Elder Hays exhibits sketchy math skills and experiences suit distress...

Hey y'all! So, as you can probably tell by the subject line to this letter, I've passed my 4 Month mark! That's CRAZY! Lol, it sorta completely snuck up on me! Actually Elder Schwarzkopf was the one to point it out to me the other day! Lol, time flies when you're having fun (and are being yelled at by homeless peeps >.> ). Hahaha, I realized that now that I've passed my 4 month mark, I'm 1/6th of the way done with my mission. [mom's note, he gets his terrible math skills from me, but even I can figure out straight away that 4 months on a 24 month mission is 1/8....]Which means that I'm 16% done with my mission! In 2 more months I'll be 1/4 done with my mission! [his math improved here]  CRAZY! So yeah, that's pretty cool. It really does go by as fast as everyone says it does. I can't tell if it's because we're constantly working, and so we don't really have time to think about it, or if it's because God does missionaries and their families a solid by making the time fly. Probably a mixture of the two! 

So GOOD NEWS!!! H. IS GETTING BAPTIZED ON SATURDAY!!!!! YAY! Lol, she's so great! She moved her baptism up to the 30th and has given up everything cold turkey and is sticking to it! She's halfway through the book of Alma, which means she's halfway through the book of Mormon! She's only had the book for three fetching weeks! So that's really exciting. Elder Schwarzkopf will actually baptize her (She requested him since his family is converts and she thinks that's more symbolic), but I don't really care much who baptize's her, so long as she get's dunked! 

We got a call today from President Pilkington... I panicked! I don't know why!  But it was just to give us a call of congratulations. Apparently for the second week in a row we're the most productive district in the Zone, and we're the most productive companionship with 25 lessons this week. So that's cool! (We pray for humility every day because we just know this can't last for long!). 

So yeah, that's awesome/pressuring! 

Besides that everything is going well. It's COLD. HOLY FETCH IT'S COLD. Mum, if you could find my Winter coat and send it over I'd super appreciate it. I almost don't want it though, because I keep getting told that they can have an Indian October here, which means a warm October, but Idk, I'll just deal I guess.

Besides that everything's going great! I've lost almost 20 pounds now since going on my mission! 

Love you guys lots! Talk to you next week! 

[I also got one other personal email from Brennan and basically it was all about how he really needed a new suit but he couldn't quite figure it out and discussing options for finding an affordable suit because his are wearing out waaaaaay more quickly than we planned, partially this is due to the fact that they are not allowed to ever wear just their pants and shirts but they always have to be in full suits, which means he has a bunch of pants he can't really wear because they don't have jackets to go with the pants and basically I am regretting spending the large amount of money I did on the suits because while they are very pretty suits, they are apparently not meant to be worn in the UK rain everyday...and then, the following showed up on facebook that week...]

[I can't post the video here but it was the ice bucket challenge and I thought that was swell but at the end of the video they get flour dumped on their heads. ...and of course...on one of his only two pairs of pants...]

so yeah...

I panicked and sent him a suit the next day through Tesco

So, super short letter! So no big letter this week. I just emailed ______ a long letter because she needed it. 

So yeah, I hope all is well with you! Keep up the good work! You're a huge inspiration to me! 

OK, I ALMOST FLIPPED AS WELL. I was worried about the suit and then I kinda go this feeling like, ok... it's gonna work out. Don't know how butttt. And then the next day I got the suit and it fits PERFECT! Have to hem the pants, but such a great suit! Like the best one I have! You're such a flipping genius! 

The flour washed out. I'm getting it dry cleaned and hopefully it'll turn out ok. 

So yeah, not much more time. Once again thanks for the suit, it's awesome! We may just do it that way from now Love you sooooo much! Talk to you soon!