Gad Vojkůvka — Led to Turn on the Television and See His Mission President (1965)
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Czech Sources Research (Campora/RSC)
On the very day Wallace F. Toronto unexpectedly appeared on Czechoslovakian national television during the 1965 Spartakiad festival, Church member Gad Vojkůvka's mother sent Gad out to go shopping. For a reason he could not even recall afterward, Gad decided to turn on the television set in the living room before he left. The TV started making a high-pitched noise, and Gad returned to the room to check what was wrong. To his astonishment, he saw the face of his much-loved mission president on the screen. He immediately called his family to join him, and together they watched as Wally nonchalantly spoke about his children and his home. The timing — Gad switching on the television at precisely the moment his mission president was broadcast, in a country where the Saints had had almost no contact with their leader for years — was a tender providence that rejoiced the hearts of the Vojkůvka family.
Sources & References
Mary Jane Woodger, 'Communism Espouses Religious Freedom!' in Mission President or Spy? (BYU RSC / Deseret Book, 2019), 209–216; https://rsc.byu.edu/mission-president-spy/communism-espouses-religious-freedom
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