Elder Michael O'Connor II - Scotland/Ireland Mission

October 22, 2018 Hello, First off, I am happy that you could go to Sister Calls Homecoming and see all of the mission brothers!! I love and miss them all like crazy! Before I forget, we spend most of our time street contacting on Union Street, so you can google it and see. I am ready for your questions!!! 1.       What spiritual experience or lesson have you learned this week? Well I finished the Book of Mormon again!! And honestly it is so cool and soo true!! The more you read it the more you feel part of it!! It’s crazy how you can just connect with the prophets of old and learn from them and feel the same things that they are feeling. And so I loved reading it and am already excited to read it again.  It was so nice to read it and to pray about it and have that confirmation of the spirit that it is true!!! Reading the Book of Mormon makes me happy. Also our Northern Scotland Conference and Cluster Meeting were very good!!!! 2. ...

October 15, 2018 Hello everyone, I am here in Aberdeen or “The Deen” or “The Dream” or “Baberdeen”!!! My favorite is the Dream! Its soooo nice here and it is very GRAY!!!!!  They also call it the Gray City. I am so happy you finally got to meet the coolest cat ever!!!! Sister Call is so awesome and I ALREADY MISS HER! I love my new area it is really nice and I am just excited to work it more!!!!! My new companion is Elder Dunn. He is from Hemet, California but is moving to Saratoga Springs after his mission. He has family that already lives there. So the reason I bought those new pants (trousers) was because while I was out on the street, street contacting my pants ripped and my religion was showing and I had 2 options… go to the flat or get new pants real fast so I just went to the closest store and bought some!!! I got a really good deal I think!!!! So I will for sure send you pictures next week but I left my camera back home today! The city is diffe...

October 8, 2018 Hey mom sorry for not emailing earilier! SOOOOO I got moved!!!!! I am leaving and going to be the District Leader in Aberdeen, Scotland! I will be in the city center with the Zone Leader's and Sister Trainer Leader's and I will also have 2 sets of teams plus myself!! I’m pretty sad to leave Edinburgh. This past week we found sooooooo many people who were sooo solid!!! I pray that they all keep working hard! But I am so excited to be here in Aberdeen!!!! I had a long train ride over here this morning, about 2 ½ hours long!!! But I am already loving it!!! My new companion is Elder Dunn from California and guess what? After his mission he is going to be living in Saratoga Springs!!!! So super cool!!  Well I don’t have too long to email for today so I am sorry if it is mega short!!! I am doing well!!!! It was so sad seeing Sister Call leave, she is sooo amazing!!! I love her so much!! I will for sure miss her. I met Brother and Sister Edwards and he ...