Singles Ward

So today was the first day I was able to go to church. Up until now I've had no way of getting there since I do not have a car yet. But my friend went out of town for the week and let me borrow his car, so I thought I'd go check out church.

I had an overall good experience, even though it was a little awkward since everyone seemed to already know each other. A couple interesting things happened though.

One guy came and sat by me and introduced himself. He asked where I was from, and I told him Idaho Falls. I was expecting some stupid potato joke or something of that sort. Instead, he asked what part of Idaho Falls. I told him the east side of Idaho Falls. He said, "Oh the Ammon area?" I was sort of baffled by this. He then told me he served his mission there, and most of the time he spent serving around the hospital and further out by the golf course. It's true when they say, it's a small world after all.

I met another kid, who goes to the same school as me and is also majoring in Film. He is going into his 8th month, so he is 4 months ahead of me. He came here from Salt Lake, so he's also far from home. He's a returned missionary who served his mission in Chile. Both of his roommates are big into tennis, and he's going to give them my number so I can have some more people to play with. He's also going to start giving me rides to church on Sundays, because he doesn't live too far up the road.

There are 3 other guys who was there for the first time also. They are here selling security systems for the summer. One of them is from Boise, and the other 2 from Utah. Up until now, I've only met one kid from Idaho, and only a handful even from the west side of the country. Everyone seemed to be pretty cool, but the ward is kind of lacking cute girls. There were a few, but needs to be more. It was crazy to see how tiny the church was (it is the stake center too!) Also, there isn't tons of members like in Idaho Falls. Probably between 60-70 people were in attendance, and that is the ONLY singles ward in Orlando. Pretty crazy how much more different it is than home.