It's been a little bit of a wait since I last wrote. We had our temple p-day this week, so p-day was moved to today (Thursday). I was a bit sad when I came to the realization that this was my last zone temple trip. I cannot believe how fast the time has gone. Where did it all go?
Over the last week and a half, we've spent a lot of time tracting and teaching Ofa. I'm not sure if I mentioned the hiccup we have experienced with Ofa or not, so I'll write about it again. Ofa was recently arrested for being in possession of a stolen vehicle. Despite that, we weren't able to catch up with him for a week, we were able to find out he had been studying the Book of Mormon and praying. We have been blessed to watch him progress like I have never witnessed an investigator progress before. After teaching him the Plan of Salvation, we moved up his baptismal date from the 19th of July to the 28th of June. However, because of his recent arrest, we weren't sure if he would be able to be baptized. We called President Henderson, who informed us that if he was facing charges, he couldn't be baptized. We were very sad to hear that. When we told Ofa, he was very understanding with it. However, he then updated us on his situation. His lawyer had been able to prove out of the court that Ofa couldn't have stolen the vehicle, and the charges would be dropped if he could provide information on the guy he purchased the vehicle off of. We told Ofa that if he's cleared of the charges, that we would probably be able to baptize him. Well, on Sunday Ofa informed us that he contacted his lawyer and found out all charges have been dropped. We told him we'd ask the mission presided if we could baptize him. On Monday (the 23rd) we had our interviews with President Henderson. Both Elder Bly and I explained Ofa's situation in our interviews, and his response was, "baptize him as soon as possible!" So this Saturday we will be witnessing Ofa's baptism!
We had a really awesome experience with Ofa when we called him to tell him he was on for baptism. Elder Bly called him and asked if he wanted to still be baptized on Saturday. Ofa told him he had prayed the night before that it would be able to be this weekend. Gotta love miracles :)
Well, that's about all I've got for this week. Looking forward to updating you all about the baptism.
Elder Rosier
These are pictures from Harrison's baptism on June 14th.
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