1270: Anastasia Bigun - A Ukrainian Mormon Journey Pt. 1

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 6 March 2020

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Today on Mormon Stories Podcast we are interviewing Anastasia Bigun. Anastasia was born in Ukraine. She and her mother met the Mormon missionaries when she was 10, and she began attending the Mormon church then, though she was not allowed by her father to be baptized until age 18. After joining the Mormon church, Anastasia moved to the United States at age 21 to attend BYU. The themes for today’s interview will include: 1) Learning more about living in Ukraine, and Ukraine’s relationship to Russia, 2) what it is like to be Mormon in Ukraine, 3) Anastasia’s own faith journey, and 4) Anastasia’s perspective on the U.S./Ukraine/Russia news stories this year.

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0:40.5	Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Warmest Stories podcast.
0:43.8	I'm your host John DeLin.
0:45.2	It is March 2nd, 2020 and as always I am very excited to be with you today for another
0:55.2	fascinating, interesting, warmest stories podcast interview.
0:59.5	Today we have a real treat for you.
1:03.5	We're interviewing someone named Anastasia Behoun.
1:09.6	She is from Ukraine, which is a country in Eastern Europe.
1:17.2	She used to be part of the Soviet Union.
1:21.7	Is a country of much interest in the news these days in terms of kind of geopolitical stuff.
1:29.7	But it's also an area where warmest missionaries have been sent for many, many years.
1:35.2	Anastasia is 33.
1:39.0	She lives here in Salt Lake City and we are going to be covering several interesting topics
1:46.6	today.
1:47.6	We're going to learn a little bit about Ukraine.
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