Confession: Pack Meetings Inappropriate?

So remember how I was released from cub master about 4 months ago? (Super fun calling BTW) Well, the Blue and Gold Banquet is coming up and everyone is talking about last year’s event, including our neighboring ward’s cubmaster and committee chair, who we happened to have invited as VIP’s, last year. The eleven year old scouts planned the event (to pass off a final Faith in God requirement)  and I tried to make sure to implement every single one of their ideas. It was a Secret Service theme and while that theme has been used before, I admit I pulled out all the stops. It was over the top fun. Well, at least over the top anyway. According to the other ward’s cubscout leaders, it was “completely inappropriate” and while we didn’t actually work together, I am considered by them to be “hard to work with,” because I have to do everything so over the top. Ok, this is good, constructive, criticism. I can work with this. Considering the fact that they do have a better cubscout program than we do, (the cubmaster is always asked to speak at roundtable with new and wonderful ideas, their leaders attend all their meetings, the parents are very supportive, and their boys are always in uniform) their criticism is well received.
1. As a Molly want-to-be, I’m going to have a hard time doing things smaller especially in my calling but I’ve made a fresh start and WV will be happy to know that I was in charge of doing the primary program music CDs for all the primary children and I didn’t even put a color label on them. I just wrote on them with a sharpie. Not even calligraphy. Just plain old ugly handwriting. And guess what? It wasn’t so bad. No one noticed. Everyone seemed grateful just to have the CDs at all. It was like going to a third dimension or something. I just hope it was worth the sacrifice, makes me easier to work with and the CDs more appropriate. Honestly, it is just good to know that no one will ever mind (or even notice) if I take it easy, don’t do it quite like Molly would for a change, and sit back and take a long bath instead. In fact in some cases it just might make me more like-able.
2. Perhaps it is better to trade the way you want things to turn out for a better relationship with those you work with. (Occupational Hazard) In this case, If I actually had been working on the event with the other ward’s leaders I may have had to compromise some of the splendor and ambiance, in order to maintain a working relationship.
A long time ago a Bishop once told me to not do everything so fancy, because it makes others feel uncomfortable, and to only do what I was asked to do. That seems like sound advice right now. So from now on I will pick my battles more carefully, play it small sometimes and focus more on just getting along with everyone, reserving all the over-the -top efforts just for my family, where the race really begins and where success is not only vital, it is eternal. Always something to work on.