Helloooo!
I'll start off with the best news ever! After over a year of waiting, we are finally able to go into people's houses!!!!!! We were so stoked and immediately texted some people to set up lessons. We can now accept food from people too 😋 We still have very strict rules for eating with people other than our companions, but I am so grateful for every little step of improvement!
Our first in-house lesson was with our Relief Society President, Hermana Blancas and she is such a powerhouse!!
Also, this week we talked with a new friend, Sosima. She was a social media referral from Facebook, but we hadn't been able to get in contact with her until Saturday night. We ended up talking for like 45 minutes and we invited her to church the next day. We started getting sad that she wasn't going to come but in typical Latino fashion she was 15 minutes late but SHE CAME! Right after the meeting, our amazing members went up to get to know her and one of them, Hermana Otilia, already knew her because they are from the same place in Mexico! Sosima asked Hermana Otilia if that was a special meeting or if they were always like that. She told her about how the spirit is always there at church and every Sunday was like that. Sosima is so excited to continue coming to church and talking to us!!!
This Tuesday at service at the Baptist food pantry, it was a lot slower than usual, but it gave us some really cool missionary opportunities as we got to know the other volunteers better. We were talking with Bruce, the main director, and he was asking us all about ourselves. At one point, he asked me why I decided to serve a mission. I paused for a second as millions of thoughts came to my mind. He quickly said "Oh actually you don't have to answer that if you don't want to." But I said something along the lines of "No, that's a really great question, there are just so many things I could say but ultimately I love sharing the message of everlasting hope that only comes through Jesus Christ to a world that so desperately needs it. The knowledge of my Savior, Jesus Christ and His restored gospel has changed my life and it would be downright selfish of me to not share that with others. I remember hearing a story of some missionaries teaching a very educated man, a student at Harvard, if I remember it right. He asked the missionaries, "Wait you believe all of this?" Then he proceeded to repeat back to them all he had been taught. They said "Yes" then he said "Well if I had this knowledge, I'd be running up and down the streets yelling it at the top of my lungs." We are so blessed and I'm so grateful for my Heavenly Father for giving me a million reasons to be here.
Go make this week great.
Love, Hermana Dangl
