Beneath the Wraps

      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...

Roland has always told the boys that all businesses consist of product, knowledge or service. Services might include daycare, mowing lawns, yard work, and hotels working as maids, in reservations, waiters, chefs, bellhops, etc. There are also cleaning services and service providers like phone and internet.   Just about every product business has customer service. Service: the action of helping or doing work for someone.       We give service through the church or community.   Some of the service projects we have done through the Church include babysitting, painting, cleaning, and weeding to name a few.   We have also had community service projects that involve sprucing up the park and cleaning up Main Street.   There are community services sponsored by businesses that allow seniors to go to the movies once a month.   There is community service in which hygiene and medicine are taught to the poor.   There is also ser...