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    Likening My Life to the Apostle Dieter Friedrich Uchtdorf
    Likening My Life to the Apostle Dieter Friedrich Uchtdorf
    Likening My Life to the Apostle Dieter Friedrich Uchtdorf
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    Likening My Life to the Apostle Dieter Friedrich Uchtdorf

    By Ilyan Kei Lavanway

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    In the spirit of likening the scriptures unto ourselves, and knowing that the inspired words of latter day prophets and apostles are living scripture, this short work parallels the lives of the great and the small among the servants of God. This work offers uplifting personal insights. It is also a useful resource for finding quotes and talks and biographical information by and about President Dieter Friedrich Uchtdorf, who at the time of this writing is serving as Second Counselor in the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, with President Thomas S. Monson as Prophet and President of the Church.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIlyan Kei Lavanway
    Release dateJul 14, 2015
    ISBN9781311460653
    Likening My Life to the Apostle Dieter Friedrich Uchtdorf
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    Ilyan Kei Lavanway

    Ilyan Kei Lavanway is a proliferate yet undiscovered and unheralded Christian author. He served as a full-time missionary for two years in Argentina for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1986-1988. Since 2005, he has written and published over two dozen books of various lengths, ranging from a few pages to almost five-hundred pages. His education includes a Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics from the University of Washington, Seattle, and a Master of Science degree in Space Studies from the University of North Dakota, Grand Forks.Mr. Lavanway is married and has an autistic son who has Down's syndrome. Mr. Lavanway grew up in Wenatchee and Waterville, Washington State. He is the oldest of nine siblings, seven of whom are living. He spent his high school summers driving wheat trucks and combines during harvest, earning cash to support his first love, the love of flight. He was an avid private pilot in his teens.Ironically, for all his love of aviation, Mr. Lavanway's fourteen years in the United States Air Force never landed him a flight crew assignment. Nope. He was kicking it subterranean school in a capsule beneath the North Dakota plains as an ICBM launch officer for his first four years of service, followed by a year of really uninteresting work in a vault, on base. His next two years took him up near the Canadian border, to the giant, phased array space surveillance and early warning radar site outside Cavalier, North Dakota.Then, he was off to California. Academic assignments filled the final seven years of his military service. By the time he was medically retired from active duty, he had discovered his passion for writing.Since life has thrown him a few curves that make it impractical for him to return to flying airplanes any time soon, he has poured his heart into the written word.Mr. Lavanway feels he has a God-given gift and responsibility to express eternal principles that will point sincere readers to the scriptures, to the living apostles, to the restored gospel of Jesus Christ, and ultimately to a personal relationship with God the Father, and with God's Only Begotten Son Jesus Christ, and with the Holy Ghost.

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      Likening My Life to the Apostle Dieter Friedrich Uchtdorf - Ilyan Kei Lavanway

      Likening My Life to the Apostle Dieter Friedrich Uchtdorf

      Smashwords Edition

      by Ilyan Kei Lavanway

      Copyright 2015 Ilyan Kei Lavanway

      Published by Ilyan Kei Lavanway at www.smashwords.com

      This work is provided free for the enjoyment and edification of everyone. This work may be freely shared, copied, printed, and distributed.

      This work contains quotes from General Authorities of

      The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

      Elements of cover image courtesy of ESA - S. Corvaja.

      Image title:

      Aerial view of storm clouds forming part of Hurricane Alberto

      Image source link:

      http://www.esa.int/spaceinimages/Images/2008/11/Aerial_view_of_storm_clouds_forming_part_of_Hurricane_Alberto

      This written work is the sole responsibility of the author and is not an official publication of any organization. It is not an official biography, nor is it an exhaustive account.

      Dedicated to Elder Jodey Bosquillos Sordilla

      Victoria First Ward

      Cadiz Philippines Stake

      The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

      Contents

      Introduction

      Why Dieter F. Uchtdorf Inspires Me

      What I Will Do to Follow the Example of Dieter F. Uchtdorf

      My Personal Testimony

      General Conference Talks by Dieter F. Uchtdorf

      Quotes by Dieter F. Uchtdorf

      Additional References and Links about Dieter F. Uchtdorf

      End Notes

      Other Works by Ilyan Kei Lavanway

      Connect with Ilyan Kei Lavanway

      Introduction

      I wrote this essay in response to a challenge posted on the Facebook group, LDS Talk, Teachings, and Discussion. The challenge involved picking one prophet or apostle from last two-hundred years and spending one month learning as much as I can about his life, and then writing an essay about him.

      In the spirit of likening the scriptures unto ourselves, and knowing that the words of modern day prophets and apostles are living scriptures, I decided to take the approach of learning from parallels between my life and

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