I Haven’t Heard that Word for Three or Four Years
I vaguely remember the facebook comments that were made after Devin Durrant’s talk given during the Sunday afternoon session in the October 2015 General Conference. It was the first general conference we had watched after moving to Oregon. I don’t know how focused I was on his talk. I remember he used the word “Ponderize” though I didn’t realize how often. 22 times according to this website. Okay . . . I remember I had facebook friends who really liked the idea behind the word as it offered some sort of empowerment – 20% memorization and 80% pondering. And then I had facebook friends who were overly irritated with the new made-up word. How dare someone introduce as non-existing word into conference! Would it be a trend? I was indifferent and really didn’t care about the word one way or the other – although I may have leaned s...