@DSdavidDS
If I remember, Nanodroid zip file installed a version of Google Play and a few Google apps after I flashed the zip file in the recovery mode. Google Play didn't work at first, and it kept updating something (it said it was updating Google Play) and so I kept trying it, and then it finally opened must've finished updating. Then it finally let me login like normal. After it just seemed to work. And it worked without the system optimization thing and all the lagging that Gapps always does.
If I remember, it was this link I found on the XDA website.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/magisk/module-nanomod-5-0-20170405-microg-t3584928
And if I also remember correctly, I think it was this package/zip file I downloaded that was linked from there. Under current release on the XDA site.
https://androidfilehost.com/?fid=11410963190603908578
Hope this helps. 🙁 It must've been last year that I found the link so I'm not sure 100%.