June 9--Dear Elder Letter Installment: Sunday on Ship

Today is Sunday and we are on the Disney Fanatsy sailing from Florida to the Cayman Islands.  It seems like on our last Disney cruise there were more couples.  This cruise it’s families, families everywhere.  It makes me miss my own family!  Dad and I are having a wonderful time.  The food is good and he is great company.  Yesterday we boarded and immediately went to find some food which was delicious.  We saw a fun little game show with lots of kids playing it and the other big show yesterday evening.

It is not easy being on a cruise ship on Sunday.  This morning, Dad and I dressed for church, had breakfast, and then headed for the interdenominational service on the uppermost deck of the ship—deck fourteen.  We were hoping to meet some other LDS families, but we were the only ones.  We were also hoping to meet some families of other faiths, but there wasn’t much visiting.  We did visit with one of the crew members who is from Florida and also with the man who lead the service, Jerome from Jamaica.  He is the butcher on the ship and is lucky enough to have his wife here on the cruise with him.  She is a housekeeper.  He says having her here makes all the difference.  Yesterday we talked to a man from the Ukraine who has wife and two kids back at home.  He says he used to love cruising when he was single, but now all he wants to do is get home.  I totally understand.  Home is where your family is!

The service was nice, and when we got home we read a conference talk and also a bit from Psalms and from 1 Corinthians then we went out and walked on deck.  After lunch, we took a nice long nap.  Now we are awake and will probably go explore the ship or something.