We have so many friends up here already! We have met so many great people in our ward, and we have had more social engagements up here in the last few weeks than I think we have in the past several months! there is something really neat about living in a small, college town where people's whole entire lives revolve around a radius of just a few miles. It is very different from what I'm used to- but I really like it! People up here are so nice!
Our neighbors to the left of us, John and Peggy Vernon, have two little boys, Ben and Issac who are 5 and 3. They had us over for dinner just last week, so we are still getting to know them.
We also made friends with the couple across from us, Barrett and Andrea Gibson who have a 3-month-old baby girl. They were one of the first people to come over and meet us- they brought us banana bread and asked us to dinner right after we moved here!
Yesterday we invited the couple down the street over for dinner- Ross and Triest Graham. They just moved into the ward last week. They have been married since April and have been selling security in Albuquerque (is that even how you spell it?) but now they have moved back here to Rexburg so Ross can finish school. Triest (you pronounce it tree-est) graduated in April with her BS in Music. They are both musicians/vocalists, and so we got all along very very well.
The lady who lived to the right of us, Pat Anderson, just moved out and there is another young couple moving in there that the Grahams know from selling security in New Mexico- I think their last name is Klinger? We didn't get to know Pat very well, but she worked at the nursery a few minutes down the road and she came over one time and helped us figure out what was a weed and what was a plant or flower. We were pretty clueless on most of them. It was hard to tell! We will miss her, but we are excited to have so many young couples here so close to us! We have grand schemes to have a neighborhood Labor Day party...
And then of course we have so many of Thomas' amazing friends up here to play with! There are way too many for me to name them all, plus then I'd forget someone and feel bad. Thomas is just such a friendly person. We did just go camping this past weekend with Michael and Qait Wahlquist and their adorable almost-6-month-old little boy Ender. Way fun! Thomas and Michael have been friends for practically forever, and they've decided that our little girl and their little boy will get married when they grow up.
Our ward is just wonderful however we do miss all our friends in our old one. I think we will love being in this ward. There is a really good mix of people in our ward- lots of young couples/new families, but also some older couples that have grown-up kids, and there are those families in-between. But everyone is really friendly and I'm very excited to get to know them. I went to Relief Society the last couple Sundays and it was so strange to have a fifteen-minute block of time that the sisters just talked about their lives and what they were excited about (most of which was about the new Twilight book...). I could totally tell everyone knew each other well and they were all such good friends. Everyone calls each other by their first names and there are only about 25 sisters in Relief Society right now. There's even an older lady in there named Prudence- she is such a neat lady! But it made me think of my baby sister and her little ratties! I really hope that I get a calling that allows me to attend Relief Society- I'm excited to get to know these fun ladies!
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