Olga Campora: Finding the Gospel Behind the Iron Curtain
All In
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🗓️ 19 June 2019
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
During the early 1980s in Communist-ruled Czechoslovakia, Olga Campora, then a young college student, became interested in yoga. Her interest led her to the home of a man who first taught her more about yoga, but eventually introduced her to the gospel of Jesus Christ.
"I have learned, through my life, how really important it is not to be afraid to take the imperfect action because it is by doing things that we really learn."
Show Notes
2:43- Religious climate behind the Iron Curtain
5:51- Spiritually numb
12:00- Introduced to the gospel through yoga
23:38- Road to conversion
32:56- Baptism miracle
37:08- Sharing faith amidst communism
47:22- Changed by belief
55:08- What does it mean to be "All In"
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| 0:40.2 | all in. Happy trails, y'all. Olga Campura felt numb to religion. Growing up behind the |
| 0:48.7 | Iron Curtain, she believed God existed, but what it meant for her personally? She didn't |
| 0:54.2 | even think about that until she was introduced to the restored church. In her 1997 book, |
| 1:01.2 | Saint Behind Enemy Lines, Olga wrote, no fence, not even the Iron Curtain, can limit God. |
| 1:09.0 | So how did she find the gospel in Czechoslovakia? It's a story you'll have to hear to believe. |
| 1:17.2 | Olga Campura received a master's degree in a PhD in Czechoslovakia before moving to the |
| 1:23.0 | United States in the early 1990s. She helped establish the Czech Language Program at the |
| 1:29.2 | Missionary Training Center and her story was shared in the 2011 church published history of |
| 1:35.2 | the Relief Society called Daughters of My Kingdom. She now owns a yoga business called Yoga with Olga. |
| 1:42.1 | She and her husband Randy are the parents of two sons. This is all in an LDS living podcast where |
| 1:51.0 | we ask the question, what does it really mean to be all in the gospel of Jesus Christ? I'm Morgan |
| 1:58.0 | Jones and I am so grateful to have Olga Campura with us today. Olga, welcome. Thank you so much Morgan. |
| 2:04.7 | This is absolutely amazing opportunity and I'm so glad to be here. Well, after reading some of your |
| 2:11.4 | book, I mentioned to Olga going into this that I my stack of books for prepping for these |
| 2:18.4 | interviews just keeps getting larger and larger and I want to read all the books but I think I'm |
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