Monday, December 28, 2015

Nytår er lige som krig

New Years in denmark is like a bombing is going off. I'm pretty sure anyone with any PTSD at all loses their minds. Fireworks are CRAZY and lights are everywhere.

I'm so excited.
 (say that just like Mole from Atlantis the Lost Empire)

This week was super eventful, and we got to play santa!!!!! Sister Lyman and I woke up at 5:45 on the 25th and drove out to Helsingør, and then Hillerød and dropped up care packages for the elders. They love us. They were so happy. Especially cause we gave them chocolate. And Cocios. Not that you guys know what those are at all.

And christmas eve was spent with the ward mission leader and his family. That was pretty great. Ask me about it some time.

We skyped at Jette's, and it was way great to see the fam, they're nice people. I met Lyndsey, my future Sister-In-Law. LET'S GO!!!!! woohoo!!!!! She's a peach. 

We also got to see a few missionaries come home and then back to the magical land of denmark. always weird.......who even does that? #Completely Ironic

It was great seeing my fam, but weird again, cause everyone was scatter-brained, including me. I even wore a rudolph nose to break the ice with my family. Who even does that??

We had a great sunday in church, and I finally got my blessing typed out from when I was on tour with the music group! Elder Geslison gave it to me my last night and sister mandla recorded it. It's way awesome. I'm so happy about it.

anyways........

 Here's my fave story for the week. We have a friend named Finn, who is less active and has been struggling with his testimony. We had visited him on saturday night, where he opened the door looking very frail and ill. We were so worried about him! He said that he had just been to the hospital that morning, and he's having some major aches and pains, and the doctors couldn't tell him what was wrong. I felt inspired to ask him if he'd like a blessing, and he immediately said, ''yes!'' That was a miracle in and of itself, as Finn doesn't really use or see the priesthood that often. (After getting baptized 2 years ago he never got it because he smokes, and hasn't been able to stop. He's also the only member in his family )

So we immediately call his home teachers, and although they can't come that evening, we made an appointment for after church yesterday. Immediately after church we jet over to Finn's and his home teachers drove their own car. We brought Elder Beck and Hendricksen with us, and all 4 men went inside to give the blessing. Finn was so happy to see the elders, whom, before sisters had come to birkerød, visited him often. Unfortunately, Sister Lyman is allergic to Finn's apartment, so we waited outside as they administered to him. They came out a few minutes later, and Elder Beck had given the blessing. Finn was smiling ear to ear, SO HAPPY to have gotten a blessing!!!! After leaving Finn's we said a prayer and hoped that things would go a little better for him.

Back to the present....so this morning we get a phone call around 8 from Finn, and right after he asks us how we're doing and we return the favor, he says, ''I've decided I want to stop smoking.'' 
We're visiting him wednesday night to make a plan for him spiritually and then physically :) WE'RE SO HAPPY!!!!!!!!!!

All in all a swell week.

GODT NYTÅR ALLE SAMMEN!
MKH, 
Søster Floyd


p.s. i found Sasquatch. It's Æ. Po

Monday, December 14, 2015

Let's Hit the Road Jack

A car trip is fun. Road trips with friends in a car is even better. Get us the assistant's van, an extra car, and jammin mormon tabernacle choir, and we have the ultimate touring group. 
This is the good life.
Whenever else in my life am I going to get the chance to go on a magical touring group where we, all day long, sing, laugh, work our little missionary tushes off, and bring other people joy this way? NEVER. I AM LOVING THIS. 
How bout some facts and stories of my road-ie life to help you feel like you're almost here with me ;D

Man. This is a lot of work. I am exhausted.
Yes, living out of a suitcase can be a pain in the butt.
Half the time I just don't wear makeup or do my hair until a perfomance cause like, we're in a car and there is no one to impress until then bahahahhaha
Elder Gudmunson tells the funniest jokes nogensinde.
I'm really bad at the game ''Never Have I Ever'' apparently cause I haven't ridden a kangaroo or owned my own car. #SøsterFløjteProblemer
Everywhere I go I know people. In like, all the wards. Elder Bådsgård asks me quite often how I know so many people. *que the hair flip, I'm an old missionary in a small country/mission*
When we leave after a performance to go on to the next place and people would normally say goodbye they don't to me cause they're just like, ''see you in a month'' #I love them so much but when I come back I'll be like, not serving a mission anymore whut thuh.
I have made so many best friends from the group. It's like I got a whole nothuh MTC district. BOO YA.
This one time we had sacrament twice in one day cause we performed for 2 wards, but then had to leave immediately after the 2nd sacrament, cause we had to drive from Odense to Frederikshavn to make another concert. Look those places up on a map. That was a little bit of a drive in a short amount of time. We made it in about 3 1/2 hours.
I'm grateful for all the people who have housed us since coming out on this group. MISSIONARIES UNITE.
''Never have I ever played 'never have i ever' '' -thank you sister Mandla.
Elder Geslison needs to stahp it wid alle det der guitar skillz he's got. Actually he can't. I enjoy listening to it too much.
One day Elder Bådsgård will teach me how to truly play piano. I WILL BE TRIUMPHANT! Elder Gudmunson taught me a fun practice that will help me with dexterity. Whatever that means.
Søster O'Bryant, ''I love the red lipstick! But I think either you all should wear it, or none of you!'' *Que us going out to a makeup store and buying lipstick. It took a good hour to decide on the correct color of red.
Elder Bådsgård has got some funny jokes up his sleeve, ''What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?'' Good guy.
When we stayed in Roskilde Sister Williams told me about a man she contacted at the train station, ''I thought he was perfectly normal, but then he pulled out a santa hat and tried to hug me.'' Sister Van Orden's response, ''Well, hey! That's kind of what we're doing!''
Truth.
Side Note: I just gave Elder Gudmunson some swedish chocolate, and his joy is full. I want you all to see his happy little face. 
hanygways.
Even though we wake up at 6:30 in the morning, we often don't get home until 10:30 or later. Sometimes we may or may not resemble the walking dead. 
People give us free oranges everyday of our lives. I LOVE CHRISTMAS. I have eaten more mandarins in the last 2 weeks than in my entire life.
I don't know what it is about this road life, but we're all dropping weight. I've lost 10 lbs, and all the other sisters have dropped weight as well. THIS IS WHY I SHOULD HAVE THIS AS MY CAREER.
Elder Bådsgård and Elder Geslison have also just partaken of the chocolate which I købt. They are happy campers.
''Squirrel.'' It's my favorite thing to say whenever we get distracted during rehearsals
When I went back to Slagelse 3 days ago for that concert I just fell in love with those people again. They're wonderful. Hanna Sørensen asked me, ''was it nice to be home tonight?'' Why yes. Yes is was.
Sister Lyman's hands are always cold, and mine are always warm. We are the perfect companionship. I literally get to hold her hand and skip down the street with her. # Let's go
Sometimes in the middle of our touring a million people all tell me at once that Sister Allison Wright is getting married and I giggle a ton and am just so happy cause I knew before all of them #MYTRAINERLOVES ME AND WRITES ME
We're emailing in Aalborg. I'm giddy.
We also get to perform here next sunday. LIFE IS GOOD.
Sister Moseley is going home this week, and I don't know how I feel about that.
Sister Van Orden is one of the funniest people I've ever met in my entire life, and I wish to be more like her when I grow up.
Our songs are sounding better and better, so if you go online and look up #budbringerne2015 or #enfrelsererfødt then look at the most recent vids, cause they're sounding more and more like a real music group
I don't know how to smile in performances cause when I smile I either look scary or my face starts to twitch ridiculously. So it just becomes emotionless.
The other day in a performance I all of a sudden started choking on my saliva and tried not to die in front of all these peeps. I literally mouthed the words at the end because if I tried to emit any sound I would have coughed a ridiculous amount into the crowd. It was ''I'll be home for Christmas'' ( I almost WAS. In a coffin that is.)
Don't worry tho. I sang that song perfectly the next time through. 
''Det var lidt sad face''-Æ. Gudmunson og Geslison
Today we went to the tippy tip top of Denmark. It was awesome. it's called Skagen, and we have great pics, but like, we can't put any on these computers, sooooo.....you get em next week :)

Well I think that's it. i love you all, have a great week, and enjoy your family at Christmas time! I DON'T GET TO BE WITH MINE. Jk I'm home in denmark hahahhahahhahahhaa I'll see y'all soon!
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