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Today in Sacrament meeting I sang a solo.
The bishop asked me if I would be willing to sing about 2 weeks ago and I said yes. I picked a simple arrangement of a hymn that I pretty much already knew. I looked over it a couple of times, but I wasn't really worried because the point is to bring the spirit, not to preform.
So, I got up to sing it (still a little nervous) and... well, here is a break down of how I thought it went:
I sounded off pitch for the first couple of notes (it's hard to hear yourself when using a mic, so I wasn't positive if I was or not)
On the second verse I forgot/messed up about 4 measures of words
From then on I felt like it was pretty good and I was more confident after forgetting the words (weird I know, but maybe I just felt like the pressure was off, because I had already messed up)
I definitely felt like I ended the song strongly.
So, I felt like it was just ok, but I wasn't embarrassed about it. Here are some comments I received:
"My daughter (about 7 years old) leaned over to me and said 'she sounds like a princess, I think it's Mulan...' however I thought you sounded more like Pocahontas"
"I was balling, thank you so much for the spirit you brought."
"It was really beautiful."
From the matrons of music in our ward- "it was really beautiful; that took a lot of courage; I would never be brave enough to do an acappella section (she said it was perfectly in pitch).
One 11 year old cut out a heart and wrote "nicely done, Holly" with music notes on it.

So, from all of these I started to feel better (especially the one about the Disney princess) and then I went home. My little brother Jordan had some interesting things to say after I related to the family some of the things people had said:
"well, it wasn't all in tune."
"well, do you want the truth or a glittering generality?" (my personal favorite)
"It wasn't horrible."
"Fine. I guess I won't say nice things to you anymore."

If those are nice things, then I would really like to hear the blunt, rude ones to compare with these.
Anyway, from the comments from people at church combined with Jordan's wise words I think I did just like I thought: OK. And as long as one person felt the spirit then I am completely at peace.