Can I switch wards?
This is probably going to make me sound like a terrible person, but I’m going to ask anyway. My husband and I just moved to a new home somewhere new in Utah. It’s in a somewhat newer development where we assumed that there would be more families and kids. For reference my husband and I are 28 and 30 years old with a two-year-old and a nine month old baby. When we went to our ward for the first time last Sunday, it was overwhelmingly elderly. We went to Sunday school, and there was only one other person that looked to be under the age of 65+. This is not an exaggeration. I know there are probably some other younger people that have been called in with either that youth or primary and things like that but the vast majority are definitely older. The ward boundaries are really weird where they kind of took the little street that we live on and grouped it in with a street of much older homes that have been there forever and that is where the majority of the elderly people live. Don’t get me wrong. I love the elderly population and I even work with them in my job, but we just moved to a new area and I already have a harder time making friends and was kind of banking on our ward helping me with that. It was just a little disappointing for me because I already have a hard enough time connecting and finding people that I get along with closer to my age. Would it be terrible to see if we could switch to a new ward? Especially since in Utah every other street is an entirely different ward and we just happen to get grouped in with a part that is very heavily and older population.