The Golden Boy

This last letter from my brother on a mission in South Africa is so awesome just like him. I love that he writes me and sends me pictures every week. I do not like his spelling though. It makes my head hurt. I copied this week's letter, but next time I think I'll do a little show of some excerpts from his letters where the spelling will make you cry. Don't worry he goes to BYU. Here's the letter, he just started training:

well
we shall start with the new baby boy. 5'8'' and about 200 pounds and filled with nothing but the spirit of God. he is from pokey idaho and loves backed potatoes. i even got him to believe i lived in pokey for about half a day untill he metioned that we used to live in the same town to an investigator, so i had to tell him the truth. i pulled a nice prank on him. i told him to be carefull in this part of the township cause it was where the car got sotlen a few years back. and i pretended that we had to hurry into the house so that people would see the white guys go in. then as "i ran out to the car to get something." we had a member come in and rob the house of the dvd player and cell phones. i came in recording and it was funny. to me. he called me a dirty rat but now things a great. so i lossened him up a little and now we are on the same page. we have fun waking up ontime and doing everything to the T. (as i write that i shake my head). in all seriousness we are being obedient and being succesfull. let me tell you about the last few days of success.
Friday night. A wedding, and everyone loves weeding, we did it in the bishops office. it was jack and irene. whose surnames are both Rammala now. it was tight and sweet and two big rings were exchanged. and they kissed and made me want to get married.
sunday was a bit stressfull to me. usually things are nice but i had to do everthing cause of mr greenie. we had baptisms of the jack and irene and monde. it was straight awesome. i got to dunk all three. i know i shouldnt because i will leave soon but they didnt want to pick anyone else. and me being so humble and meek and submissive, did. so we had a great dunkning ceremony. one part was when bro nkosi(nkosi meaning lord or king in zolo), had the rapoo family stand up so people would recognize them and give them the front row seat to watch the baptism. i thinked they enjoyed the attention. and when we visited them that night things went great. the mom who held them back from baptism has sat in with us twice now so she is slowly coming along and not holding them back anymore. so when we teach something great and the spirit is ther we will wind it into a baptismal commitment. they are a big goal for us.
but back to the baptism. there testimonies rocked my world. Irene went first and was a little shy but still told us what she knew and how she flet. i think jack used to be in a happy clappy church because the first word out of his mouth was hallejaho. it was great and he is a very solem guy. but he gave an awesome testimony. he was a preacher in a previous church before so he spoke well but now it was of restored truth and straight spectacular. he told about the change in his life and then as he stood there he looked back to the bishopbrick and asked for a book of mormon. then he turned to moroni 8 and read about how after the cahnge/repentance comes baptism. it was the coolest thing ever. he had been taught by missionaries before but wasnt ready to change. its a good thing we found him two years later when he was ready. he too has stopped smoking and drinking. smoking was hard for him to stop but now he is clean. very very clean. he is so cool, i wish you guys could meet him.
then monde, when i was baptising monde, his hands were out of the water as i looked so i had to push him down further and he wasnt ready for that and came up looking a little flustered. but i didnt have to redo it. his baptism started in zolo and i was a little scared that i wouldnt understand any of it but then he spoke with the gift of toungues and i could understand. that or he swithched to english. but he told about the missionaries teaching him and gave elder steed and i thanks. then he told everyone how he was worried he was asking too many questions and that we wouldnt want to come back and teach him. but it was the opposite of course. he then went on for a little bit reciting the how joseph smith got te paltes and he knew all the dates. he was speaking very fast and was very accurate with everything he said and he went on for a while so people started to laugh a little bit thena lot a bit. but he expressed his love for these things. especially for the church and the people. most of all he told us how he was prepared for this church with the past churches he has been through. as he spoke i thought of the first time teaching him how i had zero faith taht it would go anywhere because he was so quite as we taught and then he looked a little blury.

peter gave a talk in sacrament meeting. he spoke on the savior being our savior and used some great scriptures,my fav was the one about "here i am, send me." he also retold the story that the "late president Faust" gave in last years conference.there was no better feeling then to see a convert just baptized 2-3 weeks ago give a talk in sac meeting. i was so close to all out crying the whole talk. it was just to cool. ther is nothing like it. thats the reason im a missionary, not to baptize but to get that toi happen to people.
i have to go before email time is out
i love you all and thank you for the prayers they are needed, next time will be about some new awesome investigaors at the church. reading praying and coming to church
elder hall-e-boy