Posted by:
rutabaga
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Date: September 24, 2018 09:34AM
After years of declining attendance, Mesa Vista Ward in the Santa Barbara CA Stake was dissolved yesterday September 23, 2018.
Formed 18 years ago in a bubble of babies and move-ins, no one yesterday seemed particularly sorry to see it go. In fact, most were giddy to at last be rejoining friends in the adjacent wards.
When announced last Sunday a flurry of texts went around the world as the stake president was speaking. He looked up and saw heads down looking at phones, shook his head and smiled.
Yesterday the SP spoke about the process. Gerrymandering new boundaries, negotiating those boundaries with the First Pres. and finally getting permission. Actually kind of interesting.
Bishopric spoke, great music. As a ward we had a little picnic afterward where we compared notes of who was going where and “remember that time…”
We all went home looking at new adventures ahead.