Baptisms, Conference and the Dublin Zoo

Hello!!

Ok this week was pretty awesome. We first off had an awesome day at the Dublin ZOO for PDay!!! It was so fun and really helped us to get ready for the week. Tuesday we had ALL-IRELAND Conference! It was so legit and I loved every second of it. It’s so cool to have that opportunity each transfer to hear from President and Sister Donaldson, and to better our skills as missionaries. Throughout the week we had other meetings which were great but that sort of limited our time to find new people but it’s all good!!!

Yes, we had a baptism for Ramon and Amanda! They are both so amazing! I was actually able to find Ramon, and so it is pretty special being able to watch someone from the very start to his baptism! Even though I couldn't communicate a whole lot with them I still am so proud and love them so much!!!

We had 14 people come to church this week which is soooo cool! Our numbers for church attendance is out of this world! We got asked to do an instruction on how we do it for the Zone so that’s crazy! But really all credit goes to Elder Valiati, he is so good! Conference really was awesome! I didn't get to listen to too much of conference because we needed to pick up some investigator but with the 3 talks I got to listen to they were amazing. The things that stood out to me from conference is first, I am a Child of God!!! Sometimes it is very hard to believe that you are His child! We all make mistakes and move farther away from Him!! But He loves us and He wants us to feel His love! Because we are all Children of God!!! The next was that the world is getting worse and worse! The times are coming to an end. We are one day closer to the coming of Jesus Christ, which means we need to put on the Armor of God and turbo our way through! We need to start from the foundation and strengthen our faith, testimonies, and relationship with God the Father and His Son, Jesus Christ!!!! Use that power of the Holy Ghost to discern things that can lead us away from our true potential! Side note: the new Apostle Elder Soares from Brazil is family friends with the Valiati family so that is awesome.

I love you guys so much and am very blessed to be a part of this family.

Love,

Elder O’Connor