Wednesday, February 8, 2012

I Got SERVED!!! ...a piece of humble pie...

            Have you ever thought yourself so high and mighty, and then suddenly your ego gets popped and you realize how inadequate you are? Yeah, that happened to me.
            In St. Helena, there is a sign advertising pumpkins on the corner of a main street.
            As you can see, it is spelled wrong. When I first saw this sign, I was laughing, thinking what kind of an idiot misspells an "advertisement" sign? I would be SO embarrassed if I had been the one to make that sign. Five weeks have gone by since I first saw that sign.
            A week before February started, I wrote in our missionary dinner calendar that gets passed around the Relief Society women every Sunday. I wrote, "Missionary Dinner Calendar". and I was so proud of myself because I made it all cute and Valentine's Day-y. I thought it was the envy of any missionary dinner calendar. A few weeks later, after having it passed around multiple Sundays for all to see, my companion Sister Powell pointed something out to me...
            Can you see what's wrong with it? I CAN. I felt like a complete idiot. Especially since I was being so judgemental of the person who made the "Pumkins" sign. I couldn't help but laugh and feel utterly ridiculous for my mistake and the lesson I learned... NEVER point out other people's mistakes, because you're bound to make that same exact mistake somewhere along the way. Thank you Heavenly Father for bring my ego down to a non-existent speck. I hope you can learn from my mistake, I'm gonna go cry in a hole now. 

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