Similar sentiments were expressed to Trump after his triumph in and to Barack Obama in after he won a second term by defeating Republican Mitt Romney, the first Latter-day Saint ever to gain the presidential nomination of a major party.
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Search Search Search. Book Club. Feature Stories. From the Church. Twitter Pinterest Email Print. Dieter F. Uchtdorf Service Photo Galleries. Stay in the loop! The Uchtdorf family had not yet heard of the Church or spiritual promptings, but Hildegard followed her impression and hurried her children away. Finally, in the winter of , Hildegard had had enough.
Her parents lived closer to the Western Front in Germany, so she decided to risk the dangers of traveling and took her children on a train to this safer part of Europe. At one stop, she got off the train to hunt for food. When she returned, she was horrified to find the train and her children gone. Hildegard looked and looked throughout the rail yard, fearing the train had already departed and she would never see her precious children again.
But she had hope, and after much searching she found the train and her young family inside. This city would become a part of East Germany and was subjected to communist rule. The family planned their second escape, this time to West Germany.
All that Dieter and his mother carried with them were photographs and some food. They trekked and trekked for many hours. Hildegard struggled with weakening knees, and young Dieter had to help her up the last hill. When they were safe, they stopped to rest and eat. Then to their horror, they saw some Russian guards and realized that they had not yet crossed the border as they had believed.
They continued on, hoping they would not get caught. Finally, Dieter and his mother made it to West Germany safely and met with the rest of the family in Frankfurt. The Uchtdorfs had abandoned all of their possessions for the second time in seven years, making them very poor. They lived in a one-room apartment infested with rats and could not even afford to attend church using public transportation.
Though their situation was not ideal, they were blessed with freedom and safety. Dieter has always loved planes and flying. He remembers when he was four years old and watching enemy aircraft fly overhead as his mother rushed the family to air-raid shelters. When Dieter was 14, he would ride his bicycle to the Frankfurt Airport to look at the planes.
If he was lucky, a pilot would let him sit in the cockpit. Day after day, Dieter watched the airplanes take flight and dreamed of doing the same. Dieter would fulfill this dream by serving for six years in the German Air Force and training and flying with the American Air Force. The creation is really something that I love very much. In his earlier flying years, Dieter was completing a high level of training. He was flying solo with an instructor in a plane nearby giving instructions over the radio.
Dieter had turned his plane down into a deep descent, performing a mock emergency landing, when the steering control became stuck. If he could not fix the malfunction, his plane would crash to the ground upside down. Dieter first saw Harriet Reich at sacrament meeting when he was a deacon. The missionaries brought a new family to church one Sunday, a mother and her two beautiful daughters.
Though Harriet was baptized when she was 13, she attributes an experience from much earlier in her life that brought her to the gospel.
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