At Home in Salt Lake City
Saturday, December 17, 2005
Yes, Salt Lake City is beginning to feel like home. It has it "issues" but for the most part, SLC is a great place to hang out and a great place to live. We will be happy here for three or four years, for sure. Our home is in a gated "senior community" although I can assure you none of these old folk are acting like they are old. We have lively, friendly, intelligent neighbors who are enjoying every minute of being senior citizens. This is not a hoity-toity community...our neighbors are down-to-earth and very approachable...so I think we will be very happy retiring here, socially and monitarily. Many of our neighbors have served missions, and some are currently serving, so they seem to be our type of people!
It is a unique experience to have the church building just one minute away and a totally amazing experience to have a temple just one minute away. Our chapel sits right next to the temple...we use the temple parking lot for our overflow parking. There is another chapel only four blocks away, yet...there are three wards meeting in our building, and we have three gospel doctrine classes in our ward! You can choose which class you want to attend but...not knowing any of the teachers we just stayed in the chapel our first week there and the teacher was excellent.
I have also never lived where almost everyone is LDS and it still shocks me to hear people in a restaurant talking about Relief Society, and to find that the contractor who is finishing our basement is a bishop, and to have the salesman at RC Willey telling us about inner city missions that we could ask to be assigned to. The non-LDS folk we have met have been curious about our move here and have gone on and on about how wonderful Utah is and how much we will like living here. So, all in all, the vibes have been very good vibes. I'll be happy when we are settled and can really start to enjoy the beauty of the state and its many offerings.
We will probably give it six months or so before turning in our mission papers, but...we don't plan on waiting too long. We hear there is a wonderful opportunity to teach English in China for 9 months...THAT intrigues us! We loved China! But whatever...we are eager to do what we can to serve while we still feel good.
We do miss our friends in Kansas and we have definitely not given up our dream of a farm in Kansas...just delayed it. If we can get the stock market to take-off we will secure that dream quickly!
We still have to sell our home in Leawood, but for now...we are feeling at home in Salt Lake City. We hope to move here permanently in February.
posted by Carolee at 8:26 AM
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