus comes back to earth who will do great works among you.”

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Where the Indian prophet lived. A rainbow appears here every morning. He prophesied of the coming of a prophet before Christ’s return.

The location is about two miles from the Alaska Highway near Mile 442 in the Toad River area.

The old MacDonald family cabin near where the India n prophet had lived. ‘Bus Mountain’ dominates the background. Louise’s Father, Charlie MacDonald is standing against the left corner of the cabin. The raised structures to the left of the photo were known as a ‘cache’ and enabled the

family to store food beyond the reach of wild animals. The buildings in the area have since been demolished. Today the area is reserved parkland that can be reached by motor vehicle from the highway.




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The prophecy given by, “The Swift One,” was passed from generation to generation and since that time, every parent that knew of the prophecy and believe it, would send their male children out into the wilderness alone at five years of age to see if he would receive revelation from the Great Spirit in expectation of the fulfillment of the prophecy. When Louise was a small child, she and her sisters would stay at home with her mother whenever her father went hunting and at these times, her mother would pass on what her parents and grandparents had told her. She told her daughters that a prophet would come at some time in the future who would do great things amongst them. Because of this expectation, it was natural that when Oscar brought the message from Lila, that, ‘A man was coming that prays for the sick and also sees visions’, Louise’s mother had responded, “That could be him …. the one that our parents talked about!” Louise meets Brother Branham On the day that Brother Branham came to their home, Louise did not get to meet him immediately because she was out working in a nearby field. Her brother Joe had given her and her older sister Rose a dollar each to go and cut hay for him, so they each took a machete and went out to earn their money. As the sun dropped low in the sky, Brother Branham arrived at the family cabin and turning to Oscar, he said, “Go and get Louise”. No-one had mentioned Louise’s name to Brother Branham so although this surprised him greatly, Oscar did as he was bidden. The girls were about 2 ½ miles away from the cabin. Joe had already decided to go and see how the girls were doing so he was on horseback midway between the cabin and the girls when Louise looked up and noticed her family waving and yelling to her back at the cabin. It looked like Oscar had a hunter with him but she could not make out what they were saying. Joe also heard the commotion and yelled to his brother Angus who was nearest to him to find out what the family wanted. Angus called to Oscar who said, “Tell Louise to come.” Joe told Louise that the visitor wanted to see her. Louise was horrified and wondered what was going on because in her family, a girl was not supposed to speak to a man who was a stranger. She started slowly to the cabin, very conscious that she was quite a sight with her dirty clothes and messed up hair from working in the field. When she finally got near the cabin, Brother Branham introduced himself and told her that he prayed for the sick. With her Catholic upbringing, this didn’t meant anything to her at all and so she reacted coolly to this announcement and noticed that he seemed not to like her response. She thought that Lila had told the stranger about her and decided that when she next spoke to Lila, she was going to tell her off for giving this man her name! Little did she know that as a result of her meeting a prophet of God who prayed for the sick, her life was about to undergo a profound and wonderful change. While she collected her thoughts, Brother Branham asked her, “If I pray for your Mom, will you interpret for me and tell her that she will be healed?” Louise agreed to do this and so the two of them went into the cabin.




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The secrets of her heart revealed Louise immediately noticed that her mothers head had fallen backwards at an awkward angle on her bed and she thought that death was very near. She did not know that Brother Branham had entered into a vision and so when she turned to watch him as they stood at the foot of the bed, she thought he was reading some scribbling that her brothers had done on the cardboard boxes that lined the wall nearest the bed to keep out the draughts. Brother Branham began to speak and to Louise’s great surprise, he said, ‘The mother is having heart attacks because a daughter is going away into a far city’. The words penetrated to Louise’s innermost being and she knew that he was speaking of her because she had secretly planned to go to Vancouver to be trained to become a Registered Nurse. This had been her hearts desire since childhood but she had only ever told this to her closest girlfriend and only intended telling her parents when the time came to depart. Now the stranger went on and said that she was going to a far city to be trained as a registered nurse and Louise could hardly believe what she was hearing. Her friend Jessie lived way up north at Whitehorse and couldn’t possibly have told this man of her desire to be a nurse. She wondered in her heart who on earth could have told him this? A ‘Presence’ in the room Louise became aware of a Presence in the room as Brother Branham went on to say, “The man you intend to marry is not for you! Forget him!” As her hopes and dreams came crashing down around her, she again realized that he could not possibly have known that she had been pledged from birth to marry the son of a nearby farmer. Brother Branham then turned and asked her directly, “Why don’t you become a nurse for the Lord?” She didn’t understand what he meant and the revealing of the secrets of her heart in this manner was too much for her to cope with so she turned her back to go outside to another cabin. Brother Branham picked up his hat and said, “Where Jesus is not welcome, I am not.” Louise whirled around to affirm, “But I believe the Lord!” and repented of what she had done. Her Mother is healed Brother Branham turned to Louise’s Mother and the Holy Ghost then told him her Indian name, who she was and even what tribe she was from and what had happened. Louise conveyed this to her Mother and then Brother Branham prayed for her. She seemed to fall asleep for a short time and when she awoke, she was a new person. She had been made perfectly well. Another vision broke before Brother Branham who appearing to look over Louise’s head, said, “You’re the Princess of Cheyenne” He said to her, “If you will be a good nurse and stay home and take care of your parents in their old age, God will give you a wonderful husband and fulfill the desire of your heart.” Then he put on his hat and remarked, “Praise God, Louise is a good nurse!” and left the cabin.




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“God told him.” Shortly after this, Louise made her way to visit Lila and ask why she told Brother Branham about her. Lila denied telling him anything about her at all but instead explained that Brother Branham was prophet who would see things in the future. Louise protested that he knew everything about her, even that she was going to be a nurse! Who told him that!? Lila replied simply, “God told him.” Louise stopped in her tracks. She had never considered such a possibility. She returned home pondering these things deeply in her heart. She had never known of such happenings before, yet there was just no way the stranger could have said those things unless God had told him. “We believe like you believe” Brother Braham went back to see the family the following morning. He found Louise mounting her horse, ready to go out to dry moose meat. He said to her, “Last night when I prayed for your Mother, I prayed the model prayer, ‘Our Father, which art in heaven ….’ because that is what you people as Catholics would expect, but we don’t ‘say’ prayers, we pray”. With that, Louise announced, "We no more Catholic. We believe like you believe. We want you to take all of us and baptize us the way you baptize. We want the Holy Ghost." Because of the healing of Louise’s mother, Brother Braham was able to lead the family to accept the Lord Jesus and some years later, his son Billy Paul Branham was able to fulfill his fathers desire that the family should be baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ. The Fall of 1964 – she takes ‘Todar’ to show Brothe r Branham In the Fall of 1964 Brother Branham was again in the area hunting and when Louise heard that he was there, she decided to take the black horse to show him that Oscar had recovered from the snow. The night before she was to ride over to see him at Bud and Lila’s, she dreamed that she was at the foot of a hill, trying to restrain Oscar’s black horse when a voice said to her, “Romans 10, 8-11: when you wake, read this.” As a Roman Catholic, she had been forbidden to own a Bible and to that time, had never read or seen one. When Louise reached the Southwick’s camp, Brother Branham was in the cabin. He looked out and said to his companions, “Here comes Oscar’s sister with one of those horses I saw in the vision,” and with that, he went to meet her. The mare’s name was, ‘Todar,’ which means, ‘Eagle,’ and as they stood there by the horse, he explained to Louise how he could know things by revelation; that he didn’t go to sleep at such times, but rather saw things by vision.




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Brother Branham and Louse with the black mare that had been lost by Oscar. In the Indian dialect the mare’s name was, ‘Todar,” which means ‘Eagle.’

Photo taken by Brother Pearry Green The moment of change As they continued talking, all of a sudden he said, “I will never forget what the Angel said to me down on the Ohio River in 1933, that as John Baptist was sent to forerun Christ’s first coming, so the Message I have been given will forerun His second coming.” At that very moment, something happened to Louise that she couldn’t explain. Her whole life suddenly changed. She lost all her old desires and became a different person. Before that, she had been out doing things that were wrong. She was headstrong and wouldn’t listen but the Lord touched her life that day and she lost her desires to do such things forever. They were joined by Brother Branham’s companions and soon they were ready to ride back towards Louise’s family cabin on their way to a hunting area. Brother Branham rode off with the others, but Louise stayed behind to keep her black mare apart from them because Toda had a strong tendency to bite other horses. A short way along the trail, Brother Branham let his companions (Brothers Pearry Green, Fred Sothmann, Billy Paul Branham and Bud Southwick) go on ahead, and then waited for Louise to catch up so he could ride with her and talk to her some more. Louise was still struggling to keep the black mare from catching the others when she looked ahead and saw Brother Branham waiting. Then she realized that this was the scene she had dreamed in her dream when the voice had spoken to her the previous night. The happiest day of her life As they travelled together, her horse was strangely calm and showed no animosity towards Brother Branham’s mount.




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They soon passed by the area near Bus Mountain where the old Indian prophet called “The Swift One,” had made his prophecy some 500 years before. Somehow Brother Branham knew that God had visited someone in this area and asked Louise if it was a special place. Louise told him about the prophecy that had been handed down through the generations of her family.

The Trail to where “The Swift One’ lived near Bus M ountain. The Alaska Highway is just beyond the trees to the left.

Brother Branham at Bus Mountain near Mile 442




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Brother Branham began to tell her many things about her life and she witnessed that everything he said was true. Their conversation was the highlight of Louise’s life to that time. He also told her that he had a daughter Becky, who was about the same age as Louise and later they corresponded with each other. By the time that they got to the family camp, Louise felt like she was walking on a cloud. It was the happiest day of her life. Brother Branham stopped by to see Louise’s Mother. When she heard that he had come to see her, she and Louise’s Father came out of the cabin to greet Brother Branham and his companions. They heard each other in the language in which they were born. Acts 2:8 He said to her, “Sister, your healed now,” and she said, “Yes.” And then told him that they could die happy now because they had seen the Lord’s prophet in fulfillment of the prophecy that her parents had spoken of. She talked to him in her Beaver Indian dialect and he spoke to her in English, yet she heard him in her Indian dialect and he heard her words in English! Both understood perfectly what the other was saying. They did not need an interpreter! “You speak the Word sister!” As Brother Branham and his companions were preparing to leave, Angus joined them and asked Brother Branham what they should do for their father who had been taken ill from time to time. He was concerned that because they lived so far back in the wilderness, there was no way to get a Priest to him if he should die. Brother Branham turned to Louise and said sternly, “You speak the Word sister!” At that time, she did not know what this meant but later it came to mind that this is what the Voice in the dream had drawn her attention to when It referred her to Romans 10, 8-11.

But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

Romans 10, 8-11 Angus receives the baptism of the Holy Ghost Angus continued the conversation and told Brother Branham that he had repented and said all his prayers and had done everything he could to receive the Holy Ghost but to no avail. He wondered when he could get It. Of course instead of approaching God in faith and with a clear conscience in obedience to His Word, he had been taught that he had to earn any blessing he might receive. Brother Branham said to him simply, “Receive the Holy Ghost now,” and he immediately received the Holy Ghost with joy that he could not contain. From that moment on he was a changed man. Drunk with new wine. Acts 2:13 Louise was so happy that she couldn’t walk without staggering a little. On seeing her daughter’s strange behavior, Louise’s Mother thought she had been sneaking a drink from her brothers! Her older sister Rose checked all her belongings to see if she could find any alcohol but there was nothing! Oscar overheard Rose’s conversation with their Mother and spoke up and said, “Mom,




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you wanted someone to talk to her (Louise) to straighten her out? Well the prophet did that and it’s fixed her for good!” Oscar went to be with the Lord in 1975. A changed life She was so different that Louise’s brothers and sisters wondered what had happened to her. Now she was quiet and meek and so powerful was the outpouring of the Holy Ghost on her life, that at times it seemed to her that she was above the clouds. In due course she received some Spoken Word books (transcripts of some of Brother Branham’s sermons). They included the red volumes that she had seen in her dream. The Catholic Priest told them it was all wrong and other people made fun of Louise’s family but they gladly suffered the reproach because they knew already that God had vindicated all that Brother Branham had told them and that he had told them the Truth and they had all been blessed. Angus walks on water Some while after the day that Brother Branham had spoken to Louise, Elsie, Maggie, Rose and George were together on the shore at the northern end and outlet of Moose Lake. The lake is a little over a 1/2 mile wide at it’s widest point and some four miles long. The Lake is formed by a widening of the Toad River and lays about 6 miles from the Alaska Highway at Mile 442. The foursome could see Angus waving to them from the other side. He wanted them to bring their boat over and take him back to their side of the lake, where they were camped on the western shore. Elsie however got the idea that Angus was drinking and said, “Oh no, don’t pick him up. It looks like he is drinking.” To which George replied, “No, he’s got nothing on him.” Although the Lake narrows considerably to about 100 yards across near it’s outlet into the Toad River, Angus was just far enough in the distance to prevent the siblings seeing clearly to make up their minds. When Angus realized that nobody was going to come and get him, he walked into the willows nearby and knelt and prayed, “Lord, you let Peter walk across the lake one-time. Can I do the same thing too?” With that, he turned and by faith walked out across the lake to the far side and never got his feet wet. His four siblings watched in awe as they saw him step out across the water. Elsie was first to recover her presence of mind and said to Maggie, “Go run and check his moccasins and see if they are wet!” So Maggie ran to her brother and said, “Can I check your feet!?” Angus retorted, “What’s wrong? You guy’s are too lazy to pick me up and now you all come running!,” and kept on walking up the trail to where he lived five miles beyond the lakeshore. Everyone in the district got to hear about what had happened and even people in the township began talking about it but couldn’t believe that it really happened; some even contending that someone had bewitched him or cast a spell on him. About the time of the event, Angus had been telling his older brother George about the Lord. George couldn’t read and so when he heard that Angus had walked across the water, he asked Angus to read the passage out to him from the Bible where Peter had done the same thing. When he had heard the account, he asked why Peter had fallen in and Angus had not!. Angus told him, “Because Peter was looking at the wrong thing!”




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Angus getting into a canoe at Moose Lake on it’s ea stern shore

at the point from where he walked across the water to the far side. He knelt to pray in the willows at the left of the photo and then walked across the lake.

In the background is Diamond Peak. (Lat. 58.620218. Lon. -125.818007).

“That person does not exist!” After her healing, Louise’s mother made application for her Government Pension and paid a visit to the office of a certain gentleman by the name of Norman to seek help to fill out and submit the forms. When Norman phoned long distance to the Government office that administered Pension applications, he was told, “That person does not exist!” Somewhat nonplussed, he countered, “But she is sitting right here in my office! There was a pause before the reply came back, “Well where does she work?” Of course, there had been no work for an old lady in the Toad River area at the time and as the conversation continued, it was also discovered that Louise’s mother did not have any record of her birth date or possess the knowledge of where she had been born. At the time she was born, such records were not recorded by the Indian communities. However, when Brother Branham was made aware of her plight, he told her by the inspiration of the Holy Ghost, the day, date and time of her birth as well as where this had taken place, her parents names and other information to enable the forms to be completed correctly. In due course the Pension was granted. Louise promised in marriage Before Louise was born, she had been promised in marriage by her father. This came about when her father as a much younger man, had owned the mother of the black horse that Sister Louise had taken to show Brother Branham. This mare was three years old when seven white men from North Dakota attempted to cross Racing River at Mile 419 just south of the settlement of Toad River while the river was swollen in flood and still rising. The father and his six sons got as far as




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an island in the middle of the river but then got stuck there and couldn’t go forward or back. As the island submerged, death by drowning seemed only a matter of hours away. At the time, Louise’s Father Charlie, happened to be on a hunt riding the three year old horse who he had simply named, ‘Black Mare’. One of his cousins became aware of the plight of the seven people on the island and began playing the drums to call on the Great Spirit to come to their aid and prevent the seven from drowning. At the same time, Ike, a younger brother, set out after Charlie because he had the only horse that was well trained and could be relied upon to swim to the island and rescue the family. Fortunately, Ike who knew where Louise’s Father went hunting When Louise’s Father arrived at the river bank across from the rapidly submerging island, he told Black Mare to go to the rescue of the strangers and she swam to the island and back seven times carrying the men to safety. As a result, one of the boys that was rescued said to Louise’s Father that if ever he had a daughter, he would like her to marry one of his sons. Charlie agreed to this even although he was widowed at the time and had no plans to remarry. As the years rolled by, the Alaska Highway went through and in due course, Louise’s Father married her mother who in fact was his first wife’s sister. They both had lost their spouses and had been left to care for seven boys and three girls on the one hand and four little girls on the other. Louise was born on May 17, 1944, and eventually came to an age when her mother began to tell her that she thought that she was going to, “Live next door.” Louise didn’t understand what was this meant. Finally she was told that before she was born, she had been pledged to marry the son of a stranger who had become a farmer in the district and true to his word, that stranger had told his younger son named Grant, that Louise was to be his wife. Knowing that her father was bound by the Indian custom to never go back on a promise, Louise thought that her chance of a career and a life like the other girls looked forward to was over. It was not in God’s plan However, the marriage to Grant wasn’t in God’s plan, because when he was just seventeen years old, he drowned. This unfortunate happening was still of little comfort to Louise, because according to Indian Law, once she had been promised in marriage, she could never marry another, except it be someone from her intended husband’s family. In this custom, the Indian Law was remarkably similar to the Jewish Law of the Old Testament where a widow could only marry her late husbands brother. Louise did not know that Grant had another unmarried brother and so mistakenly assumed that she would have to remain single for the rest of her life. Louise’s parents did their best to comfort her in her distress but later she would meet Sheryl, a girl from Grant’s family, who told her that she could go with her brother Bradley who so looked like Grant, that he could almost pass as Grant’s twin. But this too was thwarted when Bradley was killed in a plane crash. Louise later realized that this was the hand of God on her life, protecting her from becoming part of a family that was very worldly and had no time for the things of the Lord. They would not have allowed her to have anything to with the Gospel and today, she praises God that He loved her enough to keep her safe through this period of her life. God’s choice When Louise finally met God’s choice of partner for her, she was thirty eight years of age but at the time, had no intention of marrying.




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Russ Novodvorski had operated caterpillar tractor and other heavy machinery for over thirty years, firstly when the Alaska Highway was being built and then later when he began working in the oilfields. He was a widower when he first met Louise and he liked her from the time they first met. When they married two years later, he was not a Christian but because of his involvement in the oil industry, he met a man by the name of George who in fact was a Christian and had read the book, “Generations,” which is subtitled, ‘Remembering the life of a prophet.’ That prophet was William Branham and the book contained Louise’s testimony. When George learned whom Russ had married, he began to tell him how fortunate he was to have a wife like Louise and went on to tell him that Brother Branham had said that the man that Louise marries will be Christian too! Slowly God began working on Russ until he came to the place where he willingly accepted Christ as his personal Savior. Russ and Louise still laugh in amusement when they recall that try as he might, the Minister that came to marry them, could not pronounce her married name of ‘Novodvorski’. Someone then suggested that if he could remember the phrase ‘never-divorce-me’ that would help him with the correct pronunciation!

Russ and Louise pose in front of a water stand erec ted to support a five mile run Every year, a five mile run is staged in the Fort Nelson area to raise money for cancer research.




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Louise expected to die Not long after she had met Russ, Louise developed pneumonia and began to deteriorate rapidly. Russ took her to the hospital serving the area and the doctor took one look at her and told his staff that at most, she had only two hours to live. She had arrived at six o’clock and in fact was not expected to survive past 7.00 pm. The doctor did not want to tell Russ the bad news so instead, he called the local Catholic Priest and said to him, “I’ve got a patient that is going to die any hour now. Would you come and give her the last rites?” The Priest questioned who the woman was and was given Louise’s name. He asked, “Is that the woman the reads those Spoken Word books?,” and somebody confirmed that it was. The Priest replied, “Well let that God heal her then!” The doctor phoned another Minister who agreed to come to Louise’s’ bedside. The doctor turned off the lights, drew the curtains and closed the door, expecting Louise to die about 7:00 pm. Instead however, at around 6:30 pm Louise suddenly roused and began wondering where on earth she was! She looked around to try and find a light switch and as she searched, she just made out a lady standing in her room by the window in the dark. The lady noticed Louise stirring and said, “Oh, you don’t need me!” Not realizing that the lady was a Minister waiting to perform the last rites, Louise said, “What are you doing here?” The reply was abrupt, “Oh, never you mind,” and with that, she left the room. Louise thought to herself, “What is going on?” and got out of bed to find someone who might be able to give her an explanation. She walked out of her room and down the passage until she found someone to ask which happened to be a girl who was sitting down near the waiting room. She went and sat next to her at which point, a nurse saw her and called the doctor. The nurse exclaimed, “There’s something wrong here. The patient you expected to die is down here visiting with another patient!”. The doctor came running and blurted out, “Your supposed to be in bed!” Bewildered at the circumstances and having no recollection of why she found herself in hospital, Louise asked, “What’s wrong?” “Never mind,” came the reply and the doctor spun round on his heel and walked off! Louise turned to the nurse and asked, “Could you tell me what’s going on?” She explained “You are supposed to die at 7:00 pm!” Louise took a moment to gather her thoughts and countered, “Are you sure!?” By this time it was about 6:55 pm and Louise quipped, “We’ll just wait and see!” and they both began laughing. The Priests words although spoken with disdain, had literally been fulfilled. The God of the Bible had sent His healing power upon the life of one who trusted in Him.




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Another brush with death Some years later, Louise noticed a lump on her side which began to grow. Supposing it could be cancer, she underwent medial tests and examinations. Surgery was indicated but just before he was to operate and remove the lump, the surgeon examined her again and Louise’s husband Russ heard the surgeon say to the nurse, “Where is the lump supposed to be? On this side or that side? It’s not there!” The nurse responded, “Well look on your chart. I think it says on the left side.” Although he could not detect the lump, the surgeon went ahead and operated anyway but he still could not find the growth. Because of his very heavy workload with some 26 patients lined up for surgery that day, he did not notice that he had cut a major blood vessel while making the incision. He went ahead and sewed up the incision without taking care of the severed blood vessel. Louise had understood that the procedure was only going to require that she be an outpatient for three hours. However, when Russ came to visit her in the recovery room, another lady who was also a patient in the same room said to him, “What is that on the floor?” He looked and said, “It’s blood. Where is it coming from?” He called the nurse who pulled back the sheet to find Louise unconscious and covered in blood. The nurse tried to rouse Louise by slapping her face but there was no response. Louise was immediately wheeled back into the operating room to close up the severed blood vessel. Instead of being just an outpatient, Louise remained in hospital for three days. The cancer never reappeared. God had again spared her life. Louise and her husband settled in Fort Nelson, British Columbia. Russ was called home to be with the Lord in 2010.

Silver Tipped Grizzly Bear When Louise was seven years old, her mother sent her with Eddie and George to check their fathers trap that had been set to catch a groundhog out of it’s hole. Their camp was on a mountain slope below that would one day be called, “Grizzly Summit,” after the Silver tipped Grizzly Bear that Brother Branham would later kill on it’s lower slopes As they walked down the mountain to the trap, the family back at the camp spotted grizzly bear coming towards the camp from higher up the slope and so when the children got back to camp, Louise and her young brothers wanted to see what was going on but their mother warned them to stay at the camp because the grizzly could be very dangerous if it was shot and only wounded. Louise’s mother and father, along with her older brothers went up the slope to see what the grizzly was going to do. By this time, it had reached an area of black clay and was walking across it towards the camp. While they watched the bear, an astonishing event took place. The bear suddenly vanished from their sight! There was nowhere for it to hide. It simply disappeared right before their eyes. There was no explanation for what they witnessed. The side of the mountain was like a dessert with only some low scrub present so the family could see everywhere for miles yet the bear just ceased to exist while they had been staring at it.




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Louise believes that the bear that vanished from the families gaze, was the same grizzly that Brother Branham shot thirteen years later in 1963 and not only that, her older siblings recognized and identified it to be the same bear! In Brother Branham’s accounts of the killing of the silver tipped grizzly bear, he tells how he killed the grizzly on his way back to camp after he had shot the caribou with the 42” horns. He makes it clear that right after the caribou was shot, he and Bud Southwick could see the entire mountainside all the way back to the camp below and there was no grizzly there to be seen and nowhere for it to be hidden. As they started down towards the camp, Brother Branham began to explain to Bud that once when the prophet Abraham needed a sacrifice, God had provided him a ram caught in a thicket on a mountain top. When they got to within a half mile of camp, Brother Branham turned and said to Bud, “what’s that sitting up there?” and about two hundred and fifty yards above them in an area where they had just come from, sat a silver tipped grizzly bear. It had simply materialized just as remarkably as the bear that Louise’s family were watching had disappeared.

Brother Branham at Grizzly Summit, Toad River, Brit ish Columbia Note; The horns shown in the photo are not those of the 42" Caribou which

Brother Branham shot in 1961 to fulfill the vision the Lord had given him. The Grizzly Summit Photo Behind Brother Branham is the hill on which he killed the Silver tipped Grizzly Bear and the Caribou with the 42" horns. Because of these events, the hilltop seen in part in the center of the photo is now known to the local inhabitants as 'Grizzly Summit." Silver tipped Grizzly's had been unknown in the area until then.




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It was here too in 1964 when the summit was covered in snow that Brother Green noticed that whenever he saw Brother Branham come out of the tent, a whirlwind would immediately start up on Grizzly Summit. It never happened when anyone else emerged from the tent and the phenomenon so caught his attention, that he recorded it on an 8 mm movie film. Continuing higher above the summit, a range of seven peaks in a row can be seen that are known locally as 'Seven Roaring Mountains.' The head of Groundhog creek lies at the base of Grizzly Summit and drains into the West Toad and main Toad rivers.

In the tent on Grizzly Mountain Standing; Brothers Fred Sothmann, Pearry Green,

Bud Southwick’s son and his older brother, Blaine Southwick Seated; Brother Branham and Bud Southwick.




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Louise Novodvosky sharing her testimony with Pastor Pearry Green at Tucson Tabernacle, February 2009

Louise’s Testimony has been adapted from two interviews that she gave at Tucson Tabernacle and from other sources.

The interviews are contained within the William Branham Storehouse series

and also available on two separate high resolution DVD’s from http://www.tucsontabernacle.com/

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Louise’s Photo Gallery

The Bible that Brother Branham gave to Louise When Brother Branham gave Louise this Bible, it was new and he also included a copy of the supernatural halo photograph taken in Houston Texas on January 24, 1950. After Louise’s brothers saw the photo, they began to tease her about having a boyfriend but her mother stepped in and told them in no uncertain terms that they could tease her about any boyfriend, but not about this about this photo. She would not allow another word spoken in that manner because the man was a prophet.




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The Presentation is in Brother Branham’s handwritin g

The Bible was in Louise’s Mothers house at the time that she passed away. Lucy took it without permission and gave it to Elsie. Elsie was Louise’s oldest sister and had three boys and one girl of her own. Elsie knew that it was the Word of God and began to notice that so long as it was in her possession, the Lord blessed her in every way. When the weather turned bad, she would place it out in the open believing that God would see His Word and would stop the bad weather to protect the Book. While she had the Bible in her possession, Elsie always got the desires of her heart, so much so that Rose and Maggie who lived next door, thought that Elsie was casting a spell on them all because they did not know that God answered prayer! The time came when Louise asked Elsie’s daughter, Wanda, if she had seen the missing Bible and two days later said that her Mom had it. She offered to steal it back for Louise and did so!




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The Pillar of Fire appeared over this tent Before Louise’s husband Russ had believed in the Lord, they had made this tent their home for a time and one morning when Russ got up early, he came back into the tent and said, “There’s something strange over the tent!” Each morning as he looked above the tent, a rainbow colored cloud would be suspended just above the center ridge. He showed Louise and took a picture of the phenomenon. Before they had begun to camp at this place, Louise was impressed upon to write out the following verses;

And the cloud of the LORD was upon them by day, when they went out of the camp. And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, LORD, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee. And when it rested, he said, Return, O LORD, unto the many thousands of Israel. NUMBERS 10:34 - 36

There were bears all around the area, but while they were camped there, Russ and Louise were never bothered by them at all. Unfortunately some of Louse’s extended family members are heavy users of recreational drugs like many of the isolated communities in the region and they hated the camp and later destroyed it. Three of these people died shortly afterwards.




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From the left; Louise’s late brother George, Russ and Angus The photo has been taken at their cabin at Groundhog Creek. To the left of the men,

is the pail that they used to carry water to the cabin every day.

Louise’s husband Russ on a picnic outing with frien ds along the Alaska Highway




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Summit Lake is in the background

Louise’s older sister Maggie at ‘Mile 9’ camp - 200 9 Maggie was born in 1930 and still prefers to live outdoors as her family did when she was young.

Each day she carries water three miles from a creek in a plastic pail. She prefers to do this rather than camp nearer the creek. She is kneeling on a ‘spruce brow’ bed made from spruce branches piled on top of

each other. It forms a springy mattress that she also sleeps on.

Louise’s sister Rose at ‘Mile 9’ camp – 2009

The camp is 9 miles back in the bush from the Alaska Highway.

Rose is leaning against her bedroll. There is no roof or side protection.

When it rains, she simply pulls a tarpaulin over her and the water

runs underneath through the spruce brow mattress.

The family used to live here in

earlier years and both Maggie and Rose prefer to live here from spring to fall. They live off wild meat that

they hunt.




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Walter, cousin Peter, Rose and Maggie in the foregr ound Walter and Maggie are deaf and have never spoken English.

Rose is working on a moose hide to make it into moccasins that can be sold in a store.

These four siblings were witnesses to seeing the Grizzly Bear disappear before their eyes on the slopes of Grizzly Summit. When Maggie saw her sister Louise being baptized in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ according to Acts Chpt 2, verse 28, by Brother Billy Paul Branham, she came running out of the bushes to get baptized too because Walter had instructed her that but if she was baptized, then Jesus would receive her and she would not go to Hell. With little education to get in the way, she received more revelation from the Lord in 30 seconds that many people receive in a lifetime, and with it, she received the gift of Eternal Life.


CoverLocation mapsSister Louise Novodvorski - Her TestimonyLocationHer early lifeHer Mother and FatherA typical teenagerSeptember 1960 –the dream about the red booksSeptember, 1963 –the healing of Oscar and Louise’s MotherThe old Indian ProphetsLouise meets Brother BranhamThe secrets of her heart revealedA ‘Presence’ in the roomHer Mother is healed“God told him.”“We believe like you believe”The Fall of 1964 –she takes ‘Todar’ to show Brother BranhamThe moment of changeThe happiest day of her lifePhotographsThey heard each other in the language in which they were born. Acts 2:8“You speak the Word sister!”Angus receives the baptism of the Holy GhostDrunk with new wine. Acts 2:13A changed lifeAngus walks on water“That person does not exist!”Louise promised in marriageIt was not in God’s planGod’s choiceLouise expected to dieAnother brush with deathSilver Tipped Grizzly BearThe Grizzly Summit PhotoPhotographsLouise’s Photo Gallery

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