In social media posts this week, members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles shared lessons learned from delivering laundry, delivering food, and returning their roots, among other messages.
When Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles was an 11-year-old boy living in West Germany, his parents operated a small laundry business and he became a laundry delivery boy. For several years, he would cart the laundry using his bike to make deliveries.
“Sometimes the cart seemed so heavy and the work so tiring that I thought my lungs would burst, and I often had to stop to catch my breath,” Elder Uchtdorf wrote in an Oct. 27 Instagram post. “Nevertheless, I did my part because I knew we desperately needed the income as a family, and it was my way to contribute.”
Years later, when he decided to join the Air Force, the doctors who examined him told him he had scars on his lungs from a lung disease in his teenage years that he had recovered from.
“Until the day of that examination I had never known that I had any kind of lung disease,” he wrote. He soon realized that exercise as a laundry boy had been a key factor in treating this illness. “Without the extra effort of pedaling that heavy bicycle day in and day out, I might never have become a jet fighter pilot and later a 747 airline captain.”
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His tale seems to be chronologically illogical. He claims delivering laundry at age 11 treated a lung disease he unknowingly contracted as a teenager. Surely if delivering laundry at age 11 had been good for his lungs, he wouldn’t have contracted a lung disease years later as a teenager...Perhaps all that strain on his young lungs made them more susceptible to the lung disease he would later unknowingly contract?
