There is evidently enough
people who spell label incorrectly (me being one of them) that this site was
created. I apologize to my readers of
foreign tongue who may have struggled through my posts or given up on them. Often I wonder what the draw is to keep some readers
signing in. Perhaps they enjoy a
challenge and can find that through several of my posts. I guess it’s quite obvious that I don’t
always use a spell check or use grammarly.
When I was at the MTC we were
often divided into groups and were asked to solve problems. One specific example that comes to mind was discouraging the use of labels. Each group was told that we’d be going on a mission
to outer space and were given a list of items that we should bring. To add to the challenge each of us was given
a label which was placed over our foreheads so that each member of the group
could read what they were except for his/her own.
Each label I saw was
negative. I don’t even remember what all
of them were or how many but one was something along the line of “dismiss all
suggestions” and one said “ignore me”. I
did not know what was on my forehead until the end of the activity but I did
not view it as negative. No matter what
stupid thing I said (and I’m sure that it was all stupid – or if it was correct
I picked it for the wrong reason) everyone else would agree with me – including
the one we were all ignoring.
I remember I had felt bad for
ignoring the Elder who could have saved us all if we had listened to him as I
believe he had either gotten them all correct or had missed only one. I, on the other hand, had killed off my
group. It was a great activity. It showed us how we need to work together and
communicate with one another. I hope
that all others felt the same way.
I don’t even know what triggered my memory of this event nor could I remember whether I had shared it in another post before. I did not find anything to indicate that this had been shared already. As I was searching I realized that I had four posts in which I misspelled “lable” and some (though not as many) spelled “label”. So there you go.
