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

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!

<3 Søster Blære Fløjte

#Budbringerne2015

#EnFrelserErFødt

#8PlusSoundGuy

#LukMissionærerneInd

Musik Concerten!

let's go! Literally. SO on wednesday we'll be starting the music concert thingy(well actually we'll just meet up and start practicin togethuh.) but anywhays. It's gonna be swell.

This week was fabulous, with zone conference, and then this huge wind storm, also known as a hurricane...hehehe.....ja. But like, it only REALLY hit Northern Jylland, and we just got insane wind from like 9-2 last night into this morning. So we was safely inside and sleepin! It was crazy tho, cause like, we got stuck in the church in Allerød, with no transportation out, cause all busses and trains were getting cancelled. BAHAHHAA STRANDED IN A CHURCH. Sounds like John when he got left at the stake center in eastern washington cause we thought he was in the cousin's car, but actually he was hiding behind this one fountain on the other side hoping to scare us when we came outside. Unfortunately we didn't realize that until we had driven an hour or so... It's all good, tho, he was only a little scarred.

But so, That was basically us last night. The weather was really out to get us, and then we barely caught the last bus leaving allerød. If we hadn't gotten on it, the plan was to sleep in the nursery and nuke the heaters, using the princess jasmine blankets and small sleeping pads. I was ready.

Zone konference was great, they announced transfers! I already knew what was happening with me basically, but I did find out who will be coming to Birkerød to replace me when I'm touring and then sister moseley when she goes home! Sister Solberg is making and appearance! CONGRATS HONEY IT'S FABULOUS HERE. Then we I come back from touring sister lyman is also coming with, makin us a trio in a VERY small apartment. Sweet beans.

Can I just say how much I love Lene??????? Our less active who's NOT less active????? SHE'S MY FAVE. She loaned us her christmas pentatonix cd, let me try out these wrist band things that should keep me from getting car sick, and then just smiles, giggles, and has a ridiculously fun time with us at all events. For example. THis week she came with us to the relief society lunch-in, and we sat in the corner with her and isolated ourselves, trading nametags, eating food off each other's plates, and being our ridiculous selves. That woman. Did I mention she's also like 60? And she wears the best sweaters. Life is good with Lene around.

Last but not least a family made us jello yesterday because that's sister moseley's bae.

LOVE YOU ALLLL!!!!!
HAVE A GREAT WEEK!

ENJOY THE CHRISTMAS SEASON, remember of course, that it's not just this time of year we think about christ, but all the time.

<3 Søster Floyd

p.s. This. Thought it might brighten your days. Thanks natalie.

p.s.s. Don't forget this one. Never gets old.

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Hej everybodyyyyy!

ok. So, I'm good, life is great. We went to a castle, thus I didn't email yesterday, but I could send one out realy quick to ya, to just say I love ya's!

I love danish castles. you gotta know.

anyways.....I literally can't think of a single thing to say right now, except for Roskilde slept over at our house the night before stake konference, and we had a blast. Then on the way to it the next morning sister mølholt got a flat tire and pres and sister o'bryant had to pick us up. it was hilarious.

anywhaaaaaayssssss HAVE A GREAT WEEK! Shout out to John who turned one year older and another year wiser. I love that kid. Don't worry John, rest assured, I REMEMBER YOU. I LOVE YOU!!!!

peace out,

<3 Søster Floyd

Re: this week is short.

Hahaha I always got into trouble for saying crap!!!!! Have a great week sister Floyd!!!

On Mon, Oct 26, 2015, 5:39 AM Blaire Floyd <blaire.floyd@myldsmail.net> wrote:

hi y'all.

I've opened up a new area.

Sister Moseley is amazing.

our ward mission leader worked as the director of sales at walt Disney company. he's awesome

I went to a women's conference.

my brother is awesome. yes john. you.

mom loves me

dad is freaking out about Denmark,

and I love making awkward conversations with perfect strangers about Christ.

Also, I am in a singing musical group that will be touring denmark from the 3rd to the 20th of december....????? We get to play for wards, in concert areas, and on gågader. I'M STOKED. It's literally a traveling distrikt, with Elder Dickson as our distrikt leader. It's awesome. I can't remember everyone in it, but sister van orden is, sister mandla, and sister lyman, and then an elder from iceland! He's boss at the guitar apparrently, so that's happenin! WOOP WOOP! It's was way funny when president called at like 10:26 to tell me about it the other night

''OK by my watch I've got 4 minutes before I cause you to be disobedient. Sister floyd, I need you to travel around denmark singing for a few weeks, can you do that?''

''yes sir!''

''don't call me sir''

*me dying of laughter*

''Ok prez!''

''That's better.

''President, I'm sorry I didn't write you yesterday, we didn't have time to ever really email, what with the new apartment getting cleaned and such.''

''oh you didn't write me? You're out of the group!''

''Aww crap.''

''you can't say crap!''

*at this point HE'S dying of laughter*

''oops sorry! I'll clean up my language I promise!!''

anyways, long story short, after that I don't say crap at all anymore. I'm being much more careful about my language. I love that man, he's hilarious.

love you alllll!!!!!

<3 Søster Floyd

this week is short.

hi y'all.

I've opened up a new area.

Sister Moseley is amazing.

our ward mission leader worked as the director of sales at walt Disney company. he's awesome

I went to a women's conference.

my brother is awesome. yes john. you.

mom loves me

dad is freaking out about Denmark,

and I love making awkward conversations with perfect strangers about Christ.

Also, I am in a singing musical group that will be touring denmark from the 3rd to the 20th of december....????? We get to play for wards, in concert areas, and on gågader. I'M STOKED. It's literally a traveling distrikt, with Elder Dickson as our distrikt leader. It's awesome. I can't remember everyone in it, but sister van orden is, sister mandla, and sister lyman, and then an elder from iceland! He's boss at the guitar apparrently, so that's happenin! WOOP WOOP! It's was way funny when president called at like 10:26 to tell me about it the other night

''OK by my watch I've got 4 minutes before I cause you to be disobedient. Sister floyd, I need you to travel around denmark singing for a few weeks, can you do that?''

''yes sir!''

''don't call me sir''

*me dying of laughter*

''Ok prez!''

''That's better.

''President, I'm sorry I didn't write you yesterday, we didn't have time to ever really email, what with the new apartment getting cleaned and such.''

''oh you didn't write me? You're out of the group!''

''Aww crap.''

''you can't say crap!''

*at this point HE'S dying of laughter*

''oops sorry! I'll clean up my language I promise!!''

anyways, long story short, after that I don't say crap at all anymore. I'm being much more careful about my language. I love that man, he's hilarious.

love you alllll!!!!!

<3 Søster Floyd

Ja, men, hej med jer.

What is up my home slices?

{I'm sure a lot. And I'd sure love to hear about it. Maybe you should email me about it.}

This week tho. Wow.Let's start last monday. Ok, so we went out, I convinced Sister Superb-Williams to buy the same coat I bought last year, cause it's amazing!(I've never been cold, wet, or unhappy with that thing. I love it so much.) And we also went to see this awesome tower called Rundtårnet. It's like 400 years old or something like that. It's basically this ginormous tower on the side of this church, where it just winds and winds and winds, and the path is made of brick. There's also this hollow part of it, right in the center of the spiraling pathway, and apparently in the 1600's a 6 year old boy fell into it....he broke his legs but like, he lived. So no harm no foul, right? And now he's famous! nåhh I'm not so heartles, poor kid. It's way trippy cause they have this giant glass plate in it, so you can see where the kid fell from.I got to stand in it, and I just loved it so much cause playing with gravity and winning. ''gravity is the law

Last week we found out about transfers, and it was actually really great, only we found out about them LIVE and at our zone trainings. That would be fine and dandy, but we unfortunately didn't have ours until friday...so we learned some patience. Friday came around and we got to zone training a little nervous. Sister Williams and I knew that we were not going to be together for another one, because we already had 2 transfers together. We also knew she was leaving Frederiksberg. I thought maybe I was training, or that I could be a sister training leader? We weren't sure. We didn't talk about the transfers until the end of training, so we were getting really anxious just sitting there. Part of the training was on how to handle stress and what kinds of stress are actually good stress! That was nice. I needed it. Especially when I found out what was happening.

Well we got to transfers.

President O'Bryant goes up there, and just says, ''well. I really hate doing this, cause I know you're not all gonna like it, and not just that, but reading off this tranfer information is always really complicated. Don't judge me as I make this a slow process.''

''Frederiksberg sisters! You're both leaving. Frederiksberg will be closing down for sisters and you're transfering monday. Sister Williams will be going to Roskilde, and your companion is sister Mølholt.'' So sister williams got a dane as a comp, and she's way stoked. Then he paused for a second, ''and sister Floyd...you're getting a special assignment. *pauses again* Your new area is quite new for sisters. In fact, they haven't had them in over 20 years''  at this point Sister O'Bryant just pipes in and says, ''You're toturing the poor girl! Just tell her where she's going!!!!!! She's waiting!'' I just start laughing cause I'm already surprised, and I just accept that I don't know what to expect at all. President just giggle a little. ''Sister Floyd you're going to be transfering to the Allerød ward, working the area of Birkerød. Your new companion is Sister Moseley.'' THE CROWN WENT WILD! Cause like, that is just insane. This was like the best news ever, cause allerød ward hasn't had sisters in forever and they NEED them. They have so many women that need our help. I'd heard about their need for sisters before actually when I was serving in Aalborg. Someone told me that not all wards in Denmark have sisters, and they named allerød. They also said that Allerød had been asking for sisters forever, but they hadn't ever gotten them, the time wasn't right.

well guess what?

The time has come the walrus said.

So as soon as that training was over, plans started going into action to get prepared. It was really hard to leave Frederiksberg, and especially because that place had ALWAYS had sisters. The longest time they've been without was probably 2 years ago, and that was just for like 3 months cause they were short on sisters. It's crazy. The ward was really sad :( I've got a copy of the ward list, though. SOOO....I will never truly be without them! facebook when I get home, and when mom and dad come we'll go visit. 

The hardest part was actually clearing out the apartment we lived in. Me and Sister Williams just died. This apartment had to get cleared out. Like, we gutted that thing. And we only had 2 1/2 days to do it. That's not very long. I really wished our training had been on tuesday. That would have been nice. Or maybe if they had just given us two a heads up, since we were the only ones in the mission closing an area. That would have been great. Oh well, I didn't sleep for 3 nights, but whatevs. That place looks great, so ya :)

Monday morning sister Williams and I got to the train station in good time, and Sonja met us there. She was SO sad. She's never dealt with missionaries leaving before, and it really tore her apart. She just hugged us and hugged us, and wouldn't let us go :'( She just kept saying, ''you're coming back for my baptism!!! You have to!'' Sadly I'll be in America at that point, my dear little Sonja. 

After that the assistants drove us to our new apartment. It was so nice of them! I always feel bad though, cause my suitcases are so heavy. They carried them up two flights up stairs, too. Poor  guys. Now we're just in the process of moving in. This apartment really needs a woman's touch. I'm shocked by it's disgustingness. Sister Moseley and I constantly are wondering or speaking out loud with exclamations of, ''ELDERS!'' or, ''This is Nastay.'' Oh OH OHHHHH my gosh Also! The elders have pictures of Jesus stuck EVERYWHERE. Like these little teensy stickers!!! It's really quite amazing all the spots they thought of to stick them. We even have Jesus on the ceiling. He's in the bathroom. He's in the lights. He's on our desk. He's on the mirror. He's everywhere. Jesus is in the kitchen, by the sink. This morning he appeared in my closet. It's like freaking Where's Waldo. I guess this is our official ''Welcome to the Birkerød apartment''!!!!!

Anyways, that's all I have to say. Love you guys! Pray for me, I'm gonna need it. One super great thing that happened already. So last night, we went to our first appointment the elders had set up for us. And we get to this elderly man's house, his name is Finn. He just welcomes us in, and we read scriptures with him. Sister Moseley and I taught SO comfortably together. It was one of the happiest appointments I've ever been in, and I loved it. Sister Moseley is SUCH an amazing teacher. I remember in the MTC when we knew like 3 words in Danish and would spend most of the time hand miming everything, cause we just couldn't function. This is so much better. This is what we always dreamed we could be like! I just am so happy to be companions with her again!!!!!!

Have the best week, 

<3 Søster Floyd

Don't look down, guys #Rundtårnet #That Kid Gets Some Props

#We're on top of the world hey!

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Transfer day is always a little busy! From left to Right, Sonja, Sister Mølholt, Sister Reed, Sister Moseley, Sister Perking, Elder Reimschussel, Elder Gifford