Tearing Down Walls for Jesus

 

[mom's note: this email continued MANY photos of a wall being torn down and only two that kiiiind of show Brennan and his companion.  What I'm saying is that I now have lots of pictures of a wall in various stages of destruction.  Bless this child.]

So, it's pretty flipping cold right now! We've caught the tale end of a hurricane (I think it's called Bertha, which makes me think of a big black lady who don't take no nothin' from no one, but at the same time will make you sweet tea and biscuits) so it's pretty windy (VERY WINDY) and quite wet. I (Praise da Lord) luckily found my rain jacket again after having lost it in the move, so I only got a little (A lot) wet this week. I don't really want my winter coat sent over yet because it's not really cold enough to justify a massive coat like that... but soon.

So yeah, this week's been very productive. I guess I haven't told you guys all that much about what I actually DO each day, so here we go. 

6:30am- Get up, pray, fall asleep while praying 

6:40am- wake up from prayer and justify that God got the gist of what you were trying to say 

6:41am- Exercise (60 pushups, 60 squats, stretching, 60 jumping jacks)

7:01am- Groan from aching muscles

7:10am- Shower (Use Sister missionaries good smelling soap they accidentally left) 

7:40am- Stare at fridge and debate if you can afford to eat breakfast that morning

8:00am- Personal study (Preach my Gospel, Scriptures, Study journal)

9:00am- Companionship Study (Read White handbook, Prepare lessons for the day)

10:00am- Go out and street contact for an hour

11:00am- Lunch (Once again, stare at fridge and ask yourself if you can afford to each lunch today)

12:00-4:30pm- Teach investigators and LA's, Groan loudly when everyone flogs you, get a few doors slammed in your face, stare at a Scottish woman as you try to figure out what the heck she is saying, Finally understand that she's telling you she hates religion, wish her a good day, avoid crazy Austrian lady on the way to Woodhouse, get caught by Austrian lady and learn about how the cars driving on the road are ruining her house's foundation (11th time told story, house still looks fine)

4:31pm-Travel to tea

5:00pm- Take tea

6:00-8:50pm- Teach (See 12:00-4:30pm, repeat steps shown) 

8:59pm- Run home (Literally RUN) because you're companion believes that if you're not in by 9pm, God stops protecting you and you can get killed more easily (It's sorta rubbed off and now I believe it too...) 

9:00pm- Plan for tomorrow

9:30pm-Call district leader

9:31pm- Groan because the Sister's got to the district leader first and they take FOREVER to follow up

10:00pm- Finally get a hold of district leader 

10:05pm- Hang up on district leader by accident

10:06pm- Call him back and say "Love ya bye" and then hang up

10:10pm- Stare at fridge and ask yourself if you can afford a midnight snack

10:15pm- Stare at your companions food in the fridge and ask yourself if you can get away with eating his

10:20pm- close fridge and drink 3 glasses of water to satisfy hunger

10:25pm-Pray

10:27pm- Companionship prayer (More then likely one of you will sneeze on the others bed while kneeling)

10:30pm- Sleep

10:40pm- Yell at chav downstairs who thinks it's ok to build a wardrobe with power tools this late at night

10:50pm- Really fall asleep

So yeah, that's my day! 

 

Good news though! Our investigator H. is doing AMAZING! She's scheduled for the 6th of September and is so determined to make it she's deciding to go cold turkey on her smoking a week earlier then planned! She's quite coffee too, and alcohol! She went to church this week and loved it! AND GUESS WHAT! She's had the BOM for 2 weeks and she's already halfway through Mosiah! So good! She know's the chapters better then we do! She can recount almost every story perfectly all the way up to Mosiah! It's a flipping miracle too because she's certifiably blind!!! Like seriously, terrible eyesight, but feels the spirit so strong when she reads that she just powers through it! So great! She's 100% Prepared and we're aren't even teaching her really, she's teaching herself! It's great! 

  

It's been a busy few weeks. We've taught 23 lessons this week and 21 last week so 44 lessons in total so far this month. We're aiming to teach close to 90 lessons this month. 

 

 

 

 

Well, love you lot's! Bye!

The Tale of Pinkeye, Old Blind Dog, and Mini Hurricanes.

Soooooooo, I have unfortunately contracted Conjunctivitis which pretty much means my eyes are puffy, blood shot, red, itchy, and all around awful. It feels like there's a nail stuck underneath and behind my eye, so every time I look up or down my eyes water because it hurts somethin' awful! So that's been a wonderful addition to my week ;) Lol, honestly I'm alright. Its hard to proselyte like this because I'm pretty much useless when it comes to actually SEEING people to talk to, but Elder Schwarzkopf just kinda leads me around like a blind old dog so it works out in the end ;) Lol, I went and saw the emergency GP the other day to get it looked at, and he prescribed me some thing that I later learned when I went to the pharmacists, you could buy over the counter, and it was 3 pounds cheaper that way! I will add that I first went to that same Pharmacist and learned that because of new laws, THEY WEREN'T ALLOWED TO SELL ME ANYTHING OVER THE COUNTER!  So yeah. A miracle definitely happened though! I was told that going to the EGP would cost me nothing, I then got there and learned that because I'm a foreign national it costs 25 pounds to be seen. I luckily had JUST that because it was the beginning of the month and I'd only spent 80 pounds on my Bus pass for the month, and 10 pounds on food for the week, so I just barely had enough for it! So yeah. One small problem, it hasn't exactly gotten any better... apparently after 3 days if it isn't healed, I need to go back in sooooo my eye's have 16 hours to get 100% healed. So that sorta sucks. (Parentals: If I do have to go to the Doctors, I will have to pull out personal funds to pay for it (Shouldn't be more then 25 pounds again) but it is reimbursable, so I'll put it back into the account when I get paid back by the mission. I would just have to do that If I need to go back and I haven't already been reimbursed for the 114 pounds I'm sending in today (Takes about 3 days to get reimbursed) ) So yeah, that's been interesting. Besides that everything is going well!

Mum: 1. So, I'm not sure about the suit thing. I think I'm just going to wear the suits till their dead and keep trying to repair them as I go along. Hopefully I can make them stretch another 3 or so months, and then maybe I could get a new suit and we can just count it as my Christmas Present. 

 

2. We had to move flats because that's what Jesus wanted (Seriously I have no idea why.) On a side note, the flat is 100% haunted (We rededicated it though). 

Dad: I got your pictures, look's like you're all having fun!

Love you guys lots! I've got to go! Talk to you next week! 

 

(PS: To add the legitimacy of my haunted flat statement, about 4 sisters have gone home early while staying in that flat, and 3 have been injured while staying there to the point they had to go home. Also, I've now learned it's been rededicated twice by the ward, because other sisters have also said it's haunted before I came here)

 

[mom's note: after worrying about him having pink eye and living in a haunted flat all week, I was relieved to get this weeks email full of good news]

 

 So yeah, my eye's are 100% better. I ended up getting about 20 home recipes from different families (One Jordy women rubbed a gold ring on my face) so I guess one of them worked! 

 

This week's been amazing. God's answered Elder Schwarzkopf and I's prayers in so many ways. We met 3 Less actives this week, all of them Less active for decades, and one of them who we gave a blessing to yesterday felt that God was telling her she should go back to church (SCORE ONE FOR THE BIG GUY), so yay for that! Our investigator H. is progressing super well. She read all of 1st Nephi this week and is on 2nd Nephi already! She says that she feels as though God is answering her prayers and he's preparing her to join the church (HUZZZA!) And another of our Investigators R. is scheduled for the 6th of September and has committed to stop smoking (which is a BIG deal because the Dude's Scottish). So yay, lot's of prayer answering! 

 

 The flat's no longer haunted! Yay! 

So yeah, I got SOAKED yesterday! Like seriously, I got so wet you could see through my shirt! There's a mini Hurricane type thingy over England right now, so there are winds reaching up to 60-100 MPH winds in parts of England! I think we got a taste of it last night because when we were walking our investigator H. back to her flat, I got picked up a bit by the wind and had to put my feet down really quick before I got pushed back any further and toppled over! My hair was just ruined which was the only part I was mad about because my hair had been on POINT that day. 

So I felt a bit sad yesterday though. We were with the LA we gave a blessing too, and she had no money. Here meter for electricity had 50p in it and it was going to run out any second, and there was nothing we could do because the bishop couldn't help her that night with the Welfare Program. I felt so helpless and I felt really sad thinking about the 3 pound I spent on food the day before, and how that's what this women has for the WEEK! *sigh*.

Wow! Melanie Hale is going to Czech/Slovak! That's amazing! We teach quite a few Slovaks here in England (There's actually an Ensign talk a year or two back about a Slovak branch they opened in Sheffield). They're a good people. The biggest thing to get into a Slovak home is just to say "Jesus Christ?". and they rush you inside with open arms. They LOVE JESUS! Lol, whenever you see a Slovak or a Chinese person, you just immediately rush to them because they're so willing to embrace the gospel, be baptized, and stay solid members!  So yeah, got to go! Love you all lots (I'm buying an umbrella today, in preparation for more mini hurricane) ttyl!

Elder Hays Finds Some Flogged Pants

Okay, so I'm pretty short on time. One hour is really not at all long enough to write to everyone AND write home a big letter. The reason I didn't email yesterday is because every six weeks is transfer week. And, at least here in England, when it's transfer week we take our Pday on Tuesday instead.   SO Yeah I actually have a lot to write about, but not much time. 

So first, the results of transfer week! Elder Schwarzkopf and I are staying together in Keighley for one more transfer! We're both ok with that, because we've started to have a lot of success, and we would like to progress the new people we've found before we leave. We've found 4 new investigators and about 5 potential investigators. So we always have someone we can visit on top of the Less actives and Recent Converts we can see every now and again. 

Something weird did happen though. WE HAD TO MOVE AGAIN! The weird bit though was that we were asked to switch flats with the sisters, so the sisters new home is really masculine (Blues and browns), and ours is really feminine (Pinks and yellows), but I mean it's not like that is much to complain about!

 The weather has been HOT. I know, I know, I'm spoiled over here. But seriously, walking up and down hills in 25 Celsius with a stupidly high humidity point is TIRING. I don't think I've sweat this much in ages!

 I hope you're birthday went well mum, and I hope you're birthday Wednesday (mom's note: we celebrated twice) goes well as well! Jordan, I'm glad you're done with work! I hope you get a bit of a relaxing break before school starts! Senior year is great, and I'm sure you'll love it. It's a bit weird at first because you realize that a lot of the people you knew when you were younger have graduated and moved on, but that's why I loved things like Speech, you got to be with Kids from all years, and you didn't have to feel weird about being friends with say a sophomore, because you knew them from speech. Be kind to everyone, just remember how you felt your first year, and that'll help you to reach out to others. 

Holden & Noelle - I hope the pregnancy is going well! Whats the due date? 

Dad, I'm still not getting any letters from you soooooo?

Mom, I love you so much, stay happy, I know that everything happens for a reason. You're such and amazing person! 

Alright guys, gotta go! Love you bye! 

Here are some photos: 

So these are some pants we found that were flogged at the Bradford flat. (Flogged means left behind) they're a skinny fit size 38 waist. I had to struggle to get them on, but they're on! Lol, I'm using them as a pair of goal pants for now! 

It was the hottest day of the week and our train was delayed by 25 minutes with no air conditioning and I was on FIRE!!!!  

Leeds A Zone 

Momma Hays

So I realized that a few weeks ago I titled my email "Momma Hays", and did not explain why I did that! Lol, so I think this story is a perfect shining example of the fact that my personality hasn't changed THAT much while I've been on my mission. I was in the Skipton flat with the Skipton elders and Elder Schwarzkopf, when my district leader just referred to me as Momma Hays. Lol, I guess the fact that I was fretting over a stain he had on his suit jacket didn't help at the time (I was also joking around by speaking in my Gospel lady voice) "Oooohhhhh Chillldddd!".  I was worried I would lose that part of my personality on my mission but I am the same Brennan, same sense of humor, same love of sushi, just in a different (slightly more refined) way. 

(would you like to know why he sent these photos this week?  yes, so would we...)

Ok, before I go any further..................

Happy Birthday to you

Happy Birthday to you

Happy Birthday Moooommmmmm

Happy Birthday to you! 

Happy Birthday Mom! I love you sooooo much, you're seriously such an amazing and wonderful person, I can't even begin to fathom how lucky I am to be your son. I love you to the Moon and back, and I will always love you! You've raised 3 great kids, you're a killer student, and a wonderful worker. You've helped so many countless people over the years, and you've lifted up so many people for the sake of your own comfort. I couldn't ask for a better role model! Love you so much! 

Also your Karate skills are the tops! 

So it's been a great week. Elder Schwarzkopf and I have had to take over all the sisters contacts because Sister Morris was sent home last week due to a really badly messed up ankle injury (She's hoping to come back soon), and without a replacement sister, Sister Monroe was sent to Leeds to be in a Tri-panionship. So that's be interesting. It was sad to say goodbye to Sister Morris. She was my MTC companion, and she really is just the most amazing missionary out there. She's a huge inspiration, but I know that whatever's going on, it's all a part of God's plan, and she's taking it with stride. 

I'm reading the Teachings of the Presidents Heber J Grant right now, and it's soooooooooo good! I never realized how long he had been President of the Church for, and how many trials he had to over come in his life. He was called to be a Stake President when he was only 24! He's got so many amazing teachings, especially about dealing with trials, and praying for inspiration when teaching, which is perfect for me on my mission. He also had a lot to say about how only we can change our situation. We have to work, work, work to see a change in our life. Also, he talks a lot about how to keep faith. His biggest thing with keeping faith was doing what we were asked to do! He gave a wonderful talk where he said " I will never ask anyone to pay tithe more diligently then I do. To obey the word of wisdom more then I do. To keep the fast and pray to God more then I will." I love that. He sounds like an incredibly fair man who would never seek to put more of a burden on someone else then he would take his-self. That's definitely how we should live our lives. If something is falling apart, if something isn't working, we have to analyze if we're doing all that we can. I like one quote that I can't remember where it came from that said "Have you set limitations on yourself? Because God hasn't". We can ALWAYS do it. We just have to decide to. 

Well, I love you guys lots! 

Dad: I'm not getting your emails. I would set up a different personal account if I were you and just use that one to get in contact with me (Put your passwords in your phone as contacts. I.E Gmail Password One - (Insert Password and Login) that way you never forget.) Hope all is well with you though! 

Holden: I like the idea of little tiny text like emails. Keep it up! I hope work is doing well. What's it like getting ready to be a Dad???

Noelle: YOU'RE PREGNANT AND IT'S A GIRL AND I'VE LITERALLY TOLD THE WHOLE WARD HERE THAT HER NAME IS RUBY AND OMG I'M SOOOOO EXCITED!!!! 

Mom: You're perfect, and I love you so much! Don't party too hard this weekend! 

Jordan: Work is almost over! Weird! I hope you get a bit of a break before school starts. OMG is it you senior year! Nope nope nope nope, that's not happening. I'm writing the school, you can't be that old. 

Mum, would you tell Bennett to email me. Get Shannon on it, she's got this. 

Love you all lots! Talk to you next week

WAIT, I forgot. Ummmmmm.... my suit is...ummm not doing well. (We have to wear full suits everyday in this mission, so I only have the two pairs of pants to wear and that's meant they've deteriorated faster then I had hoped.) so I'm going to look in a couple of stores today for a CHEAP suit. If I find one that's really cheap, I might just pull out some cash and go for it. But if I can't find one, I'll just wait till next week and we can discuss options further (Part of it may just be finding one that fits.) 

It's a GIRL!!! (Elder Hays reacts to the news of his new neice)

WWWWWWWWWWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IT'S A GIRL IT'S A GIRL IT'S A GIRL IT'S A GIRL IT'S A GIRL IT'S A GIRL IT'S A GIRL IT'S A GIRL IT'S A GIRL IT'S A GIRL IT'S A GIRL IT'S A GIRL IT'S A GIRL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm sooooooo happppyyyy!!!!! I won't lie, when I saw the photo's Noelle sent me, I definitely started crying in the middle of the library with all the other people sitting near me looking at me super concerned like. They were 100% tears of happiness though (and manliness). I can't wait to get to meet little Ruby! This is seriously so exciting for me! I'm gonna be an Uncle Chim! Yay! Btw sooooooo adorbs how y'all announced it! 

Ok, I still have not received a picture of the Mini copper (Also thank you Mum for telling me what it is) and I expect one soon!

Noelle, of course the baby is dancing around in your tummy. It's YOUR baby. It's probably doing a mixture between your booty wiggle and Holden's finger dance he does. 

George, lol, thank your for naming it partially after me ;) Keighley is a great middle name! WHAT IN THE HECK IS THAT FIRST NAME THOUGH! I HAVE NO IDEA HOW TO READ THAT! [mom's note: he is talking about a chameleon his sister purchased and named partially after the area he is serving in - his brother - who served a mission in Bulgaria - gave the chameleon a Bulgarian first name, which is why Brennan can't pronounce it]

Dad, PICTURES OF MINI COOPER PLEASE! Also, you're great. 

Mum, That place called Lindsays is still there, It's completely closed and boarded up though. So it's a bitttttt janky. It's a wonderful little street though, the back entrance of our house is so adorable and nice. The neighbors have really taken to keeping it nice and green and lush back there. And yeah, that hill SUCKS. It is cool though, because that's the first hill I had to walk up my first day, and when I got to the top we had to stop so I could breathe, but now I can do it (almost) no probs.[I google earth stalked him and was asking questions about the neighborhood]

Pretty much everything's going well. We've been praying to increase our teaching pool this week, and Lo and and behold people have started approaching US about the Gospel! Last night on our way home we were invited by this man yelling at us to go into his house, which resulted in us teaching him and his 3 friends about the gospel (While they puffed away on some weed) and we learned that one of his friends (The only one not smoking and drinking) was a less active member who'd stop going 10 years ago, so we gave him a book of Mormon and told him to give it another try! We also got a follow up appointment with another guy on Tuesday from that same crowd. Pretty cool! OK, I don't have much time left (I had to fill out a questionnaire sent by President this morning which took FOREVER) so I'll keep it short. I love you all so much! You're all the best (I'M AN UNCLE) and I know you are all just the best people in the world! Oh, no pictures this week because I have taken my camera into two different tech shops here in town, and they both said that the cord I need is a Micro USB cord that is for Nikon cameras only. And neither knew where I could get one soooooooooooooo hopefully I can find something in Leeds. 

Ok seriously the guy next to me need's to calm down. He's having a panic attack and his flamboyant side is showing harder then a Unicorn at a pride parade. I think he's about to go 50 shades of Rainbow all over the people who work here that are trying to calm him down. 

Love you!!!! Talk to you soon!

[all photos are courtesy of google earth and it's wonderful ability to stalk any and every area]

Tour De France But Elder Hays Was Moving

It's been a stress fully awesome week. By that I mean, it's been a stressful, difficult, and anxiety inducing week, but I'm having a terrible week in England, which makes it a pretty awesome week as well! (mom's note: we talked about this before he left - that some weeks would be more difficult than others, and I told him to remember when he's having a bad week, that he is having a bad week in ENGLAND, which means, he's still doing something pretty awesome and cool, and it makes bad weeks a little easier, to think about it that way - I'm including these photos of the Tour De France which went through his town last week)  :) 

We had to move flats this week, which has turned into probably the biggest NIGHTMARE you could ever imagine. The move has been pushed back for a few weeks now, but It finally happened this last weekend, and boy did it suck. The Mission office forgot it was happening, so we didn't get any help from them with the move. The tour DE France was that day, but we didn't get to see any of it because we were stuck hauling boxes, we had to tear apart Elder Schwarzkopf's bed because it wouldn't fit down the stairs, etc. etc. Pretty much Elder Schwarzkopf and I are tired, beat up, and bruised. 

However, the silver lining is that God's gonna bless us HUGE this week for doing it. I don't know how, I don't know when, but he always give us a helping hand after a trial, so that's something to look forward to this week! 

Counting my blessing though, I'm well fed, our Flat is bigger then the one we used to live in, I've lost some more weight, and I had a really great Sunday this week with church. So the positives outweigh the negatives! I should get hired to write inspirational greeting cards, I'd be so good at it! 

So, off the topic of me, and onto y'all. Jordan may be getting a chameleon ( I've heard there are some disagreements going on between Mum and George over this, and all I'll say is that God loves both of you...and he made Chameleons cool for a reason...he also said respect your parents...) I have no say on naming it, we all know I'm terrible at that. Maybe something British would be cool though (In my opinion). If it's a girl one you could name it Twiggy. Just a thought. 

I can't WAIT to hear what the sex of the baby is!!!! Someone send me a picture of Holden and Noelle, in every photo her tummy is blocked by someone else and I wanna see the bump!!!! 

Ok, the picture that Dad sent me of the Ha-boob definitely pulled a few heartstrings. I really miss Phoenix sunsets. They're so beautiful it's absolutely unreal. 

What's Dad's new car???????????? 

Not much else. I really don't think I can send photos this week, because I lost my USB cable in the move. Sorry! I'll replace it soon! 

Love you guys so much! Talk to you soon! Stay happy and Healthy! Just ask Mum for that quote from say anything about choosing to be happy if you ever feel down this week! 

(and even though he lost his cable to send photos, a nice woman friend requested me on facebook and sent this photo she took of Brennan at church)

The World Cup, Toad in the Hole, and a Fancy Cobra

Alright I have to keep it short this week! I had to write a letter to the Phoenix East Stake for their Pioneer trek, so that took up a bit of time - I have 15 minutes to write, so we'll see how that goes! 

Alright first off, AMERICA WENT THROUGH TO THE SECOND ROUND!!!! WOO HOO!!!! Ugh, seriously the Brit's are rubbing off on me. I've never been this engrossed in learning about a sport before! It sorta sucks though, because now we're going to get DEMOLISHED by Belgium, while Germany will probably go through to the Semis, so booooooooo for that! That's been a highlight of my week! 

Oh, I just realized I think I've totally forgotten to mention something really cool! The Tour de' France goes through Keighley on Sunday! That's pretty awesome! I'll get to witness an international event! It does suck though, because the main road in Keighley will be shut down, so we literally can't get to ANY of our investigators because they're on the other side of the road from us, and you can't cross the road anywhere for the whole day! So there will be A LOT of knocking and tracting that day :p But still, cool story to tell the kids someday! 

Speaking of Kids, how is Noelle doing?!?!? Is the Baby ok??? Do they have a due date yet? How far along is it? Gender? Do they want to learn the gender? Is she saying she's getting fat? You aren't fat Noelle! You're growing a little person inside you!!!!! I got a bit sad this week, because we read the portion in the handbook on baby blessings, and I realized I wouldn't get to be there to bless my little niece or nephew :( I'm gonna be uncle Chim :)))))))))) 

So some more things about me, here in the Leeds mission we do not get to use technology, which is actually quite irksome, because literally THE WHOLE WARD here uses Ipads and Iphones to coordinate, and it would just be so much easier if we could access the apps they have to keep up to date on the calender, but we kick it old school here with paper and pen :)  

The food here is like any place you have your good and your bad. The one thing that I could say EVERY dish could improve on is more spices, but then again I chugged some Chohula straight from the bottle the other day because I was so sick of bland stuff, so my opinion on that could be invalid :P But there are some things over here that are reallllllyyyyyy good, like toad in the hole. It's pretty much a bread pudding that you bake with sausages in and then you smother with gravy :) All the pasties are DELICIOUS. One other thing that's quite cool, is that over here they can actually make stuff. Like, they'll make a cheesecake for you in 2.2 seconds or brownies or anything like that. (Mom's note: I can't help but feel this is all due to failure on the part of my cooking/baking more than it is a fact that the English can make cheesecake faster than we can...but maybe!)  Pretty much anything that's sweet, the English can make it. 

I hope you're all doing alright! I hope Holden and Noelle are coping well with the ticking time bomb. I hope Jordans getting tan but not skin cancer tan. I hope Dad's not driving the people at work crazy. I hope Mum knows how much we all love her. I hope Skye is keeping the house safe. I hope Digby isn't TOOOO fat. I hope Bella is calm Bella. 

Love you all sooooooo much! Talk to you soon! 

-Elder Hays 

Oh yeeeeeaaaahhhhh, did I mention I got to sit in a Cobra 427 this week.... here are some pics :P (be jealous)