Moses Mahlangu

Moses Mahlangu (born 1925) was a long-time supporter of the teachings of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) in South Africa. Mahlangu first found a discarded copy of the Book of Mormon in 1964. At the time. he was a Christian preacher in South African townships.

The first copy of the Book of Mormon he found had a torn title page, so it was a few years before he learned who had published it. When he did contact the mission president in South Africa, he was given church literature. However, since apartheid laws prohibited blacks and whites from meeting together for religious purposes and because of the LDS Church's restriction on ordaining black men to the priesthood, Mahlangu was told he would have to wait to be baptized.

In 1978, LDS Church President Spencer W. Kimball received a revelation extending the priesthood to all worthy male church members. In 1980, Mahlangu and his family was baptized and he was ordained to the priesthood. Also baptized at the same time were several black people he had introduced to the church since he first found the Book of Mormon.

References

• Garr, Arnold K., Donald Q. Cannon and Richard O. Cowan, ed. The Encyclopedia of Latter-day Saint History (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2000) p. 693-694.

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