Elder Michael O'Connor II - Scotland/Ireland Mission

March 26, 2018   This week was very good.   I really do love the mission!   We got a lot of people on date for Baptism! Next week we will have 2 friends getting baptized, Ramon and Amanda. They are both from Brazil. It will be soooooo great, so please pray for them.   This week we had a great time finding new people.   We had 10 friends come to church with us which is so crazy! Apparently everyone in the mission has never heard of that much.  The last 3 weeks we had 9 and 6 and now 10 at church so it’s crazy! The highlight this week was finding some people who are so ready for the gospel! They are all amazing. This week was so good for me. Recently I was having a hard time sleeping and just overwhelmed so I received a blessing of comfort from Elder Valiati, and oh it was beautiful and has helped me so much!   I know that God was telling him what to say to me and it just was amazing! Since then I have felt a million times better and I am now...

March 19, 2018 What a week! Pretty much the week was a slow week that sped up at the very end.   The weather wasn’t the best and with all the tourist in town, finding solid people didn’t go very well! I went on exchanges with Elder Gibb who was and AP before this last transfer and is going back home tomorrow.   Wow it was so good.   He is a straight up legend in every way possible!   I learned a lot from him and am very thankful to have gotten to know him this transfer.  This week was St. Pat’s week! The day before St. Patrick’s Day we had 2 Baptisms! Lula and Janete were baptized! They are both from   Brazil and they are so amazing and I am thankful to have been a part of the next step in their life!! They both already have such strong testimonies and it is just amazing.   To be honest, I am blessed to be a part of their journey!! I know that God did all the work and I was just there for it!  The following day was the BIG day! It...

Hello family, Wow, I knew that I opened my mission call around this time but can’t believe it was today!!!! Wow time has gone by so fast!!! I wish I could watch the video of me opening it so bad!!!! But yeah it's been crazy!! It's so cool to look back at who I was when I opened it to who I am now! It's a night and day difference!! I am much happier with who I am now then back then. I am so thankful for those lows that I went through because I know that they have made me better and made me someone that my Heavenly Father can use! Yeah well, this week was really a roller coaster!! But ended the best way possible!! I had my first BAPTISM!!!!!!!!!!! Holy heck I didn't think I would say that for a long time!!! But truly I didn't do a whole lot!! God just blessed me with being able to be a part of the conversion of my man Calum!! So I am super thankful for that!! And hey I actually got to baptize him!!! Yes I wore my knee brace and my knee is good!!! It was s...

Yes, what an eventful week! We started out the week so strong!!! Our goal this week was to find new solid investigators and it was so hard because of the storm and no one was outside and wanted to talk. So it wasn't the best week, but then as we look back we got 11 new solid investigators so we had like a killer week!  So just imagine if we had a full week of work.  But yes as you know Storm Emma hit, and it was such a lame storm!!!!!! It really wasn’t that bad! Here they have ZERO snow removal so the snow just piled up which made it seem worse then what it was!!! But yes we had to stay in the flat for 2 days!!! But thankfully through, those days we were able to go out and teach! There was a Subway open like right by our flat and people still wanted to meet with us so we actually didn't have too much of a day off!! After all the storm was gone we were back out in the streets doing the work and teaching!!  We taught tons of lessons and just had a good week! ...