Sunday- Out to Sea

After a delicious Sunday brunch, we found an empty room and held our own church together. Each of us shared a favorite scripture. I took notes and wrote down what I got from what each person shared:

John: John 21. Peter, lovest me more than these? We need to "fish" the Lord's way and we will be successful.

Roger: Quoted President Packer,"We are raising children in enemy territory." Asked "What can we do as grandparents to help these precious little ones." Shared some ideas.

Pam: 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father which is in heaven. Talked about light. I wrote down "Picture of Russian children in a circle" Anybody have a clue what I meant by that?

Patty: Ether 6:4 "Commending themselves unto the Lord their God." The people on the ships who got on those sail-less ships in faith and commended themselves. That's what we need to do (go on missions, etc.)- trust the Lord and all will be well.

Joan: Mosiah 2:21 21 I say unto you that if ye should ^aserve him who has created you from the beginning, and is ^bpreserving you from day to day, by lending you ^cbreath, that ye may live and move and do according to your own ^dwill, and even supporting you from one moment to another—I say, if ye should serve him with all your ^ewhole souls yet ye would be ^funprofitable servants.

Tom: "He chose to climb" on the tombstone of the first man to reach the top of the Matterhorn, but who died on the way down. Talked about Matt 13 and the parable of the sower. Focus on the "good seed" Brought forth 100 times We need to move from focusing on success to focusing on significance in our lives. (I loved this!)

Kay: Psalms 104:33, 34 My mantra. 33 I will sing unto the Lord as long as I live: I will sing praise to my God while I have my being.

34 My meditation of him shall be sweet: I will be glad in the Lord.

Hal: Everything obeys the Lord. Shared several scriptures on how true power comes from obedience and gentleness and patience. The three faces of power: 1-might, 2-knowledge, 3- righteuousness

Cindy: Matt. 6: 28-34 28 And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin:

29 And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

30 Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much moreclothe you, O ye of little faith?

31 Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

32 (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

33 But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you

. This can be found in all the standard works: Luke 27, D&C, and Haggai 1:5

Ken: Alma 37:37 37 Counsel with the Lord in all thy doings, and he will direct thee for good; yea, when thou liest down at night lie down unto the Lord, that he may watch over you in your sleep; and when thou risest in the morning let thy heart be full of thanks unto God; and if ye do these things, ye shall be lifted up at the last day.

He says this to himself from memory every night as he goes to sleep. His evening prayer is one of supplication, his morning prayer is one of thanks.

That's just a brief recap. I thoroughly enjoyed that time we spent discussing the gospel and feeling the testimonies of everyone.

Later, the girls met for battle of the sexes trivia. "Idaho Joan" was called up to represent the team and do charades. The emcee called her "Idaho Joan" and the rest of the week, people on the ship would greet her as Idaho Joan.

Joan doing her charade.

Later, they held a trivia contest. Teams could have five people, so all the girls formed a team, and all the boys formed a team. There were a lot of other teams as well. You need to understand that Trivial Pursuit is part of every Gabrielsen family gathering and has been for years and years. Often, women are pitted against men, and most often, the men win. It brings me GREAT pleasure to announce that our team of Gabrielsen women WON! No not just against our men, but the whole thing! It was awesome. Every single one of us contributed and we totally rocked! I can't remember all of the questions, of course, but here's some I remember: what is the national animal of South Africa??? Pam knew: Springbok. Iceland's chief export??? Fish (we debated on that one for a long time) How many children in the VonTrapp family? My contribution: 7. The underwater city of SpongeBob Square Pants? Cindy knew: Bikini Bottom. Oh, goodness, I can't remember any others, but it was just awesome. Do you guys remember any more? Here's us with our prizes:

The Winners of the Trivia Contest: (Applause please!) It really was our finest moment.

Later, we went to hear this acapella quartet sing. We really enjoyed them and listened to them often throughout the week.

Sunday night was formal night at dinner. Years ago, Hal started the tradition of taking couple pictures at dinner. Now we all do it. Here's our pictures that evening.

Pam and Roger

Patty and Hal

John and Cindy

Ken and Kay

Tom and Joan

Ready for the show

The evening show

Later, up at the disco, we're trying out the moves we learned at the show! (I'm kidding. We were dancing) Tom is the "Electric Slide King" He gets everyone doing it.