Moving that far away is always hard. When I went to university, I moved from California to the UK, which is around 6000 miles away from home, so I understand what you mean.

The trying new things is the hard part. I can more or less try to adjust myself to the actual going to a new social with an open mind, as I have done many times. But the finding a suitable group where people are not judgemental has been seriously hard. I have been looking for better social gatherings for over a year now, and still have not found one.

Often, like tonight and most other nights, I have no friends or acquaintances to talk to. I feel like everyone else has someone to be with or talk to during this time of the year as well as at any other time, but not me. I doubt that this is due to the weather, since I enjoy cold, snowy weather, and where I live, Northern California, has very strange weather in that in general the weather is the around same throughout the year.

It feels like my only friend is my journal, where I write my thoughts. I have no one else to talk to about anything really.

That is nice that you found a community in the form of your new church. I am not religious myself, but I know from experience from my childhood how being in a church community can foster friendships and more.