The Pain Of Leaving My Spiritual Family For The Summer

As my profile status states, "Nico Echols is still quite sad because I had to say goodbye to my church family today- for the summer. I'll be back, but it's going to feel like a year to me. What'll I do?", I honestly don't have the heart to laugh right now, simply because I've had to do the most difficult thing today- that I really wish I didn't need to do. Saying goodbye to my church family made me cry. . . and think that I'll never see the people who I've gotten to know quite well over the course of this semester. . . ever again. That's how having to say goodbye has made me feel today.
Of course, I know that I will see them again when I return after summer vacation; however, three months is going to feel like an eternity. Three months won't fly by quickly, unless I'm occupied with other activities I enjoy. One thing I don't want to do, though, is go back to "traditional", boring church services- where praise and worship is only a very short segment of a forty-five minute church service. It's not going to feel the same, especially after I've already gotten to really like the three-hour service, where there are a lot of chances for praise and worship.
My friends have told me that I shouldn't feel so sad, that I'd be able to return to Living Word Fellowship Church after I return from summer vacation. O.K., I guess they are right; however, I feel as if I'm the only one who realizes that going away for such an extended amount of time is making me sad. I'm not sad- just about missing all the friends I've made at Living Word Fellowship Church- I'm also sad about missing out on all the excitement that usually takes place during the survices. Will this sad feeling ever go away- will the hurt of leaving my friends and spiritual family ever stop?