TEACHINGS OF THE LIVING PROPHETS Dieter Freidrich Uchtdorf

TEACHINGS OF THE LIVING PROPHETS Dieter Freidrich Uchtdorf

• Born in Ostrova, Czechoslovakia Nov 6, 1940. • Married Harriet Reich 1962 in Swiss Temple. • Cadet training in Phoenix, Arizona in 1962. (Earned the coveted Commander's Trophy for being the best student pilot in his class) • Two children. • Attended Business Administration School in Germany and the International Management Institute in Switzerland. • He was a commercial airline pilot for Lufthansa Airlines and headed their pilot school.

After World War II, Pres. Uchtdorf’s grandmother was standing in line waiting to get food when an elderly single LDS sister invited his grandmother to attend sacrament meeting. His grandmother and his parents accepted the invitation. They went to church, felt the Spirit, and joined the Church when Pres. Uchtdorf was 6 years old. Pres. Uchtdorf expresses gratitude for “a spiritually sensitive grandmother… and a wise, white-haired, elderly single sister who had the sweet boldness to reach out and follow the Savior’s example by inviting us to ‘come and see’”.

DFU-1 st Testimony-CR, October 2004

• 11 th apostle to be born outside the U. S. • 2 nd non-native English speaking member of the First Presidency. • 1 st German apostle • 1 st apostle born outside of North America since the death of John A. Widtsoe in 1952.

Who knows him? Met him? Associated with him?

“Think of the purest, most allconsuming love you can imagine. Now multiply that love by an infinite amount—that is the measure of God’s love for you. He doesn’t care one bit if we live in a castle or a cottage, if we are handsome or homely, if we are famous or forgotten. Though we are incomplete, God loves us completely. ”

“In the end, the number of prayers we say may contribute to our happiness, but the number of prayers we answer may be of even greater importance. ”

“The heavens will not be filled with those who never made mistakes but with those who recognized that they were off course and who corrected their ways to get back. ”

“Often the answer to our prayer does not come while we’re on our knees but while we’re on our feet serving the Lord and serving those around us. By becoming the answer to someone’s prayer we often find the answer to our own. ”

“Don't judge me because I sin differently from you. ” “Doubt your doubts. ” “Stop it!”