New Ward

On May 1, we had a multi-stake conference with all the married student stakes in Orem and Provo. The five married stakes were combined into three larger stakes, and several of the wards (like ours) were dissolved completely. Our ward members were mostly sent back to one of the seven conventional family wards that our ward boundaries encompassed, in three different stakes. The double-chapel church building where our stake used to meet will now house six single adult wards from Spanish Fork and Payson.

Last Sunday was our first week in our new family ward. It's definitely different! There are deacons (well, a few or them) passing the Sacrament, and there's even a few high priests! :) We're told the ward was already pretty big to begin with (they just moved to a different church building because the ward was too big for their old building), and with the additional 35 families coming from our old married ward, now it's huge! We have over 500 people in our ward, and we fill the Chapel, the overflow, and the entire cultural hall! Packed! We really will miss being in our student ward, but we're also excited to get to know everyone in our new ward. We already know our neighbors really well, and the people we've met last week and today all seem like really great people, too.

I can't really think of any photo to accompany this post... So here's a picture of our new church building from Google Street View. :)