Ghana Gazette

Elder and Sister Didier - he is one of the seven presidents of Seventy - comes originally from Belgium - and his wife - Soeur Lucy Lodome (now Didier) was a sister missionary in the French Mission at the same time I served my mission there. I knew of her - probably met her at the Versailles Conference which was a Mission Wide Conference, but the whole mission was buzzing about one of the Sister missionaries going home to marry one of the newest leaders in Belgium. I'm not sure she remembered me, but we had a pretty good visit about old times in France.
This is Elder Uchtdorf - one of the two newest apostles chosen and his wife Harriet- they are originally from Germany and a wonderful couple - so easy to visit with and be instructed by. He was a airline pilot for Luftansa Airlines (I believe) - and still looks like you would think and want a captain of 747 to be.
Elder Uchtdorf came out to the MTC for a quick tour Saturday afternoon before the seminar. He was able to shake hands with several of the missionaries again - we had already had that experience Friday when we drove into Accra to listen to him speak to the Accra Mission - Elder Didier didn't visit us - Monday was a leisure trip down to Ada and rather than wear shirt and tie, he wore a very casual outfit, and upon returning didn't feel he was appropriately dressed to visit either the MTC or the missionaries. All the mission Presidents stopped off on the way back and those receiving missionaries from this group were able to meet them and visit with them for a few minutes.
Of special note with these two brethern - we were taught Tuesday by Elder Uchtdorf with his german accent and Wednesday by Elder Didier with his french accent - very refreshing. Elder Didier has served many years as a general authority and Elder Uchtdorf (if my information is correct) is the first Apostle who was a convert to the church and not born into the church.