The ZL's lost their truck

At approximately 10:18am last Wednesday, our Mission President announced that DC would be off limits due to possible violence at the Capitol and that the Maryland State Capitol, Annapolis, would be closed to missionaries too. I'm sorry, what??? The first thought that came to my head was "President. You're smart. Like real smart. But Annapolis is not the capitol of Maryland, it's Baltimore." We were in complete denial that we have been living in the capitol of Maryland for over 4 months and didn't even know. Please be nice to me right now, my ego is really bruised. I don't deserve to stay here for another 6 weeks.

Which leads me into our transfer news!!! I've kinda been preparing myself to leave for the past couple days because I am coming up on 4.5 months in this area but nope!! I guess there's still some work for me to do here. On Thursday I'll be getting Sister Patterson who is assigned Spanish, but has spent her only 2 transfers in the mission in an English area. Wooooo more training!!! It's gonna be great.

Starting tomorrow in the afternoon, we will be on lockdown until Thursday for safety. Soooo as a mission we are doing a Book of Mormon read-a-thon. Hahah did I hear sleep-a-thon?? Jkkkk. Our Mission President is challenging us to read it all in one day, so we'll see how this goes!! Also if anyone wants to pledge some money for every chapter I read or sponsor me, that'd be pretty cool.

This week we went and got pupusas and we found out that Monica stopped working there :((( But our new friends Lili and Jaqueline are so fun. We were waiting for our food and this guy comes up trying to sell something and they have absolutely no idea what he is saying because they don't speak English. The ladies yelled for us to come over so we translated. It was pretty cool, and now we are going to teach Lili and Jaqueline English!!

Then we had a super amazing lesson with one of our friends who just lost her son on Christmas. We were able to have a sister in our branch join who has gone through the same exact thing. I was so amazed at the faith and strength of these amazing women. Pain, anger, and frustration are all part of the healing process but Jesus Christ gives us that much needed hope that only comes through Him. His sacrifice covers all that is unfair about life.

Well, I am so stoked to be staying in Naptown for another 6 weeks and have some high hopes for this transfer. I'll leave yall with this quote by Hank Smith "Our hands can't throw stones, if they are too busy washing feet." Let that sink in.

Love, Hermana Dangl