Some Halloween Season Reflections: Adjust, hope, power of prayer, small greatness, & contentment.

 

Reflecting upon some of the things that had happened so far during this Halloween season, there are some valuable life lessons that I would like to share here. 

Firsthand, a couple Saturdays ago I struggled to carve a ghost choir on a pumpkin. I underestimated how long and complicated it was in carving that particular etching. I hectically wondered how we would use it for my church's trunk or treat party, including that my Dad suggested to keep it home. I even prayed for hope. At last, we decide to bring it with me getting the idea to color in the parts that couldn't be carved. It turned out it was the only jack-o-lantern there though we took it to the other church party where it was displayed in the darked dance room. There's a picture of it above. That taught me the lesson of how we can positively adjust or beneficially make do with our circumstances. That includes it being kind of neat to see it looking like a claw marking when I saw it glow from a distance during the dance. Anyway, I recently have seen some pumpkins being decorated and colored upon instead of being carved. Also, the power of prayer can really help you out like it certainly has helped in my life lately.  

Also, I recently, to my astonishment, made a D on a social media marketing test of mine. I felt hesitate in telling my Dad about it though, however, he eventually encouragingly told me that a purpose of a test is to evaluate you not to condemned you. That gave me hope. Also, fortunately, my instructor adjusted my grade to a C. Good how prayer might have helped along with luck. But, still, one like me can adjust their attitude towards a poor exam grade and see it as a way to still improve and do well in the field the course is in (even if one doesn't have an excellence grade in the field's course itself). (Alma 62: 41)

Additionally, this past weekend, I enjoyably attended a young single adult regional conference whose theme was the Olympics. I thought I did social loathing or didn't play a bigger role then I wanted, including even in my role as beater in the real life quidditch game we did. However, it made me think how little you do can still made a significant difference. One of my teammates after a game remarked that I did a good job, and another teammate liked my insightful comments during our after-game debriefings. After all, I thought that I contributed goodly to making our blanket by cutting up a few pieces. I even, during a trivia game managed to give the right scripture answer to my team to answer. During the rewards ceremony, my team got an honorable mention of being good at what they did. My team got bronze medals though I learned to be content with what I have. (Philippians 4:11).

Afterwards, Dad fulfilled my wish to attend a Halloween party at a Dairy Ashford latter-day saint meetinghouse. Glad how the power of prayer once again miraculously worked on that one. I entered a contest there and someone else won yet I was fine with it including how I liked the winner's cool dragon costume (even was in a picture with her and valued her winning the contest).  (Moroni 7:45; see also, Galatians 5: 21-24,26.) 

 Likewise, I also wondered if the index batching I'm doing does help matters. But, at least, I saw that some names were discovered, including it led to a couple of them having their temple ordinance work done as a result of my indexing. As according to Vincent Van Gough, "Great things are done by a series of small things brought together." Additionally, D&C 64:33 reads, "Out of small things proceedeth that which is great." Lastly, another revelant quote, "No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it."