No, very different there in the sense of it was not as established in Ireland. Ireland is a very Catholic culture. And Rachel particularly felt more of that. So obviously she was a stay at home mum. And she was sort of doing all the stuff with the schools and the kids. She saw more what’s the word? More against her as a religion than I did? Even though the church wasn’t as established, so the first Sunday we went when we moved over to Ireland. It was in a bungalow, a cold damp bungalow with three families. Music on a CD, in a room no bigger than this. And I thought, “What on earth are we doing?” I’d obviously grown up in walls that were 100-150 in size. And the next five years turned to be the most spiritual experiences that I’ve ever had. Just because the saints were more committed, because they needed to be. There was more togetherness there than you find in big wards.
It was a branch when we first was there, there was no more than 15. By the time we left…we by that point we then we I was called on to the branch presidency a week or two later. We then moved probably about a year, maybe a year later, maybe not quite as far as that to then another house but it was a bigger house. And then after that we moved to a block of offices. And by that point we’ve got about 80 attending.
So yeah, grew a lot. Yeah. We had a particularly good set of missionaries, elderly sisters, and we really had some reactivation pushes and baptize quite a few. Reactivated quite a lot. Move ins. Yeah, and we watched the branch just grow both in number and sort of spiritual as well. It was, it was just an awesome experience. And I’ve never experienced anything before it or or anything like it since.