Thanksgiving in July

 

Hola hola!! This one's gonna be 2 weeks of action smooshed into one so get ready!! 

This past week we had Zone Conference! I'm sad to admit that it was my last one, but it was definitely the best one. Right when we got there, they were doing a live broadcast to announce the dates of the DC temple open house right next to us at the Visitors Center. The temple will be opening for ANYONE that wants to see what's inside from April 28- June 4! Then it will be re-dedicated on June 19. I'm so excited for the people here to finally have their temple open again! The rest of the day was amazingggg for many reasons. We got to lead some dope trainings, we got mission BBQ sandwiches for lunch, and I got to bear my final testimony. Every missionary that is about to go home gets to share their testimony for the last time at ZC. I can barely put into words what my mission has meant to me; this experience has been priceless. But it's not over yet!! 

I also just found out that our friend Gary, from Derwood is getting baptized next week!! Yay for people making covenants with God :))

We got the to go to Annapolis again this past week! For the first time since I've been in Maryland, the Naval Academy was opened for visitors so I got to take my comps around the base and give them the local tour. 

This week we had a really cool lesson with our new friend, Lily and her daughter, Gabby. They are friends with some members in our area and are seriously golden!!! Lily loves the Book of Mormon and they are so sweet. 

These past couple weeks I have gained such a strong testimony that the Priesthood, God's authority, has truly been restored to the earth. I'm so lucky to serve around faithful people that strive to be worthy to hold and bless others with this power. 

Love, Hermana Dangl 

 

Navy girls 👀👀

Return with honor am I RIGHT?

 Zone Conference 

Our fav neighbors

A day in the life 

I finally got everyone on board with jumping pics! 

I'm a Grandma and Happy Canada Day and Happy 4th!

Week of 6/28-7/4

Today I received my last transfer call and I will be spending my last 6 weeks in a Spanish area in Germantown!!! I'm going to be joining Hermana Grate as a sister training leader and we are getting a new missionary!!! WOOOO!! Oh, and Sister Hacking is TRAINING so that means I'm gonna be a grandma!! 

We started talking to a really nice lady named Erica! She is super knowledgeable about the Bible and is so willing to learn. Gary is also doing super well and is reading the Book of Mormon everyday! We also had a funny experience at Dollar Tree with a guy, Pablo and his daughter, Maria. They are wanting to learn English and they came up to us because obviously we look like we speak Spanish. He actually recognized us as missionaries like he had seen in El Salvador so he assumed we spoke Spanish. We will to pass them off to the Hermanas... but I guess that's me now so that's cool!!! 

4th of July is one of my favorite holidays and it did not disappoint!!! We had an awesome church meeting then did some party hopping! We went to Bro Nalesnik's cookout and he told us his conversion story. No matter when we became believers in Christ, everyone has their own story of their personal conversion. AND, no one can be written off as someone who isn't the "church/religion type." We are all children of God and deserve an opportunity to learn about Jesus Christ and come unto Him. See 

2 Nephi 26:33 :) we ended the night by going to the top of the parking garage and watching everyone else's firework show. Apparently fireworks are illegal in MD but that stopped absolutely no one and I can't say I'm mad about that because we had a good show.

Have a great week yall!! 

Love, Hermana Dangl 

Church ping pong

Hehe it's me! 

 

District Council in Olney

The boy, Will!

RIP Sister Simpson

Mama Lulu's 4th of July Birthday Party!

Last Correlation Meeting

Bury me in the Amish Market

Week of 6/28

Helloooo from Germantown!! The land of my people!! Believe it or not, but I actually haven't met a single person here from Germany so that is quite disappointing.

This week we had a cool miracle moment when we ran into this super awesome lady named Naomi. We were driving back from an appointment and the sun was glowing hot pink so we pulled over by the airport to watch it for a second. A cute lady, Naomi had the same idea and we started talking. She moved here from Sri Lanka and has such a strong faith in Christ and wants to talk more with us!!

The first part of the week was a LOT of goodbyes. I have loved the people we've been able to meet and I'm excited to hear about where they go next!

We exchanged on Wednesday to our new areas and said goodbye to 30 missionaries! My new companion, Hermana Grate is an absolute icon and is pretty much me except she is a horse girl. Also, something funny about this is that our companionships did service 2 months ago and I was joking around that we were going to be companions and now here we are!!!! And for our trainee, Sister Webber! She's a cute girl from Utah and for those who are wondering, she is my 12th companion from Utah!! 

We've been super busy getting to know the area and meeting everyone. The ward is SO fun and we are excited because they asked us to really help with the youth program and reactivation. YAYYYY. I am so grateful for the missionaries that were awesome examples to me as a youth so I'm excited for this to all come full circle and to be really involved with the youth. 

Another tender mercy moment! Our cute new missionary was having a super rough time adjusting and just needed a mom hug. We were planning outside and a storm started rolling in so we cruised the Amish Market (literally heaven). While we were inside, Sister Webber saw her best friend from middle school and her family!! Her friend's mom gave her the mom hug she was looking for and it was such a tender mercy for her to see a familiar face from home. God is so involved in the details of our lives!! 

I love this work and I'm excited to finish off with a bang.  Twenty minutes ago when I started writing this, it was sunny. Now it's pouring. Thanks Maryland. 

Love yall!  

- Hermana Dangl 

Let Go and Let God

 

Week of June 21-27

With countries continuing to open up, some sisters had to go to San Francisco for some Visa work so I got to be temporary companions with Sister Poulsen for the week and work in her area. The best part is, I got to be a Visitors' Center sister!!! Dreams do come true. 

On the first day we spent the whole day there having meetings and tours. It was so special to be so close to the temple and be able to walk on the grounds. We led a tour to a zone in the mission then had some virtual tours. Best day ever. 

Then we had some lessons and knocked some doors! We talked to some really nice people and actually had a good experience! We also had a singing lesson by a member and I was told I've been breathing wrong my whole life, so that's cool.  Also we had some really amazing miracle moments!! And to top it all off, we got free Crumbl. God loves us. 

- Nicole: so we went outside for a break and saw a tortoise with a leash so we were looking at it. We start talking to this lady and she introduces us to Linda, the tortoise. She goes off about how sassy and stubborn she is and we are like lolll okay you are talking about a tortoise. But then she's wanted to hear about what we do as missionaries!  We had a super awesome conversation about eternal families and God's love and all that good stuff. 

- Glowing Thomas: we were looking through our records to find people to call. I was looking through and was like "we need to call Thomas. His name is glowing." So we called Thomas and he is golden! We also had a super good lesson the next day then the sisters visited him and his family a few days later. They want to get baptized. Like WHAT? 

It gets even better! I came back and we GRINDED. We've been trying to diversify our means of reaching out to people. Recently we've been just calling up random numbers and seeing if they are interested. We got our fair share of people who weren't interested, but boy did we run into some people who made all the rejection worth it. 

- Maya: I called her up and she was willing to hear a Bible verse and we ended up having a 20 minute conversation about Jesus. She is so cute and we set up another time to talk this next week. Coolest thing about this was that I had called a good amount of people and no one answered and I was done, but I had a strong prompting to call one last person. 4th floor, last door kinda moment!! We ended that call with our jaws on the floor. God is so involved in this work

- Miss Lidia: She is the sweetest person ever and made my entire night! She went on and on about how the world needs more people like us and that we are angels sent from heaven. Miss Lidia is actually our angel sent from heaven because she told us exactly what we needed to hear. 

Other highlights 

- fireflies!!! 

- smores and BBQ with Allyson and Frank 

Life is so good. 

Love, Hermana Dangl 

Naptown!!!!

My girl, Sister Poulsen!

District at the temple

Visitor Center Tour

The Temple

My best friend. 

Sunday dinner with Frank and Allyson.