Andrew is going to Salt Lake this week. He will be there until Saturday. This means that I will be home all week without him and frankly I have no idea what I am going to do. I have recently finished a lot of the graphic design stuff I have been working on. I am no longer in school, so there will be no homework to be done...I have been working on a list of things I will try to do while he is gone.
1. Go grocery shopping (extra snacks)
2. Paint
3. Watch Chic Flix and invite friends over. (that means you Brit)
4. Clean my house
5. Scrapbook!
6. Come up with some kind of V-day decor.
Do any of you have any other ideas? It seems like I can always think of things I would do when Andrew is there, but now that he is gone I can't think of them.
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Dieter F. Uchtdorf
Full name Dieter Friedrich Uchtdorf
Born November 6, 1940 (1940-11-06) (age 67)
Place of birth Moravská Ostrava, Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia
LDS Church Apostle
Called by Gordon B. Hinckley
Ordained October 7, 2004 (aged 63)
Reason for ordination Deaths of David B. Haight and Neal A. Maxwell[1]
Dieter Friedrich Uchtdorf (b. 6 November 1940) was a German aviator and is the Second Counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Uchtdorf was born to ethnic Germans Karl Albert Uchtdorf and Hildegard Else Opelt in Moravská Ostrava, which at the time was in the Nazi-occupied Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia (now Ostrava, Czech Republic).[2] As a child his family moved to eastern Germany while his father was away in the army, traveling through areas being bombed.[3] Uchtdorf's family joined the LDS Church when he was young as a result of his grandmother's encounter with a church member in a soup line.[4]
When about ten, Uchtdorf's family left East Germany due to his father's political tendencies and resettled in West Germany.
From 1959-1965 Uchtdorf served in the West German Air Force.[5]
Uchtdorf first entered the aviation industry as a pilot, then became a chief pilot and later an executive for Lufthansa Airlines. In 1975 Uchtdorf was appointed head of Lufthansa's Arizona Training School, and in 1980 he was made head chief pilot of cockpit crews. He became the senior vice president of flight operations in 1982.[4]
Uchtdorf twice served as a stake president in the church.[6] The stakes he presided over were the Frankfurt Germany Stake and the Mannheim Germany Stake.
Uchtdorf was first called as a general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints on April 2, 1994 with an assignment in the 2nd Quorum of the Seventy.[7] On April 7, 1996 he was called to serve in the First Quorum of Seventy of the LDS Church.[8] Uchtdorf became a member of the Presidency of the Seventy on August 15, 2002.[9]
Uchtdorf was sustained as a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles on 2 October 2004. He was ordained an apostle on October 7, 2004 by Church President Gordon B. Hinckley. Uchtdorf and David A. Bednar were called to fill the vacancies created by the July 2004 deaths of quorum members David B. Haight and Neal A. Maxwell.[10] Although Uchtdorf is the 101st person to hold the apostleship since the LDS Church was organized in 1830, he is only the eleventh apostle to be born outside the United States.[11] As a member of the First Presidency, Uchtdorf is accepted by the church as a prophet, seer, and revelator. He is the first German apostle in church history and was the first born outside of North America since the death of John A. Widtsoe in 1952.
Uchtdorf and his wife, Harriet Reich Uchtdorf, have two children.
On May 12, 2006 Uchtdorf dedicated Slovakia for the preaching of the gospel.[12]
Uchtdorf was called as Second Counselor to Thomas S. Monson in the First Presidency on February 3, 2008. This was announced in a press conference on February 4.[13]
