We got lucky this week

 

Sooo we found a 4 leaf clover this week and that was probably the highlight of my life. 🤪🍀

A conversation that may or may not have happened this week 😅 

Us: "Hey Kevin, it's the sister missionaries! How have you been?" 

Apparently not Kevin: "My name is Michael, I do missionary work too" 

Cool. 👌

BIGGG blessings because Sister Butler, in our ward, called us up and told us to meet her at Sam's Club so she could buy us groceries!! Me and the $8 on my MSF card were very, very happy about that.  I think we have enough white cheddar Cheez-its to last me until I go home :)

We got to have our first exchange of the transfer with the sisters in MoVille!! One of them happened to be my STL in Annapolis, so that was super fun. 

This week we had a really awesome lesson at the home of one of our recent converts, Allyson. Her husband is super cool and isn't a member but he loves to hear what we have to say. Send up some prayers for our boy, Frank! 

A valuable lesson learned this week: enunciate very, very, VERY clearly during English classes to avoid miscommunication. We were having a lesson with our good friend, Yoon and we were explaining the story of the Tower of Babel. We were saying that the people were really wicked, but all of the sudden his eyes got really big and looked so shocked. He was like, "wait they were naked????" We were like "NOOOOOO sorry, we said that they were WICKED!!!" So yeah, glad we cleared that one up. Estoy muy embarazada 😪😓😤😤

Well I hope this made you smile and remember that God loves you!! 

Deuces, Hermana Dangl 😗✌

We love the Butlers! 

4 Leaf Clover

We got lucky this week.

Service makes us happy.

Exchanges with the MoVille Sisters.

Brother Joe is our #1 fan.

We love the Butlers round 60762

We out here in G-burg

Farewell Annapolis, Hellooooo Gaithersburg!!! 

Leaving Annapolis felt just like leaving home, but I am already loving it here in my new area!! We live downtown RIGHT by the train tracks, but our apartment is bougie so we're chilling. I almost cried when I saw we that didn't have a couch, but I'm recovering slowly and getting used to the peasant life. 

We got right to work and have some super awesome friends that we are teaching!! We are talking to this super sweet guy named Yoon, from Korea, who is taking English classes from us. My Korean is a little rusty so I'm grateful that we just have to help him with conversations and speaking. Our recently baptized members, Allison and Kevin, are AMAZING and have such amazing testimonies. It's been fun to help them assimilate and get to know all the other members. 

Seeing more than 30 people in the congregation on Sunday was a huge shock compared to the Spa Creek Branch, but the members were really amazing and welcoming. No tamales were handed to us on the way out by Hermana Otilia, but I guess I'll manage😤. When one of the members found out I was from CA and he was like "It's a long shot since there are a ton of people in California, but do you know the so and so family? They were in this ward years ago." I was expecting to be like "Hahaha California is a BIG state so probably not." But then he said the name and I was like "Oh actually yes I do know them!!" Super small world. 

My comps, Sister Simpson and Sister Farmer, are amazing but I'm mad because Sister Simpson ruined my 11 person streak of companions from Utah  :((( Other than having lots of potatoes, Idaho is pretty much Utah so I might just count her as a Utahn. Also, they like sunsets and the outside just as much as I do, so it's going to be good.    

Until next time,

Hermana Dangl 

The final game

Football season is forever 

First day in and already got drenched.

Gaithersburg just showing off! 

At least someone remembered my birthday.

(sign says Happy Birthday Rachel and Jordan)

Spiritually and physically swol

RIP Naptown :(

 

Hola hola!!

I feel like I literally said this last week, but today we got some transfer news!!! I never thought this day would come, but I am leaving and going to Derwood to be a Sister Training Leader there! Alexa play "I hope you had the time of your life" by Green Day.🤧😥  Definitely bittersweet. I am so grateful for the opportunity I have had to serve and love the people of Annapolis for the past 7.5 months.  But, I am so excited for this new change and to see the miracles continue in this new area. 

We started talking to a really cool girl named Maribel!! She already has such a strong testimony of Jesus Christ and most importantly she wants to make us Baleadas!! (A Hondurian dish made with beans, crema and queso in a tortilla.)

We also had really great pass off lessons with some Elders and the coolest guy ever named Sergio! He came to our lesson all ready to go with his Bible and a BIG smile on his face :) 

This Sunday we had a really awesome event where we had members in our congregation share why they believe!! 

Sorry I have no time, so this is it for this week love ya’ll!!! 

Hermana Dangl 

Faith Moves Mountains

 

Holaaaa!

How great was General Conference??!!! If you have no idea what I am talking about, this weekend we were able to hear messages of hope, inspiration, and healing from a living prophet and his apostles. How blessed are we to have so much guidance and direction in this crazy time??? 

To sum it up:

- Love is the answer. We are all going through the same thing, so let's do it together

- Faith moves mountains

- Miracles have not ceased  

- Everything that is unfair about this life can be made right through the Atonement of Jesus Christ

Oh and Happy Easter!!!! This week we had the amazing opportunity to think and talk so much about Jesus, his crucifixion, and resurrection. On Friday, we were invited to a fun family home evening with a cute family in our branch. Later when the kids left to go upstairs, the parents started venting to us about how much their kids hate to practice the piano and asked how they should handle it. I thought it was so funny because that was the exact fight in my house growing up, so it made me feel better that everyone else struggles with that too. 

Today we got to go on the US Naval Academy yard to drive around with a senior couple in our mission that works in military relations! They showed us all the cool historic buildings, like John McCain's grave, and taught us all the crazy details about what life is like on the base. For example, their first year is super, super intense. They tear you down so that you can be built up to be strong and tough. One rule for them is that they can't walk on curved sidewalks but only on ones that are straight and turn at a 90 degree angle... I will never complain about mission rules again. Lesson learned is to not take for granted the ability to walk on curved sidewalks. 

Love yall!

Hermana Dangl

I guess this is the Annapolis Capitol Building.  🤷‍♀️

Annapolis sunset popping off round 49748.

District Council Easter Egg Hunt.

FHE -  We love the Beltran's!! 

Navy plane.

The dormitory where every midshipman lives.

Annapolis is the 'popcorn popping' song in real life

 

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 

Lesson with Hermana Blancas!! 

Spring is going OFF here!

Cute lil Naptown. 

The bugs are coming!

 

Hello and HAPPY SPRING!! I have been waiting for spring since winter started so you could say I'm pretty happy 😁

On Thursday we dropped Sis Patterson off at the airport and she was finally able to make it to Chile!! They grow up so fast😪  Now we are back to a duo but we are working hard and loving the work :) 

This week we had a really amazing Zone Conference! Sister Neilson did it yet again and just always seems to say the right thing. She talked about Life's Doors. A lot of doors have closed due to the pandemic and things aren't the way they used to be. However, that was needed for many other opportunities to arise and for everyone to take a much needed change. I am a firm believer that when one door closes, another opens. Actually though, when we are putting God first in our lives, I think it's more like 1 door closes and 10 open #blessed   

Last night we were calling some people that had been previously taught and called this guy named Andres! He didn't answer 🥰 We sent him a text and he said of course he would be interested in learning about Jesus Christ! We ended up talking for a bit and he is so excited for his wife and 7 children AND his dog to join our video call tomorrow night. 

We also had the opportunity to speak in church on Sunday about Jesus Christ and His Atonement. I love spring and Easter because I am reminded that through Christ's sacrifice we are all able to have a new start and second chance. Because of him, anything is possible. Everyone is worthy of His love. 

Stay cool,

Hermana Dangl 

 Bye bye Patty 

Zone Conference! 

The Elders that lived here before us wrote "enjoy" but 

don't even try to tell me it doesn't look like "ensony." 

Exchanges with the Pasadena sisters! 

Our girl, Elena!! 

Como se dice "bautizarse?"

 

Hi!!

This past week has been nonstop work/party because Sis Patterson heads to Chile in 2 days!! 

We also started teaching some really cool ladies, Karen and Maria. Karen is so kind and sincere. Hearing her pray for the first time is something that I will never forget. Oh, and she would never yell at the manager.  We started talking to Maria this week and she has such a strong testimony of Jesus Christ. I have been so amazed by the faith of our friends and their examples of resilience during these difficult times. 

We have been teaching a girl, Elena, English because she lives in Honduras. She was just interested in English classes but we'd always end with a spiritual thought and she loved that. We've been teaching her for about 4 months and would tell her Book of Mormon stories in English to help her practice. We were talking about Nephi and his courage to go and do what the Lord commands him to do and she told us that she found missionaries online and has been talking to them for 2 weeks. Then she said that she was going to get baptized the next day!!!!! We were SO surprised and excited for her!!! 

This week we were on Kent Island dropping off a Bible and we decided to drive over to the Delaware sign. I never thought I'd ever go to Delaware but here we are! 

Today we got to go to DC and it was super, super windy! We were way smarter this time and just drove to all the monuments instead of killing our legs. Also the cherry blossoms are just starting to bloom 🥰😍 I still can't believe I live here! 

We were also able to go over to the Visitor's Center and Temple!! There's no open house date for the temple yet :( but the VC is open for online tours!! 

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Ciao! 

Hermana Dangl 

Delawareeee!!!

That view tho 😍

I made my companion this.

A really happy girl in her favorite city! 

If this isn't your castle, you aren't my prince 🤧😤

Elena's baptism!!