There's an old saying: "You can take the boy out of the country but you can't take the country out of the boy."

A slight alteration might read, "You can take the pilot out of the plane but you'll never take the plane out of the pilot."

Such a pilot is President Dieter F. Uchtdorf, second counselor in the First Presidency. Professionally, he left the cockpit in 1996, two years after he was called to the First Quorum of the Seventy in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. At that time, he was senior vice president for flight operations and chief pilot for Lufthsana German Airlines. In the military, he earned German and U.S. wings: He served six years as a fighter pilot in the German air force and graduated at the top of his class in pilot training in the U.S. Air Force in Texas.

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