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.

 

We out here!

Week of June 14 - 20 

Hey hey! 

This Monday we got to go to DC! It was awesome because things are starting to open back up. We got tickets for the National Gallery of Art and we got to see some really cool famous pieces. We also had an awesome experience with a security guard there named Michael. He came up to me and told me to put my water bottle in a bag, but then we all just ended up talking for like 20 minutes. He said that we had a light and he had to see what it was. Something that was really special about that moment was that recently almost every person we've talked to has said the same thing about the light we emulate. I remember hearing that a lot growing up, but every time I hear it, I am reminded that it's the light of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. As representatives of Christ, we bring this light to those that so desperately need it and people can't help but be attracted to it. I count my blessings everyday that I get to share the light. 

This week was Sister Farmer's birthday and lucky for us, her mom absolutely loves birthdays. Now we have an ice cream cake taking up half of our freezer that will probably last us a good 2 months. We also had interviews that day and I hate to admit it, but it was my last one before my big final interview

We got to do exchanges with the Hermanas and I got to spend the day with my trainee! We had back to back lessons all day and there were many proud mom moments. 

We got the low-key go ahead to talk to pretty much everyone! So that means we can tract on our way to other appointments and even knock a couple doors. I kinda thought I'd go my whole mission without doing this, but here we are! It's cool to be near the end, but still having new learning curves reminding me that there is always more to learn. We have had some pretty good experiences with tracting and being out in public, but we've also had some big miracles with online work. It's incredible to see the work progressing so much on so many different levels. I just love what I do!! 

Have a great week! 

Hermana Dangl 

                                                                                Got it! 

Sketchy elevator in the basement of the 

Jefferson, we took a pic in case we died.

In front of the Capitol. 

I almost stole this shirt. It's so cute! 🥺

Another cicada! 

A God of Miracles

 

Week of June 7^th

Hey hey!! Just another week of miracles and good times :) 

There's a lot of good times, but I'll be candid and admit that there's some not good times as well. Like when ants with WINGS start infiltrating your apartment and all you have is oven cleaner, bleach and multi purpose spray because you're a Missionary. The oven cleaner and bleach did some damage, but we finally got a pro sent in to get the job done. We are finally pest free!!!! Except for the two I live with. JOKES. JOKES I'm kidding I promise!! 

Anyway, we had a super cool miracle visit this week. We went to visit a sister in the ward who moved here with her husband during quarantine. The apartment building was locked but miracle #1 we were able to follow someone in. Miracle #2 the sister was on a business trip but her husband who's not a member was!! We totally hit it off and he is so cool. He's a crafting genius so he told us to let them know if we ever want to make some really cool crafts. Miracle #3 We accidently turned down a one way road because there were absolutely no signs, but we didn't die. 

This weekend we were so incredibly blessed to hear from some very important leaders of our church. We had a zoom devotional with just our mission and President Ballard and Elder Christofferson!! I learned a ton but I have to say one of the coolest parts was when President Ballard talked about how much he loves talking to the missionaries and will never pass up an opportunity to do so, even with all of his other responsibilities. 

Go make this week great!!! 

Con amor, Hermana Dangl 

Walk with our girl, Noelle 

The MoVille District 

                                        We came for a meeting and the speaker didn't show up,                                               so we got our first zone picture ever. 

Zone Devotional with Pres. Ballard & Elder Christofferson

Greenie for the day

 

Yesterday I got to do something that I began to think I'd never be able to do on my mission! We got to have our first member meal!! So crazy and exciting, right?! Only took 13 months but better late than never :) 

On Saturday we had a last minute mission meeting where they announced new Covid rules such as not having to wear masks at our mission events and at peoples' houses, if they are okay with it. I was pretty sure the Second Coming would happen before Maryland/DC would lift their mask mandate but hey, here we are!!  It's been a longggg ride so it's good to start to see the light at the end of the tunnel. 

Earlier this week we had transfers so a new group of missionaries came in. They spend their first night at a hotel then go to their areas the next day, but there was an odd amount of sisters so they asked me to stay the night with them! I got hit with that nostalgia as I thought back to my first day in the mission and remembered my first 2 thoughts: 1. WOW it is sooooo greeen 2. It is HOT. Is it always this sticky? They were all saying the same thing so I know I'm not crazy for thinking that. I got to be temporary comps with Sister Winder from..... you're never gonna guess....... Utah!! She is super cute and did cheer growing up too so it was fun to bond about flips and how cheer completely wrecks your body. Also sleeping in a hotel bed = best sleep I've had since I can remember.   

One night we went over to Allyson's house and made Navajo fry bread with her and her husband!! Allyson is our cute recent convert and her husband, Frank is not a member, but is starting to really like the missionaries. They are so amazing and of course sent us home with enough food to last us for the week. 

We also talked with a really cool new friend named Richard! He's a truck driver so we'll be talking then all the sudden he'll lay on the horn and yell at someone then be like "sorry, what were you saying?" He's so funny.

Happy Memorial Day!!! Big shoutout to those that have fought to keep us safe. Today we got to go to the boy, Mikes family's cookout and it was an experience to say the least. I love what I do. Who gets to do this?? I do!! 😊

Love, Hermana Dangl

 

Nails with the Neilsons girls

Sister Winder and I!! 12th Comp from Utah?  Idk I've lost count. 

Fry bread with Allyson and Frank! 

Murica, am I right? 

A full course meal of cicada shells. 😍